Perrin may refer to:
People
Surname
- Abner Monroe Perrin (1827–1864), Confederate general during the American Civil War
- Alain Perrin (born 1956), French association football coach, former manager of China national team
- Ami Perrin (died 1561), Swiss opponent of Calvinist reform
- Benjamin Perrin, Canadian professor
- 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
- Éric Perrin (born 1975), NHL center for the Atlanta Thrashers
- Francis Perrin (actor) (born 1947), French actor, scriptwriter and film maker
- Francis Perrin (1901–1992), French physicist, son of Jean Perrin
- 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 (born 1941), 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
- Jim Perrin, British rock climber and travel writer
- John Draper Perrin (1890–1967), Canadian mining executive and civic leader
- Joseph Perrin (1754–1800), French army general
- L. Timothy Perrin, American academic
- Loïc Perrin (born 1985), French association football player
- Maurice Perrin (bishop) (1904–1994), French bishop in Tunisia, diplomat
- Maurice Perrin (physician) (1826–1889), French surgeon
- Nat Perrin (1905–1998), a comedy writer
- Noel Perrin (1927–2004), American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College
- 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
- Ronald Edward Perrin (1931–1997), British cathedral organist
- Stephen Perrin (born 1970) English cricketer and footballer
- Steve Perrin (born 1946), 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), 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
Places
- Perrin, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Perrin, Texas, an unincorporated community in southeastern Jack County, Texas, US
- Perrin-Whitt Consolidated Independent School District, a public school district
Other
- Famille Perrin, French winery owners
- Perrin friction factors, in hydrodynamics
- Perrin number, in mathematics
- Éditions Perrin, a publishing house (est. 1827), today specialised in books about history
- Perrin's beaked whale, a recently (1975) described species of whale
- Perrin's cave beetle, an extinct freshwater beetle from France
- Towers Perrin, a global professional services firm
See also
- Lea & Perrins, a United Kingdom food company, originating in Worcester