Kit (given name)

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Kit Given Name
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Kit

Kit is an affectionate abbreviation of the given names Christopher (or Kristofer) and Catherine (or Katherine), although its use as a given name in its own right is becoming increasingly common. People commonly referred to by the name Kit include:

Contents 1 Literature 2 Fiction 3 Music 4 Sports 5 Other 6 See also

[edit] Literature

• Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593), English playwright
• Kit Pedler, television writer
• Kit Whitfield, English author

[edit] Fiction

• Kit Cloudkicker, a character from Disney's TaleSpin cartoon
• Kit Walker, the alias of comic book character The Phantom
• Kit Oxenford, a main character in Ken Follett's novel Whiteout.
• Kit, the main character in the Christian-themed computer game, Nik & Kit
• Kit Tyler, protagonist from the 1959 Children's book The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Kit Snicket, one of the Baudelaire children's guardians.
• Kit Kittredge, the 1930s 9 year-old fictional character from an HBO series

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• Kit Ramsey, a character in the film Bowfinger

[edit] Music

• Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
• Kit Lambert, record producer
• Kit Watkins, jazz recording artist

[edit] Sports

• Kit Cope, American kickboxer

[edit] Other

• Kit Bond (born 1939), United States Senator from Missouri
• Kit Carson (born 1809), an American frontiersman
• Kit Rae, a fantasy collectibles designer

[edit] See also

• nicknames derived from Christopher