# Perrin

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