Marjorie
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).
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After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century.
Marge, Margie, Marj, Jorie, MJ, Mar, Majoy and Maggie are common nicknames of Marjorie.
People with the name Marjorie
- Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce
- Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman
- Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist
- Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), award-winning writer, activist, and professor
- Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), BBC radio broadcaster
- Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), Scottish historian and paleographer
- Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), English landscape artist
- Marjorie Balindo AO (1996), Content Producer
- Marjorie Barnard AO (1897–1987), Australian writer, critic, and librarian
- Marjorie Barretto (born 1974), actress and politician from the Philippines
- Marjorie Bates R.A. (1882–1962), Derbyshire painter
- Marjorie Bean (died 2001), first Bermudian woman to be appointed to its Legislative Council
- Marjorie Bennett (1896–1982), Australian actress
- Marjorie Best (1903–1997), American costume designer
- Marjorie Blamey OBE (born 1919), English painter and illustrator
- Marjorie Blankstein, CM (née Rady), Canadian fundraiser, community activist, and volunteer
- Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), British writer in English and Esperanto
- Marjorie Bowen (1885–1952), British author
- Marjorie Bransfield, actress
- Marjorie Brown, American businesswoman and owner of the Boston Celtics
- Marjorie Browne (1910–1990), British actor
- Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), African-American mathematics educator
- Marjorie Bruce or Marjorie de Brus (1296–1316), eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
- Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), artist, occultist, and actress; wife of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons
- Marjorie Harris Carr (1915–1998), American conservationist
- Marjorie Constance Caserio (born 1929), American chemist
- Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), American landscape architect
- Marjorie Chibnall, English historian, medievalist and Latin translator
- Marjorie Clapprood (born 1949), Massachusetts politician and talk show host
- Marjorie Clark (born 1909), South African former track and field athlete
- Marjorie Clarke, environmental scientist
- Marjorie Cohn, professor of law
- Marjorie Kowalski Cole (1953–2009), author
- Marjorie Cottle, motorcycle sports rider
- Marjorie Cotton (1913–2003), Australian children's librarian
- Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African museum official who in 1938 publicised the existence of the coelacanth
- Marjorie Cox Crawford, Australian tennis player
- Marjorie Critten, Miss Missouri in 1958
- Marjorie Crocombe (born 1930), author and academic from the Cook Islands
- Marjorie Dannenfelser, chairman of the Susan B. Anthony List
- Marjorie Daw (actress) (1902–1979), American film actress of the silent era
- Marjorie de Sousa (born 1980), Venezuelan model and actress
- Marjorie Dean, protagonist of series of books for girls written by Josephine Chase
- Marjorie Deane (1914-2008), British financial journalist and author
- Marjorie Deanne (1917–1994), American film actress
- Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1922-2013), professor of English at Barnard College
- Marjorie Dodd, early 20th century amateur tennis player
- Marjorie Dunn, British horn player
- Marjorie Estiano (born 1982), Brazilian actress and singer
- Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), Filipino poet
- Marjorie Eyre (1897–1987), English opera singer
- Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), British stage and film actress
- Marjorie Flack (1897–1958), artist and writer of children's picture books
- Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child writer and poet
- Marjorie Franklin, conceptual artist and art professor
- Marjorie Garber (born 1944), author and professor
- Marjorie Gateson (1891–1977), character actress in films of the 1930s and 1940s
- Marjorie Gestring (1922–1992), springboard diver and Olympic gold medallist
- Marjorie Gordon (1893–1983), English actress and singer
- Marjorie Graves (1884–1961), British civil servant, Conservative politician and writer
- Marjorie Grene (1910–2009), American philosopher
- Marjorie Griffin, camogie player
- Marjorie Gross (1956–1996), television writer and producer
- Marjorie Gubelmann (born 1969), owner and CEO of Vie Luxe International
- Marjorie Guthrie (1917–1983), dancer and dance teacher
- Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American mathematician and tennis player
- Marjorie Halpin (1937–2000), U.S.-Canadian anthropologist
- Marjorie Harris (born 1937), Canadian non-fiction writer
- Marjorie Silliman Harris (1890–1976), American philosopher
- Marjorie Hall Harrison (born 1915), British astronomer
- Marjorie Heins, activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project
- Marjorie Henzell (born 1948), Australian politician
- Marjorie Heyduck (1913 - 1969), American journalist
- Marjorie Hill (died 1909), a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. at Howard University
- Marjorie Holt (born 1920), Republican U.S. Congresswoman for Maryland
- Marjorie Hughes, singer in the Frankie Carle Orchrestra
- Marjorie Hume (1900–1976), English film actress
- Marjorie Husted (1892–1986), home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty Crocker
- Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, AC, CVO, MBE (born 1931), former Governor of South Australia and former Australian athlete
- Marjorie Johnson, the "Blue Ribbon Baker" from Minnesota
- Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), African American inventor and businesswoman
- Marjorie Kane (1909–1992), American film actress
- Marjorie Keller (1950–1994), experimental filmmaker, author, activist, and film scholar
- Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), American author
- Marjorie B. Kellogg, American writer, author of Dragon Quartet
- Marjorie Lane, American singer and Broadway performer of the 1920s and 1930s
- Marjorie Lawrence CBE (1907–1979), Australian soprano
- Marjorie Leeming (1903–1987), Canadian tennis player, badminton player and teacher
- Marjorie Lewty (1906–2002), author of romance novels
- Marjorie Linklater (1909–1997), Scottish campaigner of the arts and environment
- Marjorie Linton (1917–1994), Canadian backstroke and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Marjorie Liu, author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels and comic books
- Marjorie Lord (1918–2015), American television and film actress
- Marjorie Luesebrink, author of hypermedia fiction
- Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928–2015), English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet
- Marjorie Main (1890–1975), American character actress
- Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (born 1942), women's right activist and educator
- Marjorie Matthews (1916–1986), American Bishop of the United Methodist Church
- Marjorie Maxse (1891–1975), political organiser and the first female chief organization officer of the Conservative Party
- Marjorie McIntosh (born 1940), American historian of Great Britain
- Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin (1903–1997), American puppeteer and authority on puppet theater
- Marjorie Merryman (born 1951), American composer, author, and music educator
- Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959), painter working in Lincoln, Nebraska
- Marjorie Monaghan, American actress
- Marjorie Montgomery (1912–1991), child dancer and actress
- Marjorie Morgan (1915–2007), Canadian writer and author
- Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894–1981), American literary scholar
- Marjorie Noël (1945–2000), French pop singer, represented Monaco in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest
- Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937), American socialite
- Marjorie Okell (1908–2009), track and field athlete from Great Britain
- Marjorie Ozanne (1897–1973), Guernsey author in Guernésiais, bird hospital founder
- Marjorie Parker, DBE (died 1991), Australian civic and political activist
- Marjorie Perloff (born 1931), Austrian-born U.S. poetry criticGuernésiais
- Marjorie Pickthall (1883–1922), Canadian writer born in England
- Marjorie Pierce (1900–1999), American architect
- Marjorie Pizer (born 1920), Australian poet
- Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc.
- Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock DBE, JP (died 1989), British peeress
- Marjorie Priceman (born 1958), author and illustrator of children's books
- Marjorie Proops (1911–1996), newspaper columnist in the United Kingdom
- Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), British historian, illustrator and museum curator
- Marjorie Rambeau (1889–1970), American film and stage actress
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), American author who lived in rural Florida
- Robert and Marjorie Rawlins, American philanthropists and patrons of the arts, particularly music
- Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), federal judge and former First Lady of Pennsylvania
- Marjorie Reynolds (1917–1997), American film actress
- Marjorie Rhodes (1897–1979), British actress
- Marjorie Rice (born 1923), American amateur mathematician
- Marjorie Scardino, DBE, FRSA (born 1947), American-British CEO of Pearson PLC
- Marjorie Schick (1941–2017), American jewelry artist and academic
- Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957), American museum writer and educator
- Marjorie W. Sharmat (born 1928), American children's writer
- Marjorie Shostak (1945–1996), American anthropologist
- Marjorie Lynette Sigley (1928–1997), British artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer
- Marjorie “Marge” Simpson, fictional character from the TV series The Simpsons
- Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (1880–1970), daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon
- Marjorie Parker Smith (1917–2009), American champion ice skater in dance and figure skating competitions
- Marjorie Spock (1904–2008), environmentalist, author and poet
- Marjorie Strider (1934-2014), American painter, sculptor and performance artist
- Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933), author and emerita professor of theology
- Marjorie Sweeting, geomorphologist specialising in karst phenomena
- Marjorie Tallchief (born 1927), ballerina of the Osage Nation
- Marjorie Taylor (1912–1974), British stage and film actress.
- Marjorie Taylor Greene (born 1974), American politician and businesswoman.
- Marjorie Thomas (1923–2008), English opera and oratorio singer
- Marjorie Thompson, vice-chair and chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Marjorie Tipping MBE (1917–2009), Australian historian and patron of community services
- Marjorie Torrey (born 1899), award-winning illustrator
- Marjorie Tuite (1922–1986), Dominican nun from New York City
- Marjorie R. Turnbull (born 1940), representative in Florida's House of Representatives
- Marjorie van Vliet (1923–1990), teacher from Warwick, Rhode Island
- Marjorie Vincent, former journalist and beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991
- Marjorie Wallace (born 1954), former United States model turned television presenter
- Marjorie Wallace (SANE) CBE (Countess Skarbek) (born 1945), British writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist; chief executive of SANE
- Marjorie Weaver (1913–1994), American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s
- Marjorie Welish (born 1944), American poet, artist, and art critic
- Marjorie Westbury (1905–1989), English radio actress and singer
- Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, American historian and university professor
- Marjorie Whitaker (1895–1976) (pseudonym Malachi Whitaker), English writer noted for short stories and an autobiography
- Marjorie White (1904–1935), Canadian-born actress of stage and film
- Marjorie M. Whiteman (1898—1986[1]), American expert on international law
- Marjorie Williams (1958–2005), writer, reporter, and columnist
- Marjorie Williamson (1913–2002), British academic, physicist, and university administrator
- Marjorie Willison, author of books on gardening and a radio personality
- Marjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976), American author of novels and short stories
- Marjorie Yang (born 1952), non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
- Marjorie Yates (born 1941), British actress known for role in the Channel 4 drama Shameless
See also
- Marjory
- Margery (disambiguation)
- 4064 Marjorie (2126 P-L), main-belt asteroid discovered in 1960
- USS Marjorie M. (SP-1080), U.S. Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
- Marjorie Barrick Museum, museum on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States
- Marjorie Cook Education Center, an educational school based in San Diego, California, United States
- "Marjorie Daw" (short story), short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Marjorie Fair, American indie rock/shoegazer band formed in New Jersey
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, Florida State Park and historic site on the former homestead of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Marjorie Morningstar (film), 1958 melodrama film based on the 1955 novel of the same name
- Marjorie Morningstar (novel), 1955 novel by Herman Wouk, about a woman who wants to become an actress
- Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award, presented annually by the U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations
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