title: Perrin
text: # Perrin
  
  Perrin may refer to:
  
  ## Places in the United States
  
  * Perrin, Missouri, an unincorporated community
  * Perrin, Texas, an unincorporated community in southeastern Jack County, Texas
  
  ## Other
  
  * Famille Perrin, French winery owners
  * Perrin friction factors, in hydrodynamics
  * Perrin number, in mathematics
  * Éditions Perrin, a publishing house (est. 1827)
  * Perrin's beaked whale, a recently described species of whale
  * Perrin's cave beetle, an extinct freshwater beetle from France
  * Towers Perrin, a global professional services firm
  
  ## People
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Abner Monroe Perrin (1827–1864), Confederate States Army general
  * Alain Perrin (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 (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 (1764–1841), marshal of France during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
  * Conny Perrin (born 1990), Swiss tennis player
  * 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), French entomologist
  * Émile Perrin (1814–1885), French painter, theatre director and impresario
  * Éric Perrin (born 1975), NHL center for the Atlanta Thrashers
  * Francis Perrin (actor) (born 1947), French actor, screenwriter and director
  * Francis Perrin (physicist) (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 (1896–1967), American actor specializing in westerns
  * Jacques Perrin (1941–2022), French actor and film maker
  * Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942), French physicist (Nobel prize 1926)
  * Jean Georges Perrin (born 1971), French IT expert and serial entrepreneur
  * Jim Perrin, British rock climber and travel writer
  * John Draper Perrin (1890–1967), Canadian mining executive and civic leader
  * John Gordon Perrin (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
  * 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 (1905–1998), a comedy writer
  * Nicholas Perrin, 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 (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 (1901–1998), American screenwriter
  * Stephen Perrin (born 1970) English cricketer and footballer
  * Steve Perrin (1946–2021), American game designer and technical writer/editor
  * Steve Perrin (born 1952) English footballer (Crystal Palace, Plymouth Argyle and Portsmouth)
  * Vic Perrin (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 (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 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 broadcast in 2009
  