Bantam or Bantams may refer to: *

Bantam (poultry) A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck. Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most or all respects. ...

, 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 The American Bantam Car Company was an American automobile manufacturing company incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania. American Bantam is credited with the invention of the Original Jeep in 1940. The company's founders, Roy Evans and Willia ...

, 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 ** 216th Battalion (Bantams), CEF *

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 The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a prototype small twinjet aircraft manufactured by Northrop Corporation in 1948. It had no horizontal tail surfaces, depending instead on combined elevator and aileron control surfaces (called elevons) for control ...

, 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) Banten, also written as Bantam, is a port town near the western end of Java, Indonesia. It has a secure harbour at the mouth of Banten River, a navigable passage for light craft into the island's interior. The town is close to the Sunda Strai ...

, 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, Connecticut, U.S. *

Bantam, Ohio Bantam is an unincorporated community in Clermont County, Ohio, United States. It is the location of Bethel Methodist Church, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The community is located in northwest Tate Township along ...

, 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., 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 *

, 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) Nakia Bahadir Nakia Bahadir is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a Turkish girl and friend of Kamala Khan. Nakia Bahadir in other media Nakia Bahadir appears in '' Ms. Marvel'', portray ...

, 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 ...