Percy (first name)

Percy is an English male given name .

Origin and meaning

It is a short form of the name Percival (see also Parceval ).

Name bearer

First name

• Percy Adlon (* 1935), German film and television director, author and producer
• Percy Shelley Anneke (1850–1928), American entrepreneur
• Percy Beard (1908–1990), American track and field athlete
• Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961), American physicist
• Percy Cerutty (1895-1975), Australian athletics coach
• Walter Percy Chrysler (1875–1940), American automobile pioneer
• Percy Zachariah Cox (1864–1937), British commander and diplomat for the British Mandate in Iraq
• Percy Daggs III (* 1982), American actor
• Percy Faith (1908–1976), American orchestra conductor of Canadian origin
• Percy Fawcett (* 1867; † probably 1925), British explorer, adventurer and ethnologist
• Percy Goetschius (1853–1943), American music theorist and composition teacher
• Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Australian born pianist, composer, conductor and saxophonist
• Percy Gray (1869–1952), American painter
• Paul Percy Harris (1868–1947), American Rotary founder
• Percy Heath (1923-2005), American jazz double bass player
• Percy Heawood (1861–1955), British mathematician
• Percy Hobart (1885–1957), British military engineer
• Percy Hodge (1890-1967), British athlete
• Percy Hoven (* 1965), German moderator and dubbing speaker
• Percy Hunt (* 1908; † unknown), British motorcycle racer
• Percy Jocelyn (1764–1843), Anglican bishop
• Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), American chemist and civil rights activist
• Percy MacKaye (1875–1956), American playwright and poet
• Noel Percy Mander (1912–2005), British organ builder
• Hiram Percy Maxim (1869–1936), American inventor
• Percy Mayfield (1920–1984), American blues singer and songwriter
• Percy Montgomery (* 1974), South African rugby union player
• Percy Pilcher (1866–1899), English inventor and aviation pioneer
• James Percy Priest (1900–1956), American politician
• Percy Pursglove (* ≈1980), British jazz musician
• Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934), American company director
• Percy Rodriguez (1918-2007), Canadian actor
• Percy Sargent (1873-1933), British neurosurgeon
• Percy Schmeiser (* 1931), Canadian farmer
• Percy Ernst Schramm (1894–1970), German historian
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English romantic writer
• Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840–1921), English journalist, author and theosophist
• Percy Sledge (1940-2015), American R&B and soul singer
• CP Snow ( Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow; 1905–1980), English scientist and writer
• Percy Spencer (1894–1970), American engineer and inventor
• Percy Spender (1897–1985), Australian politician
• Percy N. Ure (1879–1950), British ancient historian and classical archaeologist
• Percy Walker (1812–1880), American doctor and politician
• Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), American writer and essayist
• Percy Williams (1908-1982), Canadian athlete
• Percy Wyn-Harris (1903–1979), British mountaineer, sailor and politician
• Percy Young (1912-2004), British music writer and composer

Fictional character

• Percy Weasley , character in the Harry Potter novels
• Percy Jackson , demigod and main character in the novel series of the same name