Petit

Petite or petite may refer to:

• Petit (crater), a small, bowl-shaped lunar crater on Mare Spumans
• Petit (EP), a 1995 EP by Japanese singer-songwriter Ua
• Petit (typography), another name for brevier-size type
• Petit four
• Petit Gâteau
• Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas, United States
• Petit juror
• Petite bourgeoisie in sociology
• petite mutation, a mutation in yeast oxidative phosphorylation
• Petite sizes in women's clothing
• Petit's triangle (inferior lumbar triangle), see Petit's hernia

People

• A French or Catalan surname:
  • Adriana Petit (born 1984), Spanish multidisciplinary artist
  • Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791–1820), French physicist
  • Amandine Petit (born 1997), French model, beauty pageant titleholder, and Miss France 2021
  • Antoine Petit (1722–1794), French physician
  • Antoni Martí Petit, prime minister of Andorra
  • Cavelier Petit, American politician
  • François Pourfour du Petit (1664–1741), French anatomist
  • Henriette Petit (1894-1983), Chilean painter
  • Jean-Martin Petit (1772–1856), French General during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Monique Ruck-Petit (born 1942), Swiss and French chess master
  • Paul Petit (aviator) (1890-1918), French flying ace
  • Philippe Petit (born 1949), French high-wire artist
  • Pierre Petit (photographer) (1832–1909), French photographer
  • Pierre Petit (scholar) (1617–1687), French scholar, medical writer, and poet
  • Pierre Petit (engineer), (1598–1677), French military engineer, mathematician, and physicist
  • Pierre Petit (cinematographer) (1920–1997), French cinematographer
  • Pierre Petit (composer) (1922–2000), French composer
  • Pierre Petit (politician) (1930–2022), Martinique politician
  • Pierre Petit (driver), (born 1957), French racecar driver
  • Roland Petit (1924–2011), French choreographer and dancer
• The surname for a prominent Parsi family of India, whose members include:
  • Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, (1823–1901), Indian industrialist
  • His granddaughter Rattanbai Petit (1900–1929), wife of Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
• The Petit Family, 2007 Connecticut home invasion and murder victims
• John F. Petit (1887–1963), American businessman and politician
• John Louis Petit (1801–1868), English clergyman and architectural artist
• Rosa Petit, Venezuelan politician
• Yusmeiro Petit (born 1984), Venezuelan baseballer

• Stagename:
  • Petite (comedian), Filipino actor and comedian

Footballers

• Emmanuel Petit (born 1970), former French midfielder, who played for France, Monaco, Arsenal, Barcelona and Chelsea
• Petit (Portuguese footballer) (Armando Gonçalves Teixeira, born 1976)
• Jean Petit (Belgian footballer) (1914—44), Belgian defender
• Jean Petit (footballer, born 1949) (born 1949), former French football midfielder
• Paulinho Le Petit (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
• Petit Sory (born 1945), former Guinean football player
• René Petit (1899–1989), Franco-Spanish engineer and a footballer in his youth

See also

• Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye (1792–1870), French malacologist
• Pettit (disambiguation)
• Pettitt (surname)