Pitt

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Pitt is a surname. Used on its own, in Europe or History it most commonly refers to one of two British statesmen:

• William Pitt the Elder (1708–1778), British Prime Minister & 1st Earl of Chatham 1766–1768
• William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister 1783–1801 and 1804–1806, son of Pitt the Elder

In the U.S. mainly in education or sports it most commonly refers to:

• University of Pittsburgh:
  • Pitt Panthers athletics teams
  • The Pitt News, student-managed newspaper
  • Pitt Poetry Series, large published list of contemporary American poetry
  • Pitt Band, the varsity marching band
  • Pitt Stadium, now demolished
  • William Pitt Union, the student union
  • William Pitt Debating Union, the student debating club
  • Hail to Pitt, athletic slogan and school fight song
  • Pitt Alumni Association, and other constitutive regional alumni Pitt Clubs

In American popular culture it commonly refers to:

• Brad Pitt (born in 1963), an American actor

It may also refer to the following people:

• Andrew Pitt, a motorcycle racer from New South Wales, Australia
• Charles Redding Pitt (born 1944), attorney and current chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party (2003-2007)
• David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, (1913-1994), civil rights campaigner and Labour politician in the United Kingdom
• Harvey Pitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Ingrid Pitt (born 1937 in Poland), actress in horror films of the 1960s and 70s
• Karnail Pitts, former D-12 artist
• Michael Carmen Pitt (born 1981), an American actor
• Thomas Pitt (1653–1726), English merchant, grandfather of Pitt the Elder
• William Pitt (architect) (1855-1918), architect working in Melbourne, Australia
• William Pitt (Canada) of New Brunswick, Canada, inventor of the underwater cable ferry in the early 1900s
• William Fox-Pitt (born 1969), British three-day eventing rider
• William Henry Pitt (known as Bill Pitt) (born 1937), British politician; was Liberal Member of Parliament 1981-1983
• William Rivers Pitt, leftist author and essayist

Pitt also refers to:

• Pitt, a hamlet between Winchester and Hursley in Hampshire, England
• Pitt Bank, a wholly submerged atoll structure in the Chagos Archipelago
• Pitt Club, founded 1835, an exclusive club at the University of Cambridge, England
• Pitt County, North Carolina, county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina
• Fort Pitt (historical) and the Fort Pitt Tunnel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Fort Pitt in Kent, England
• Pitt Island or Rangiauria, the second largest island in the Chatham Islands
• Pitt Lake, second-largest lake in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada
• Pitt Meadows, a District Municipality in southwestern British Columbia, Canada
• Pitt Rivers Museum in the University of Oxford, England founded in 1884 by Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist
• Pitt Street, Sydney a major street in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Pitt Street (disambiguation) lists streets with the same name in other places
• Pitt Town, New South Wales, historic town in New South Wales, Australia

[edit] Fiction

• Pitt (comics), a comic book published by Full Bleed Studios
• The Pitt (Marvel Comics), a single issue comic book published in 1987 by Marvel Comics
• Dirk Pitt, protagonist of a series of bestselling adventure novels written by Clive Cussler