Percy
The name "Percy" derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy from which was derived the British surname, first taken by the Norman lords of Northumbria. From there it came into use as a given name.
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Given name
- Percy Abercrombie (1884—1905), Australian rules footballer
- Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961), Nobel Prize winner in Physics
- Percy Faith (1908–1976), Canadian-born bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor
- Percy Fawcett (1867-c. 1925), British soldier, archaeologist and South American explorer
- Percy French (1854-1920), Irish songwriter, entertainer and painter
- Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-born composer and pianist
- Percy Harvin (born 1988), National Football League wide receiver
- Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), African-American research chemist and pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants
- Percy Montgomery (born 1974), retired South African rugby union footballer
- Percy Shaw, OBE (15 April 1890 – 1 September 1976) was an English inventor and businessman
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English poet
- Percy Sledge (born 1940), American R&B and soul singer
- Percy Spencer (1894-1970), American engineer and inventor of the microwave oven
- Percy Sutton (1920-2009), African-American politician, civil rights activist and businessman
- Percy Thrower, MBE (1913-1988), British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer
- Percy Vear (1911-1983), British professional boxer
- Percy Yutar (1911-2002), South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia treason trial
Nickname
- Robert Plant, vocalist for the British rock band Led Zeppelin, nicknamed Percy after Percy Thrower
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