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