Perdita

Perdita (Latin for "lost"), may refer to:

People

• Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author
• Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete
• Perdita Huston (1936–2001), women's rights activist
• Perdita Weeks (born 1985), English actress

Science

• Perdita (genus), a genus of North American native bees
• Perdita (moon), a minor satellite of the planet Uranus

Fiction

Fictional characters

• Perdita, the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale
• Perdita Boyte, a character from the novel And Berry Came Too (1936), by Dornford Yates.
• Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera Emmerdale.
• Perdita Lee, a character from Helen Oyeyemi's novel, Gingerbread; the daughter of Araminta Harriet Lee and granddaughter of Margot Lee.
• Queen Perdita of Vlatava, a supporting character of Young Justice (TV series) in which she debuted in "Coldhearted" and was in danger of dying from a fatally weak heart, but was saved by Kid Flash. She returns as a seventeen-year-old teenage queen in the Outsiders season and dating Beast Boy; appearing as a cameo in "Royal We" and a speaking role in "Nightmare Monkeys".
• Perdita Willoughby-Lloyd, a minor character from the TV series The Haunting of Bly Manor and Viola Willoughby-Lloyd's younger sister.
• Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld book "Maskerade".

Fictional animals

• Perdita, female Dalmatian dog character in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and other adaptations:
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1961 animated film by Walt Disney
  • 101 Dalmatians (1996 film), a live-action film by Walt Disney Pictures

Other

• Perdita II (foaled 1881), English thoroughbred