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An English and Welsh patronymic surname from Perkin, a medieval diminutive of Peter
American editor who helped develop the talents of a number of great writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Gilman Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Perkins Anthony Perkins Frances Fannie Coralie Perkins Perkins Jacob Perkins Maxwell Evarts

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Anthony Perkins
born April 4, 1932, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 12, 1992, Hollywood, Calif. U.S. film actor. He was the son of the actor Osgood Perkins, and he studied at Columbia University. After making his screen debut in The Actress (1953), he appeared in films such as Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Fear Strikes Out (1957), but he was best known as the murderous motel owner Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). He later appeared in several films in Europe, including The Trial (1963), The Champagne Murders (1967), and Ten Days' Wonder (1972), and in U.S. films such as Pretty Poison (1968), Catch-22 (1970), and WUSA (1970). He reprised his role as Norman Bates in three sequels (1983, 1986, and 1990)
Anthony Perkins
{i} (1932-1992) American actor famous for his role as Norman Bates, in Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho
Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman
born July 3, 1860, Hartford, Conn., U.S. died Aug. 17, 1935, Pasadena, Calif. U.S. feminist theorist, writer, and lecturer. She gained worldwide fame as a lecturer on women, ethics, labour, and society. In her best-known work, Women and Economics (1898), she proposed that women's sexual and maternal roles had been overemphasized to the detriment of their social and economic potential and that only economic independence could bring true freedom. Her other works include the celebrated short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1899)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
born July 3, 1860, Hartford, Conn., U.S. died Aug. 17, 1935, Pasadena, Calif. U.S. feminist theorist, writer, and lecturer. She gained worldwide fame as a lecturer on women, ethics, labour, and society. In her best-known work, Women and Economics (1898), she proposed that women's sexual and maternal roles had been overemphasized to the detriment of their social and economic potential and that only economic independence could bring true freedom. Her other works include the celebrated short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1899)
Frances Perkins
orig. Fannie Coralie Perkins born April 10, 1882, Boston, Mass., U.S. died May 14, 1965, New York, N.Y. U.S. public official. She became a social worker in New York City and a leader in organizations aiming to improve working conditions for women. From 1929 to 1933 she served as state industrial commissioner under New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. As president, Roosevelt appointed her U.S. secretary of labor; she thereby became the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post. In her long term of office (1933-45) she advocated reforms such as a minimum wage, a maximum workweek, and unemployment compensation; she also helped draft the Social Security Act and supervised the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938). She was later a U.S. Civil Service commissioner (1945-53)
Jacob Perkins
born July 9, 1766, Newburyport, Mass., U.S. died July 30, 1849, London, Eng. U.S. inventor. He built a machine to cut and head nails in one operation 1790. He developed a method of engraving paper money that made counterfeiting difficult; lack of interest in the U.S. led him to set up a bank-note factory in England (1819). He experimented with high-pressure steam boilers, built a horizontal steam engine (1827), designed an improved paddle wheel (1829), and invented a means for the free circulation of water in boilers (1831) that led to the design of modern water-tube boilers
Maxwell Evarts Perkins
born Sept. 20, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S. died June 17, 1947, Stamford, Conn. U.S. editor. He worked as a reporter for The New York Times before joining the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons, of which he later became editorial director and vice president. He is best known for the intensive editorial work that shaped Thomas Wolfe's sprawling manuscripts into publishable form, but he also assisted the early careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Erskine Caldwell, Edmund Wilson, and Alan Paton
Maxwell Perkins
born Sept. 20, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S. died June 17, 1947, Stamford, Conn. U.S. editor. He worked as a reporter for The New York Times before joining the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons, of which he later became editorial director and vice president. He is best known for the intensive editorial work that shaped Thomas Wolfe's sprawling manuscripts into publishable form, but he also assisted the early careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Erskine Caldwell, Edmund Wilson, and Alan Paton
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