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Midge (disambiguation)


The midge is a very small, two-winged flying insect. Midge may also refer to:

Military

  • Folland Midge, a British subsonic light fighter aircraft
  • HMQS Midge, an Australian torpedo launch in service from 1887 to 1912
  • Canadair CL-89, a surveillance drone called Midge in UK service

People

First name or nickname

  • Midge Bosworth (born 1941), Australian former racing driver
  • Toughie Brasuhn (1923–1971), American roller derby skater
  • Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958), British painter
  • Midge Costanza (1932–2010), American politician
  • Midge Decter (1927–2022), American neoconservative journalist and author of various books
  • Midge Didham (born 1945), New Zealand retired jockey
  • Mildred Gillars (1900–1988), American broadcaster of Nazi propaganda during World War II
  • Midge Gillies, British journalist and biographer
  • Marjorie Gladman (1908–1999), American amateur tennis player
  • Midge Mackenzie (1938–2004), Dublin born writer and film maker
  • Midge Marsden (born 1945), New Zealand blues and R&B guitarist, harmonica-player, and singer
  • Midge Miller (1922–2009), American politician
  • Marjorie Moreman (1902–1987), British gymnast
  • Midge Potts, transgender political activist
  • Margaret Purce (born 1995), American soccer player
  • Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), American jurist and first lady of Pennsylvania
  • Midge Richardson (1930-2012), American nun and educator turned author and editor of Seventeen magazine
  • Midge Ure (born 1953), Scottish guitarist, singer and songwriter
  • Midge Williams (1915–1952), African-American Swing Jazz vocalist during the 1930s and 1940s

Surname

  • Tiffany Midge, Native American poet

Fictional characters

  • Midge (Barbie), a doll in the Barbie line
  • Midge, the Miller's Son, a character in several Robin Hood tales
  • Midge Klump, from Archie Comics
  • Midge Carter, in the play I'm Not Rappaport and its adaptations
  • Midge Maisel, in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, an American television series
  • Midge Pinciotti, in That '70's Show, an American television series
  • Midge, a pet mouse in Mary, Mungo and Midge, a British animated children's television series
  • Marge Simpson, from the TV series The Simpsons is nicknamed "Midge" apparently exclusively by Moe Szyslak
  • Marjorie "Midge" Wood, a character in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 Vertigo

Other uses

  • Midge Lake, Livingston Island, Antarctica
  • Midge the Sea Lion (1985-2010), a resident of the Oklahoma City zoo
  • Midge Linux, a Linux mini-distribution for routers
  • Midge (HBC vessel), operated by the HBC in 1877, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
  • JC Midge, a kit car
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