Pitt (surname)
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Pitt is a surname of English origin.[1]
List of people with the surname Pitt
Used as a surname, Pitt most commonly refers to the following people:
- Brad Pitt (born 1963), American actor
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (William Pitt the Elder) (1708–1778), Prime Minister of Great Britain (1766–1768)
- William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), son of the above and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783–1801) and of the United Kingdom (1801 and 1804–1806)
Pitt may also refer to the following people:
- Andrew Pitt, motorcycle racer from New South Wales, Australia
- Angela Pitt (born 1981), Canadian provincial politician from Alberta
- Bernard Pitt (1882-1916), British teacher, poet and army officer
- Christopher Pitt (1699–1748), English poet and translator
- Courtney Pitt (born 1981), English footballer
- David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead (1913–1994), civil rights campaigner and Labour politician in the United Kingdom
- Harvey Pitt (born 1945), former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Ingrid Pitt (1937–2010), Polish actress in horror films of the 1960s and 70s
- Kalanimoku (1768–1827), prominent Hawaiian official given the name William Pitt by visiting Europeans
- Malcolm Pitt (1897–1985), American college sports coach
- Michael Pitt (born 1981), American actor
- Redding Pitt (1944–2016), attorney and chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party
- Thomas Pitt (1653–1726), English merchant, grandfather of Pitt the Elder
- Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (1737–1793), elder brother of Pitt the Elder
- Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), son of the 1st Baron Camelford
- Turia Pitt (1987-), Australian mining engineer, athlete, motivational speaker, and author
- William Pitt (architect) (1855–1918), architect working in Melbourne, Australia
- William Pitt (engineer) (1840–1909), of New Brunswick, Canada, inventor of the underwater cable ferry in the early 1900s
- William Fox-Pitt (born 1969), British three-day eventing rider
- Bill Pitt (politician) (1937–2017), British politician; Liberal Member of Parliament, 1981–1983
- William Rivers Pitt (born 1971), leftist author and essayist
References
- ^ "Pitt Surname Meaning". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014