title: Peri (name)
text: # Peri (name)
  
  Peri is a given name and surname in various cultures.
  
  ## People with the surname
  
  * Achille Peri (1812–1880), Italian composer and conductor
  * Claude Péri (born 1972), French figure skating coach and former competitor
  * Cristina Peri Rossi (born 1941), Uruguayan novelist, poet, and author of short stories
  * Enzo Martins Peri, Brazilian Army commander
  * Gabriel Péri (1902—1941), French communist journalist and politician, member of the French Resistance
  * Jacopo Peri (1561–1633), Italian composer and singer
  * Michael Peri (born 1967), US Army soldier convicted of espionage
  * Peter Laszlo Peri (1899–1967), Hungarian artist, sculptor and architect
  * Peter Peri (born 1971), artist, grandson of Peter Laszlo Péri
  * Yaakov Peri (born 1944), head of the Israeli domestic intelligence agency and CEO of Cellcom Israel
  
  ## People with the given name
  
  * Peri Baumeister (born 1986), German actress
  * Peri Bearman (born 1953), academic scholar of Islamic law
  * Peri Drysdale (born 1954), New Zealand businesswoman
  * Peri Gilpin (born 1961), American actress
  * Peri Horne (born 1932), British figure skater
  * Peri Marošević,
  * Peri Neufeld,
  * Peri Suzan Özkum,
  * Peri Vaevae Pare,
  * Peri Pourier,
  * Peri Sandria,
  * Peri Schwartz,
  * Peri Sundaram,
  * Peri Tarr, American computer scientist
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Peri Brown in the British science fiction series Doctor Who
  * Peri Lomax in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
  * Peri Westmore in Devious Maids
  * Peri, a girl from Julie's Greenroom
  * Peri, an orange mutant from TV series, Spliced
  