Percy (given name)

Percy is an English masculine first name.

Origin and Meaning

It is a short form of the name Percival (see also Parceval ).

Bearers of the name

First name

  • Percy Adlon ( born 1935 ), German film and television director, writer and producer
  • Percy Shelley Anneke (1850-1928), American entrepreneur
  • Percy Beard (1908-1990), American track and field athlete
  • Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961), American physicist
  • Percy Cerutty (1898-1975), Australian Track & Field Coach
  • Walter Percy Chrysler (1875-1940), American automobile pioneer
  • Percy Zachariah Cox (1864-1937), British diplomat and commander of the British mandated territories in Iraq
  • Percy Daggs III ( b. 1982 ), American actor
  • Percy Faith (1908-1976), American orchestra leader of Canadian origin
  • Percy Fawcett (* 1867, † probably 1925), British explorer, adventurer and anthropologist
  • Percy Goetschius (1853-1943), American music theorist, and composition teacher
  • Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-born pianist, composer, conductor and saxophonist
  • Percy Gray (1869-1952), American painter
  • Paul Percy Harris (1868-1947), American founder of Rotary
  • Percy Heath (1923-2005), American jazz double bassist
  • Percy Heawood (1861-1955), British mathematician
  • Percy Hobart (1885-1957), a British military engineer
  • Percy Hodge (1890-1967), British track and field athlete
  • Percy Hoven (* 1965), German moderator and narrators
  • Percy Jocelyn (1764-1843), Anglican bishop
  • Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975), American chemist and civil rights
  • Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), American playwright and poet
  • Noel Percy Mander (1912-2005), British organ builder
  • Hiram Percy Maxim (1869-1936), American inventor
  • Percy Mayfield (1920-1984), American blues singer and songwriter
  • Percy Montgomery ( born 1974 ), South African rugby union player
  • Percy Pilcher (1866-1899), English inventor and pioneer of aviation
  • James Percy Priest (1900-1956), American politician
  • Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878-1934), American company director
  • Howard Percy Robertson (1903-1961), American mathematician and physicist
  • Percy Rodriguez (1918-2007), Canadian actor
  • Percy Sargent (1873-1933), a British neurosurgeon
  • Percy Schmeiser ( born 1931 ), Canadian farmer
  • Percy Ernst Schramm (1894-1970), German historian
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English writer of romance
  • Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840-1921), English journalist, author and theosophist
  • Percy Sledge ( born 1941 ), American R & B and soul singer
  • CP Snow (Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow; 1905-1980 ), English scientist and writer
  • Percy Spencer (1894-1970), American engineer and inventor
  • Percy donor (1897-1985), Australian politician
  • Percy N. Ure (1879-1950), British historian and classical archaeologist
  • Walker Percy (1812-1880), American physician and politician
  • Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886), American novelist and essayist
  • Percy Williams (1908-1982), Canadian track and field athlete
  • Percy Wyn -Harris (1903-1979), British mountaineer, yachtsman and politician
  • Percy Young (1912-2004), British writer on music and composer

Art figure

  • Percy Weasley, character of the Harry Potter novels
  • Percy Jackson, demigod and main character of the novel series of the same name
  • Male first name
  • Short form ( first name )
  • English personal name
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