Per is the middle name of Erik Per Sullivan, who played Dewey in Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
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Per Yngve Ohlin (January 16, 1969 to April 8, 1991) was the original vocalist of Norweigan band Mayhem. He is better known as Dead.
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Per Mertesacker is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre back and captain of English club Arsenal. He also played for the German national team but retired in August 2014 after winning the World Cup. Mertesacker is a youth product of Hannover 96 and he made his senior league debut in November 2003. He was soon dubbed "the Defence Pole" by German tabloids and gained a reputation for his good disciplinary record, going 31 Bundesliga games without being booked. Since joining Arsenal, their fans have nicknamed him "the BFG", which is short for "Big Fucking German" and an allusion to Roald Dahl's The BFG due to his height. He has been described as an imposing, reliable, dominant and an accomplished defender.
Per Anger, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in the 1940s, who originated the idea of issuing provisional passports to Hungarian Jews to protect them from arrest and deportation. Anger collaborated with Raoul Wallenberg to save the lives of thousands of Jews.
Per is also a Flemish/Middle English name for "Peter". With the ending 'kin' - meaning "little" it was the name of a famous pretender to the English throne during the reign of Henry VII. He pretended to be Richard of Shrewsbury one of the Princes in the Tower.
The Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. His most famous novels are "The Dwarf" (Dvärgen) and "Barabbas".