Whit is a given name and nickname which may refer to:
People:
*Whitner
Whit Bissell
Whitner Nutting Bissell (October 25, 1909 – March 5, 1996) was an American character actor.
Early life
Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell and Helen Nutting Bissell. He was educated at the Allen-S ...
(1909–1996), American actor
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Whit Burnett
Whit Burnett (August 14, 1899 – April 22, 1973) was an American writer and educator who founded and edited the literary magazine ''Story''. In the 1940s, ''Story'' was an important magazine in that it published the first or early works of many wr ...
(1900–1972), American writer
*John Whitfield
Whit Canale (1941–2011) American football player
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Whitfield Crane (born 1968), a founding member and lead singer of the rock band Ugly Kid Joe
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Whit Cunliffe (1876–1966), English singer
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Whit Dickey
Whit Dickey (born May 28, 1954) is an American drummer. He has recorded albums with David S. Ware and Matthew Shipp.
Biography
His first album as a leader was ''Transonic
Transonic (or transsonic) flow is air flowing around an object at ...
(born 1954), American jazz drummer
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Whitfield Diffie
Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944), ForMemRS, is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper ''New Dire ...
(born 1944), American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography
*Whitney
Whit Haydn
Whit "Pop" Haydn (born July 19, 1949 as Whitney Wesley Hadden in Clarksville, Tennessee) is an American magician, and the winner of seven performing awards (for performances in showrooms at the Magic Castle) from the Academy of Magical Arts. H ...
(born 1949), American magician
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Whit Hertford
Whit Hertford (born November 2, 1978) is an American theatre director, writer, and actor.
Film and television
Hertford's film career spans three decades and began at an early age, most notably with his appearance in Steven Spielberg's ''Juras ...
(born 1978), American actor
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Whit Holcomb-Faye (born 1984), American basketball player
*Whitney
Whit Johnson
Whit Johnson (born June 25, 1982) is an American journalist and co-anchor of the weekend editions of ''Good Morning America'', the anchor of the Saturday edition of ''ABC World News Tonight'', and he is also fill-in and substitute anchor of ''Goo ...
, American television journalist
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Whit Marshall (born 1973), American football player
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Whit Merrifield
Whitley David Merrifield (born January 24, 1989) is an American professional baseball second baseman and outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals. He is a tw ...
(born 1989), American baseball player
*John Whitney
Whit Stillman
John Whitney Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director and actor known for his 1990 film ''Metropolitan'', which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He is also known for his other fil ...
(born 1952), American writer
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Whit Taylor (American football) (born 1960), American football player
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Whit Taylor (cartoonist), American cartoonist
*Whitman
Whit Tucker, Canadian football player
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Whit Watson (born 1971), American sportscaster
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Whit Williams (born 1973), American saxophonist
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Whit Wyatt
John Whitlow Wyatt (September 27, 1907 – July 16, 1999) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1929–33), Chicago White Sox (1933–36), Cle ...
(1907–1999), American baseball player
Fictional characters and pen names:
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Whit Masterson Whit Masterson was a pen name for a partnership of two American authors, Robert Allison Wade (June 8, 1920 – September 30, 2012) and H. Bill Miller (May 11, 1920 – August 21, 1961). The two also wrote under several other pseudonyms, including Wa ...
, pen name of a partnership of American authors Robert Allison "Bob" Wade and H. Bill Miller
*Whit Sterling, a main character in the 1947 film noir ''
Out of the Past
''Out of the Past'' (billed in the United Kingdom as ''Build My Gallows High'') is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring (using the pse ...
'', played by Kirk Douglas
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