{{Infobox given name |name =Perdita |image = File:Florizel and Perdita by Mary F Raphael.jpg |caption = ''Florizel and Perdita'' from William Shakespeare's ''The Winter's Tale'' by Mary F Raphael, ca. 1901. |gender = Feminine |meaning = lost |region = |language = Latin }}'''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''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hanks|first1= Patrick| last2=Hardcastle|first2=Kate |last3=Hodges| first3=Flavia| author-link= |date= 2006|title= Oxford Dictionary of First Names|url= |location= |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=60|isbn= 0-19-861060-2}}</ref> ==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 series''The 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

==References== {{reflist}} Category:Feminine given names