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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
• Jean-Paul Perrin (born 1580), French preacher and historian
• 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
• Marguerite Perrin, American Trading Spouses participant
• 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

See also

• Lea & Perrins, a United Kingdom food company, originating in Worcester
• Perin (disambiguation)