Bantam or Bantams may refer to:

  • Bantam (poultry), any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck

Businesses

  • Bantam Books, an American publishing house
  • Bantam Cider, an American cider company
  • Bantam Press, 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
  • 216th Battalion (Bantams), CEF
  • Bantam (missile), 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 light attack aircraft, nicknamed Bantam Bomber

Places

  • Banten (town), also written as Bantam, a port town on island of Java, Indonesia in the East Indies islands
  • Banten Sultanate, or Bantam, 1527–1813
  • Banten, current province of Indonesia on territory of the former sultanate
  • Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Bantam, Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • Bantam, Ohio, U.S.A.
  • Bantam River, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Sports

  • Bantam, U15 age category in minor ice hockey
  • 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.
  • Bantamweight, a weight class in combat sports and weightlifting.

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)
  • Bantam connector, a type of phone connector
  • Bantam microRNA, a short RNA molecule

See also

  • Banten (disambiguation)