Kit (given name)
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Kit is an affectionate abbreviation of the given names Christopher, Kristofer, Krystifa, Catherine, Katherine, or Kathryn, or rarely, Keith. Its use as a given name in its own right is becoming increasingly common.
People named Kit include:
[edit] People
- Kit Bond (born 1939), American politician and U.S. Senator from Missouri
- Kit Burns (1831–1870), American gang leader
- Kit Carson (1809–1868), American frontiersman
- Kit Chan (born 1972), Singaporean singer
- Kit Coleman (1864–1915), Canadian journalist
- Kit Cope (born 1977), American kickboxer
- Kit Culkin (born 1944), American actor
- Kit Denton (1928–1997), Australian writer
- Kit Fine (born 1946), British philosopher
- Kit Harington (born 1987), British actor
- Kit Hesketh-Harvey (born 1957), British comedian
- Kit Hoover (born 1970), American television reporter
- Kit Hung (born 1977), Hong Kong filmmaker
- Kit Klein (1910–1985), American speed skater
- Kit Lambert (1935–1981), British record producer
- Kit Malthouse (born 1966), British politician and Deputy Mayor of London
- Kit Pearson (born 1947), Canadian writer
- Kit Pedler (1927–1981), British television writer
- Kit Pongetti (born 1970), American actress
- Kit Rae (born 1966), Canadian fantasy collectibles designer
- Kit Reed (born 1932), American writer
- Kit Watkins (born 1953), American jazz musician
- Kit Whitfield, British writer
- Kit Williams (born 1946), British illustrator
[edit] Fiction
- Kit Cloudkicker, fictional character in the Disney cartoon TaleSpin
- Kit Keller, fictional character in the film A League of Their Own
- Kit Fisto, Jedi Knight in the Star Wars series
- Kit Kittredge, fictional character in the American Girl doll and book series
- Kit McGraw, fictional character in the television series Nip/Tuck
- Kit Oxenford, fictional character in the novel Whiteout by Ken Follett
- Kit Porter, fictional character in the television series The L Word
- Kit Ramsey, fictional character in the film Bowfinger
- Kit Snicket, fictional character in the novels A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Kit Tyler, fictional character in the 1959 novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
- Kit Walker, alias of fictional comic book character The Phantom
[edit] See also
- KITT, fictional car in the television series Knight Rider
- Kit (disambiguation)
- Kat (disambiguation)
