Perdita

Perdita (Italian for "loss", from Latin for "lost woman"), may refer to:

People

• Perdita Barran, English chemist
• Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author
• Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete
• Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist
• Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist
• Perdita Weeks (born 1985), English actress

Science

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

Fiction

• Perdita (The Winter's Tale), the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale
• Perdita Boyte, a character from the 1936 novel And Berry Came Too by Dornford Yates
• Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera Emmerdale
• Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, character in the Witches subset of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series
• Perdita Willoughby-Lloyd, a minor character from the TV series The Haunting of Bly Manor
• Queen Perdita of Vlatava, a character of the animated superhero series Young Justice
• Perdita, a female Dalmatian dog in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and films, stage productions, and games based on the novel; see 101 Dalmatians (disambiguation)

Other

• Perdita (horse) (foaled 1881), English thoroughbred

See also

• All pages with titles containing Perdita