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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 ElderIn 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 ClubsIn American popular culture it commonly refers to:
*Brad Pitt (born in 1963), an American actorIt 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 essayistPitt also refers to:
* Pitt, a hamlet betweenWinchester andHursley inHampshire , 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 theFort 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, AustraliaFiction
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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
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