Margherita

Not to be confused with Margarita.

Margherita is the Italian language word for "daisy", and may refer to:

Places

• Margherita, Assam, town in Assam, India
• Fort Margherita, fort built in 1879 by Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak situated in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
• The Italian name for Jamaame, a town in Somalia
• Margherita Peak, the highest point of Mount Stanley, the third highest mountain in Africa, named after the Queen Consort
• Santa Margherita, a frazione of the town and commune of Ala
• Santa Margherita de'Cerchi, church in Florence, Italy

People

• Margherita Sarfatti, Italian journalist and mistress of Benito Mussolini (1880–1961)
• Margherita of Savoy, former Queen Consort of Italy and wife of Umberto I (1851–1926)
• Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este (born 1930)
• Margherita Carosio, Italian operatic soprano (1908–2005)
• Margherita Gargano, Italian middle distance runner
• Margherita Granbassi, Italian fencer

Other

• Italian battleship Regina Margherita (1901)
• Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, (Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita), a former Italian political party
• Margherita pizza

See also

• Margaret (name)
• Margaret (disambiguation)
• Margarita (disambiguation)