# Brit

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**Brit** most commonly refers to:

- [Briton](/source/Briton), a British person
- *[Brit milah](/source/Brit_milah)*, Jewish circumcision

**Brit**, **Brits** or **BRIT** may also refer to:

## People

### Nicknames

- [Brit Hume](/source/Brit_Hume) (born 1943), American TV journalist
- [Brit Selby](/source/Brit_Selby) (born 1945), Canadian ice-hockey player
- [Brit Smith](/source/Brit_Smith) (born 1985), American actress, model, singer, and songwriter

### Given names

- [Brit Andresen](/source/Brit_Andresen), Norwegian-born Australian architect
- [Brit Bildøen](/source/Brit_Bild%C3%B8en) (born 1962), Norwegian poet, novelist, essayist, children's writer and literary critic
- [Brit Hoel](/source/Brit_Hoel) (born 1942), Norwegian politician
- [Brit Marling](/source/Brit_Marling) (born 1982), American writer, producer, director and actress
- [Brit McRoberts](/source/Brit_McRoberts) (born 1957), Canadian retired middle-distance runner
- [Brit Morgan](/source/Brit_Morgan) (born 1987), American film and television actress
- [Brit Pettersen](/source/Brit_Pettersen) (born 1961), Norwegian former cross-country skier
- [Brit Sandaune](/source/Brit_Sandaune) (born 1972), Norwegian soccer player and pre-school teacher
- [Brit Solli](/source/Brit_Solli) (born 1959), Norwegian archaeologist
- [Brit Stakston](/source/Brit_Stakston) (born 1961), Swedish-Norwegian writer, public speaker and media strategist
- [Brit Volden](/source/Brit_Volden) (born 1960), Norwegian orienteering competitor

### Family names

- [Cri-Zelda Brits](/source/Cri-Zelda_Brits) (born 1983), South African cricketer
- [Danie Brits](/source/Danie_Brits), South African former professional wrestler
- [Gorka Brit](/source/Gorka_Brit) (born 1978), Spanish footballer
- [Grant Brits](/source/Grant_Brits) (born 1987), Australian freestyle swimmer
- [Okkert Brits](/source/Okkert_Brits) (born 1973), South African former pole vaulter
- [Schalk Brits](/source/Schalk_Brits) (born 1981), South African rugby union footballer
- [Stefan Brits](/source/Stefan_Brits) (born 1992), South African track and field athlete
- [Tazmin Brits](/source/Tazmin_Brits) (born 1991), South African cricketer and former javelin thrower
- [Walter Brit](/source/Walter_Brit) (fl. 1390), a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and the reputed author of works on astronomy and mathematics, as well as a treatise on surgery

## Places

- [Brits, North West](/source/Brits,_North_West), a town in the North West province of South Africa, near Pretoria
- [River Brit](/source/River_Brit), a river in Dorset, England
- [Britstown](/source/Britstown), a small farming town in the Northern Cape of South Africa

## Organizations

- [Botanical Research Institute of Texas](/source/Botanical_Research_Institute_of_Texas), a global botanical research institute and learning center in the U.S.
- [Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology](/source/Board_of_Radiation_and_Isotope_Technology), a unit of the Department of Atomic Energy in Navi Mumbai, India
- [Brit + Co.](/source/Brit_%2B_Co.), an online DIY community/e-commerce company based in San Francisco
- [Brit plc](/source/Brit_plc), an international general insurance and reinsurance group acquired by Fairfax Financial in May 2015
- [BRIT School](/source/BRIT_School) for Performing Arts and Technology, a British performing arts and technology school in the London Borough of Croydon

## Other uses

- [The Brit Awards](/source/The_Brit_Awards), the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards
- [Bedford Road Invitational Tournament](/source/Bedford_Road_Invitational_Tournament), a basketball tournament held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- [Berith (disambiguation)](/source/Berith_(disambiguation)), Hebrew for "covenant"
- [Brit (character)](/source/Brit_(character)), an Image Comics superhero and series
- [Brit Stevenson](/source/Brit_Stevenson), a character in the film *Saw V* portrayed by Julie Benz

## See also

- [Britney (disambiguation)](/source/Britney_(disambiguation))
- [Britt (disambiguation)](/source/Britt_(disambiguation))
- [Briton (disambiguation)](/source/Briton_(disambiguation))
- [British (disambiguation)](/source/British_(disambiguation))

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