# Purdy

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**Purdy** may refer to:

## People

### Surname

- [Al Purdy](/source/Al_Purdy) (1918–2000), Canadian poet
- [Amy Purdy](/source/Amy_Purdy) (born 1979), American actress, model and Paralympic snowboarder
- Ashley Purdy, [Black Veil Brides](/source/Black_Veil_Brides) bassist
- [Bill Purdy](/source/Bill_Purdy) (born 1946), American rower
- [Brock Purdy](/source/Brock_Purdy) (born 1999), American football player
- [Cecil Purdy](/source/Cecil_Purdy) (1906–1979), Australian chess player
- [Charlie Purdy](/source/Charlie_Purdy) (1905–1982), New Zealand boxer
- [Debbie Purdy](/source/Debbie_Purdy) (1963–2014), British music journalist, political activist and right-to-die patient
- [Frederick Warren Purdy](/source/Frederick_Warren_Purdy) (1911–1942), US Navy World War II officer
- [George B. Purdy](/source/George_B._Purdy), American mathematician and computer scientist
- [Gordon Purdy](/source/Gordon_Purdy) (1888–1972), Canadian politician
- [Hamish Purdy](/source/Hamish_Purdy), Canadian art director and set decorator
- [Helen Purdy Beale](/source/Helen_Purdy_Beale), born Helen Alice Purdy (1893–1976), US virologist
- [Henry Purdy (cricketer)](/source/Henry_Purdy_(cricketer)) (1883–1943), English cricketer
- [Henry Purdy (politician)](/source/Henry_Purdy_(politician)) (c. 1744–1827), landowner, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia
- [Henry Purdy (rugby union)](/source/Henry_Purdy_(rugby_union)) (born 1994), English rugby player
- [James Purdy](/source/James_Purdy) (1914–2009), American novelist, poet and playwright
- [James E. Purdy](/source/James_E._Purdy) (1858–1933), American photographer
- [James Purdy (scholar)](/source/James_Purdy_(scholar)), American scholar of writing and rhetoric
- [Jedediah Purdy](/source/Jedediah_Purdy) (born 1974), American legal scholar and cultural commentator
- [Joe Purdy](/source/Joe_Purdy), American folk singer-songwriter
- [John Purdy (chess player)](/source/John_Purdy_(chess_player)) (1935–2011), Australian chess champion
- [John Purdy (cricketer)](/source/John_Purdy_(cricketer)) (1871–1938), English cricketer
- [John Purdy (hydrographer)](/source/John_Purdy_(hydrographer)) (1773–1843), English compiler of naval charts
- [John Smith Purdy](/source/John_Smith_Purdy) (1872–1936) public health expert and military physician associated with Australia
- [Kate Purdy](/source/Kate_Purdy), American television writer and producer
- [Ken Purdy](/source/Ken_Purdy) (1913–1972), American automotive writer and editor
- [Kym Purdy](/source/Kym_Purdy), Australian slalom canoeist
- [Margaret Purdy](/source/Margaret_Purdy) (born 1995), Canadian pair ice skater
- [G. Michael Purdy](/source/G._Michael_Purdy), British geophysicist and oceanographer
- [Mike Purdy](/source/Mike_Purdy) (1892–1950), American football player and coach
- [Milton D. Purdy](/source/Milton_D._Purdy) (1866–1937), American lawyer, US Attorney for Minnesota (1901–1902)
- [Patrick Purdy](/source/Patrick_Purdy) (1964–1989), American perpetrator of the Stockton schoolyard shooting, killing five schoolchildren
- [Pid Purdy](/source/Pid_Purdy) (1904–1951), American baseball and football player
- [Samuel Purdy](/source/Samuel_Purdy) (1819–1882), third Lieutenant Governor of California
- [Steve Purdy](/source/Steve_Purdy) (born 1985), American-born Salvadoran footballer
- [Ted Purdy](/source/Ted_Purdy) (born 1973), American golfer
- [William Purdy](/source/William_Purdy) (born 1940), Canadian politician

### Given name

- [Purdy Crawford](/source/Purdy_Crawford) (1931–2014), Canadian lawyer and businessman

## Places

### In the United States

- [Purdy, Kentucky](/source/Purdy,_Kentucky), an unincorporated community
- [Purdy Township, Barry County, Missouri](/source/Purdy_Township,_Barry_County,_Missouri) - [Purdy, Missouri](/source/Purdy,_Missouri), a city
- [Purdy, Oklahoma](/source/Purdy,_Oklahoma), an unincorporated community
- [Purdy, Tennessee](/source/Purdy,_Tennessee), an unincorporated community
- [Purdy, Virginia](/source/Purdy,_Virginia), an unincorporated community
- [Purdy, Washington](/source/Purdy,_Washington), an unincorporated community and census-designated place
- [Purdy, West Virginia](/source/Purdy,_West_Virginia), an unincorporated community
- [Purdy, Wisconsin](/source/Purdy,_Wisconsin), an unincorporated community

### Elsewhere

- Purdy, a community in [Hastings Highlands](/source/Hastings_Highlands), Ontario, Canada
- [Purdy Islands](/source/Purdy_Islands), Papua New Guinea

## Other uses

- [USS *Purdy*](/source/USS_Purdy), a US Navy destroyer that saw service in World War II
- [Purdy's Chocolates](/source/Purdy's_Chocolates), known as "Purdy's", Canadian chocolatier, confectionery manufacturer and retail operator

## See also

- [Purdy's Wharf](/source/Purdy's_Wharf), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- [Purdey (disambiguation)](/source/Purdey_(disambiguation))
- [Purdie](/source/Purdie), surname

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