Perelman is a surname and may refer to any of the following people:
- Bob Perelman, poet
- Chaim Perelman, philosopher
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, 1858-1922), responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language
- Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture
- 50033 Perelman, asteroid named after Grigori Perelman
- Mikhail Perelman, Soviet Olympic gold medal winning gymnast
- Richard B. Perelman, author of Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars
- Ronald Perelman, wealthy investor and businessman who appears 94th on the Forbes 2006 The World's Richest People (40th in the USA)
- S. J. Perelman (1904–1979), American humorist, author, and screenwriter, best known for Around the World in Eighty Days
- Yakov Perelman, Russian author of science books for children
- Perel'man (crater), lunar crater named after Yakov Perelman
- Vadim Perelman, Ukrainian-American film director best known for his debut House of Sand and Fog
- Raymond G. Perelman, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based philanthropist for whom the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania was named in 2011
Famous quotes containing the word perelman:
“English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.”
—S.J. Perelman (1904–1979)