Pearl (disambiguation)

A pearl is a hard object produced by mollusks.

Pearl may also refer to:

People with the name

 * Pearl (given name)
 * Pearl (surname)
 * Pearl Aday (born 1975), American singer-songwriter
 * Granville Pearl Aikman (1858–1923), American judge
 * Pearl Bailey, an American jazz musician
 * Pearl Butler, an American country music singer

People with nickname or pseudonym

 * Pearl (drag queen) (born 1990), stage name of drag performer and record producer Matthew James Lent
 * Janis Joplin (1943–1970), American singer-songwriter, nicknamed Pearl
 * Earl Monroe (born 1944), a.k.a. "Earl The Pearl", American basketball player

In the United States

 * Pearl, Colorado
 * Pearl, Illinois
 * Pearl, Kansas
 * Pearl, Michigan
 * Pearl, Mississippi
 * Pearl, Missouri
 * Pearl, United States Virgin Islands
 * Pearl District, Portland, Oregon
 * Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (nicknamed, "Pearl")
 * The Pearl (Charlotte), a district in Charlotte, North Carolina

Elsewhere

 * Pearl, Ontario, Canada
 * Pearl Islands, Panama
 * Pearl Rocks, Antarctica
 * The Pearl Island, an artificial island in Qatar

Awards

 * P.E.A.R.L. Awards, an award for paranormal romantic literature
 * Pearl Award, an award of the Faith-centered Music Association

Fictional entities
For fictional characters, see
 * The Pearl, a fictional skyscraper in Skyscraper (2018 film)
 * The Pearl (DHARMA Initiative), a research station on the TV series Lost

Films

 * The Pearl (film), a 1947 film adaptation of the Steinbeck novel
 * Pearl (2016 film), an American short film directed by Patrick Osborne
 * Pearl (2022 film), an American slasher film directed by Ti West

Literature

 * Pearl (poem), a fourteenth-century Middle English work
 * The Pearl (novella), by John Steinbeck
 * Pearl, a novel by Siân Hughes longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize

Music

 * The Pearls, a musical group

Albums

 * Pearl (Janis Joplin album)
 * Pearls (Elkie Brooks album)
 * Pearls, a 2007 album by Ronnie Drew
 * Pearls, a 1995 album by David Sanborn
 * Pearls, platinum selling album by BZN
 * Pearl (Heather Nova album), 2019
 * The Pearl (album), by Harold Budd and Brian Eno

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 Stevie Wonder from his album My Cherie Amour
 * "Pearl", a song by Tommy Roe
 * "Pearl", a song by Björk from her soundtrack album Drawing Restraint 9
 * "The Pearl", a song by Emmylou Harris from her 2000 album Red Dirt Girl
 * "The Pearl", a song by Fleming and John from their 1999 album The Way We Are and based on the Steinbeck novel
 * "A Pearl", a song by Mitski from her 2018 album Be the Cowboy

Periodicals

 * Pearl (literary magazine), a journal founded in 1974
 * The Pearl (magazine), a pornographic publication published 1879–1880

Television

 * Pearl (miniseries), a 1978 TV series about the attack on Pearl Harbor
 * Pearl (TV series), a 1996–1997 sitcom
 * "The Pearl", an episode of the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power
 * TVB Pearl, a Hong Kong TV channel

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Pearl (cultural festival), the annual cultural festival of BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
 * Pearl (radio play), by John Arden
 * Pokémon Pearl, a video game

Brands and enterprises

 * Pearl Art and Craft Supply
 * Pearl Brewing Company
 * Pearl Drums, a musical instrument manufacturer
 * Pearl Group, an insurance service provider

Buildings

 * Perlan (Icelandic for "Pearl"), a Reykjavík building
 * The Pearl (Edmonton), a residential tower

Food and beverages

 * Pearl (wine), a sparkling wine containing less than 1 bar of additional pressure
 * Pearl, a barley (Hordeum vulgare) cultivar
 * Pearl barley, barley processed to remove its hull and bran
 * Pearl onion
 * Tapioca pearls

Science and healthcare

 * Pearl Index, a birth control research technique
 * Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, a laboratory at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada

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 Norwegian Cruise Lines cruise ship built in 2006
 * X-Press Pearl, an X-Press Feeders containership that sank off Sri Lanka in 2021
 * The Pearl, a schooner in the Pearl incident, a slave escape attempt
 * USS Pearl, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Technology

 * PEARL (programming language)
 * BlackBerry Pearl, a smartphone
 * E Ink Pearl, an electronic paper technology
 * Pearl, a printing press made by Golding & Company

Other uses

 * Pearl (color)
 * Pearl (DART station)
 * Pearl (typography), the type size between agate and diamond
 * Pearl, an MGM Resorts International Mlife tier
 * The Pearl, an 1867 U.S. Supreme Court case
 * The Pearl (horse), 1871 winner of the Melbourne Cup
 * Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages
 * People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL), a human rights group
 * Purl stitch, a knitting stitch