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

For fictional characters, see Pearl (given name) § Fictional characters

• 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 (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 (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

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