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Perkins, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 2272
Housing Units (2000): 988
Land area (2000): 2.231011 sq. miles (5.778292 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.231011 sq. miles (5.778292 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58150
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.976598 N, 97.031813 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 74059
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Perkins -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 3200
Housing Units (2000): 1444
Land area (2000): 883.176151 sq. miles (2287.415634 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.096592 sq. miles (2.840160 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 884.272743 sq. miles (2290.255794 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.843798 N, 101.632281 W
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Perkins, NE
Perkins County
Perkins County, NE
Perkins -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 3363
Housing Units (2000): 1854
Land area (2000): 2871.619153 sq. miles (7437.459147 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 19.092520 sq. miles (49.449397 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2890.711673 sq. miles (7486.908544 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 45.646651 N, 102.437926 W
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Perkins, SD
Perkins County
Perkins County, SD
Wikipedia
Perkins

Perkins is a surname derived from the Anglo-Saxon corruption of the kin of Pierre (from Pierre kin to Pierrekin to Perkins), introduced into England by the Norman Conquest. It is found throughout mid and southern England.

Another derivation comes from the Welsh Perthyn, relative or belonging to a particular person or family, and also thought to be the Anglicized form of Peredur, from Medieval Welsh.

People named Perkins include:

  • Al Perkins, musician-guitarist
  • Anthony Perkins (1932–1992), American actor
  • Benjamin Douglas Perkins (1774–1810), son of Elisha Perkins, bookseller and propagandist of therapy with "Perkins tractors"
  • Bill Perkins (disambiguation)
  • Bishop Perkins (1787–1866), U.S. Representative from New York
  • Bishop W. Perkins (1841–1894), U.S. Representative and Senator from Kansas
  • Brian Perkins, anchor, newsreader on BBC Radio 4 - New Zealand
  • Carl Perkins, musician
  • Carl Christopher Perkins, politician, Kentucky Representative
  • Carl Dewey Perkins (1912–1984), politician, Kentucky Representative
  • Charles A. Perkins, American lawyer
  • Charles Callahan Perkins (1823–1886), author
  • Charles L. Perkins, author
  • Charles N. Perkins, Australian football and political figure
  • Charles S. Perkins, American baseball player
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American sociologist, writer and utopian feminist
  • Cyril Perkins (1911–2013), English cricketer and centenarian
  • Daryl Perkins, Australian track cyclist
  • Don Perkins, National Football League running back for the Dallas Cowboys
  • Edward J. Perkins, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
  • Edwin Perkins, various including:
    • Edwin Perkins (inventor), American inventor of Kool-Aid
    • Edwin King Perkins, British Conservative Party Member of Parliament
    • Ed Perkins, Canadian mathematician
  • Elisha Perkins (1741–1799), physician
  • Elizabeth Perkins, actress
  • Emily Perkins, actress
  • Emily Perkins (novelist)
  • Emily Pitkin Perkins, wife of Connecticut Governor and US Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin
  • Frances Perkins, labor leader and U.S. Secretary of Labor
  • Frank Perkins (disambiguation)
  • Frederic Beecher Perkins (1828-1899), United States editor, librarian and writer
  • Geoffrey Perkins (1953–2008), comedy producer, writer, and performer – BBC
  • George Perkins (disambiguation)
  • Gil Perkins, Australian film and television actor
  • Henry Perkins (cricketer) (1832–1916), English cricketer and cricket administrator
  • Henry Farnham Perkins (1877–1956), American zoologist and eugenicist
  • Ian Perkins, American musician/guitarist now in the band The Horrible Crowes
  • Isabel Weld Perkins, socialite philanthropist
  • Jack Perkins (disambiguation)
  • Jacob Perkins (1766–1849), inventor: bank-note engraving, engravings transfer, bathometer, pleometer
  • Janet Russell Perkins (1853–1933), American botanist
  • John Perkins (disambiguation)
  • Kathleen Rose Perkins (1974), American actress
  • Kendrick Perkins, player for the National Basketball Association Oklahoma City Thunder
  • Kieren Perkins, Olympic gold medal swimmer
  • Larry Perkins, Formula 1 race car driver
  • Laurence Perkins, British classical bassoonist
  • Luther Perkins (1928–1968), guitarist, including backing guitarist for Johnny Cash
  • Marlin Perkins, ecologist and naturalist
  • Maxwell Perkins, editor for F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe
  • Michael J. Perkins, American Medal of Honor recipient
  • Millie Perkins, actor
  • Niles Perkins (1919–1971), American athlete and physician
  • Paul Perkins (born 1994), American football player
  • Pinetop Perkins (1913–2011), musician – blues pianist
  • Ray Perkins (born 1941), an American football coach and former player
  • Sam Perkins (born 1961), retired National Basketball Association player
  • Shane Perkins, Australian track cyclist
  • Stephanie Perkins, author
  • Stephen Perkins, musician, drummer, and songwriter – Jane's Addiction
  • Sue Perkins, television presenter, actress, and writer
  • Tex Perkins, Australian singer-songwriter
  • Thomas Perkins (cricketer) (1870–1946), English cricketer, footballer and schoolmaster
  • Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764–1854), businessman, philanthropist
  • Tom Perkins, founder/principal venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
  • Tony Perkins (evangelical Christian figure)
  • Tony Perkins (television meteorologist)
  • Tracy Perkins, courtmartialed US Army sergeant
  • Troy Perkins, soccer player for the Portland Timbers
  • Warren Perkins (1922–2014), American professional basketball player
  • William Perkins (cricketer) (born 1986), West Indian cricketer
  • William Perkins (Puritan) (1558–1602), preacher, Elizabethan puritan
  • William T. Perkins, Jr., United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient

Fictional characters include:

  • Ma Perkins, star of the radio soap opera from 1933 to 1960
  • Perkins, character in the Harry Potter books
  • Ann Perkins, a character in the NBC sitcom Parks And Recreation

Companies

  • Perkins Engines, a UK based diesel engine manufacturer
  • Perkins Restaurant and Bakery, a North American restaurant chain.
Perkins (disambiguation)

Perkins is an English surname.

Perkins may also refer to:

Usage examples of "perkins".

Marshal of the Court Richard Perkins and Supreme Court Police Chief Leo Dellasandro were there too, looking stonily around the table in the large room.

She stopped directly in front of Fiske, causing Perkins to abruptly do the same.

Homicide is waiting along with a gentleman from the FBI,” Perkins said to Sara.

I guess because in front of Perkins, I couldn’t think of a clever way to tell you how I had already seen you.

Richard Perkins reported that he saw you and Fiske leaving your home together this morning.

When she appeared in the doorway, he rose and started to speak, but then Perkins appeared behind her.

Sara went over to her desk and started cleaning it out, while Perkins watched from the doorway.

Jordan moved to the body, quickly searched Perkins, found his gun, placed it in the dead man’s hand and fired a shot into the wall.

And every time we were around Perkins and Dellasandro, McKenna made it clear he thought Rufus’s appeal was bogus and John was the killer.

He took your gun and made sure Perkins and Dellasandro knew it was missing.

He returned to the bedroom while Perkins was counting the money in Mason's wallet.

He said to Perkins, "Could he have folded or wadded up any papers and concealed them on him somewhere?

You know, Perkins, if I were you, seeing you have sort of an official status here, I'd stick around to make certain Duncan didn't go back into that room, perhaps long enough to open the vault and start prowling around.

You see, he must have heard Perkins and me coming four or five seconds before we came in through the door.

The door opened, Perkins entered and said to the sergeant, "I'm all finished out there, Sergeant.