Margarete Seemann aka Margmann (26 July 1893 – 6 June 1949) was an Austrian poet who wrote many books but is known for her poems for children.

As such, she was confronted with the reality of social and material hardship in the Viennese labor districts, she taught in Hernals and has lived in Meidling from 1937.

Her verses and stories for children have been decorated by well-known illustrators such as Ida Bohatta.

Margarete Seemann developed bone cancer in 1937, from which she died in 1949 and she was buried in the Hetzendorfer cemetery, where she received an honorary grave from the city of Vienna.

Sixty of her poems were set to music by various composers and her books were translated into seven languages.