Pearl (disambiguation)
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A pearl is a hard object produced by mollusks.
Pearl may also refer to:
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[edit] People
- Pearl (given name)
- Pearl Aday (born 1975), American singer-songwriter
- Bruce Pearl (born 1960), American college basketball coach
- Daniel Pearl (1963–2002), American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan
- Judea Pearl (born 1936), computer scientist and philosopher
- Minnie Pearl (1912–1996), American country comedienne
- Raymond Pearl (1879–1940), American biologist
- Earl Monroe (born 1944), a.k.a. "Earl The Pearl", American basketball player
- Janis Joplin (1943–1970), American singer-songwriter; "Pearl" is one of her nicknames
[edit] Places
- Pearl, Ontario, Canada
- Pearl Islands, Panama
- The Pearl-Qatar, an artificial island in Qatar
- Pearl, Illinois, United States
- Pearl, Kansas, United States
- Pearl, Michigan, United States
- Pearl, Mississippi, United States
- Pearl, United States Virgin Islands
[edit] Literature
- The Pearl (novel), by John Steinbeck
- Pearl (poem), a 14th-century Middle English work
- Pearl (literary magazine), a journal founded in 1974
- The Pearl (magazine), a pornographic publication published 1879-1880
- P.E.A.R.L. Awards, an award for paranormal romantic literature
[edit] Music
- Pearl (album), by Janis Joplin
- The Pearl (album), by Harold Budd and Brian Eno
- Pearls (Elkie Brooks album)
- Pearls (Ronnie Drew album)
- Pearls, a 1995 album by David Sanborn
- "Pearl" (song), by Chapterhouse
- The Pearls, a musical group
- Pearl Award, an award of the Faith-centered Music Association
- Pearl Drums, a musical instrument manufacturer
- "Pearl", a song by Katy Perry on the album Teenage Dream
- "Pearl", a song by Tommy Roe
[edit] Film and television
- Pearl (TV series), a 1996-1997 sitcom
- Pearl (miniseries), a 1978 TV series about the attack on Pearl Harbor
- La perla (The Pearl), a 1947 film adaptation of the Steinbeck novel
- The Pearl (DHARMA Initiative), a research station on the TV series Lost
- TVB Pearl, an Hong Kong TV channel
- Pearl (One Piece)
- Pearl Krabs, a SpongeBob SquarePants character
- Pearl Forrester, a Mystery Science Theater 3000 character
- Pearl, a The Little Mermaid character
[edit] Ships
- HMS Pearl, the name of several Royal Navy ships
- MS Pearl, a cruise ship built in 1967, originally called the MS Finlandia, now the MS Golden Princess
- Norwegian Pearl, a cruise ship built in 2006
- USS Pearl (SP-1219), a U.S. Navy patrol vessel
- The Pearl, a schooner used in the Pearl incident, a slave escape attempt
[edit] Other uses
- Pearl (color)
- Pearl (DART station)
- PEARL (programming language)
- Pearl (radio play), by John Arden
- Pearl the Observation Car, a character in the musical Starlight Express
- BlackBerry Pearl, a smartphone
- Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages
- Pearl Art and Craft Supply
- Pearl Brewing Company
- Pearl Group, an insurance service provider
- Pearl Index, a birth control research technique
- Pokémon Pearl, a video game
- The Pearl, an 1867 U.S. Supreme Court case
- Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, a laboratory at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada
- Pearl, a printing press made by Golding & Company
- An ingredient in pearl milk tea
- E Ink Pearl, a second generation of electronic paper
- Perlan (Icelandic for The Pearl), a building in Reykjavík
[edit] See also
- Paarl
- Perl (disambiguation)
- Purl (disambiguation)
- Pearl District, Portland, Oregon
- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Pearl River (disambiguation)
- Pearl necklace (disambiguation)
- Pearl of Great Price (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Pearl"
- All pages with titles containing "Pearl"
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