# Pearl (disambiguation)

A pearl is a hard object produced by mollusks.
Pearl may also refer to:

## People
### People with the name

* Pearl (given name)
* Pearl (surname)
* Pearl Aday (born 1975), American singer-songwriter
* Granville Pearl Aikman (1858–1923), American judge
* Pearl Bailey, an American jazz musician
* Pearl Butler, an American country music singer

### People with nickname or pseudonym

* Pearl (drag queen) (born 1990), stage name of drag performer and record producer Matthew James Lent
* Janis Joplin (1943–1970), American singer-songwriter, nicknamed Pearl
* Earl Monroe (born 1944), a.k.a. "Earl The Pearl", American basketball player

## Places
### In the United States

* Pearl, Colorado
* Pearl, Illinois
* Pearl, Kansas
* Pearl, Michigan
* Pearl, Mississippi
* Pearl, Missouri
* Pearl, United States Virgin Islands
* Pearl District, Portland, Oregon
* Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (nicknamed, "Pearl")
* The Pearl (Charlotte), a district in Charlotte, North Carolina

### Elsewhere

* Pearl, Ontario, Canada
* Pearl Islands, Panama
* Pearl Rocks, Antarctica
* The Pearl Island, an artificial island in Qatar

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Awards

* P.E.A.R.L. Awards, an award for paranormal romantic literature
* Pearl Award, an award of the Faith-centered Music Association

### Fictional entities

For fictional characters, see Pearl (given name) § Fictional characters
* The Pearl, a fictional skyscraper in Skyscraper (2018 film)
* The Pearl (DHARMA Initiative), a research station on the TV series Lost

### Films

* The Pearl (film), a 1947 film adaptation of the Steinbeck novel
* Pearl (2016 film), an American short film directed by Patrick Osborne
* Pearl (2022 film), an American slasher film directed by Ti West

### Literature

* Pearl (poem), a fourteenth-century Middle English work
* The Pearl (novella), by John Steinbeck
* Pearl, a novel by Siân Hughes longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize

### Music

* The Pearls, a musical group

#### Albums

* Pearl (Janis Joplin album)
* Pearls (Elkie Brooks album)
* Pearls, a 2007 album by Ronnie Drew
* Pearls, a 1995 album by David Sanborn
* Pearls, platinum selling album by BZN
* Pearl (Heather Nova album), 2019
* The Pearl (album), by Harold Budd and Brian Eno

#### Songs

* "Pearl", a song by Chapterhouse from their album Whirlpool
* "Pearl", a song by Katy Perry from her album Teenage Dream
* "Pearl", a song by Stevie Wonder from his album My Cherie Amour
* "Pearl", a song by Tommy Roe
* "Pearl", a song by Björk from her soundtrack album Drawing Restraint 9
* "Pearls", a song by Sade from her album Love Deluxe
* "The Pearl", a song by Emmylou Harris from her 2000 album Red Dirt Girl
* "The Pearl", a song by Fleming and John from their 1999 album The Way We Are and based on the Steinbeck novel
* "A Pearl", a song by Mitski from her 2018 album Be the Cowboy

### Periodicals

* Pearl (literary magazine), a journal founded in 1974
* The Pearl (magazine), a pornographic publication published 1879–1880

### Television

* Pearl (miniseries), a 1978 TV series about the attack on Pearl Harbor
* Pearl (TV series), a 1996–1997 sitcom
* "The Pearl", an episode of the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power
* TVB Pearl, a Hong Kong TV channel

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Pearl (cultural festival), the annual cultural festival of BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
* Pearl (radio play), by John Arden
* Pokémon Pearl, a video game

## Brands and enterprises

* Pearl Art and Craft Supply
* Pearl Brewing Company
* Pearl Drums, a musical instrument manufacturer
* Pearl Group, an insurance service provider

## Buildings

* Perlan (Icelandic for "Pearl"), a Reykjavík building
* The Pearl (Edmonton), a residential tower

## Food and beverages

* Pearl (wine), a sparkling wine containing less than 1 bar of additional pressure
* Pearl, a barley (Hordeum vulgare) cultivar
* Pearl barley, barley processed to remove its hull and bran
* Pearl onion
* Tapioca pearls

## Science and healthcare

* Pearl Index, a birth control research technique
* Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, a laboratory at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada

## Ships

* HMS Pearl, the name of several Royal Navy ships
* MS Pearl, a cruise ship built in 1967, originally called the MS Finlandia, now the MS Golden Princess
* Norwegian Pearl, a Norwegian Cruise Lines cruise ship built in 2006
* X-Press Pearl, an X-Press Feeders containership that sank off Sri Lanka in 2021
* The Pearl, a schooner in the Pearl incident, a slave escape attempt
* USS Pearl, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

## Technology

* PEARL (programming language)
* BlackBerry Pearl, a smartphone
* E Ink Pearl, an electronic paper technology
* Pearl, a printing press made by Golding & Company

## Other uses

* Pearl (color)
* Pearl (DART station)
* Pearl (typography), the type size between agate and diamond
* Pearl, an MGM Resorts International Mlife tier
* The Pearl, an 1867 U.S. Supreme Court case
* The Pearl (horse), 1871 winner of the Melbourne Cup
* Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages
* People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL), a human rights group
* Purl stitch, a knitting stitch