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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
Given 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
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
Vertigo
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term