Parris
Parris is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Parris Afton Bonds, American novelist
- Parris Duffus (born 1970), retired American ice hockey goaltender
- Parris Glendening (born 1942), American politician
- Parris Goebel (born 1991), New Zealand-born choreographer, director, singer, dancer, actress of Samoan descent
- Parris Mosteller (born 2001), American child actor
Surname
In arts and entertainment:
- Patricia Parris (born 1950), American voice actress
- Rachel Parris (born 1984), British comedian and musician
- Rebecca Parris (1951-2018), American singer
- Robert Parris (1924-1999), American composer
- S. J. Parris, pseudonym of English author Stephanie Merritt
In politics:
- Albion K. Parris (1788–1857), American politician and jurist of Maine
- Matthew Parris (born 1949), journalist and former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom
- Stanford Parris (1929–2010), American politician
- Parris Glendening (born 1942), the 59th Governor of Maryland in the United States
In the Salem witch trials:
- Betty Parris (1682–1760), nine-year-old daughter of the Salem villages' reverend Samuel Parris
- Samuel Parris (1653–1720), Puritan minister in the town of Salem Village during the Salem witch trials
In other fields:
- Alexander Parris (1780–1852), prominent American architect-engineer
- Eddie Parris (1911–1971), Welsh international footballer
- Francis Sawyer Parris (1707–1760), Biblical scholar
- John Parris (born 1952), English cue maker
- Robert Parris Moses (born 1935), Harvard-trained educator who joined the civil rights movement and later founded the nationwide US Algebra project
- Steve Parris (born 1967), former professional baseball pitcher
See also
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