Perrin

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

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
• Edwin O. Perrin (1822-1889), New York lawyer
• Elula Perrin (1929—2004), French-Vietnamese writer
• Elzéar Abeille de Perrin (1843-1910 ou 1911), French entomologist
• Éric Perrin (born 1975), NHL center for Atlanta Thrashers
• 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-), French politician
• 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
• 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
• Pierre Perrin (1620?-1675), French poet and librettist
• 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
• William Gordon Perrin (1874 - 1931), R.A.F. and Navy officer, and the Admiralty librarian 1908 to 1931. Author of British Flags.

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
• Reggie Perrin, a remake of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin to be broadcast in 2009

See also

• Lea & Perrins, a United Kingdom food company, originating in Worcester

References