Perry (given name)

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Pronunciation /ˈpɛri/ Region of origin English language Popularity see popular names		Gender Unisex Related names Perry (surname)
Word/name From the Latin language, related to Peregrine, meaning traveler or pilgrim

Perry is a (usually) masculine or sometimes feminine 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

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