Perry (given name)

Perry is a (usually) masculine given name.

People with this given name

• Perry Adair, an American golfer
• Perry Adato, an American film producer, director and writer
• Perry Adkisson, an entomologist and Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System
• Perry Anderson, a British historian and political essayist
• Perry Anderson (ice hockey), a Canadian hockey player
• Perry Anzilotti, an American actor
• Perry Armstrong, an American politician
• Perry Baker, an American rugby sevens player
• Perry Bamonte, a guitarist and bassist best known for his work with The Cure
• Perry Richardson Bass (1914-2006), an American heir, investor and philanthropist
• Perry Bellegarde, a Canadian First Nations and Métis activist and politician
• Perry Benson, an English actor
• Perry Berezan, a Canadian hockey player
• Perry Bhandal, a British director and screenwriter
• Perry Blake, an Irish singer and songwriter

• Perry Botkin Sr. (1907–1973), American jazz musician, composer and songwriter
• Perry Botkin Jr. (born 1933), American composer, producer, arranger, and musician
• Perry Bradford, an African-American composer and vaudeville performer
• Perry Brass, an American author, journalist, playwright, essayist, and gay activist
• Perry Brautigam, a German soccer player and coach
• Perry Broad, a member of the Nazi SS at Auschwitz
• Perry Bullard, an American politician
• Perry Caravello, an aspiring actor
• Perry Carter, an American football player and coach
• Perry Chen, an American artist and the creator of Kickstarter
• Perry Christie, a Bahamian politician and Prime Minister of the Bahamas
• Perry Cohea, an American pioneer
• Perry Collins, an entrepreneur best known for the Russian-American Telegraph
• Perry Como, an American singer and television presenter
• Perry Cook, an American computer music researcher and head of the Princeton Sound Lab
• Perry Cotton, an association football player
• Perry Criscitelli, an American restaurant owner and alleged member of the Bonanno crime family
• Perry Crosswhite, an Australian Olympic basketballer and administrator
• Perry Currin, an American baseball player
• Perry Daneshgari, an Iranian-American entrepreneur
• Perry Danos, an American musician
• Perry DeAngelis, an American podcaster
• Perry Digweed, an English footballer
• Perry Lee Dunn, an American football player
• Perry B. Duryea (state senator), an American politician
• Perry B. Duryea, Jr., an American politician
• Perry Rand Dyck, a Canadian author and professor
• Perry T. Egbert, an American engineer and president of the American Locomotive Company (ALCo)
• Perry Ellis, an American fashion designer
• Perry Ellis (basketball), an American basketball player
• Perry Elmo Futrell, Jr., an American mayor and real estate broker
• Perry Farrell, an American musician, known as the frontman of Jane's Addiction and for creating the festival Lollapalooza
• Perry Fellwock, a National Security Agency analyst and whistleblower
• Perry Fenwick, an English actor known for playing Billy Mitchell in the BBC serial drama EastEnders
• Perry Ferguson, an American art director, nominated for five Academy Awards
• Perry Fewell, an American football coach
• Perry Filkins, an American mixed martial artist
• Perry Fitzpatrick, an English actor
• Perry Florio, an American hockey player
• Perry Freshwater, an English rugby union footballer
• Perry A. Frey, an American biochemist
• Perry Friedman, an American professional poker player
• Perry Ganchar, a Canadian hockey player
• Perry Glasser, an American author and essayist
• Perry Gomez, a Bahamian politician and the Minister of Health of The Bahamas
• Perry Graves, an American football player
• Perry Green (poker player), an American poker player
• Perry Joseph Green, a philosopher and preacher of the New Thought Movement
• Perry Gregg, an American computer scientist and inventor
• Perry Grimm, an American racecar driver
• Perry Grimm (American football), an American football coach
• Perry Groves, an English footballer
• Perry Haddock, an Australian Rugby League player
• Perry Hale, an American football player and coach
• Perry N. Halkitis, an American psychologist
• Perry Harrington, an American football player
• Perry Harris, a New Zealand rugby union player
• Perry Hartnett, an American football player
• Perry Haydn Taylor, an English designer and marketer
• Perry Henzell, a Jamaican film director
• Perry Hill (baseball), an American Major League Baseball coach
• Perry Hoberman, an American installation artist
• Perry Greeley Holden, the first professor of agronomy in the United States
• Perry O. Hooper, Sr., an American jurist and the twenty-seventh Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
• Perry O. Hooper, Jr., an American politician
• Perry Howard, an African-American attorney and Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the 1920s.
• Perry H. Howard, an American sociologist known for his research in the field of Louisiana politics
• Perry Hudson, an American urologist
• Perry Hummel, an American politician
• Perry Jackson, an American football player
• Perry Johanson, an American architect
• Perry Johnson, a Canadian hockey player
• Perry Jones, an American basketball player
• Perry T. Jones, an American tennis official
• Perry Jordan, an American musician
• Perry Kalynuk, a Canadian politician
• Perry J. Kaufman, an American quantitative financial theorist, trader, and author
• Perry Keith, an American politician and co-founder and namesake of Keithville, Louisiana
• Perry Kemp, an American football player
• Perry Kendall, a Canadian physician and the first Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia
• Perry Keyes, an Australian singer-songwriter
• Perry King, an American actor
• Perry Kitchen, an American soccer player
• Perry Kivolowitz, an American computer scientist, inventor, lecturer, and Academy Award winner
• Perry Kollie, a Liberian footballer
• Perry Kramer, an American Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer
• Perry Lafferty, an American television producer
• Perry Lang, an American director,writer and actor
• Perry Lawson, a British basketball player
• Perry Lentz, an American professor of English language and literature
• Perry Lim, a Singaporean army general and the Chief of Defence Force of the Singapore Armed Forces
• Perry Link, an American professor
• Perry Lipe, an American minor-league baseball player and manager
• Perry Lopez, an American actor
• Perry Marshall, an American entrepreneur and author
• Perry Martin, a Trinidad and Tobago footballer
• Perry Martter, an American wrestler
• Perry Maxwell, an American golf course architect
• Perry McCarthy, a British racing driver
• Perry McGillivray, an American Olympic swimmer and water polo player
• Perry McGriff, an American politician
• Perry Mehrling, an American professor
• Perry Meisel, an American writer and professor
• Perry Miller, an American historian and an authority on American Puritanism
• Perry Miller (ice hockey), a National Hockey League player
• Perry Millward, an English actor
• Perry Moore, an American author, screenwriter and film director
• Perry Moss, an American football player
• Perry Moss (basketball), an American basketball player
• Perry Moss (golfer), a professional golfer
• Perry Mubanga, a Zambian footballer
• Perry Mutapa, a Zambian footballer
• Perry Ng, an English footballer
• Perry Noble, an American preacher and senior pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina
• Perry Nove, a 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, an American lawman and gunfighter of the Old West
• Perry Pandrea, an American musician
• Perry Parker, a Scottish rugby union player
• Perry Pearn, a Canadian hockey player
• Perry Pelensky, a professional hockey player
• Perry Perlmutar, a Canadian comedian
• Perry Phenix, an American football player
• Perry Pirkanen, an American actor
• Perry T. Rathbone, an American museum director
• Perry Redd, an American social activist
• Perry A. C. Reed, an American politician
• Perry Rein, an American television writer and producer
• Perry Rendell, an English cricketer
• Perry Richardson, an American musician
• Perry Riley, an American football player
• Perry Robertson, an American sound editor and musician
• Perry Robinson, an American jazz clarinetist and composer
• Perry Ray Robinson, an American civil rights activist
• Perry Rose, a Belgian-Irish singer
• Perry Rosemond, a Canadian television writer, producer, and director
• Perry Rosenthal, a Canadian-American eye surgeon and professor
• Perry Rotella, an American businessman
• Perry Russo, a key witness in Jim Garrison's investigation of the JFK assassination
• Perry T. Ryan, an American lawyer and author
• Perry Salles, a Brazilian film director and actor
• Perry Saturn, an American pro wrestler who worked for ECW, WCW, and the WWE
• Perry Schwartz, an American football player
• Perry Shields, an American judge of the United States Tax Court
• Perry Smith (American football) (born 1951), NFL defensive back
• Perry Edward Smith (1928–1965), murderer depicted in the book In Cold Blood
• Perry Smith (politician) (1783–1852), American congressman
• Perry H. Smith, Wisconsin state senator and state assemblyman
• Perry M. Smith (general), an American Air Force general
• Perry So, a Hong Kong orchestral conductor
• Perry Stephens, an American actor
• Perry Stevenson, an American basketball coach
• Perry Stone (radio personality), an American shock jock
• Perry Mark Stratychuk, a Canadian filmmaker and musician
• Perry Suckling, an English footballer
• Perry Teneyck, an American basketball coach
• Perry Thomas, an American football coach
• Perry E. Thurston, Jr., an American politician
• Perry Trimper, a Canadian politician
• Perry Turnbull, a Canadian hockey player
• Perry Tuttle, an American football player
• Perry Ubeda, a Dutch kickboxer
• Perry Van der Beck, an American soccer player, manager and executive
• Perry N. Vekroff, an American film director, screenwriter, and actor of the silent era
• Perry Wallace, a professor of law and a former college basketball player
• Perry Warbington, an American basketball player
• Perry Watkins, an American gay U. S. Army enlisted man, best known for his successful lawsuit against the U. S. military
• Perry Watson, an American college basketball coach
• Perry Werden, an American baseball player
• Perry Hunt Wheeler, an American landscape architect
• Perry Williams (cornerback), an American football player
• Perry Williams (running back), an American football player
• Perry Wilson, an American actress
• Perry Winslow, an American whaling ship master
• Perry Woodall, an American politician
• Perry Young, an American basketball player
• Perry Deane Young, an American author and journalist

Fictional characters

• Perry Cox, a fictional doctor on the comedy Scrubs (TV series)
• Perry White, Clark Kent's editor-in-chief at the Daily Planet
• Perry Mason, a fictional lawyer
• Perry Rhodan, the main protagonist of the German science fiction pulp magazine by the same name
• Perry the Platypus, an anthropomorphic pet platypus of Phineas and Ferb

See also

• Perry (surname)
• Perry (disambiguation)
• Perri a surname or feminine given name
• Peri (name) a surname or feminine given name