Peregrine

Peregrine, Latin Peregrinus, is a name originally meaning "one from abroad", that is, a foreigner, traveller, or pilgrim. It may refer to:

• Peregrine falcon, a bird of prey

People

Peregrine

• Peregrine (martyr) (died 182 AD), Roman Catholic saint
• Peregrine of Auxerre (martyr) (died c. 304 AD), Roman Catholic saint
• Perry Anderson (born 1938), British intellectual and essayist
• Peregrine Bertie (disambiguation), several people
• Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), British peer
• Peregrine Cust (disambiguation), several people
• Peregrine Hoby (1602–1679), English Member of Parliament
• Peregrine Honig (born 1976), American artist
• Peregrine Hopson (1696–1759), British army officer
• Peregrine Laziosi (1260–1345), Roman Catholic saint
• Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854), British soldier and colonial administrator
• Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannáin (1600s), Irish historian
• Peregrine Osborne (disambiguation), several people
• Peregrine Pelham (died 1650), English Member of Parliament
• Howell Peregrine (1938–2007), British applied mathematician
• Sir Peregrine Simon (born 1950), British High Court judge
• Peregrine White (1620–1704), first English child born in America after the arrival of the Mayflower
• Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (1923–2020), British journalist

Peregrinus

• Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni (died 138 AD), Roman Catholic saint
• Peregrinus Proteus (died 165 AD), a Cynic philosopher
• Tiberius Pollenius Armenius Peregrinus (3rd century AD), Roman consul
• Peregrino I (514) and Peregrino II (649), Archbishops of Messina
• Cetteus or Peregrinus (died 597), Roman Catholic saint and bishop of Amiternum
• Peregrinus or Piligrim (died 990)
• Bartolfus Peregrinus (died by 1109) or Bartolf of Nangis
• Guilielmus Peregrinus (died 1146), a German pilgrim
• Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1200s), French scholar

Art, music, and literature

• Passing of Peregrinus, a 2nd-century satire by Lucian
• Peregrine (album), 2006 album by the Appleseed Cast
• Peregrine (band), Australian indie rock band
• "Peregrine", a song by Donovan on the 1968 album The Hurdy Gurdy Man
• "Peregrines", a 2004 short story by Suzy McKee Charnas
• The Peregrine, a 1967 book by J. A. Baker
• "The Peregrin", a story in The Psychotechnic League series
• Tonus Peregrinus, a British vocal ensemble
• Tonus peregrinus, reciting tone in Gregorian chant

Biology

• Peregrine falcon, a bird of prey
• Erigeron peregrinus, a flowering plant of the daisy family
• Nicodamus peregrinus, the red and black spider
• Peregrinus maidis, a species of insect
• Pinus peregrinus, an extinct species of pine
• Platycorynus peregrinus, a species of beetle
• Pseudocheirus peregrinus, the common ringtail possum

Business

• Peregrine Investments Holdings, a Hong Kong investment company
• Peregrine Financial Group, an American futures brokerage firm
• Peregrine Holdings Limited, a company traded on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange
• Peregrine Semiconductor, an American fabless semiconductor company
• Peregrine Systems, a software company

Characters

• Peregrine Fisher, lead character in the 2019 television series Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries and niece of Phryne Fisher
• James Peregrine Lester, a character played by Ben Miller in British television series Primeval
• Miss Peregrine, a character in the 2011 novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Peregrine (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Peregrine (Wild Cards), a character in the Wild Cards comic series
• Peregrine Pickle, the titular protagonist of a 1751 novel by Tobias Smollett
• Peregrin Took, character in the 1950s series The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Peregrine, a character in Volpone a 1600s play by Ben Jonson
• Peregrine family, characters in the 1989 and 1991 novels by Jude Deveraux
• Peregrine Hazard, a character in the 1991 novel Wise Children by Angela Carter
• Sir Walter Peregrine, a character in the 1637 play The Example by James Shirley

Military

• Operation Peregrine, a 2003 Canadian military operation
• USS Peregrine (AM-373), a U.S. Navy ship
• Peregrine missile, Raytheon's medium-range air-to-air missile developed in 2019

Places

• El Peregrino, a settlement in General Pinto Partido, Argentina
• Peregrinus Peak, an Antarctic peak
• Mons Peregrinus or the Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles

Sport

• Peregrine (horse) (1878 – c. 1898), British racehorse, winner of the 2000 Guineas in 1881
• St. Peregrines, a Gaelic athletic club

Transportation

• LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon, a steam locomotive that was at one point named Peregrine
• MV Peregrine, a British ship
• Peregrine (spacecraft), a lunar lander designed by Astrobotic Technology
• Rolls-Royce Peregrine, an aero engine

Other uses

• Pilgrim
• Peregrine (journal), full title: Peregrine: American Immigration in the 21st Century, an online journal on immigration to the United States
• Peregrinus (Roman), a designation for a non-citizen subject of the Roman empire
• The Peregrine Fund, a bird conservation organization
• An astrology term for a planet with no essential dignity

See also

• Pellegrino (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Peregrin
• All pages with titles containing Peregrin