Pearl (disambiguation)
Appearance
(Redirected from Pearl (album))
A pearl is a hard object produced by mollusks.
Pearl may also refer to:
People
[edit]People with the name
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]In the United States
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Pearl, Ontario, Canada
- Pearl Islands, Panama
- Pearl Rocks, Antarctica
- The Pearl Island, an artificial island in Qatar
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Awards
[edit]- P.E.A.R.L. Awards, an award for paranormal romantic literature
- Pearl Award, an award of the Faith-centered Music Association
Fictional entities
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- The Pearls, a musical group
Albums
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- Pearl (literary magazine), a journal founded in 1974
- The Pearl (magazine), a pornographic publication published 1879–1880
Television
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Pearl Art and Craft Supply
- Pearl Brewing Company
- Pearl Drums, a musical instrument manufacturer
- Pearl Group, an insurance service provider
Buildings
[edit]- Perlan (Icelandic for "Pearl"), a Reykjavík building
- The Pearl (Edmonton), a residential tower
Food and beverages
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Pearl Index, a birth control research technique
- Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, a laboratory at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada
Ships
[edit]- 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
[edit]- PEARL (programming language)
- BlackBerry Pearl, a smartphone
- E Ink Pearl, an electronic paper technology
- Pearl, a printing press made by Golding & Company
Other uses
[edit]- 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