Perrin may refer to:

Places in the United States

Perrin, Missouri Perrin is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in Clinton County, Missouri, Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. History A post office called Perrin was established in 1873, and remained in operation until 195 ...

, an unincorporated community * Perrin, Texas, an unincorporated community in southeastern Jack County, Texas

Other

* Famille Perrin, French winery owners *

Perrin friction factors In hydrodynamics, the Perrin friction factors are multiplicative adjustments to the translational and rotational friction of a rigid spheroid, relative to the corresponding frictions in spheres of the same volume. These friction factors were first ...

, in hydrodynamics *

Perrin number In mathematics, the Perrin numbers are a doubly infinite constant-recursive sequence, constant-recursive integer sequence with Characteristic equation (calculus), characteristic equation . The Perrin numbers, named after the French engineer , bear ...

, in mathematics *

Éditions Perrin Editis is a French group of publishing companies, subsidiary of Czech Media Invest. It is the second-largest French publishing group, after Hachette Livre. In June 2023, after acquiring a majority stake in Hachette's parent company, the Laga ...

, a publishing house (est. 1827) *

Perrin's beaked whale Perrin's beaked whale (''Mesoplodon perrini'') is a species of ziphiid beaked whale belonging to the toothed whale suborder. The genus name '' Mesoplodon'' comes from the Greek meanings of ''meso''- (middle), - ''hopla'' (arms), - ''odon'' (te ...

, a recently described species of whale * Perrin's cave beetle, an extinct freshwater beetle from France *

Towers Perrin Towers Perrin was a professional services firm that provided human resource consulting, financial services consulting, reinsurance intermediary services, as well as actuarial consulting services via its Tillinghast subsidiary. The firm was entire ...

, a global professional services firm

People

Surname

* Abner Monroe Perrin (1827–1864), Confederate States Army general *

Alain Perrin Alain André Christian Perrin (; born 7 October 1956) is a French professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player. Perrin made his managerial breakthrough at Troyes AC, Troyes, whom he took from t ...

(born 1956), French association football coach, former manager of China national team * Ami Perrin (died 1561), Swiss opponent of Calvinism reform * Benjamin Perrin, Canadian professor * Benny Perrin (1959–2017), American football safety * Bernadette Perrin-Riou (born 1955), French number theorist *

Carmen Perrin Carmen Perrin (born 1953) is a Bolivian-born Swiss visual artist, designer, and educator. She has worked as a sculptor, site-specific artist, and printmaker, as well as worked in the design public garden spaces and public art in collaboration with ...

(born 1953), Bolivian-born Swiss artist and educator * Cédric Perrin (born 1974), French politician * Christopher Perrin (born 1961), American publisher, educator, and writer *

Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno (; 7 December 1764 – 1 March 1841) was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1807 by Emperor Na ...

(1764–1841), marshal of France during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars *

Conny Perrin Conny Perrin (born 25 December 1990) is a Swiss tennis player. On 22 October 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 134 and on 7 October 2024, she peaked at No. 99 in the WTA doubles rankings. Perrin owns one doubles title on t ...

(born 1990), Swiss tennis player *

Daniel Perrin Daniel Perrin (1642–1719) was one of the first permanent European ethnic groups, European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York. Known as "Huguenot, The Huguenot", he arrived in New York Harbor from the Isle of Jersey on July 29, 1665, aboard ...

(1642–1719), one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York *

Don Perrin Don Perrin (born 1 October 1964) is a Canadian writer and former military officer. Early life and education Born in Iserlohn, Germany, Perrin grew up in Kingston, ON, Canada, McMasterville, QC, Canada, Bromley, Kent, England, and Ottawa, ON, Can ...

(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), French entomologist *

Émile Perrin Émile-César-Victor Perrin was a French painter, mainly known as a theatre director and impresario, born in Rouen on 9 January 1814, died 8 October 1885.Dean W. ''Bizet.'' London, JM Dent & Sons, 1978. His son-in-law was Camille du Locle. Biogr ...

(1814–1885), French painter, theatre director and impresario *

Éric Perrin Éric Perrin (born November 1, 1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who last played for JYP Jyväskylä in the Finnish Liiga. As of December 2017, he is the highest scoring foreign player in the history of Liiga. Playing ...

(born 1975), NHL center for the Atlanta Thrashers *

Francis Perrin (actor) Francis Pierre Horton Perrin (born 10 October 1947) is a French actor, screenwriter and director. Career He entered the Comédie-Française in 1972, but left the following year. He headed the Théâtre Montansier in his birthplace from 1992 ...

(born 1947), French actor, screenwriter and director *

Francis Perrin (physicist) Francis Perrin (17 August 1901 – 4 July 1992) was a French physicist, who worked on nuclear physics, fission and neutrinos. He was the high-commissioner Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (Atomic Energy Commission, CEA) in France and a colla ...

(1901–1992), French physicist * Gaëtan Perrin (born 1996), French professional footballer * Gillian Perrin (born 1950), English former badminton player * Frederick Perrin, American chess master * Harold Perrin (c. 1878–1948), British aviation pioneer * Hélène Perrin (born 1972), French physicist *

Jack Perrin Jack Perrin (born Lyman Wakefield Perrin; July 25, 1896 – December 17, 1967) was an American actor specializing in Westerns. Early life Perrin was born in Three Rivers, Michigan. His father worked in real estate and relocated the family ...

(1896–1967), American actor specializing in westerns *

Jacques Perrin Jacques Perrin (; born Jacques André Simonet ; 13 July 1941 – 21 April 2022) was a French actor and film producer. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Early life Jacques André Simonet was born on the Boulevard Port-Royal in ...

(1941–2022), French actor and film maker *

Jean-Baptiste Perrin Jean Baptiste Perrin (; 30 September 1870 – 17 April 1942) was a French atomic physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids (sedimentation equilibrium), verified Albert Einstein's explanation o ...

(1870–1942), French physicist (Nobel prize 1926) * Jean Georges Perrin (born 1971), French IT expert and serial entrepreneur *

Jean-Paul Perrin Jean-Paul Perrin (1580-?), sometimes incorrectly called Jean Paul Perrin Lionnois as he was originally from Lyon, was a French preacher and Protestantism, Protestant historian in the 16th and 17th centuries, and pastor of a congregation at Nyons in ...

(born 1580), French preacher and historian *

Jim Perrin Jim Perrin (born 30 March 1947), is an English rock climber and travel writer. Biography Jim Perrin was born Ernest James Perrin in Manchester, England, to a family of Huguenot descent. His father played rugby league for Salford in the late 19 ...

, British rock climber and travel writer *

John Draper Perrin John Draper Perrin (August 26, 1890 – September 19, 1967) was a Canadian entrepreneur, mining executive and civic leader.Staff report (19 September 1967). J. D. Perrin dies at his home. ''Winnipeg Free Press''Edited by Greene, B. M. (1948). Perri ...

(1890–1967), Canadian mining executive and civic leader *

John Gordon Perrin John Gordon "Gord" Perrin (born 17 August 1989) is a Canadian volleyball player. He was a two–time Turkish Champion (2013, 2015). Perrin is a retired member of the Canada men's national volleyball team, participating in two Olympic Games (Rio ...

(born 1989), Canadian volleyball player * Joseph Perrin (1754–1800), French army general * L. Timothy Perrin, American academic * Loïc Perrin (born 1985), French association football player * Lonnie Perrin (1952–2021), American football running back * Lucas Perrin (born 1998), French professional footballer * Marguerite Perrin, American ''Trading Spouses'' participant * Mark Perrin Lowrey (1828–1885), American Southern Baptist preacher * Maurice Perrin (bishop) (1904–1994), French bishop in Tunisia, diplomat * Maurice Perrin (cyclist) (1911–1992), French Olympic cyclist * Maurice Perrin (physician) (1875–1956), French physician *

Nat Perrin Nat Perrin (March 15, 1905 – May 9, 1998) was an American comedy film, television, and radio screenwriter, producer, and director, who contributed gags and storylines to several Marx Brothers films and co-wrote the script for the film '' Hellz ...

(1905–1998), a comedy writer *

Nicholas Perrin Nicholas Perrin is an American religious scholar and the Senior Pastor at Corinth Reformed Church in Hickory, North Carolina. Formerly, he served as an academic administrator who served as the 16th president of Trinity International University, ...

, American academic administrator and religious scholar * Noel Perrin (1927–2004), American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College * Patricia Charlotte Perrin (1921–1988), New Zealand potter * 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 Pierre Perrin ( – 24 April 1675) was a French poet and librettist. Perrin, sometimes known as L'Abbé Perrin although he never belonged to the clergy, was born in Lyon. He founded the Académie d'Opéra, which later was renamed the Académie ...

(1620?–1675), French poet and librettist * Henry Perrin Coon (1822–1884), American, 10th Mayor of San Francisco * Ronald Edward Perrin (1931–1997), British cathedral organist *

Sam Perrin Sam Perrin (August 15, 1901 – January 8, 1998) was an American screenwriter. Perrin was born to a Jewish Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancien ...

(1901–1998), American screenwriter * Stephen Perrin (born 1970) English cricketer and footballer *

Steve Perrin Stephen Herbert Perrin (January 22, 1946 – August 13, 2021) was an American game designer and technical writer/editor, best known for creating the tabletop role-playing game ''RuneQuest'' for Chaosium. Early life and education Perrin earned a ...

(1946–2021), American game designer and technical writer/editor *

(born 1952) English footballer (Crystal Palace, Plymouth Argyle and Portsmouth) *

Vic Perrin Victor Herbert Perrin (April 26, 1916 – July 4, 1989)Cox, Jim (2007). ''Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether fr ...

(1916–1989), American actor and voice artist * William Perrin (convict) (1831–1903), convict transported to Western Australia, later becoming a school teacher *

William Gordon Perrin Lieutenant Colonel William Gordon Perrin, OBE (1874–1931) was an RAF and Navy officer, and the Admiralty librarian from 1908 to 1931. He is most well known for his works on flags; particularly ''British Flags: Their Early History, and Their D ...

(1874–1931), R.A.F. and Navy officer, and the Admiralty librarian 1908 to 1931, author of ''British Flags''

Given name

* Perrin Beatty (born 1950), corporate executive and former Canadian politician * Perrin Kaplan, vice president of Marketing & Corporate Affairs for Nintendo of America Inc

Fiction

* Perrin (''Star Trek''), a fictional character in the ''Star Trek'' universe * Perrin Fertha, a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' universe *

Perrin Aybara ''The Wheel of Time'' is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, which began with ''The Eye of the World'' in 1990. Jordan wrote the first 11 novels of the series, and the prequel novel ''New Spring'' (2004), before his ...

, a main character of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy ''The Wheel of Time'' *''

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'' is a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. Three series were produced from 1976 to 1979, based on a series of novels written by David Nobbs. Nobbs adapted the screenplay for the fi ...