Perry Smith is the name of:
- Perry Smith (driver), see 1951 in NASCAR
- Perry Smith (American football) (born 1951), NFL defensive back
- Perry Smith (Major General), Air Force Major General who fought in Operation Tailwind in the Vietnam War, and was military analyst for CNN
- Perry Smith (murderer) (1928–1965), murderer depicted in the book In Cold Blood
- Perry Smith (politician) (1783–1852), American congressman
- Perry G. Smith, Sr. Army Major General (Retired), Adjutant General of Alabamaq
Famous quotes containing the words perry and/or smith:
“You’ll admit there’s always the possibility of some employee becoming disgruntled over some fancied injustice. Dissatisfaction always leads to temptation. There’s always purchasers for valuable secrets.”
—Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Donald Jordan, Murder by Television, trying to bribe Perry into revealing Professor Houghland’s secret (1935)
“Growing old is no gradual decline, but a series of tumbles, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another. Yet when we pick ourselves up we find no bones are broken; while not unpleasing is the new terrace which stretches out unexplored before us.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)