Pearl (disambiguation)

A pearl is a hard object produced by mollusks.

Pearl may also refer to:

People

• Pearl (given name)
• Pearl (surname)
• Pearl Aday (born 1975), American singer-songwriter
• Pearl (drag queen) (born 1991/1992), stage name of drag performer and record producer Matthew James Lent

Nicknamed Pearl

• Earl Monroe (born 1944), a.k.a. "Earl The Pearl", American basketball player
• Janis Joplin (1943–1970), American singer-songwriter

Places

• Pearl, Ontario, Canada
• Pearl, Illinois, United States
• Pearl, Kansas, United States
• Pearl, Michigan, United States
• Pearl, Mississippi, United States
• Pearl, United States Virgin Islands
• Pearl Rocks, Antarctica
• Pearl Islands, Panama
• The Pearl-Qatar, an artificial island in Qatar

Literature

• The Pearl (novel), by John Steinbeck
• Pearl (poem), a 14th-century Middle English work
• Pearl (literary magazine), a journal founded in 1974
• The Pearl (magazine), a pornographic publication published 1879-1880
• P.E.A.R.L. Awards, an award for paranormal romantic literature

Music

Performers

• Pearl Bailey, American jazz musician
• The Pearls, a musical group

Albums

• Pearl (album), by Janis Joplin
• Pearls (Elkie Brooks album)
• Pearls (Ronnie Drew album)
• The Pearl (album), by Harold Budd and Brian Eno
• Pearls, a 1995 album by David Sanborn

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 Tommy Roe

Others

• Pearl Award, an award of the Faith-centered Music Association
• Pearl Drums, a musical instrument manufacturer

Film and television

• Pearl (TV series), a 1996-1997 sitcom
• Pearl (miniseries), a 1978 TV series about the attack on Pearl Harbor
• Pearl (One Piece), a character in the One Piece manga
• Pearl (SpongeBob SquarePants), a SpongeBob SquarePants character
• The Pearl (DHARMA Initiative), a research station on the TV series Lost
• Pearl Forrester, a Mystery Science Theater 3000 character
• TVB Pearl, an Hong Kong TV channel
• La perla (film) (The Pearl), a 1947 film adaptation of the Steinbeck novel
• Pearl (Steven Universe), a character from the animated series, Steven Universe
• Pearl, a Little Mermaid character
• Pearl, a character from Disney's Home on the Range
• Pearl, a competitor on season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race

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 cruise ship built in 2006
• USS Pearl, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
• The Pearl, a schooner in the Pearl incident, a slave escape attempt

Other uses

• Pearl (color)
• Pearl (culfest)
• Pearl (DART station)
• pearl (typography), the type size between agate and diamond
• PEARL (programming language)
• Pearl (cultural festival), the annual cultural festival of BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
• Pearl (radio play), by John Arden
• The Pearl (Edmonton), a residential tower
• BlackBerry Pearl, a smartphone
• E Ink Pearl, an electronic paper technology
• Pokémon Pearl, a video game
• Tapioca pearls
• Pearl Art and Craft Supply
• Pearl barley, barley processed to remove its hull and bran
• Pearl Brewing Company
• Pearl Group, an insurance service provider
• Pearl Index, a birth control research technique
• Pearl the Observation Car, a Starlight Express character
• Perlan (Icelandic for "Pearl"), a Reykjavík building
• Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages
• The Pearl, an 1867 U.S. Supreme Court case
• Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, a laboratory at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada
• Pearl, a printing press made by Golding & Company
• a barley (Hordeum vulgare) cultivar
• For the knitting stitch, see Knit and purl stitches

See also

• Paarl
• Perl (disambiguation)
• Purl (disambiguation)
• Pearl District, Portland, Oregon
• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• Pearl River (disambiguation)
• Pearl necklace (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Pearl"
• All pages with titles containing Pearl