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Perdita

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Perdita (Latin for "lost"), may refer to:

  • Perdita (genus), a genus of North American native bees
  • Perdita (moon), a minor satellite of the planet Uranus
  • Perdita (The Winter's Tale), the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale
  • Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author
  • Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete
  • Perdita Huston (1936–2001), women's rights activist
  • Perdita Weeks (born 1985), English actress
  • Perdita II (foaled 1881), English thoroughbred

Fictional Characters

  • Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera Emmerdale
  • Queen Perdita of Vlatava (Ariel Winter as a child, Hynden Walch as a teenager), supporting character of Young Justice (TV series) in which she debuted in "Coldhearted" and was in danger of dying from a fatally weak heart, but was saved by Kid Flash. She returns as a seventeen-year-old teenage queen in the Outsiders season and dating Beast Boy; appearing as a cameo in "Royal We" and a speaking role in "Nightmare Monkeys".
  • Perdita Lee, a character from Helen Oyeyemi's novel, Gingerbread; the daughter of Araminta Harriet Lee and granddaughter of Margot Lee.
  • Perdita Boyte, a character in the novel And Berry Came Too (1936), by Dornford Yates.
  • Perdita, female Dalmatian dog character in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and other adaptations:
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