{{Infobox Given Name Revised | name = Perry | pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|ɛr|i}} | gender = Unisex | language = English | meaning = | region = English language | origin = From the Latin language, related to Peregrine, meaning "traveler" or "pilgrim" | nickname = | variant = Perrey, Perrie, Perri | related names = Perry (surname), Parry, Peregrine, Perdita | popularity = popularity }}
'''Perry''' is a unisex given name.
==Male== === A–G === * Perry Adair (1899–1953), American golfer * Perry Adkisson (1929–2020), entomologist and Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System * Perry Anderson (born 1938), British historian and political essayist * Perry Anderson (ice hockey) (born 1961), Canadian hockey player * Perry Anzilotti (born 1959), American actor * Perry A. Armstrong (1823–1904), American politician * Perry Baker (born 1986), American rugby sevens player * Perry Bamonte (1960–2025), English guitarist and bassist best known for his work with The Cure * Perry Richardson Bass (1914–2006), American heir, investor and philanthropist * Perry Bellegarde (born 1962), Canadian First Nations and Métis activist and politician * Perry Benson (born 1961), English actor * Perry Berezan (born 1964), Canadian hockey player * Perry Bhandal (born 1968), British director and screenwriter * Perry Blake (born 1970), Irish singer and songwriter * Perry Bradford (1893–1970), African-American composer and vaudeville performer * Perry Brass (born 1947), American author, journalist, playwright, essayist, and gay activist * Perry Bräutigam (born 1963), German soccer player and coach * Perry Broad (1921–1993), Nazi SS member at Auschwitz * Perry E. Brocchus (1810–1880), justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory * Perry Bullard (1942–1998), American politician * Perry Caravello (born 1963), aspiring actor * Perry Carter (born 1971), American football player and coach * Perry Chen (born 1976), American artist and the creator of Kickstarter * Perry Christie (born 1943), Bahamian politician and Prime Minister of the Bahamas * Perry Cohea (died 1848), American pioneer * Perry Collins (1813–1900), entrepreneur best known for the Russian-American Telegraph * Perry Como (1912–2001), American singer and television presenter * Perry R. Cook (born 1955), American computer music researcher and head of the Princeton Sound Lab * Perry Cotton (born 1965), footballer * Perry Criscitelli (born 1950), American restaurant owner and alleged member of the Bonanno crime family * Perry Crosswhite (born 1947), Australian Olympic basketball player and administrator * Perry Currin (1928–2011), American baseball player * Perry Daneshgari (fl. 1980s–2020s), Iranian-American entrepreneur * Perry DeAngelis (1963–2007), American podcaster * Perry Digweed (born 1959), English footballer * Perry Lee Dunn (1941–2018), American football player * Perry B. Duryea (state senator) (1891–1968), American politician * Perry B. Duryea Jr. (1921–2004), American politician * Perry Rand Dyck (born 1943), Canadian author and professor * Perry T. Egbert (1893–1970), American engineer and president of the American Locomotive Company * Perry Ellis (1940–1986), American fashion designer * Perry Ellis (basketball) (born 1993), American basketball player * Perry Farrell (born 1959), American musician, known as the frontman of Jane's Addiction and for creating the festival Lollapalooza * Perry Fellwock (born 1947), National Security Agency analyst and whistleblower * Perry Fenwick (born 1962), English actor known for playing Billy Mitchell in the BBC serial drama ''EastEnders'' * Perry Ferguson (1901–1963), American art director, nominated for five Academy Awards * Perry Fewell (born 1962), American football coach * Perry Filkins (born 1988), American mixed martial artist * Perry Florio (born 1967), American hockey player * Perry Freshwater (born 1973), English rugby union footballer * Perry A. Frey (born 1935), American biochemist * Perry Friedman (born 1968), American professional poker player * Perry Ganchar (born 1963), Canadian hockey player * Perry Gomez (1947–2023), Bahamian politician and Minister of Health of The Bahamas * Perry Graves (1889–1979), American football player * Perry Green (poker player) (born 1936), American poker player * Perry Joseph Green (fl. 1910s), philosopher and preacher of the New Thought Movement * Perry Grimm (1914–1971), American racecar driver * Perry Grimm (American football) (1888–1974), American football coach * Perry Groves (born 1965), English footballer * Perry Haddock (born 1959), Australian Rugby League player * Perry Hale (1878–1948), American football player and coach * Perry N. Halkitis (born 1963), American psychologist * Perry Hannah (1824–1904), American politician * Perry Harrington (born 1958), American football player * Perry G. Harrington (1812–1876), American politician and farmer
=== H–R === * Perry Harris (1946–2021), New Zealand rugby union player * Perry Hartnett (born 1960), American football player * Perry Henzell (1936–2006), Jamaican film director * Perry Hill (baseball) (born 1952), American Major League Baseball coach * Perry Hoberman (born 1954), American installation artist * Perry Greeley Holden (1865–1959), first professor of agronomy in the United States * Perry Hooper Sr. (1925–2016), American jurist and the 27th Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court * Perry Hooper Jr. (born 1954), American politician * Perry Howard (1835–1907), African-American attorney and Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the 1920s * Perry Hudson (1918–2017), American urologist * Perry Hummel (born 1935), American politician * Perry Jackson (1905–1973), American football player * Perry Johanson (1910–1981), American architect * Perry Johnson (born 1977), Canadian hockey player * Perry Jones (born 1991), American basketball player * Perry T. Jones (1890–1970), American tennis official * Perry Jordan (1943–2014), American musician * Perry Kalynuk (fl. 2000s), Canadian politician * Perry J. Kaufman (born 1943), American quantitative financial theorist, trader, and author * Perry Keith (1847–1935), American politician and co-founder and namesake of Keithville, Louisiana * Perry Kemp (born 1961), American football player * Perry Kendall (born 1943), Canadian physician and the first Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia * Perry Keyes (born 1966), Australian singer-songwriter * Perry King (born 1948), American actor * Perry Kitchen (born 1992), American soccer player * Perry Kivolowitz (born 1961), 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 (born 1982), Liberian footballer * Perry Kramer (born 1959), American Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer * Perry Lafferty (1917–2005), American television producer * Perry Lang (born 1959), American director, writer, and actor * Perry Lawson (born 1982), British basketball player * Perry Lentz (born 1943), American professor of English language and literature * Perry Lim (born 1972), Singaporean army general and the Chief of Defence Force of the Singapore Armed Forces * Perry Link (born 1944), American professor * Perry Lipe (1875–1955), American minor-league baseball player and manager * {{anbl|Perry London}} * Perry Lopez (1929–2008), American actor * Perry Marshall (fl. 1990s–2020s), American entrepreneur and author * Perry Martter (1901–1954), American wrestler * Perry Maxwell (1879–1952), American golf course architect * Perry McCarthy (born 1961), British racing driver * Perry McGillivray (1893–1944), American Olympic swimmer and water polo player * Perry McGriff (1937–2017), American politician * Perry Mehrling (born 1959), American professor * Perry Meisel (fl. 1970s–2010s), American writer and professor * Perry Miller (1905–1963), American historian and an authority on American Puritanism * Perry Miller (ice hockey) (born 1952), National Hockey League player * Perry Millward (born 1992), English actor * Perry Minasian (born 1980), American baseball executive * Perry Moore (1971–2011), American author, screenwriter, and film director * Perry Moss (1926–2014), American football player * Perry Moss (basketball) (born 1958), American basketball player * Perry Moss (golfer) (born 1969), professional golfer * Perry Mubanga (born 1983), Zambian footballer * Perry Mutapa (born 1979), Zambian footballer * Perry Ng (born 1996), English footballer * Perry Noble (born 1971), American preacher and senior pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina * Perry Nove (fl. 1990s–2000s), British police officer and Commissioner of the City of London police * Perry Nussbaum (1908–1987), the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel from 1954 to 1973 * Perry Owens (1852–1919), American lawman and gunfighter of the Old West * Perry Pandrea (born 1970), American musician * Perry Parker (born 1987), Scottish rugby union player * Perry Diamond Pearl (c. 1824–?), American politician * Perry Pearn (born 1951), Canadian hockey player * Perry Pelensky (born 1962), professional hockey player * Perry Phenix (born 1974), American football player * Perry Picasshoe, American visual artist * Perry Pirkanen (fl. 1980s–1990s), American actor * Perry T. Rathbone (1911–2000), American museum director * Perry Redd (born 1964), American social activist * Perry A. C. Reed (1871–1943), American politician * Perry Rein (fl. 1990s–2010s), American television writer and producer * Perry Rendell (born 1970), English cricketer * Perry Richardson (born 1958), 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 (1941–1995), a key witness in Jim Garrison's investigation of the JFK assassination * Perry T. Ryan (born 1962), American lawyer and author
=== S–Z === * Perry Salles (1939–2009), Brazilian film director and actor * Perry Saturn (born 1966), American professional wrestler * Perry Schwartz (1915–2001), American football player * Perry Shields (1925–2002), 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 (1828–1885), American state senator and state assemblyman * Perry M. Smith (born 1934), United States Air Force general * Perry So (born 1982), Hong Kong orchestral conductor * Perry Stephens (1958–2005), American actor * Perry Stevenson (born 1987), American basketball coach * Perry Stone (disc jockey), American disc jockey * Perry Suckling (born 1965), English footballer * Perry Haydn Taylor (born 1966), English designer and marketer * Perry Ten Eyck (1907–1959), American basketball coach * Perry Thomas (fl. 2000s–2020s), American football coach * Perry E. Thurston Jr. (born 1961), American politician * Perry Trimper (fl. 2010s–2020s), Canadian politician * Perry Turnbull (born 1959), Canadian hockey player * Perry Tuttle (born 1959), American football player * Perry Ubeda (born 1971), Dutch kickboxer * Perry Van der Beck (born 1959), American soccer player, manager and executive * Perry N. Vekroff (1881–1937), American film director, screenwriter, and actor of the silent era * Perry Wallace (1948–2017), professor of law and former college basketball player * Perry Warbington (1952–2008), American basketball player * Perry Watkins (1948–1996), American gay United States Army enlisted man, best known for his successful lawsuit against the military * Perry Watson (born 1950), American college basketball coach * Perry Werden (1865–1934), American baseball player * Perry Hunt Wheeler (1913–1989), American landscape architect * Perry Williams (cornerback) (born 1961), American football player * Perry Williams (running back) (born 1946), American football player * Perry Winslow (1815–1890), American whaling ship master * Perry Woodall (1912–1975), American politician * Perry Young (born 1963), American basketball player * Perry Deane Young (1941–2019), American author and journalist
==Female== * Perry Miller Adato (1920–2018), American film producer * Perry Bard (1944–2025), Canadian artist * Perry Blackwell, American actress in the 1959 film ''Pillow Talk'' * Perry Buck (born 1961/1962), American politician * Perry Chiu, Hong Kong actress * Perry County Jane Doe (1941–1978), American unidentified woman * Perry Howze, American writer in the films ''Maid to Order'' (1987), ''Mystic Pizza'' (1988), ''Chances Are'' (1989) * Perry Lindsay (1895–1966), American writer * Perry Lister (born 1959), English dancer, singer and actress * Perry Mattfeld (fl. 2000s–2020s), American actress and producer * Perry Mooney, Australian actress * Perry Neville, British actress in the TV series ''Bernard's Watch'' (1997–2005) * Perry Piercy, New Zealand actress * Perry Rubin, daughter of Sam Rubin * Perry Sheehan, American actress * 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'' * Perry, the official mascot of the 2022 Commonwealth Games
== See also == * Perry (surname) * Perry (disambiguation) * Perri (name), a surname and given name * Peri (name), a surname or feminine given name
{{given name|Perry}}
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