Black Pearl (disambiguation)

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A black pearl is a rare tinted pearl; a hard, rounded object produced by certain animals, primarily mollusks such as oysters.

Black Pearl may refer to:

[edit] People

• members of the Black Pearl secret society at Harvard University.
• Black Pearl, Italian ringname for Reno Anoa'i, American professional wrestler
• "La Perle Noire" (The Black Pearl), French nickname for Wilma Rudolph (1940–1994), American athlete
• Pérola Negra (The Black Pearl), nickname for Eusébio, a Mozambique and Portuguese football player
• Pérola Negra (The Black Pearl), nickname for Pelé, Brazilian football (soccer) player who won three World Cup medals and broke many records
• Black Pearl - The name of a Ghanian-Canadian (Pearl Akosua Ayimah) Female Hip Hop Artist/entertainer.
• Three footballers playing for Irish side St. Patricks Athletic have been given the nickname 'The Black Pearl of Inchicore'.

[edit] Science & technology

• The Black-Pearl, a gene (blp) in Drosophila (small flies) Genome Project.
• The Black Pearl, nickname for the Sony Bravia VPL-VW60 home theater SXRD projector.

[edit] Entertainment

• The Black Pearl Drink, alcoholic beverage
• Black Pearl was a Phil Spector written record by Horace Faith on the Trojan label, which reached number 13 in the UK Charts in 1970.
• Black Pearl was a Boston band transplanted to San Francisco in the early 1970s
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), the movie
  • Black Pearl, the ship from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies
• The Black Pearl (comic book) (1996), by Eric Johnson and Mark Hamill with artwork by Bruce Patterson and H.M. Baker.
• The Black Pearl (1967), a young adult novel by Scott O'Dell.
  • The Black Pearl (released 1977), a drama movie; directed by Saul Swimmer.
• The Black Pearl, a book written by Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow (1870-1935). (re-released 2005)

Black Pearl is a fighting location in Inuyasha Feudal Combat, as well as the site for Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father's grave.

• Black Pearl - The name of a Ghanian-Canadian (Pearl Akosua Ayimah) Female Hip Hop Artist/entertainer.