Shalit

Shallit, Shalit (שַׁלִּיט šallīt "ruler"), also transliterated as Schalit or Schallit, is a Hebrew-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
 * Abraham Schalit (1898 – 1979), Jewish Galician-Israeli historian
 * Amos de-Shalit (1926 – 1969), Israeli nuclear physicist
 * Gene Shalit (born 1926), American film critic
 * Gilad Shalit (born 1986), Israeli soldier captured by Hamas
 * Heinrich Schalit (1886–1976), Jewish Austrian-American musician and composer
 * Jean Schalit (1937-2020), French journalist
 * Rabbi Joseph Shalit Riqueti (17th century), Israeli-Italian rabbi
 * Jeffrey Shallit (born 1957), computer scientist, number theorist
 * Joseph Shallit (1915–1995), an American mystery novelist and science fiction author
 * Moshe Shalit (1885 – 1941), researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist
 * Paula Szalit (1886 or 1887–1920), Polish pianist
 * Ruth Shalit (born 1971, Milwaukee), American journalist
 * Shulamit Shalit, Israeli wiriter and essayist
 * Wendy Shalit (born 1975), American author
 * Willa Shalit (born 1955), Jewish American artist, activist entrepreneur, and philanthropist