title: Margrethe
text: # Margrethe
  
  Margret(h)e is an alternate spelling of the feminine given name Margaret.
  
  People so named include:
  
  * Margrete or Margaret I of Denmark (1353–1412), Queen of Denmark and Queen of Norway and Sweden by marriage
  * Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940), queen regnant of Denmark
  * Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway (c. 1155–1209), in Norwegian "Margrete", queen consort of Norway
  * Margaret Skulesdatter (1208–1270), in Old Norse "Margrét", queen consort of Haakon IV of Norway
  * Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895–1992), in Danish "Margrethe"
  * Margrete Auken (born 1945), Danish politician
  * Margrete Aamot Øverland (1913–1978), journalist and member of the Norwegian Resistance during World War II
  * Margrethe Christiansen (1895–1971), Danish folk high school teacher
  * Margrethe Lasson (1659–1758), first novelist in Denmark
  * Margrethe Munthe (1860–1931), Norwegian teacher, children's writer, songwriter and playwright
  * Margrethe Schall (1775–1852), Danish ballerina
  * Margrethe Schanne (1921–2014), Danish ballerina
  * Margrethe Vestager (born 1968), Danish politician
  