Percy
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The English surname Percy, first taken by the House of Percy, Norman lords of Northumberland, derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy. From there, it came into use as a given name. It is also a short form of the given name Percival, Perseus etc.
People
Surname
- Charles H. Percy (1919-2011), American businessman and Senator from Illinois
- George Percy (1580-1632), English explorer and author, governor of Virginia
- Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341-1408), son of Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy, and a descendant of Henry III of England
- Henry Percy (Hotspur) (1364-1403/1366-1403), eldest son of Henry Percy
- Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland (1742-1817), British lieutenant-general in the American Revolutionary War
- John Percy (disambiguation)
- LeRoy Percy (1860-1929), American planter and Senator from Mississippi
- Pierre-Francois Percy (1754-1825), chief surgeon of the Grand Army
- Richard Percy (died 1648), English soldier
- Thomas Percy (disambiguation)
- Walker Percy (1916-1990), American author
- William Percy (disambiguation)
Given name
- Percy Abercrombie (1884-1964), Australian rules football player
- Percy Addleshaw (1866-1916), English barrister and writer
- Percy Adlon (born 1935), German film and television director, writer, and producer
- Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961), Nobel Prize winner in physics
- Percy Cherrett (1899-1984). (born 1899), English footballer
- Percy Cox (1864-1937), British administrator and diplomat
- Percy Edwards (1908-1996), English entertainer, ornithologist and animal impersonator
- Percy Faith (1908-1976), Canadian-born bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor
- Percy Fawcett (1867-?), British soldier, archaeologist and South American explorer
- Percy French (1854-1920), Irish songwriter, entertainer and painter
- Percy Gardner (1846-1937), English classical archaeologist
- Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-born composer and pianist
- Percy Grant (Royal Navy officer) (1867-1952), Royal Navy admiral and Chief of Navy of the Royal Australian Navy
- Percy Stickney Grant (1860-1927), American priest of the Episcopal Church
- Percy Harvin (born 1988), National Football League wide receiver
- Percy Heath (1923-2005), American jazz bassist
- Percy Helton (1894-1971), American actor
- Percy Herbert (disambiguation)
- Percy Jones (disambiguation)
- Percy Hague Jowett (1882-1955), British artist and arts administrator
- Percy Lansdale (born 1928), Iraqi football player
- Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975), American research chemist
- Percy William Justyne (1812-1883), English artist
- Percy Kachipande (born 1944), Malawian diplomat
- Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975), African-American research chemist
- Percy Lowe (1870-1948), English surgeon and ornithologist
- Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), American dramatist and poet
- Percy Metcalfe (1895-1970), English artist, currency designer
- Percy Robert Miller, aka Master P, hip-hop artist and entrepreneur
- Percy Romeo Miller (born 1989), aka Romeo Miller, hip-hop artist, college basketball player, entertainer and son of Percy Robert Miller
- Percy Montgomery (born 1974), retired South African rugby union footballer
- Percy Erskine Nobbs (1875-1964), Scottish-born Canadian architect
- Percy Noble (Royal Navy officer) (1880-1955), British Second World War admiral, Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches
- Percy Verner Noble (1902-1996), Canadian Member of Parliament
- Percy Orthwein (1888-1957), American business executive in advertising from St. Louis, Missouri.
- Percy Pepoon (1861-1939), American politician, Missouri senator
- Percy Quin (1872-1932), American politician
- Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878-1934), director of the Remington Arms Company
- Percy Ross (1916-2001), millionaire philanthropist
- Percy Saint (1870-1958), Louisiana politician
- Percy Shaw (1890-1976), English inventor and businessman
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet
- Percy Sledge (1940-2015), American R&B and soul singer
- Percy Smith (disambiguation)
- Percy Spencer (1894-1970), American engineer and inventor of the microwave oven
- Percy Spender (1897-1985), Australian politician and diplomat
- Percy Stone (1856-1934), British architect
- Percy Sutton (1920-2009), African-American politician, civil rights activist and businessman
- Percy Thrower (1913-1988), British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer
- Percy Vear (1911-1983), British professional boxer
- Percy Williams (disambiguation)
- Perce Wilson (1890-1936), National Football League player
- Percy Wilson (footballer) (1889-1941), Australian rules footballer
- Percy Wyndham (disambiguation)
- Percy M. Young (1912-2004), British musicologist, editor, organist, composer, conductor and teacher
- Percy Yutar (1911-2002), South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia treason trial
Fictional characters
- Percy, Clarence animated U.S. TV series character
- Percy the Small Engine, in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
- Sir Percy Blakeney, the true name of the Scarlet Pimpernel in Baroness Orczy's 1905 novel of the same name
- Percy Jackson, a son of Poseidon and main character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series
- Percy Pea, from the VHS and DVD series VeggieTales
- Percy Polie, on the children's show Rolie Polie Olie
- Percy the Penguin, on the children's show Jake and the Never Land Pirates
- Lord Percy Percy, two related characters in the popular British sitcom Blackadde
- Percy Weasley, in the Harry Potter series
- Percy Wetmore, from Stephen King's novel The Green Mile
See also
- Algernon Percy (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with Percy
- All pages with a title containing Percy
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