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

• Hannah Pearl Davis (born 1996), Internet personality

Places

In the United States

• Pearl, Colorado

• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (nicknamed, "Pearl")

• Pearl, Illinois

• Pearl, Kansas

• Pearl, Michigan

• Pearl, Mississippi

• Pearl, Missouri

• The Pearl (Charlotte), a district in Charlotte, North Carolina

• Pearl District, Portland, Oregon

• Pearl, United States Virgin Islands

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

• 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 (novella), 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

• "Pearl", a song by Björk from her soundtrack album Drawing Restraint 9

• "Pearls", a song by Sade from her album Love Deluxe

• "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

• The Pearl Report, a former Hong Kong English-language current affairs programme

• TVB Pearl, a Hong Kong television channel

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• The Pearl, painting by Raphael

• 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

• , the name of several Royal Navy ships

• , 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

• , 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 Bank Apartments, a demolished residential building in Singapore

• Pearl necklace (disambiguation)

• Pearl River (disambiguation)

• Pearl Diver (disambiguation)

• Perl (disambiguation)

• Purl (disambiguation)

• The White Pearl (disambiguation)