Margarete

This article is about the given name. For the glider, see Akaflieg Darmstadt D-7 Margarete.

Margarete is a feminine given name related to Margaret.

People named Margarete include:

• Margarete Weißkirchner (1460–1500), commoner and common-law spouse of Philip I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
• Margarete of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1516 or 1517–1580), a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth, Duchess of Münsterberg, Oels and Bernstadt by marriage
• Princess Margarete Karola of Saxony (1900–1962), Duchess of Saxony, Princess of Hohenzollern by marriage
• Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (1870–1902), Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, Hungary, and Tuscany by birth, Duchess of Württemberg by marriage
• Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870–1955), Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bohemia, Hungary, and Tuscany by birth, Princess of Thurn and Taxis by marriage
• Margarete Adler (1896–1990), Austrian freestyle swimmer, diver and gymnastics teacher, first Austrian woman Summer Olympics medalist (with her relay teammates)
• Margarete Bagshaw (1964–2015), American painter and potter
• Margarete Bieber (1879–1978), Jewish German art historian, classical archaeologist and professor, the second woman university professor in Germany
• Margarete Böhme (1867–1939), German writer
• Margarete Bonnevie (1884–1970), Norwegian author, feminist and politician
• Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901–1989), German writer, communist and later anti-communist
• Margarete Depner (1885–1970), Romanian sculptor, painter and illustrator
• Margarete Dessoff (1874–1944), German choral conductor, singer and voice teacher
• Margarete Haagen (1889–1966), German stage and film actress
• Margarete Heymann (1899–1990), German ceramic artist
• Margarete Hilferding (1871–1942), Austrian Jewish teacher, doctor, individual psychologist and first woman admitted into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
• Margarete Himmler (1893–1967), wife of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler
• Margarete Kahn (1880–1942?), German mathematician and Holocaust victim
• Grete Keilson (1905–1999), German communist politician
• Margarete Klose (1899–1968), German operatic mezzo-soprano
• Margarete Kollisch (1893–1979), Austrian writer and poet
• Margarete Kupfer (1881–1953), German actress
• Margarete Lanner (1896–1981), German stage and film actress
• Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (1917–2012), German psychoanalyst
• Margarete Neumann (1917–2002), German writer and lyrical poet
• Margarete Pioresan (born 1956), Brazilian former football goalkeeper
• Margarete Robsahm (born 1942), Norwegian model, actress and director
• Margarete Schlegel (1899–1987), German actress
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), first female Austrian architect and communist anti-Nazi resistance member
• Margarete Schön (1895–1985), German stage and film actress
• Margarete Sommer (1893–1965), German Catholic social worker and lay Dominican who saved Jews from the Holocaust
• Margarete Steffin (1908–1941), German actress and writer, one of Bertold Brecht's lovers and closest collaborators
• Margarete Steiff (1847–1909), German seamstress who founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, the toy stuffed animal manufacturer
• Margarete Teschemacher (1903–1959), German operatic soprano
• Margarete Wallmann (1901 or 1904–1992), ballerina, choreographer, stage designer and opera director in Austria
• Margarete von Wrangell (1877–1932), Baltic German agricultural chemist, the first female full professor at a German university