Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret.^[1]

People

Writers

• Peggy Dunstan (1920–2010), New Zealand poet and writer
• Peggy Frew (born 1976), Australian author
• Peggy Kornegger, American writer
• Peggy McIntosh (born 1934), American writer and activist
• Peggy Noonan (born 1950), American author and commentator
• Peggy Parish (1927–1988), American author

In entertainment

• Peggy Ashcroft, English actress
• Peggy Bacon (radio producer) aka "Aunty Peggy" - BBC radio and television producer and radio presenter
• Peggy Cass, American actress
• Peggy Cummins, Irish actress
• Peg Entwistle, English actress
• Peggy Knudsen, American actress
• Peggy Lipton, American actress
• Peggy McIntaggart, Canadian model
• Peggy Mount, English actress
• Peggy Ryan, American dancer and actress
• Peggy Shannon, American actress
• Peggy Wood, American actress
• Peggy Joyce, American actress
• Diana Serra Cary, known as Baby Peggy, American child actress

In music

• Peggy Gordon (singer), American musical theatre singer
• Peggy Gou, South Korean DJ and musician
• Peggy Lee, American jazz singer
• Peggy Lennon, American singer, one of the Lennon Sisters
• Peggy March, American pop singer
• Peggy Seeger, American folk singer
• Peggy Zina, Greek 'laika' singer

In sports

• Peggy Assinck, Canadian ice sledge hockey player and neuroscientist
• Peggy Büchse, German long-distance swimmer
• Peggy Fleming, American figure skater

In politics

• Peggy Cabral, Dominican politician, diplomat and TV presenter
• Peggy Duff, British political activist
• Peggy Nash, Canadian politician
• Peggy Schierenbeck, German politician
• Peggy Hessen Følsvik, Norwegian trade unionist.

Other professions

• Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954), American video artist
• Peggy Eaton (1799–1879), American, wife of John Henry Eaton and figure in the Petticoat affair
• Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Samoan-New Zealand academic
• Peggy Hård (1825–1894), Swedish clerk
• Peggy Hettrick (died 1987), American murder victim
• Peggy Johnson (1976–1999), American murder victim
• Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (1760–1804), American Loyalist spy for the British and second wife of Benedict Arnold
• Peggy Spicer (1908–1984), New Zealand painter
• Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1758–1801), sister in law of Alexander Hamilton
• Peggy Whitson (born 1960), American astronaut

Fictional characters

• Peggy Biggs, in the American TV series Mike & Molly
• Peggy Blackett, a character in Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" books
• Peggy Bundy, in the American sitcom Married... with Children
• Peggy Carter, a Marvel Comics character
• Peg Gallagher, from the TV show Shameless
• Peggy Hill, in the American animated TV series King of the Hill
• Peggy Matsuyama (aka Momoranger), in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
• Peggy Mitchell, in the British soap opera EastEnders
• Peggy Ollerenshaw, in the British TV comedy series Hi-De-Hi!
• Peggy Olson, in the American TV series Mad Men
• Peggy Patch, a rag doll puppet in the BBC children's TV series Playdays
• Peggy, a Hunter × Hunter character
• Peggy, a classmate of Wanda in the children's book The Hundred Dresses
• Peggy Blumquist, character from season 2 of American TV series Fargo