Perrin
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[edit] General
Perrin may refer to:
- Perrin Air Force Base, located in rural Grayson County, Texas
- Perrin friction factors, in hydrodynamics
- Perrin number, in mathematics
- Perrin's Beaked Whale, the newest species of Beaked Whale to be described (1975)
- Perrin's cave beetle, an extinct freshwater beetle from France
- Perrin, Texas, an unincorporated community in southeastern Jack County, Texas (USA)
- Perrin-Whitt Consolidated Independent School District, a public school district
- Towers Perrin, a global professional services firm
[edit] People
- Perrin Beatty (born 1950), corporate executive and former Canadian politician
- Perrin Kaplan, vice president of Marketing & Corporate Affairs for Nintendo of America Inc
- Abner Monroe Perrin (1827–1864), Confederate general during the American Civil War
- Alain Perrin (born 1956), French association football coach and manager of Olympique Lyonnais
- Austen D Perrin, CFO of New Zealand's largest transport company, Toll NZ
- Carlo Perrin (born 1946), Italian politician
- Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno (1764–1841), marshal of France during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- Daniel Perrin (1642-1719), one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York
- Don Perrin (born 1964), Canadian writer and former military officer
- Elula Perrin (1929—2004), French-Vietnamese writer
- Elzéar Abeille de Perrin (1843-1910 ou 1911), French entomologist
- Eric Perrin (born 1975), NHL center for Atlanta Thrasers
- Francis Perrin (actor) (born 1947), French actor, scriptwriter and film maker
- Francis Perrin (1901-1992), French physicist, son of Jean Perrin
- Fred Perrin, French weapons, tactics, and combat specialist
- Geneviève Perrin-Gaillard (1947-), femme politique française
- Harold Perrin (c.1878–1948), British aviation pioneer
- Jack Perrin (1896–1967), American actor specializing in westerns
- Jacques Perrin (born 1941), French actor and film maker
- Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1870-1942), French physicist (Nobel prize 1926)
- Jim Perrin, British rock climber and travel writer
- Joseph Perrin (1754-1800), French general
- Marguerite Perrin (born 1961), cast member of FOX network's Trading Spouses
- Maurice Perrin (1826-1889), French surgery
- Nat Perrin (1905-1998), a comedy writer
- Noel Perrin (1927–2004), American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College
- Percy Perrin (1876-1945), English cricketer, played for Essex
- Philippe Perrin (born 1963), test pilot and former CNES and European Space Agency astronaut
- Ronald Edward Perrin (1931–1997), British cathedral organist
- Steve Perrin (born 1946), American game designer and technical writer/editor
- Vic Perrin (1916–1989), American actor and voice artist
- William Perrin (1831–1903), convict transported to Western Australia, later becoming a school teacher
[edit] Fiction
- Cecile Laveau-Perrin, character in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series
- Perrin (Star Trek), fictional character in the Star Trek universe
- Perrin Aybara, a main character of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy The Wheel of Time
- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a novel and British sitcom written by David Nobbs
[edit] See also
- Lea & Perrins, a United Kingdom food company, originating in Worcester