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Parris is a given name and surname, and may refer to:
In politics:
- Albion K. Parris (1788–1857), American politician and jurist of Maine
- Matthew Parris (born 1949), journalist and former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom
- Stanford Parris (1929–2010), American politician
- Parris Glendening (born 1942), the 59th Governor of Maryland in the United States
In the Salem witch trials:
- Betty Parris (1682–1760), nine-year-old daughter of the Salem villages' reverend Samuel Parris
- Samuel Parris (1653–1720), Puritan minister in the town of Salem Village during the Salem witch trials
In other fields:
- Alexander Parris (1780–1852), prominent American architect-engineer
- Eddie Parris (1911–1971), Welsh international footballer
- Francis Sawyer Parris (1707–1760), Biblical scholar
- John Parris (born 1952), English cue maker
- Patricia Parris, American voice actress
- Philip Parris Lynott (1949-1986), lead singer and bassist in Thin Lizzy
- Robert Parris (1924–1999), American composer
- Robert Parris Moses (born 1935), Harvard-trained educator who joined the civil rights movement and later founded the nationwide US Algebra project
- S. J. Parris, pseudonym of English author Stephanie Merritt
Usage examples of "parris".
The terrifying Chef Bagna was in charge, and he made the simple preparing of vegetables a rigorous program on a par with Parris Island.
My drill instructor taught me that when I went through boot camp at Parris Island.
He told her he'd learned how to do that in boot camp at Parris Island when he had first joined the Corps.
While he was willing to grant that he had come to Parris Island a candy-ass civilian and had left at least looking and thinking vaguely like a Marine, he had painful and bitter memories of the place and of his drill instructors.
While he was willing to grant that he had come to Parris Island a candy-ass civilian and had left at least looking and thinking vaguely like a Marine, he had painful and bitter memo-ries of the place and of his drill instructors.
Conditioned by Parris Island Drill Instructors to treat any weapon with something approaching reverence-abuse was the unpardonable sin-he very carefully laid the empty Thompson on the ground and only then took Zimmerman's Thompson from Ellen.
For that matter, Humphrey had wondered idly more than once what the Parris Island G-2 did at all.
A core of Iraq hardliners formed around Indyk himself, Bruce Riedel (initially Indyk's director for Persian Gulf affairs and later the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East), and Mark Parris (the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for the Near East).
He had been certified as fit for limited service and was being transferred to Parris Island for duty in his military specialty of motor transport sergeant.
His upbringing in Oconomowoc, high school prom night, deer hunting in the Upper Peninsula, Parris Island boot camp, all of the brawls and struggles in China, his duel with Sergeant Frick, they are wood behind the point of a spear.
His keys and every other thing he had owned as a civilian had been put into a box and shipped home from Parris Island the very first morning he was there, right after they'd given him a haircut and a set of utilities and a pair of boots.
His keys and every other thing he had owned as a civilian had been put into a box and shipped home from Parris Island the very first morning he was there, right after theyd given him a haircut and a set of utilities and a pair of boots.
His keys and every other thing he had owned as a civilian had been put into a box and shipped home from Parris Island the very first morning he was there, right after they’.
They're shipping me to the motor transport company at Parris Island.
Stecker and the Doggie armorer had more in common with each other than Stecker had with the kids fresh from Parris Island involved in the troop test.