Famous People with Name Perceval

John De Burgh Perceval            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

John De Burgh Perceval: was a well-known Australian artist. Perceval was the last surviving member of a group known as the Angry Penguins who redefined Australian art in the 1940s. Other members included John and Sunday Reed, Joy Hester, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Albert Tucker.In 1938 Perceval contracted polio and was hospitalised, giving him the opportunity to further his skills at drawing and painting. Enlisting in the army in 1941 Perceval first met and befriended Arthur Boyd. After leaving the army and moving into the Boyd family home at Open Country, Murrumbeena, he married Boyd's younger sister Mary in 1944. Together he and Mary Boyd produced four children.

María Cristina "Marita" Perceval            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

María Cristina "Marita" Perceval: is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She sits in the Argentine Senate representing Mendoza Province in the majority block of the Front for Victory.Perceval is the daughter of Julio Perceval, a musician and founder of the music department of the National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), and Alejandrina Suárez, the first female organist in Argentina. She graduated in philosophy in 1980 at UNCuyo and began a career in academia and public administration, including for the provincial governments of Mendoza and Buenos Aires Provinces and the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. From 1993 to 1995 she was President of the Institute of Women of Mendoza.[1]

Philip Hunloke Né Perceval            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Philip Hunloke Né Perceval: was a British sailor who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.