Marjorie



Gender:
Origin: Greek
352 famous people named Marjorie found on Wikipedia.
272441 female, 594 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 1167-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 16-th in year 1923
Used in: English

Meanings

A female given name, form of Margaret.


Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery or Marjory. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin margarita (pearl).
After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century.
Nicknames
Marge, Margie, Marj, Jorie, MJ, Mar and Maggie are common nicknames of Marjorie.
Notable Marjories include
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), the mother of Robert the Bruce
Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), an English toy maker and businesswoman
Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), a Washington, D.C. based artist and the niece of artists Gifford and Reynolds Beal
Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor
Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), a leading BBC radio broadcaster for over thirty years
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), a Scottish historian and paleographer
Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), an English artist who specialised in both industrial and rural landscapes
Marjorie Barnard AO (1897–1987), an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian and librarian
Marjorie Barretto (born 1974), an actress and politician from the Philippines
Marjorie Bates R.A. (1882–1962), a Derbyshire painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and in Paris
Marjorie Bean (died 2001), the first Bermudian woman to be appointed to Bermuda's former Legislative Council
Marjorie Bennett (1896–1982), an Australian television and film actress who began her career during the silent film era
Marjorie Best (1903–1997), an American Hollywood costume designer best known for her period designs
Marjorie Blamey OBE (born 1919), an English painter and illustrator, particularly noted for her botanical illustrations
Marjorie Blankstein, CM (née Rady), Canadian fundraiser, community activist and volunteer
Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto
Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret V[ere] Long née Campbell) (1885–1952), a British author
Marjorie Bransfield, an English-speaking former actress, who was married to actor James Belushi
Marjorie Brown, the owner of the Boston Celtics following the death of her husband Walter A. Brown
Marjorie Browne (1910–1990), a British actor
Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), a notable mathematics educator, the second African-American woman to receive a doctoral degree in the U.S.
Marjorie Bruce or Marjorie de Brus (1296–1316), the eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by his first wife
Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), an artist, occultist, actress, and wife of rocket pioneer and occultist Jack Parsons
Marjorie Harris Carr (1915–1998), an American conservationist
Marjorie Constance Caserio (born 1929), an American chemist
Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), an American landscape architect
Marjorie Cevallos (born 1986), Miss World Ecuador 2008, was chosen on March 13, 2008
Marjorie Chibnall, an English historian, medievalist and Latin translator
Marjorie Clapprood (born 1949), a former Massachusetts politician and talk show host
Marjorie Clark (born 1909), a South African former track and field athlete
Marjorie Clarke, Ph.D., an environmental scientist
Marjorie Cohn, a Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California
Marjorie Kowalski Cole (1953–2009), a writer of poetry, short stories and novels
Marjorie Cottle, a leading motorcycle sports rider
Marjorie Cotton (1913–2003), the first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), the South African museum official who in 1938 publicised the existence of the coelacanth
Marjorie Cox Crawford, a female tennis player from Australia
Marjorie Critten, Miss Missouri in 1958
Marjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board of the Susan B. Anthony List
Marjorie Daw (actress) (1902–1979), an American film actress of the silent era
Marjorie de Sousa (born 1980), a Venezuelan model and actress
Marjorie Dean, the protagonist and eponymous character of series of books for girls, written by Josephine Chase
Marjorie Deanne (1917–1994), an American film actress
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (born 1922), Professor Emeritus in English at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
Marjorie Dodd, an important amateur tennis player in the early part of the 20th century
Marjorie Dunn, a British horn player who performed with the Michael Nyman Band from 1991–1994
Marjorie Estiano (born 1982), a Brazilian popular actress and singer who rose to prominence in 2004
Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), an award-winning Filipino poet
Marjorie Eyre (1897–1987), an English opera singer
Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), a British stage and film actress
Marjorie Flack (1897–1958), an award-winning artist and writer of children's picture books
Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), a child writer and poet, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
Marjorie Franklin, a conceptual artist and a Professor of Conceptual Art at University of Minnesota in the U.S.A.
Marjorie Garber (born 1944), a professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of books
Marjorie Gateson (1891–1977), a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s
Marjorie Gestring (1922–1992), a competitive springboard diver from the United States and the youngest ever Olympic gold medallist
Marjorie Gordon (1893–1983), an English actress and singer
Marjorie Graves (1884–1961), a British civil servant, Conservative politician and writer
Marjorie Grene (1910–2009), an American philosopher
Marjorie Griffin, a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1946
Marjorie Gross (1956–1996), a television writer and producer
Marjorie Gubelmann (born 1969), owner and CEO of Vie Luxe International
Marjorie Guthrie (1917–1983), for a time the wife of folk musician Woody Guthrie
Marjorie Halpin (1937–2000), a U.S.-Canadian anthropologist
Marjorie Harris BA (born 1937), a Canadian non-fiction writer
Marjorie Hall Harrison (born 1915), British astronomer
Marjorie Heins, an activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project
Marjorie Henzell (born 1948), Australian politician
Marjorie Hill (died 1909), one of the original nine of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's twenty founders at Howard University
Marjorie Holt (born 1920), a Republican, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented Maryland's 4th congressional district
Marjorie Hughes, a singer in the Frankie Carle Orchrestra
Marjorie Hume (1900–1976), an English film actress
Marjorie Husted (1892–1986), a home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty Crocker
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, AC, CVO, MBE (born 1931), a former Governor of South Australia and a former Australian athlete
Marjorie Johnson, the "Blue Ribbon Baker", is a popular baker from Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), African American inventor and businesswoman
Marjorie Kane (1909–1992), an American film actress
Marjorie Keller (1950–1994), an experimental filmmaker, author, activist, film scholar, wife of P. Adams Sitney
Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), an American author born in Santa Barbara, California
Marjorie B. Kellogg, American writer, author of Dragon Quartet
Marjorie Lane, an American singer and Broadway performer of the 1920s and 1930s
Marjorie Lawrence CBE (1907–1979), an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas
Marjorie Lewty (1906–2002), a popular writer of over 45 romance novels from 1958 to 1999
Marjorie Linton (1917–1994), a Canadian backstroke and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics
Marjorie Liu, a New York Times best-selling author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels and comic books
Marjorie Lord (1918–2015), an American television and film actress
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928–2015), an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet
Marjorie Main (1890–1975), an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (born 1942), an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a women's right activist
Marjorie Matthews (1916–1986), an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church
Marjorie Maxse (1891–1975), a political organiser and the first female chief organization officer of the Conservative Party
Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin (1903–1997), an important American puppeteer and authority on the puppet theater
Marjorie Merryman (born 1951), an American composer, author, and music educator
Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959), an abstract, geometric, hard-edge acrylic painter working in Lincoln, Nebraska
Marjorie Monaghan, an American actress born in California but raised in Ohio
Marjorie Montgomery (born 1912), a child dancer and actress
Marjorie Morgan (1915–2007), a Canadian writer and author
Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894–1981), daughter of Charles Butler Nicolson, editor-in-chief of the Detroit Free Press during World War I
Marjorie Noël (1945–2000), a French pop singer, represented Monaco in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest
Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937), nicknamed "Bubbles", was an American socialite
Marjorie Okell (1908–2009), an international track and field athlete from Great Britain
Marjorie Ozanne (1897–1973), wrote stories in Guernesiais, published in the Guernsey Evening Press between 1949 and 1965
Marjorie Parker, DBE (died 1991), an Australian civic and political activist, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977
Marjorie Perloff (born 1931), an Austrian-born U.S. poetry critic
Marjorie Pickthall (1883–1922), a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven
Marjorie Pizer (born 1920), an Australian poet
Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc.
Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock DBE, JP (died 1989), a British peeress
Marjorie Priceman (born 1958), the author and/or illustrator of over 30 picture books for children
Marjorie Proops (1911–1996), an agony aunt in the United Kingdom, writing the column Dear Marje for the Daily Mirror newspaper
Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), a British historian, illustrator and museum curator
Marjorie Rambeau (1889–1970), an American film and stage actress
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings
Robert and Marjorie Rawlins, American philanthropists and patrons of the arts, particularly music
Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), a federal judge and a former First Lady of Pennsylvania
Marjorie Reynolds (1917–1997), an American film actress
Marjorie Rhodes (1897–1979), a British actress
Marjorie Rice (born 1923), an American homemaker most famous for her discoveries in geometry
Marjorie Newell Robb (1889–1992), one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
Marjorie Scardino, DBE, FRSA (born 1947), the CEO of Pearson PLC.
Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957), an American museum writer and educator
Marjorie W. Sharmat (born 1928), an American children's writer
Marjorie Shostak (1945–1996), an American anthropologist
Marjorie Lynette Sigley (1928–1997), a British artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer
Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (1880–1970), the daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon
Marjorie Parker Smith (1917–2009), an American champion ice skater in dance and figure skating competitions
Marjorie Spock (1904–2008), an environmentalist, author and poet who influenced Rachel Carson's writing of Silent Spring
Marjorie Strider (born 1934), an American painter, sculptor and performance artist
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933), an author and United Methodist professor emerita of theology at Claremont School of Theology
Marjorie Sweeting, a geomorphologist specialising in karst phenomena
Marjorie Tallchief (born 1927), a ballerina of the Osage Nation
Marjorie Thomas (1923–2008), an English opera and oratorio singer for almost three decades
Marjorie Thompson, vice-chair and chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament between 1983 and 1993
Marjorie Tipping MBE (1917–2009), an Australian historian and patron of community services
Marjorie Torrey (born 1899), an illustrator and winner of two Caldecott Honor books in 1946 and 1947
Marjorie Tuite (1922–1986), a New York City-born and reared Dominican nun
Marjorie R. Turnbull (born 1940), served as a Representative in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Florida
Marjorie van Vliet (1923–1990), a teacher from Warwick, Rhode Island in the United States
Marjorie Vincent, a former journalist and beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991
Marjorie Wallace (born 1954), a former United States model later turned television presenter
Marjorie Wallace (SANE) CBE (Countess Skarbek) (born 1945), a British writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist, chief executive of SANE
Marjorie Weaver (1913–1994), an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s
Marjorie Welish (born 1944), an American poet, artist, and art critic
Marjorie Westbury (1905–1989), an English radio actress and singer
Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, an American historian and university professor at Randolph College
Marjorie Whitaker (1895–1976) (pseudonym Malachi Whitaker), an English writer noted for her short stories and an autobiography
Marjorie White (1904–1935), a Canadian-born actress of stage and film
Marjorie Williams (1958–2005), a writer, reporter, and columnist for Vanity Fair and The Washington Post
Marjorie Williamson (1913–2002), a British academic, educator, physicist and university administrator
Marjorie Willison, an author of books on gardening and a radio personality who answers gardeners' questions
Marjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976), an American author of novels and short stories
Marjorie Yang (born 1952), a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Marjorie Yates (born 1941), a British actress most famous for her role as Carol Fisher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless


Variant of Margery, a medieval variant of Margaret: pearl.

Famous People: 352 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Marjorie Merriweather Post 1887 American philanthropist
2 Marjorie de Sousa 1980 Venezuelan model and actress
3 Marjorie Lord 1918 Actress from the United States
4 Marjorie Main 1890 Actress
5 Marjorie Eaton 1901 Actress
6 Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky 1942 American women's rights activist
7 Marjorie Cameron 1922 American actor and occultist
8 Marjorie Reynolds 1917 Actress
9 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896 American novelist
10 Marjorie Liu American writer
11 Marjorie Bruce 1297 Scottish princess
12 Marjorie Gross 1956 Canadian television producer
13 Marjorie Bennett 1896 Actress
14 Marjorie Bransfield American actress
15 Marjorie Rambeau 1889 American actress
16 Marjorie Oelrichs 1908 American socialite
17 Marjorie Barretto 1974 Filipino actress
18 Marjorie Frantz French actress
19 Marjorie Ann Orbin 1961 American murderer
20 Marjorie Newell Robb 1889 Survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, founder of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
21 Marjorie Lee Browne 1914 American mathematician, educator
22 Marjorie Monaghan 1964 American actress
23 Marjorie Biondo 1972 Italian singer-songwriter
24 Marjorie Joyner 1896 American businessman
25 Marjorie Scardino 1947 American business woman
26 Marjorie Estiano 1982 Brazilian actress and singer
27 Marjorie Holt 1920 American politician
28 Marjorie Gestring 1922 Diver
29 Marjorie Rendell 1947 American judge
30 Marjorie Vincent 1964 American beauty queen
31 Marjorie Rhodes 1897 Actress
32 Marjorie White 1904 Canadian actress
33 Marjorie Guthrie 1917 American female dancer
34 Marjorie Williams 1958 American actress
35 Marjorie Rice 1923 American amateur mathematician who discovered several pentagon tilings (b.1923)
36 Marjorie Yang 1952 Hong Kong businessman
37 Marjorie Perloff 1931 American academic
38 Marjorie Proops 1911 British journalist
39 Marjorie Jackson-Nelson 1931 Australian athlete turned politician
40 Marjorie Yates 1941 English actress
41 Marjorie Tallchief 1926 American ballerina
42 Marjorie Lane 1912 American female singer
43 Marjorie Husted 1892 American actress
44 Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer 1907 South African naturalist
45 Marjorie Bowen 1885 British writer
46 Marjorie Johnson American baker
47 Marjorie Lawrence 1907 Singer
48 Marjorie Garber 1944 American academic
49 Marjorie Gubelmann 1969 American businesswoman
50 Marjorie Westbury 1905 English radio actress
51 Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye 1928 Novelist, essayist and poet
52 Marjorie Dawes
53 Marjorie Weaver 1913 American actress
54 Marjorie 1965 Finnish singer
55 Marjorie Dannenfelser President of the Susan B. Anthony List
56 Marjorie Evasco 1953 Filipino writer
57 Marjorie Shostak 1945 American anthropologist
58 Marjorie Cooper 1902 Canadian politician
59 Marjorie Fleming 1803 British writer
60 Marjorie Daw 1902 American film actress of the silent era
61 Marjorie Agosín 1955 American writer
62 Marjorie Pickthall 1883 Canadian writer
63 Marjorie Gateson 1891 American actress
64 Marjorie Chibnall 1915 British historian
65 Marjorie Flack 1897 American artist
66 Marjorie Harris Carr 1915 American environmentalist
67 Marjorie Fielding 1892 British actress
68 Marjorie W. Sharmat 1928 American children's writer
69 Marjorie Grene 1910 American philosopher
70 Marjorie Magner 1950 American businesswoman
71 Marjorie Holmes 1910 American columnist and best-selling Christian author
72 Marjorie Strider 1931 American artist
73 Marjorie Hill Founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
74 Marjorie Boulton 1924 British writer
75 Marjorie Cohn American law professor
76 Marjorie Peters 1918 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
77 Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki 1933 American theologian
78 Marjorie Magri 1986 Venezuelan actress and model
79 Marjorie Spock 1904 American writer
80 Marjorie Kane 1909 Actress
81 Marjorie Andrade Brazilian actress
82 Marjorie Barnard 1897 Australian novelist and short story writer, critic and historian
83 Marjorie Decker Massachusetts politician
84 Marjorie Senechal 1939 American mathematician
85 Marjorie Mayans 1990 French rugby player
86 Marjorie Deanne 1917 American film actress
87 Marjorie Hughes 1925 American singer
88 Marjorie Clapprood 1949 American politician
89 Marjorie Content 1895 Photographer
90 Marjorie Muir Worthington 1900 American writer
91 Marjorie Heins 1946 American writer and lawyer
92 Marjorie Matthews 1916 American bishop
93 Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson 1909 Scottish historian
94 Marjorie Torrey 1891 American illustrator and writer
95 Marjorie Best 1903 American Hollywood costume designer
96 Marjorie Cox Crawford 1903 Australian tennis player
97 Marjorie Corcoran 1950 American particle physicist
98 Marjorie Kemp 1886 British stained glass artist
99 Marjorie Anderson 1913 British broadcaster
100 Marjorie Hope Nicolson 1894 American academic
101 Marjorie Constance Caserio 1929 American chemist
102 Marjorie Stapp 1921 American actress
103 Marjorie Kellogg 1922 Novelist, screenwriter, playwright
104 Marjorie Thomas 1923 Singer
105 Marjorie Fowler 1920 American film editor
106 Marjorie Hill Allee 1890 American author
107 Marjorie Noël 1945 French singer
108 Marjorie Sweeting 1920 British geomorphologist
109 Marjorie Stinson 1896 American aviator
110 Marjorie Arnfield 1930 British artist
111 Marjorie Welish 1944 American poet
112 Marjorie Clark 1909 Athletics competitor
113 Marjorie Eyre 1897 British opera singer and actress
114 Marjorie Bates 1883 British artist
115 Marjorie Housepian Dobkin 1922 American writer
116 Marjorie Reeves 1905
117 Marjorie Thompson 1954 American biologist
118 Marjorie Brown 1911 American businesswoman
119 Marjorie N. Sloan 1944
120 Marjorie Hume 1900 Actress
121 Marjorie Cevallos 1986 Ecuadorian model
122 Marjorie Harris 1937 Canadian garden writer
123 Marjorie Gladman 1908 American tennis player
124 Marjorie Acker Phillips 1895 Artist
125 Marjorie Blamey 1919 British artist
126 Marjorie Keller 1950 American filmmaker
127 Marjorie Maxse 1891 British political organiser
128 Marjorie Parker Smith 1917 Figure skater
129 Marjorie Hillis 1890 American writer
130 Marjorie Organ 1886 American painter
131 Marjorie Townsend 1930
132 Marjorie Fulton 1909 American concert violinist
133 Marjorie Pizer 1920 Australian poet
134 Marjorie Williamson
135 Marjorie B. Kellogg 1946 American writer
136 Marjorie Whitaker 1895 English writer
137 Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson 1909 British economist
138 Marjorie Mikasen 1959 American artist
139 Marjorie Celona 1981 American-Canadian writer
140 Marjorie Sykes 1905 English teacher, author and community worker
141 Marjorie Sewell Cautley 1891 American landscape architect
142 Marjorie Clarke 1953 American scientist
143 Marjorie Wilson English geologist and petrologist
144 Marjorie Cottle 1900 British motorcycle racer
145 Marjorie Lynette Sigley 1928 English artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer
146 Marjorie Gordon 1893 British actor and singer
147 Marjorie Abbatt 1899 Toy maker and businessperson
148 Marjorie Beebe 1908
149 Marjorie J. Vold 1913 American chemist
150 Marjorie Hayward 1885 British musician
151 Marjorie Blankstein Canadian activist
152 Marjorie Montgomery 1912 American actress and dancer
153 Marjorie Kowalski Cole 1953 American writer
154 Marjorie Priceman 1958 American writer and illustrator
155 Marjorie McQuade 1934 Australian swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist
156 Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock British noble
157 Marjorie Merryman 1951 American composer born 1951.
158 Marjorie Parker 1900 Australian civic activist
159 Marjorie Tipping 1917 Australian historian
160 Marjorie Mountain 1900 Australian tennis player
161 Marjorie Graves 1884 British politician
162 Marjorie Willison Canadian gardener
163 Marjorie Lynn 1921
164 Marjorie Lewty 1906 British writer
165 Marjorie Quennell 1884 British historian
166 Marjorie Elliott Sypher 1926
167 Marjorie Van de Water 1900 American sociologist
168 Marjorie Deans 1901 British screenwriter
169 Marjorie Franklin American artist
170 Marjorie Halpin 1937 American-Canadian anthropologist
171 Marjorie Hall Harrison 1915 British astronomer
172 Marjorie van Heerden
173 Marjorie G. Horning 1917
174 Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland 1880 British baroness
175 Marjorie Bean Bermudian politician, educator and philanthropist
176 Marjorie Wood 1882 British actress
177 Marjorie Corbett 1912
178 Marjorie van Vliet 1923 American aviator
179 Marjorie Nichols 1943 Canadian journalist and writer
180 Marjorie Anthony Linden 1935
181 Marjorie Kendig 1892 American administrator
182 Marjorie Whylie
183 Marjorie Wilkins Campbell 1901 Canadian historical writer
184 Marjorie Tuite 1922
185 Marjorie Browne 1910 British actress
186 Marjorie Sherlock 1897 British painter and etcher
187 Marjorie Ozanne 1897 Guernsey writer
188 Marjorie Maitland Howard 1898 British artist
189 Marjorie Henzell 1948 Australian politician
190 Marjorie Hamilton 1898 Canadian judge (1898-1990)
191 Marjorie Critten American beauty pageant contestant
192 Marjorie Barrett 1889 Badminton player
193 Marjorie Griffin Camogie player
194 Marjorie Dodd 1894 American tennis player
195 Marjorie R. Turnbull 1940 American politician
196 Marjorie Gaffney 1897
197 Marjorie Cotton 1913 Australian librarian
198 Marjorie Pieper 1922 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
199 Marjorie Morrill 1908 American tennis player
200 Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler 1897 English palaeobotanist