A pearl is a hard object produced by mollusks.
Pearl may also refer to:
People
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
Places
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
Arts, entertainment, and media
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
- Pearl (One Piece), a character in the One Piece manga
- Pearl (Steven Universe), a character from the animated series Steven Universe
- Pearl, a flapjack octopus in the Finding Nemo franchise
- Pearl, a character from Disney's Home on the Range
- Granny Pearl, an elderly green sea turtle on Jim Henson's Pajanimals
- Pearl, a competitor on season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race
- Pearl, a Little Mermaid character
- Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Pearl Fey, an Ace Attorney character
- Pearl Forrester, a Mystery Science Theater 3000 character
- Pearl Krabs, a SpongeBob SquarePants character
- Pearl the Observation Car, a Starlight Express character
- The Pearl, a fictional skyscraper in Skyscraper (2018 film)
- The Pearl (DHARMA Initiative), a research station on the TV series Lost
- Pearl and Marina, characters from the Splatoon franchise
- Pearl, a character from the Pokémon Adventures manga, named after Pokémon Pearl Version
- Pearl, a bunny in Blue's Clues & You!
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 (novel), 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
- "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 (racehorse), 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
See also
- Black Pearl (disambiguation)
- Paarl
- Pearl necklace (disambiguation)
- Pearl River (disambiguation)
- Perl (disambiguation)
- Purl (disambiguation)
- The White Pearl (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Pearl
- All pages with titles containing Pearl
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