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Parris is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Parris Afton Bonds , American novelist
Parris Campbell (born 1997), American football player
Parris Duffus (born 1970), retired American ice hockey goaltender
Parris Glendening (born 1942), American politician
Parris Goebel (born 1991), New Zealand-born choreographer, director, singer, dancer, actress of Samoan descent
Parris Mosteller (born 2001), American child actor
Surname
In arts and entertainment :
In politics :
Albion K. Parris (1788–1857), American politician and jurist of Maine, United States Representative and Senator
Matthew Parris (born 1949), journalist and former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom
Stanford Parris (1929–2010), American politician, United States Representative, Virginia state delegate, and Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth
Virgil D. Parris (1807–1874), American politician and jurist of Maine, United States Representative and President of the Maine Senate
In the Salem witch trials :
Betty Parris (1682–1760), nine-year-old daughter of the Salem villages' reverend Samuel Parris
Samuel Parris (1653–1720), Puritan minister in the town of Salem Village during the Salem witch trials
In other fields :
See also