title: Perl (disambiguation)
text: # Perl (disambiguation)
  
  Perl is an open-source computer programming language.
  
  Perl may also refer to:
  
  * Perl 6, the previous name of Raku, an open-source programming language related to Perl
  * Perl, Saarland, a municipality in Saarland, Germany
  
  ## People
  
  * Perl D. Decker (1875–1934), a United States House Representative from Missouri
  * Perl Karpovskaya (1897–1970), birth name of Polina Zhemchuzhina, Soviet politician, best known as the wife of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Alfredo Perl (born 1965), Chilean-German pianist and conductor
  * Gisella Perl (1907–1988), Jewish Holocaust survivor and author
  * Hille Perl (born 1965), German musician (viola da gamba, lirone)
  * Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014), an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
  * Rafał Perl (born 1981), Polish diplomat
  