Peretz

• Perez in the Book of Genesis

• Peretz Lavie, Israeli expert in the psychophysiology of sleep and sleep disorders, the 16th president of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Dean of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
• Peretz Markish,, a Soviet Yiddish-language poet.
• Peretz Hirshbein,, a Yiddish-language playwright
• Peretz Smolenskin,, a Russian Jewish novelist

• Amir Peretz, former Defense Minister and Labour Party leader in Israel
• Isaac Leib Peretz, modernist Yiddish language author and playwright
• Jesse Peretz, rock video director and son of Martin
• Martin Peretz, Harvard University lecturer and former owner of The New Republic
• Moshe Peretz, Israeli singer-songwriter
• Omer Peretz, Israel U21 footballer and son of Vicky
• Rafi Peretz, Israeli Orthodox rabbi who served as Chief Military Rabbi and is now Education Minister of Israel
• Vicky Peretz, former Israeli international footballer
• Yitzhak Peretz, Israeli politician who served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
• Yitzhak Peretz, Israeli politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and of Immigrant Absorption, and member on Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council

  Other similar names

• Perec
• Perutz
• Pérez, Peres and Peris are typical Iberian family names with at least two distinct origins: One connected with the patronymic for "child of Peter", the other as the Iberian forms of the Hebrew family name Peretz. It was adopted as a family name by Sephardi Jews families during a time of religious intolerance in the Iberian Peninsula. The name is also one of the names of the Messiah in Rabbinic tradition. It is a common family name among descendants of Spanish Jewish families that converted during the Inquisition.