Maisie (given name)

Maisie, also spelled Maisy, is a feminine given name, long used in Scotland (since at least the 16th century) as a diminutive of Margaret. Notable people with the name include:

• Maisie Adam (born 1994), English stand-up comedian, writer and actress
• Maisie Carr (1912-1988), Australian botanist
• Maisie Gay (1883-1945), English actress
• Maisie Maxwell (1876-1977), Australian film actress
• Maisie McDaniel (1939-2008), Irish singer
• Maisie Methuen (born 2001), English artistic gymnast
• Maisie Mosco (1924-2011), English writer
• Maisie Nankivell (born 1999), Australian rules football player
• Maisie Peters (born 2000), English musician
• Maisie Potter (born 1997), British snowboarder
• Maisie Renault (1907-2003), French resistance fighter
• Maisie Richardson-Sellers (born 1992), English actress
• Maisie Ringham (1924-2016), British trombonist
• Maisie Shiell (1916–2008), Canadian anti-nuclear activist
• Maisie Smith (born 2001), English actress
• Maisie Summers-Newton (born 2002), British swimmer
• Maisie Trollette (born 1933), British drag queen
• Maisie Ward (1889–1975), British writer, publisher and speaker
• Maisie Williams (born 1997), British actress
• Maisy Barker, English footballer
• Maisy Collis (born 2000), English footballer
• Maisy Gibson (born 1996), Australian cricketer
• Maisy Ma (born 1999), Hong Kong figure skater

Fictional characters[]

• Maisie Dobbs, protagonist in a series of detective novels by Jacqueline Winspear
• Maisy Gibbons from Desperate Housewives
• Maisie Farange, the protagonist in the Henry James novel What Maisie Knew (1897)
• Maisie Lockwood, a supporting character in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and its sequel Jurassic World: Dominion
• Maisie MacKenzie, the kitten in the Scottish children's books by Aileen Paterson and (as Maisie Mac) in the animated broadcast Meeow!
• Maisie Ravier (Mary Anastasia O'Connor), played by actress Ann Sothern in ten films and a radio show
• the title character of Maisie Raine, a 1998-1999 British television drama series
• Maisie Wylde, in the soap opera Emmerdale
• Maisy Mouse, the titular character of the children's book series by Lucy Cousins and its animated adaptation.
• Maisie, in the British comic strip The Perishers
• Maisie, the character loved by the protagonist in Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed (1891)
• Maisie, protagonist in the Rosa Mulholland novel Our Sister Maisie (1907)

See also[]

• Maizie Williams (born 1951), British model and singer
• Mazie Hirono (born 1947), American junior senator from Hawaii
• Mazie Turner (1954-2014), Australian artist
• Macy (given name)
• Maysie (given name)

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