Peregrine
Peregrine, Latin Peregrinus, is a name originally meaning "one from abroad", that is, a foreigner, traveller, or pilgrim. It may refer to:
- Peregrine falcon, a bird of prey
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People
Peregrine
- Peregrine (martyr) (died 182 AD), Roman Catholic saint
- Peregrine of Auxerre (martyr) (died c. 304 AD), Roman Catholic saint
- Perry Anderson (born 1938), British intellectual and essayist
- Peregrine Bertie (disambiguation), several people
- Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), British peer
- Peregrine Cust (disambiguation), several people
- Peregrine Hoby (1602–1679), English Member of Parliament
- Peregrine Honig (born 1976), American artist
- Peregrine Hopson (1696–1759), British army officer
- Peregrine Laziosi (1260–1345), Roman Catholic saint
- Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854), British soldier and colonial administrator
- Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannáin (1600s), Irish historian
- Peregrine Osborne (disambiguation), several people
- Peregrine Pelham (died 1650), English Member of Parliament
- Howell Peregrine (1938–2007), British applied mathematician
- Sir Peregrine Simon (born 1950), British High Court judge
- Peregrine White (1620–1704), first English child born in America after the arrival of the Mayflower
- Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (born 1923), British journalist
Peregrinus
- Peregrinus, Bishop of Terni (died 138 AD), Roman Catholic saint
- Peregrinus Proteus (died 165 AD), a Cynic philosopher
- Tiberius Pollenius Armenius Peregrinus (3rd century AD), Roman consul
- Peregrino I (514) and Peregrino II (649), Archbishops of Messina
- Cetteus or Peregrinus (died 597), Roman Catholic saint and bishop of Amiternum
- Peregrinus or Piligrim (died 990)
- Bartolfus Peregrinus (died by 1109) or Bartolf of Nangis
- Guilielmus Peregrinus (died 1146), a German pilgrim
- Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1200s), French scholar
Art, music, and literature
- Passing of Peregrinus, a 2nd-century satire by Lucian
- Peregrine (album), 2006 album by the Appleseed Cast
- Peregrine (band), Australian indie rock band
- "Peregrine", a song by Donovan on the 1968 album The Hurdy Gurdy Man
- "Peregrines", a 2004 short story by Suzy McKee Charnas
- The Peregrine, a 1967 book by J. A. Baker
- "The Peregrin", a story in The Psychotechnic League series
- Tonus Peregrinus, a British vocal ensemble
- Tonus peregrinus, reciting tone in Gregorian chant
Biology
- Peregrine falcon, a bird of prey
- Erigeron peregrinus, a flowering plant of the daisy family
- Nicodamus peregrinus, the red and black spider
- Peregrinus maidis, a species of insect
- Pinus peregrinus, an extinct species of pine
- Platycorynus peregrinus, a species of beetle
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus, the common ringtail possum
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
Characters
- Peregrine Fisher, lead character in the 2019 television series Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries and niece of Phryne Fisher
- James Peregrine Lester, a character played by Ben Miller in British television series Primeval
- Miss Peregrine, a character in the 2011 novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- Peregrine (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Peregrine (Wild Cards), a character in the Wild Cards comic series
- Peregrine Pickle, the titular protagonist of a 1751 novel by Tobias Smollett
- Peregrin Took, character in the 1950s series The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Peregrine, a character in Volpone a 1600s play by Ben Jonson
- Peregrine family, characters in the 1989 and 1991 novels by Jude Deveraux
- Peregrine Hazard, a character in the 1991 novel Wise Children by Angela Carter
- Sir Walter Peregrine, a character in the 1637 play The Example by James Shirley
Military
- Operation Peregrine, a 2003 Canadian military operation
- USS Peregrine (AM-373), a U.S. Navy ship
- Peregrine missile, Raytheon's medium-range air-to-air missile developed in 2019
Places
- El Peregrino, a settlement in General Pinto Partido, Argentina
- Peregrinus Peak, an Antarctic peak
- Mons Peregrinus or the Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles
Sport
- Peregrine (horse) (1878 – c. 1898), British racehorse, winner of the 2000 Guineas in 1881
- St. Peregrines, a Gaelic athletic club
Transportation
- LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon, a steam locomotive that was at one point named Peregrine
- MV Peregrine, a British ship
- Peregrine (spacecraft), a lunar lander designed by Astrobotic Technology
- Rolls-Royce Peregrine, an aero engine
Other uses
- Pilgrim
- Peregrine (journal), full title: Peregrine: American Immigration in the 21st Century, an online journal on immigration to the United States
- Peregrinus (Roman), a designation for a non-citizen subject of the Roman empire
- The Peregrine Fund, a bird conservation organization
- An astrology term for a planet with no essential dignity
See also
- Pellegrino (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Peregrin
- All pages with titles containing Peregrin
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