Perdita (Italian for "loss", from Latin for "lost woman"), may refer to:
People
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Perdita Barran
Perdita Elizabeth Barran is a Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manchester. She is Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry. She develops and applies ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectromet ...
, English chemist
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Perdita Buchan
The Hon. Perdita Caroline Buchan (born 16 December 1940) is an Anglo- American author and journalist.
As a writer she uses her maiden name, but is also known by her married name of Perdita Buchan Connolly.
Background
Buchan was born in 1940, th ...
(born 1940), Anglo-American author
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Perdita Felicien
Perdita Felicien (born August 29, 1980) is a Canadian retired hurdler. Felicien is the 2003 World champion in the 100 metres hurdles and 2004 World indoor champion in the 60 metres hurdles. She also won silver medals at the 2007 World Champions ...
(born 1980), Canadian track athlete
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Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist
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Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist
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Perdita Weeks
Perdita Rose Weeks (born 25 December 1985) is a British actress who plays Juliet Higgins in the CBS-turned-NBC reboot series ''Magnum P.I.''
Life and education
Weeks was born in South Glamorgan, to Robin and Susan (née Wade) Weeks, was educat ...
(born 1985), English actress
Science
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''Perdita'' (genus), a genus of North American native bees
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Perdita (moon)
Perdita is an inner satellite of Uranus. Perdita's discovery was complicated. The first photographs of Perdita were taken by the ''Voyager 2'' spacecraft in 1986, but it was not recognized from the photographs for more than a decade. In 1999, t ...
, a minor satellite of the planet Uranus
Fiction
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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
''And Berry Came Too'' is a 1936 collection of comic short stories by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), featuring his recurring 'Berry' characters.
Plot
The book consists of eight short stories, mostly set in Hampshi ...
'' by Dornford Yates
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Perdita Hyde-Sinclair
Perdita "Perdy" Hyde-Sinclair (also Hyde) is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Georgia Slowe. She made her first on screen appearance on 1 March 2006.
Casting
In March 2006, '' Inside Soap'' announced Sl ...
, 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
''The Haunting of Bly Manor'' is an American gothic romance drama streaming television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan, and released on October 9, 2020 by Netflix. The second entry in Flanagan's '' The Haunting'' anthology series, it mostl ...
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*Queen Perdita of Vlatava, a character of the animated superhero series ''
Young Justice
Young Justice is a fictional DC Comics superhero team consisting of teenaged heroes.
The team was formed in 1998 when DC's usual teen hero group, the Teen Titans, had become adults and changed their name to the Titans. Like the original ''Teen ...
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*Perdita, a female Dalmatian dog in ''
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
''The Hundred and One Dalmatians'' is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith about the kidnapping of a family of Dalmatian puppies. It was originally serialized in ''Woman's Day'' as ''The Great Dog Robbery'', and details the adventures of ...
'', a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and films, stage productions, and games based on the novel; see
101 Dalmatians (disambiguation) 101 Dalmatians may refer to:
* '' The Hundred and One Dalmatians'', a 1956 novel written by Dodie Smith
* 101 Dalmatians (franchise), a Disney film franchise based on the novel
** ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'', a 1961 animated film based on t ...
Other
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Perdita (horse) (foaled 1881), English thoroughbred
See also
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