What is the name of the villain in Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty'?

What is the name of the villain in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty? Maleficent.

Maleficent is the principal villain of Disney’s 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty. She is an evil fairy who calls herself the “Mistress of All Evil.” After being excluded from Princess Aurora’s christening, she curses the infant princess to prick her finger on a spinning-wheel spindle and die before sunset on her sixteenth birthday.

The good fairy Merryweather weakens the curse so that Aurora will fall into an enchanted sleep rather than die. Maleficent eventually discovers Aurora’s hiding place, lures her to a tower, and ensures that the prophecy comes true. She later transforms into a dragon and battles Prince Phillip.

Viewers sometimes confuse Maleficent with Lady Tremaine, Mother Gothel, or Ursula because all are major Disney villains, but they belong to Cinderella, Tangled, and The Little Mermaid respectively. Maleficent first appeared in Sleeping Beauty as a sinister fairy, while the later live-action films reimagined her as a more sympathetic central character. In the animated film, Eleanor Audley provided her voice and Marc Davis supervised her animation.