Pearl as First Name

Pearl Sydenstrick Buck            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Pearl Sydenstrick Buck: a prolific American writer who won a Nobel Prize in Literature and a Pulitzer Prize.

Pearl Mae Bailey            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Pearl Mae Bailey: was an American singer and actress.

Pearl Polly Adler            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian
Pearl Polly Adler: was a Russian-born madam and author.She opened her first bordello in 1920. She was under the protection of Dutch Schultz and a friend of Charles "Lucky" Luciano. In the early thirties, Polly was a star witness of the Seabury Commission investigations and spent a few months in hiding in Florida to avoid testifying. She refused to give up any mob names when apprehended by the police. She survived by providing half of her income to her underworld safety net. For over twenty years, Adler kept active by moving her brothel from apartment to apartment. She officially retired from prostitution in 1944.

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Pearl as Last Name

Minnie Pearl            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Minnie Pearl: She was a country comedienne who, along with friend Roy Acuff, was an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991 . She was known for wearing a big hat with a price tag that read "$1.98" hanging off the side.Her family, relatively affluent by the standards of the area and the day, was scandalized by her entry into show business. Her first professional position was with the Wayne P. Sewell Production Company, producing and directing plays and musicals for local organizations in small towns throughout the Southeast.

Daniel Pearl            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Daniel Pearl: Daniel Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in the Encino district of Los Angeles, California, where he attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School. His father, Judea Pearl, is a professor at UCLA. His mother Ruth, is of Iraq

Raymond Pearl            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Raymond Pearl: was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.His scientific interests (including his love of statistics) suggest that had he lived, he would have been at the forefront of population genetics which was emerging at the time, with the work of J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright and Ronald FisherPearl is regarded as one of founders of biogerontology. In 1908 Max Rubner observed that mammals of different size and longevity had equal mass specific metabolic output[1]. Partly based on the observation that the longevity of fruit flies varies inversely with ambient temperature[2], Pearl (like Rubner) also asserted that maximum life span is inversely proportional to basal metabolic rate