Perry (given name)

Perry
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 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 Glasser, American author and essayist
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 Martin, Trinidad and Tobago footballer
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 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 (Jackson, Mississippi) 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 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 Mark Stratychuk, Canadian filmmaker and musician
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 et al.
Perry Cox, on the comedy television series Scrubs
Perry Malinowski, in the film Final Destination 3
Perry Mason, a fictional lawyer
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

People

Male

Female

Fictional characters

See also