Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, née Hamilton, (27 April 1855 – 24 January 1897), was an Irish novelist whose light romantic fiction was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the late 19th century.

Her father was Canon Fitzjohn Stannus Hamilton, rector and vicar-choral at St. Faughnan's cathedral in Rosscarbery.

By contemporary accounts, Margaret enjoyed country life and was an avid gardener.

The room where she did her writing had neatly organised manuscripts at her desk, surrounded by many reference works, novels, and other books.

She was adept at capturing the tone of her contemporary fashionable society, and sometimes used Irish settings.

Hungerford's best-known novel is Molly Bawn (1878), the story of a frivolous, petulant Irish girl.