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Perrotin (Martian crater)
Perrotin is an 82.82-km impact crater on Mars at 2.82°S, 282.06°E, IAU-approved in 1988 and named for French Mars observer Henri A. Perrotin; studied in Valles Marineris chronology work.
Perry
Perry (French poiré) is fermented pear juice made from tannic perry pears, not dessert pears; sorbitol keeps fully fermented perry sweet, and its heartland is England's Three Counties.
Perry A. Frey
Perry A. Frey (born 1935) is an American biochemist, professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, whose studies of lysine 2,3-aminomutase identified the radical SAM mechanism of enzymatic catalysis.
Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson, born 1938 in London, is a British Marxist historian who edited New Left Review from 1962, cofounded Verso Books, and teaches at UCLA.
Perry Byerly
Perry Byerly was an American seismologist at UC Berkeley who directed its seismographic stations for 38 years and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1946.
Perry Como
Perry Como (Pierino Como), American crooner and TV pioneer born 1912 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; RCA star of 'Till the End of Time,' first RIAA Gold single 'Catch a Falling Star,' weekly TV 1948-1963, five Emmys, died 2001.
Perry Cox
Dr. Perry Cox is a fictional physician in the American medical comedy-drama Scrubs, portrayed by John C. McGinley as the abrasive mentor to J.D. Dorian.
Perry Creek Capital
Perry Creek Capital LP is a New York-based private equity firm formed in 2014, led by Adeel Qalbani, that invests opportunistically in both public and private markets.
Perry Dozier
Perry Dozier is an American Republican politician from Waitsburg who represents Washington's 16th legislative district in the State Senate and has sponsored legislation on financially distressed school districts.
Perry Edward Smith
Perry Edward Smith (1928-1965), convicted with Richard Hickock of the 1959 Clutter family murders in Holcomb, Kansas; executed by hanging April 14, 1965; subject of Capote's In Cold Blood.
Perry Elliott
Perry Mark Elliott, born 1963 in London, is a British cardiologist, professor at University College London, and consultant at St Bartholomew's Hospital, known for research on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Perry Ellis
Perry Ellis is an American lifestyle fashion brand founded by designer Perry Ellis (1940–1986), whose first collection launched in 1976. Owned since 1999 by Perry Ellis International (PERY) of Miami, it marked its 50th anniversary in 2026 with an Alexander Ludwig capsule.
Perry Ellis (basketball)
Perry Michael Ellis (born 1993, Wichita, Kansas) is an American forward, a Kansas Jayhawks star (1,798 career points) who went undrafted in 2016 and built an overseas career across eight countries, most recently Japan's B.League with Fukui.
Perry Expedition
Perry Expedition: 1853-1854 US naval mission under Commodore Matthew C. Perry whose Black Ships gunboat diplomacy produced the Treaty of Kanagawa, opening Shimoda and Hakodate and ending Tokugawa Japan's trade seclusion.
Perry F. Renshaw
Perry F. Renshaw is an American physician-scientist in psychiatric neuroimaging who led McLean Hospital's Brain Imaging Center from 1992 to 2008 and studies brain chemistry in mood disorders.
Perry Farrell
Perry Farrell (born Perry Bernstein, 1959) is the American singer of Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros and founder of the Lollapalooza festival; his 2024 onstage fight with Dave Navarro ended the band.
Perry J. Blackshear
Perry J. Blackshear is an American biochemist and NIH Scientist Emeritus whose laboratory cloned tristetraprolin, a zinc finger protein that promotes decay of TNF-α mRNA.
Perry J. Pickhardt
Perry J. Pickhardt is an American radiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for developing CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, as a screening test for colorectal cancer.
Perry King
Perry King (Perry Firestone King), American actor born 1948 in Alliance, Ohio; starred as Cody Allen in Riptide (1984-86), in Slaughterhouse-Five, Mandingo, Class of 1984, and The Day After Tomorrow; directed The Divide (2018); distinct from actor Perry King Jr.
Perry L. Adkisson
Perry L. Adkisson (1929–2020) was an American agricultural entomologist at Texas A&M University who pioneered integrated pest management, reducing insecticide use, and shared the 1997 World Food Prize.
Perry Mason
Perry Mason is a fictional criminal defense lawyer created by Erle Stanley Gardner in 1933, known for defending murder clients in Los Angeles and freeing them by finding the real culprit.
Perry Mason (1957 TV series)
Perry Mason (1957 TV series): CBS legal drama, September 21, 1957 to May 22, 1966, nine seasons, 271 episodes, starring Raymond Burr as Erle Stanley Gardner's defense attorney, with Barbara Hale, William Hopper, and William Talman; produced by Paisano Productions under Gail Patrick Jackson.
Perry Mason (2020 TV series)
Perry Mason (2020–2023) is HBO's Depression-era origin drama starring Matthew Rhys as a young private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles, created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, canceled after two seasons.
Perry Mattfeld
Perry Mattfeld, born 1994 in California, is an American actress known for Murphy Mason in The CW's In the Dark (2019–2022), Mel in Shameless, and Ricky in Hulu's Chad Powers; former ballet dancer and USC Song Girl.
Perry McCarthy
Perry McCarthy (born 1961), British racing driver, the original Top Gear Stig; raced for the Andrea Moda F1 team in 1992, entering seven grands prix without qualifying for any.
Perry McCarty
Perry Lee McCarty (1931–2023) was an American environmental engineer and longtime Stanford professor, a founder of environmental engineering who pioneered environmental biotechnology and won the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize.
Perry Mcgillivray
Perry Mcgillivray (Perry McGillivray, 1893-1944) was an American swimmer and water polo player of the Illinois Athletic Club, winning 1912 relay silver and 1920 relay gold in world-record time, and coaching the 1928 U.S. Olympic water polo team.
Perry Ng
Perry Tian Hee Ng (born 1996, Liverpool) is an English right-back for Cardiff City, formerly Crewe Alexandra's captain. Two-time Cardiff Player of the Season; received Singapore citizenship in September 2026 and awaits FIFA clearance to represent the Lions.
Perry nuclear power plant
The Perry nuclear power plant is a single-unit boiling water reactor power station in Perry, Ohio, on Lake Erie northeast of Cleveland, operating since 1986.
Perry Saturn
Perry Saturn (Perry Arthur Satullo, born 1966) is an American professional wrestler, ex-Army Airborne Ranger, Killer Kowalski trainee, three-time ECW Tag Team Champion with The Eliminators, WCW TV Champion, and WWE European and Hardcore Champion.