title: Pearl (surname)
text: # Pearl (surname)
  
  Pearl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Bruce Pearl (born 1960), American college basketball coach
  * Daniel Pearl (1963–2002), American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan
  * Judea Pearl (born 1936), computer scientist and philosopher
  * Matthew Pearl (born 1975), American novelist
  * Minnie Pearl (1912–1996), American country comedian
  * Nancy Pearl (born 1945), American librarian
  * Perry Diamond Pearl (born c. 1824), American politician
  * Raymond Pearl (1879–1940), American biologist
  