Newt (name)

Newt is a shortened form of the given name Newton. It may refer to:

People

 * Newt Allen (1901–1988), American Negro league baseball player
 * Newt Gingrich (born 1943), American politician and former Speaker of the House
 * Newt H. Hall (1873–1939), American Marine Corps officer who served during the Boxer Rebellion
 * Newt Heisley (1920–2009), American commercial artist who designed the POW/MIA flag
 * Newt Hudson (1926-2014), American politician and educator
 * Newt Hunter (1880–1963), American Major League Baseball player
 * Newt Joseph (1896-1953), American Negro league baseball player and manager
 * Newt Kimball (1915-2001), American Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Newt Loken (1919-2011), American gymnast and coach
 * Newt V. Mills (1899–1996), American politician
 * Newt Perry (1908-1987), American swimmer, coach and promoter of water theme parks
 * Newt Randall (1880–1955), American Major League Baseball player

Fictional characters

 * Newt Dobbs, in the Western novel Lonesome Dove, the miniseries adaptation, and the sequel miniseries, Return to Lonesome Dove
 * Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, in the film Aliens
 * Newt Livingston from Cory in the House
 * Oswald "Uncle Newt" Nightingale, one of the central characters in the ninth series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
 * Newt Scamander, the fictional author of J. K. Rowling's 2001 book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
 * Newt, a character in Hollyoaks
 * Newt, in the novel The Maze Runner, the two sequels and the film trilogy based on them
 * Newt, a character from Xenoblade Chronicles 2