Peregrine
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Peregrine, Latin Peregrinus, is a name originally meaning "one from abroad", that is, a foreigner, traveller, or pilgrim. It may refer to:
Falcon
- Peregrine falcon, a bird of prey
People
- Peregrine (martyr) (died 182 AD), Roman Catholic saint
- Peregrine of Auxerre (martyr) (died c. 304 AD), Roman Catholic saint
- Peregrine Laziosi (1260-1 May 1345), Roman Catholic saint
- Peregrine White, Mayflower passenger
- Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (born 1923), British journalist
- Howell Peregrine (1938–2007), British applied mathematician
- Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, a 13th-century French scholar
- Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), British peer
- Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds (1659 – 25 June 1729), British peer and Tory politician
- Sir Peregrine Maitland (6 July 1777 – 30 May 1854), British soldier and colonial administrator
- Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938), British intellectual and essayist
Fictional characters
- Peregrine (comics)
- Peregrine (Wild Cards)
- Peregrine Pickle, the titular protagonist of a novel by Tobias Smollett
- Peregrin Took, a Lord of the Rings character
- Miss Peregrine, a character from a novel by Ransom Riggs
- James Peregrine Lester, a Primeval character
- Peregrine, a Volpone character
- Peregrine Hazard, a Wise Children character
- Sir Walter Peregrine, a The Example character
- Peregrine family, characters in two novels by Jude Deveraux
Art, music, and literature
- Peregrine (band), Australian indie rock band
- Peregrine (album), by The Appleseed Cast
- "Peregrine," a song by Donovan on the album The Hurdy Gurdy Man
- "The Peregrin," a story in The Psychotechnic League series
- "Peregrines," a short story by Suzy McKee Charnas
- The Peregrine, a book by J.A. Baker
Military
- USS Peregrine (AM-373), a U.S. Navy ship
- Operation PEREGRINE, a 2003 Canadian military operation
Transportation
- MV Peregrine, a British ship
- Rolls-Royce Peregrine, an aero engine
- LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon, a steam locomotive that was at one point named Peregrine
- Peregrine (spacecraft), a lunar lander designed by Astrobotic Technology
Business
- Peregrine Investments Holdings, a Hong Kong investment company
- Peregrine Financial Group, an American futures brokerage firm
- Peregrine Holdings Limited, a company traded on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange
- Peregrine Semiconductor, an American fabless semiconductor company
- Peregrine Systems, a software company
Other uses
- Peregrine (journal), full title: Peregrine: American Immigration in the 21st Century, an online journal on immigration to the United States
- St. Peregrines, a Gaelic athletic club
- The Peregrine Fund, a bird conservation organization
- El Peregrino, a settlement in General Pinto Partido, Argentina
- An astrology term for a planet with no essential dignity
Peregrinus
- Peregrinus (Roman), a designation for a non-citizen subject of the Roman empire
- Zoology
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus, the common ringtail possum
- Peregrinus maidis, a species of insect
- Nicodamus peregrinus, the Red and Black Spider
- Platycorynus peregrinus, a species of beetle
- Botany
- Pinus peregrinus, an extinct species of pine
- Erigeron peregrinus, a flowering plant of the daisy family
- People
- Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni (died 138 AD), Roman Catholic saint
- Peregrinus Proteus, a Cynic philosopher (d. 165 AD)
- Tiberius Pollenius Armenius Peregrinus, Roman consul in 244 AD
- Peregrino I (514) and Peregrino II (649), Archbishops of Messina
- Cetteus (died 597), also known as Peregrinus, Roman Catholic saint and bishop of Amiternum
- Peregrinus (d. 990) or Piligrim
- Bartolfus Peregrinus (d. by 1109) or Bartolf of Nangis
- Guilielmus Peregrinus (d. circa 1146), a German pilgrim
- Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, 13th-century French scholar
- Art, music, and literature
- Passing of Peregrinus, a satire by Lucian
- Tonus peregrinus, reciting tone in Gregorian chant; see Reciting tone#tonus peregrinus
- Tonus Peregrinus, a vocal ensemble
- Places
- Peregrinus Peak, an Antarctic peak
- Mons Peregrinus or the Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles
See also
- Pellegrino (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Peregrin
- All pages with titles containing Peregrin
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