Perdita (given name)

Perdita is a feminine given name derived from perditus, meaning lost. It was used by William Shakespeare for an abandoned princess, the heroine of his 1610 play The Winter's Tale, and for a canine heroine of Dodie Smith's 1956 book The Hundred and One Dalmatians and the Walt Disney Pictures 1961 film adaptation of the book, One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Women

 * Perdita Barran, English chemist
 * Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author
 * Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete
 * Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist
 * Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist
 * Perdita Weeks (born 1985), British actress

Fiction

 * 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 by Dornford Yates
 * Perdita Halley Reisden, a character in Sarah Smith's historical mystery seriesThe Vanished Child, The Knowledge of Water, Citizen of the Country and Crimes and Survivors
 * Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera Emmerdale
 * Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, a 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
 * Queen Perdita of Vlatava, a character of the animated superhero series Young Justice
 * Perdita, a female Dalmatian dog in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and the media franchise based on the novel; see 101 Dalmatians (disambiguation)
 * The Free Ship Perdita, a sky-sailing ship in the 1999 novel Stardust (1999) by Neil Gaiman