Percy (given name)
Percy is both a given name in its own right, and a short form of the given name Percival or Perseus.
The following list includes people with the given name Percy:
- Percy Addleshaw (1866–1916), English barrister and writer
- Percy Adlon (b. 1935), German film and television director, writer, and producer
- Henry Percy Brewster (1816–1884), lawyer and personal secretary of Sam Houston
- Percy Cherrett. (born 1899), English footballer
- Percy Clarkson, U.S. Army Major General 87th, 33d, & 3d Infantry Division in World War II
- Percy Zachariah Cox (1864–1937) British administrator and diplomat
- Percy Wright Foote (1879–1961), Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, World War I & II [1]
- Percy Eugene Foreman (1902–1988), millionaire murder case criminal-defense lawyer, defended James Earl Ray, Melvin Lane Powers, Alvin Lee King, Charles Harrelson
- William Percy French (1854–1920), Irish songwriter and entertainer
- Percy Gardner (1846–1937), English classical archaeologist
- Percy Grainger, Australian composer
- Percy Harvin, wide Receiver for the Minnesota Vikings
- Percy Heath, American jazz bassist.
- Percy Ives (1864–1928), American painter
- Percy Jackson (character), protagonist of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.
- Percy Jones (1885–1951), railroad executive, oilman, philanthropist
- Percy Jones (b. 1947), Welsh bass player
- Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975), American research chemist
- Percy Roycroft Lowe (1870–1948), English surgeon and ornithologist
- Percy MacKaye (1875–1956), American dramatist and poet
- Percy Metcalfe English artist, currency designer
- Percy Robert Miller, aka Master P, hip-hop artist and entrepreneur
- Percy Romeo Miller, aka Romeo (rapper), hip-hop artist, college basketball player, entertainer and son of Percy Robert Miller
- Percy Montgomery (b. 1974), South African rugby player
- Percy Erskine Nobbs (1875–1964), Scottish born Canadian architect
- Sir Percy Noble, British Admiral in World War II, Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches
- Percy Noble, former Member of Parliament in Canada
- Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934), son of William Rockefeller, director of Remington Arms Company
- Percy Ross (1916–2001), millionaire philanthropist
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poet
- Percy Spender (1897–1985), Australian politician and diplomat
- Percy Thrower (1913–1988), British gardener and television host
- Percy Vear (1911–1982), British Professional Boxer during the boom time 1920s & 1930s
- Percy Marshall Young (1912–2004), British musicologist, editor, organist, composer, conductor and teacher
- Percy Yutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason trial
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