Bantam or Bantams may refer to: *

Bantam (poultry) A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or domestic duck, duck. Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most o ...

, any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck

Businesses

Bantam Books Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. ...

, an American publishing house *

Bantam Cider Bantam Cider was an independently owned, hard cider company located in Somerville, Massachusetts. They offered three varieties of bottled cider which ranged from 5.4% to 6.9% ABV. Bantam Cider was distributed throughout Massachusetts, Maine, New Ham ...

, an American cider company * Bantam Press, a British publishing imprint *

American Bantam The American Bantam Car Company was an American automobile manufacturing company incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania. American Bantam is credited with the invention of the Original Jeep in 1940. The company's founders, Roy Evans and Willia ...

, a 1935 car company, formerly American Austin Car Company

Military

* Bantam (military), a soldier shorter than 5'3" in the First World War **

143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF The 143rd (B.C. Bantams) Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Victoria, British Columbia, the unit began recruiting in 1916 throughout Western Canada. Bantam units were organized to ...

216th Battalion (Bantams), CEF The 216th (Bantams) Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the unit began recruiting in early 1916 throughout Military District 2. After sailing to England in April 191 ...

Bantam (missile) The Bantam (Bofors ANti-TAnk Missile) or Robot 53 (Rb 53) was a Swedish wire-guided, manual command to line of sight, anti-tank missile developed in the late 1950s by Bofors. It served with the Swedish and Swiss armies from 1963 and 1967 respectiv ...

, a Swedish 1950s anti-tank missile * BAT Bantam, a British 1920s biplane fighter aircraft *

Northrop X-4 Bantam The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a prototype small twinjet aircraft manufactured by Northrop Corporation in 1948. It had no horizontal tail surfaces, depending instead on combined elevator and aileron control surfaces (called elevons) for control in ...

, an American prototype small twinjet aircraft * Douglas A-4 Skyhawk light attack aircraft, nicknamed Bantam Bomber

Places

* Banten (town), also written as Bantam, a port town in Java, Indonesia ** Banten Sultanate, or Bantam, 1527–1813 ** Banten, current province of Indonesia on territory of the former sultanate *

Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands Bantam Village is the largest settlement on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, in Australia. It is located on Home Island and has a population of about 448, mainly Cocos Malays Cocos Malays are a community that form the predominant group of the ...

Bantam, Connecticut Bantam is a borough in Litchfield County, Connecticut, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 759 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. While separated for census and historic reasons, Bantam is governed as an i ...

, U.S. * Bantam, Ohio, U.S. *

Bantam River The Bantam River is a two-part, southward-flowing stream located in northwest Connecticut in the United States. The full river comprises two streams that flow into and out of Bantam Lake and that are referred to as Bantam Lake Inlet and Bantam Lak ...

, Connecticut, U.S.

Sports

* Bantam, U15 age category in minor ice hockey *

Bradford City A.F.C. Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system and are currently managed by Mark Hughes. Th ...

, nicknamed The Bantams, an English football club * Trinity College Bantams, the varsity and club athletic teams of Trinity College (Connecticut) * SC United Bantams, a soccer team in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.

Transportation

* Micro Aviation B22 Bantam, a New Zealand microlight aircraft * Warwick W-3 Bantam, an American homebuilt aircraft design * Bantam (car), a 1913 British cyclecar *

, name adopted by the former American Austin Car Company in 1935 until 1956 * Ford Bantam, a South African pickup truck from 1983 * BSA Bantam, a British motorcycle 1948–1971 * HNLMS ''Bantam'' (1938), a Dutch ship * MS ''Bantam'' (1939), a Dutch ship * SS ''Bantam'' (1930), a Dutch ship

Other uses

Bantam (comics) Nakia Bahadir Nakia Bahadir is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a Turkish girl and friend of Kamala Khan. Nakia Bahadir in other media Nakia Bahadir appears in ''Ms. Marvel'', portrayed ...

, a comic character * Bantam, official mascot of Trinity College (Connecticut) * Bantam connector, a type of phone connector *

Bantam microRNA In molecular biology bantam microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. Function In Drosophila, bantam microRNA works in the epithelial cells where it regulates the ...