Perry (given name)
Pronunciation | /ˈpɛri/ |
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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 unisex given name.
People[]
Male[]
- Perry Adair, American golfer
- Perry Adkisson, entomologist and Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System
- Perry Anderson, British historian and political essayist
- Perry Anderson (ice hockey), Canadian hockey player
- Perry Anzilotti, American actor
- Perry Armstrong, American politician
- Perry Baker, American rugby sevens player
- Perry Bamonte, guitarist and bassist best known for his work with The Cure
- Perry Richardson Bass (1914-2006), American heir, investor and philanthropist
- Perry Bellegarde, Canadian First Nations and Métis activist and politician
- Perry Benson, English actor
- Perry Berezan, Canadian hockey player
- Perry Bhandal, British director and screenwriter
- Perry Blake, Irish singer and songwriter
- Perry Bradford, African-American composer and vaudeville performer
- Perry Brass, American author, journalist, playwright, essayist, and gay activist
- Perry Brautigam, German soccer player and coach
- Perry Broad, Nazi SS member at Auschwitz
- Perry Bullard, American politician
- Perry Caravello, aspiring actor
- Perry Carter, American football player and coach
- Perry Chen, American artist and the creator of Kickstarter
- Perry Christie, Bahamian politician and Prime Minister of the Bahamas
- Perry Cohea, American pioneer
- Perry Collins, entrepreneur best known for the Russian-American Telegraph
- Perry Como, American singer and television presenter
- Perry Cook, American computer music researcher and head of the Princeton Sound Lab
- Perry Cotton, footballer
- Perry Criscitelli, American restaurant owner and alleged member of the Bonanno crime family
- Perry Crosswhite, Australian Olympic basketball player and administrator
- Perry Currin, American baseball player
- Perry Daneshgari, Iranian-American entrepreneur
- Perry Danos, American musician
- Perry DeAngelis, American podcaster
- Perry Digweed, English footballer
- Perry Lee Dunn, American football player
- Perry B. Duryea (state senator), American politician
- Perry B. Duryea, Jr., American politician
- Perry Rand Dyck, Canadian author and professor
- Perry T. Egbert, American engineer and president of the American Locomotive Company
- Perry Ellis, American fashion designer
- Perry Ellis (basketball), American basketball player
- Perry Farrell, American musician, known as the frontman of Jane's Addiction and for creating the festival Lollapalooza
- Perry Fellwock, National Security Agency analyst and whistleblower
- Perry Fenwick, English actor known for playing Billy Mitchell in the BBC serial drama EastEnders
- Perry Ferguson, American art director, nominated for five Academy Awards
- Perry Fewell, American football coach
- Perry Filkins, American mixed martial artist
- Perry Florio, American hockey player
- Perry Freshwater, English rugby union footballer
- Perry A. Frey, American biochemist
- Perry Friedman, American professional poker player
- Perry Ganchar, Canadian hockey player
- Perry Gomez, Bahamian politician and Minister of Health of The Bahamas
- Perry Graves, American football player
- Perry Green (poker player), American poker player
- Perry Joseph Green, philosopher and preacher of the New Thought Movement
- Perry Gregg, American computer scientist and inventor
- Perry Grimm, American racecar driver
- Perry Grimm (American football), American football coach
- Perry Groves, English footballer
- Perry Haddock, Australian Rugby League player
- Perry Hale, American football player and coach
- Perry N. Halkitis, American psychologist
- Perry Harrington, American football player
- Perry Harris, New Zealand rugby union player
- Perry Hartnett, American football player
- Perry Haydn Taylor, English designer and marketer
- Perry Henzell, Jamaican film director
- Perry Hill (baseball), American Major League Baseball coach
- Perry Hoberman, American installation artist
- Perry Greeley Holden, first professor of agronomy in the United States
- Perry O. Hooper, Sr., American jurist and the 27th Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
- Perry O. Hooper, Jr., American politician
- Perry Howard, African-American attorney and Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the 1920s
- Perry Hudson, American urologist
- Perry Hummel, American politician
- Perry Jackson, American football player
- Perry Johanson, American architect
- Perry Johnson, Canadian hockey player
- Perry Jones, American basketball player
- Perry T. Jones, American tennis official
- Perry Jordan, American musician
- Perry Kalynuk, Canadian politician
- Perry J. Kaufman, American quantitative financial theorist, trader, and author
- Perry Keith, American politician and co-founder and namesake of Keithville, Louisiana
- Perry Kemp, American football player
- Perry Kendall, Canadian physician and the first Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia
- Perry Keyes, Australian singer-songwriter
- Perry King, American actor
- Perry Kitchen, American soccer player
- Perry Kivolowitz, American computer scientist, inventor, lecturer, and Academy Award winner
- Perry Klein (born 1971), American football quarterback in the National Football League who played for the Atlanta Falcons
- Perry Kollie, Liberian footballer
- Perry Kramer, American Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer
- Perry Lafferty, American television producer
- Perry Lang, American director, writer, and actor
- Perry Lawson, British basketball player
- Perry Lentz, American professor of English language and literature
- Perry Lim, Singaporean army general and the Chief of Defence Force of the Singapore Armed Forces
- Perry Link, American professor
- Perry Lipe, American minor-league baseball player and manager
- Perry Lopez, American actor
- Perry Marshall, American entrepreneur and author
- Perry Martter, American wrestler
- Perry Mattfeld, American actress
- Perry Maxwell, American golf course architect
- Perry McCarthy, British racing driver
- Perry McGillivray, American Olympic swimmer and water polo player
- Perry McGriff, American politician
- Perry Mehrling, American professor
- Perry Meisel, American writer and professor
- Perry Miller, American historian and an authority on American Puritanism
- Perry Miller (ice hockey), National Hockey League player
- Perry Millward, English actor
- Perry Minasian (born 1980), American baseball executive
- Perry Moore, American author, screenwriter, and film director
- Perry Moss, American football player
- Perry Moss (basketball), American basketball player
- Perry Moss (golfer), professional golfer
- Perry Mubanga, Zambian footballer
- Perry Mutapa, Zambian footballer
- Perry Ng, English footballer
- Perry Noble, American preacher and senior pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina
- Perry Nove, British police officer and Commissioner of the City of London police
- Perry Nussbaum, the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel from 1954 to 1973
- Perry Owens, American lawman and gunfighter of the Old West
- Perry Pandrea, American musician
- Perry Parker, Scottish rugby union player
- Perry Diamond Pearl, American politician
- Perry Pearn, Canadian hockey player
- Perry Pelensky, professional hockey player
- Perry Perlmutar, Canadian comedian
- Perry Phenix, American football player
- Perry Pirkanen, American actor
- Perry T. Rathbone, American museum director
- Perry Redd, American social activist
- Perry A. C. Reed, American politician
- Perry Rein, American television writer and producer
- Perry Rendell, English cricketer
- Perry Richardson, American musician
- Perry Riley, American football player
- Perry Robertson, American sound editor and musician
- Perry Robinson, American jazz clarinetist and composer
- Perry Ray Robinson, American civil rights activist
- Perry Rose, Belgian-Irish singer
- Perry Rosemond, Canadian television writer, producer, and director
- Perry Rosenthal, Canadian-American eye surgeon and professor
- Perry Rotella, American businessman
- Perry Russo, a key witness in Jim Garrison's investigation of the JFK assassination
- Perry T. Ryan, American lawyer and author
- Perry Salles, Brazilian film director and actor
- Perry Saturn, American professional wrestler
- Perry Schwartz, American football player
- Perry Shields, American judge of the United States Tax Court
- Perry Smith (American football) (born 1951), American football player
- Perry Edward Smith (1928–1965), murderer depicted in the book In Cold Blood
- Perry Smith (politician) (1783–1852), American congressman
- Perry H. Smith, American state senator and state assemblyman
- Perry M. Smith, United States Air Force general
- Perry So, Hong Kong orchestral conductor
- Perry Stephens, American actor
- Perry Stevenson, American basketball coach
- Perry Stone (radio personality), American shock jock
- Perry Suckling, English footballer
- Perry Teneyck, American basketball coach
- Perry Thomas, American football coach
- Perry E. Thurston, Jr., American politician
- Perry Trimper, Canadian politician
- Perry Turnbull, Canadian hockey player
- Perry Tuttle, American football player
- Perry Ubeda, Dutch kickboxer
- Perry Van der Beck, American soccer player, manager and executive
- Perry N. Vekroff, American film director, screenwriter, and actor of the silent era
- Perry Wallace, professor of law and former college basketball player
- Perry Warbington, American basketball player
- Perry Watkins, American gay United States Army enlisted man, best known for his successful lawsuit against the military
- Perry Watson, American college basketball coach
- Perry Werden, American baseball player
- Perry Hunt Wheeler, American landscape architect
- Perry Williams (cornerback), American football player
- Perry Williams (running back), American football player
- Perry Winslow, American whaling ship master
- Perry Woodall, American politician
- Perry Young, American basketball player
- Perry Deane Young, American author and journalist
Female[]
- Perry Miller Adato (1920–2018), American film producer
- Perry Bard, Canadian artist
- Perry Buck, American politician
- Perry County Jane Doe (1941–1978), American unidentified woman
- Perry Wilson (1916–2009), American actress
Fictional characters[]
- Perry Carter, in the British comedy Kevin the Teenager and related media.
- Perry Cox, on the comedy television series Scrubs
- Perry Malinowski, in the film Final Destination 3
- Perry Mason, main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner
- Perry Rhodan, the titular protagonist of the German science fiction pulp magazine
- Perry White, Clark Kent's editor-in-chief at the Daily Planet
- Perry the Platypus, an anthropomorphic pet platypus of Phineas and Ferb
See also[]
- Perry (surname)
- Perry (disambiguation)
- Perri (name), a surname and given name
- Peri (name), a surname or feminine given name
Categories:
- Given names
- English-language masculine given names
- English masculine given names
- English feminine given names