Perry (given name)
Perry | |
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Pronunciation | /ˈpɛri/ |
Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | From the Latin language, related to Peregrine, meaning traveler or pilgrim |
Region of origin | English language |
Other names | |
Related names | Perry (surname) |
Popularity | see popular names |
Perry is a (usually) masculine given name.
People with this given name
- Perry Adair, an American golfer
- Perry Adato, an American film producer, director and writer
- Perry Adkisson, an entomologist and Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System
- Perry Anderson, a British historian and political essayist
- Perry Anderson (ice hockey), a Canadian hockey player
- Perry Anzilotti, an American actor
- Perry Armstrong, an American politician
- Perry Baker, an American rugby sevens player
- Perry Bamonte, a guitarist and bassist best known for his work with The Cure
- Perry Richardson Bass (1914-2006), an American heir, investor and philanthropist
- Perry Bellegarde, a Canadian First Nations and Métis activist and politician
- Perry Benson, an English actor
- Perry Berezan, a Canadian hockey player
- Perry Bhandal, a British director and screenwriter
- Perry Blake, an Irish singer and songwriter
- Perry Botkin Sr. (1907–1973), American jazz musician, composer and songwriter
- Perry Botkin Jr. (born 1933), American composer, producer, arranger, and musician
- Perry Bradford, an African-American composer and vaudeville performer
- Perry Brass, an American author, journalist, playwright, essayist, and gay activist
- Perry Brautigam, a German soccer player and coach
- Perry Broad, a member of the Nazi SS at Auschwitz
- Perry Bullard, an American politician
- Perry Caravello, an aspiring actor
- Perry Carter, an American football player and coach
- Perry Chen, an American artist and the creator of Kickstarter
- Perry Christie, a Bahamian politician and Prime Minister of the Bahamas
- Perry Cohea, an American pioneer
- Perry Collins, an entrepreneur best known for the Russian-American Telegraph
- Perry Como, an American singer and television presenter
- Perry Cook, an American computer music researcher and head of the Princeton Sound Lab
- Perry Cotton, an association football player
- Perry Criscitelli, an American restaurant owner and alleged member of the Bonanno crime family
- Perry Crosswhite, an Australian Olympic basketballer and administrator
- Perry Currin, an American baseball player
- Perry Daneshgari, an Iranian-American entrepreneur
- Perry Danos, an American musician
- Perry DeAngelis, an American podcaster
- Perry Digweed, an English footballer
- Perry Lee Dunn, an American football player
- Perry B. Duryea (state senator), an American politician
- Perry B. Duryea, Jr., an American politician
- Perry Rand Dyck, a Canadian author and professor
- Perry T. Egbert, an American engineer and president of the American Locomotive Company (ALCo)
- Perry Ellis, an American fashion designer
- Perry Ellis (basketball), an American basketball player
- Perry Elmo Futrell, Jr., an American mayor and real estate broker
- Perry Farrell, an American musician, known as the frontman of Jane's Addiction and for creating the festival Lollapalooza
- Perry Fellwock, a National Security Agency analyst and whistleblower
- Perry Fenwick, an English actor known for playing Billy Mitchell in the BBC serial drama EastEnders
- Perry Ferguson, an American art director, nominated for five Academy Awards
- Perry Fewell, an American football coach
- Perry Filkins, an American mixed martial artist
- Perry Fitzpatrick, an English actor
- Perry Florio, an American hockey player
- Perry Freshwater, an English rugby union footballer
- Perry A. Frey, an American biochemist
- Perry Friedman, an American professional poker player
- Perry Ganchar, a Canadian hockey player
- Perry Glasser, an American author and essayist
- Perry Gomez, a Bahamian politician and the Minister of Health of The Bahamas
- Perry Graves, an American football player
- Perry Green (poker player), an American poker player
- Perry Joseph Green, a philosopher and preacher of the New Thought Movement
- Perry Gregg, an American computer scientist and inventor
- Perry Grimm, an American racecar driver
- Perry Grimm (American football), an American football coach
- Perry Groves, an English footballer
- Perry Haddock, an Australian Rugby League player
- Perry Hale, an American football player and coach
- Perry N. Halkitis, an American psychologist
- Perry Harrington, an American football player
- Perry Harris, a New Zealand rugby union player
- Perry Hartnett, an American football player
- Perry Haydn Taylor, an English designer and marketer
- Perry Henzell, a Jamaican film director
- Perry Hill (baseball), an American Major League Baseball coach
- Perry Hoberman, an American installation artist
- Perry Greeley Holden, the first professor of agronomy in the United States
- Perry O. Hooper, Sr., an American jurist and the twenty-seventh Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
- Perry O. Hooper, Jr., an American politician
- Perry Howard, an African-American attorney and Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the 1920s.
- Perry H. Howard, an American sociologist known for his research in the field of Louisiana politics
- Perry Hudson, an American urologist
- Perry Hummel, an American politician
- Perry Jackson, an American football player
- Perry Johanson, an American architect
- Perry Johnson, a Canadian hockey player
- Perry Jones, an American basketball player
- Perry T. Jones, an American tennis official
- Perry Jordan, an American musician
- Perry Kalynuk, a Canadian politician
- Perry J. Kaufman, an American quantitative financial theorist, trader, and author
- Perry Keith, an American politician and co-founder and namesake of Keithville, Louisiana
- Perry Kemp, an American football player
- Perry Kendall, a Canadian physician and the first Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia
- Perry Keyes, an Australian singer-songwriter
- Perry King, an American actor
- Perry Kitchen, an American soccer player
- Perry Kivolowitz, an American computer scientist, inventor, lecturer, and Academy Award winner
- Perry Kollie, a Liberian footballer
- Perry Kramer, an American Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer
- Perry Lafferty, an American television producer
- Perry Lang, an American director,writer and actor
- Perry Lawson, a British basketball player
- Perry Lentz, an American professor of English language and literature
- Perry Lim, a Singaporean army general and the Chief of Defence Force of the Singapore Armed Forces
- Perry Link, an American professor
- Perry Lipe, an American minor-league baseball player and manager
- Perry Lopez, an American actor
- Perry Marshall, an American entrepreneur and author
- Perry Martin, a Trinidad and Tobago footballer
- Perry Martter, an American wrestler
- Perry Maxwell, an American golf course architect
- Perry McCarthy, a British racing driver
- Perry McGillivray, an American Olympic swimmer and water polo player
- Perry McGriff, an American politician
- Perry Mehrling, an American professor
- Perry Meisel, an American writer and professor
- Perry Miller, an American historian and an authority on American Puritanism
- Perry Miller (ice hockey), a National Hockey League player
- Perry Millward, an English actor
- Perry Moore, an American author, screenwriter and film director
- Perry Moss, an American football player
- Perry Moss (basketball), an American basketball player
- Perry Moss (golfer), a professional golfer
- Perry Mubanga, a Zambian footballer
- Perry Mutapa, a Zambian footballer
- Perry Ng, an English footballer
- Perry Noble, an American preacher and senior pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina
- Perry Nove, a British police officer and Commissioner of the City of London police
- Perry Nussbaum, the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel (Jackson, Mississippi) from 1954 to 1973
- Perry Owens, an American lawman and gunfighter of the Old West
- Perry Pandrea, an American musician
- Perry Parker, a Scottish rugby union player
- Perry Pearn, a Canadian hockey player
- Perry Pelensky, a professional hockey player
- Perry Perlmutar, a Canadian comedian
- Perry Phenix, an American football player
- Perry Pirkanen, an American actor
- Perry T. Rathbone, an American museum director
- Perry Redd, an American social activist
- Perry A. C. Reed, an American politician
- Perry Rein, an American television writer and producer
- Perry Rendell, an English cricketer
- Perry Richardson, an American musician
- Perry Riley, an American football player
- Perry Robertson, an American sound editor and musician
- Perry Robinson, an American jazz clarinetist and composer
- Perry Ray Robinson, an American civil rights activist
- Perry Rose, a Belgian-Irish singer
- Perry Rosemond, a Canadian television writer, producer, and director
- Perry Rosenthal, a Canadian-American eye surgeon and professor
- Perry Rotella, an American businessman
- Perry Russo, a key witness in Jim Garrison's investigation of the JFK assassination
- Perry T. Ryan, an American lawyer and author
- Perry Salles, a Brazilian film director and actor
- Perry Saturn, an American pro wrestler who worked for ECW, WCW, and the WWE
- Perry Schwartz, an American football player
- Perry Shields, an American judge of the United States Tax Court
- Perry Smith (American football) (born 1951), NFL defensive back
- Perry Edward Smith (1928–1965), murderer depicted in the book In Cold Blood
- Perry Smith (politician) (1783–1852), American congressman
- Perry H. Smith, Wisconsin state senator and state assemblyman
- Perry M. Smith (general), an American Air Force general
- Perry So, a Hong Kong orchestral conductor
- Perry Stephens, an American actor
- Perry Stevenson, an American basketball coach
- Perry Stone (radio personality), an American shock jock
- Perry Mark Stratychuk, a Canadian filmmaker and musician
- Perry Suckling, an English footballer
- Perry Teneyck, an American basketball coach
- Perry Thomas, an American football coach
- Perry E. Thurston, Jr., an American politician
- Perry Trimper, a Canadian politician
- Perry Turnbull, a Canadian hockey player
- Perry Tuttle, an American football player
- Perry Ubeda, a Dutch kickboxer
- Perry Van der Beck, an American soccer player, manager and executive
- Perry N. Vekroff, an American film director, screenwriter, and actor of the silent era
- Perry Wallace, a professor of law and a former college basketball player
- Perry Warbington, an American basketball player
- Perry Watkins, an American gay U. S. Army enlisted man, best known for his successful lawsuit against the U. S. military
- Perry Watson, an American college basketball coach
- Perry Werden, an American baseball player
- Perry Hunt Wheeler, an American landscape architect
- Perry Williams (cornerback), an American football player
- Perry Williams (running back), an American football player
- Perry Wilson, an American actress
- Perry Winslow, an American whaling ship master
- Perry Woodall, an American politician
- Perry Young, an American basketball player
- Perry Deane Young, an American author and journalist
Fictional characters
- Perry Cox, a fictional doctor on the comedy Scrubs (TV series)
- Perry White, Clark Kent's editor-in-chief at the Daily Planet
- Perry Mason, a fictional lawyer
- Perry Rhodan, the main protagonist of the German science fiction pulp magazine by the same name
- Perry the Platypus, an anthropomorphic pet platypus of Phineas and Ferb
See also
- Perry (surname)
- Perry (disambiguation)
- Perri a surname or feminine given name
- Peri (name) a surname or feminine given name
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