Bantam or Bantams may refer to: * Bantam (poultry), any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck

Businesses

Bantam Books Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. ...

, an American publishing house * Bantam Cider, an American cider company *

Bantam Press Bantam Press is an imprint of Transworld Publishers which is a British publishing division of Penguin Random House. It is based on Uxbridge Road in Ealing Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in th ...

, a British publishing imprint * American Bantam, a 1935 car company, formerly American Austin Car Company

Military

* Bantam (military), a soldier shorter than 5'3" in the First World War **

143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF The 143rd (B.C. Bantams) Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Victoria, British Columbia, the unit began recruiting in 1916 throughout Western Canada. Bantam units were organized to ...

216th Battalion (Bantams), CEF The 216th (Bantams) Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the unit began recruiting in early 1916 throughout Military District 2. After sailing to England in April 191 ...

Bantam (missile) The Bantam (Bofors ANti-TAnk Missile) or Robot 53 (Rb 53) was a Swedish wire-guided, manual command to line of sight, anti-tank missile developed in the late 1950s by Bofors. It served with the Swedish and Swiss armies from 1963 and 1967 respect ...

, a Swedish 1950s anti-tank missile * BAT Bantam, a British 1920s biplane fighter aircraft * Northrop X-4 Bantam, an American prototype small twinjet aircraft *

Douglas A-4 Skyhawk The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. The delta-winged, single turbojet engined Skyhawk was designed a ...

light attack aircraft, nicknamed Bantam Bomber

Places

* Banten (town), also written as Bantam, a port town in Java, Indonesia **

Banten Sultanate The Banten Sultanate (كسلطانن بنتن) was a Bantenese Islamic trading kingdom founded in the 16th century and centred in Banten, a port city on the northwest coast of Java; the contemporary English name of both was Bantam. It is sa ...

, or Bantam, 1527–1813 **

Banten Banten ( id, Banten; Sundanese: , romanized ''Banten'') is the westernmost province on the island of Java, Indonesia. Its capital city is Serang. The province borders West Java and the Special Capital Region of Jakarta on the east, the Java ...

, current province of Indonesia on territory of the former sultanate *

Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands Bantam Village is the largest settlement on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, in Australia. It is located on Home Island and has a population of about 448, mainly Cocos Malays Cocos Malays are a community that form the predominant group of the ...

* Bantam, Connecticut, U.S. * Bantam, Ohio, U.S. * Bantam River, Connecticut, U.S.

Sports

* Bantam, U15 age category in

minor ice hockey Minor hockey is an umbrella term for amateur ice hockey which is played below the junior age level. Players are classified by age, with each age group playing in its own league. The rules, especially as it relates to body contact, vary from c ...

Bradford City A.F.C. Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system and are currently managed by Mark Hughes. Th ...

, nicknamed The Bantams, an English football club * Trinity College Bantams, the varsity and club athletic teams of Trinity College (Connecticut) * SC United Bantams, a soccer team in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.

Transportation

* Micro Aviation B22 Bantam, a New Zealand microlight aircraft * Warwick W-3 Bantam, an American homebuilt aircraft design * Bantam (car), a 1913 British cyclecar * American Bantam, name adopted by the former American Austin Car Company in 1935 until 1956 * Ford Bantam, a South African pickup truck from 1983 * BSA Bantam, a British motorcycle 1948–1971 * HNLMS ''Bantam'' (1938), a Dutch ship * MS ''Bantam'' (1939), a Dutch ship * SS ''Bantam'' (1930), a Dutch ship

Other uses

* Bantam (comics), a comic character * Bantam, official mascot of

Trinity College (Connecticut) Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut. Coeducational since 1969, the college enrolls 2,235 students. Trini ...

* Bantam connector, a type of phone connector *

Bantam microRNA In molecular biology bantam microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. Function In Drosophila, bantam microRNA works in the epithelial cells where it regulates the ...