Peregrine

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

Falcon

• Peregrine falcon, a bird of prey

People

• Peregrine (martyr) (died 182 AD), Roman Catholic saint
• Peregrine of Auxerre (martyr) (died c. 304 AD), Roman Catholic saint
• Peregrine Laziosi (1260-1 May 1345), Roman Catholic saint
• Peregrine White, Mayflower passenger
• Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (born 1923), British journalist
• Howell Peregrine (1938–2007), British applied mathematician
• Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, a 13th-century French scholar
• Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), British peer
• Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds (1659 – 25 June 1729), British peer and Tory politician
• Sir Peregrine Maitland (6 July 1777 – 30 May 1854), British soldier and colonial administrator
• Francis Rory Peregrine "Perry" Anderson (born 11 September 1938), British intellectual and essayist

Fictional characters

• Peregrine (comics)
• Peregrine (Wild Cards)
• Peregrine Pickle, the titular protagonist of a novel by Tobias Smollett
• Peregrin Took, a Lord of the Rings character
• Miss Peregrine, a character from a novel by Ransom Riggs
• James Peregrine Lester, a Primeval character
• Peregrine, a Volpone character
• Peregrine Hazard, a Wise Children character
• Sir Walter Peregrine, a The Example character
• Peregrine family, characters in two novels by Jude Deveraux

Art, music, and literature

• Peregrine (band), Australian indie rock band
• Peregrine (album), by The Appleseed Cast
• "Peregrine," a song by Donovan on the album The Hurdy Gurdy Man
• "The Peregrin," a story in The Psychotechnic League series
• "Peregrines," a short story by Suzy McKee Charnas
• The Peregrine, a book by J.A. Baker

Military

• USS Peregrine (AM-373), a U.S. Navy ship
• Operation PEREGRINE, a 2003 Canadian military operation

Transportation

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

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

Other uses

• Peregrine (journal), full title: Peregrine: American Immigration in the 21st Century, an online journal on immigration to the United States
• St. Peregrines, a Gaelic athletic club
• The Peregrine Fund, a bird conservation organization
• El Peregrino, a settlement in General Pinto Partido, Argentina
• An astrology term for a planet with no essential dignity

Peregrinus

• Peregrinus (Roman), a designation for a non-citizen subject of the Roman empire

Zoology

• Pseudocheirus peregrinus, the common ringtail possum
• Peregrinus maidis, a species of insect
• Nicodamus peregrinus, the Red and Black Spider
• Platycorynus peregrinus, a species of beetle

Botany

• Pinus peregrinus, an extinct species of pine
• Erigeron peregrinus, a flowering plant of the daisy family

People

• Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni (died 138 AD), Roman Catholic saint
• Peregrinus Proteus, a Cynic philosopher (d. 165 AD)
• Tiberius Pollenius Armenius Peregrinus, Roman consul in 244 AD
• Peregrino I (514) and Peregrino II (649), Archbishops of Messina
• Cetteus (died 597), also known as Peregrinus, Roman Catholic saint and bishop of Amiternum
• Peregrinus (d. 990) or Piligrim
• Bartolfus Peregrinus (d. by 1109) or Bartolf of Nangis
• Guilielmus Peregrinus (d. circa 1146), a German pilgrim
• Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, 13th-century French scholar

Art, music, and literature

• Passing of Peregrinus, a satire by Lucian
• Tonus peregrinus, reciting tone in Gregorian chant; see Reciting tone#tonus peregrinus
• Tonus Peregrinus, a vocal ensemble

Places

• Peregrinus Peak, an Antarctic peak
• Mons Peregrinus or the Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles

See also

• Pellegrino (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with Peregrin
• All pages with a title containing Peregrin