Private First Class Michael J. Perkins (August 17, 1892 – October 28, 1918) was a soldier in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions during World War I. Perkins was born in South Boston, Massachusetts in 1899, and joined the Army in 1916.

Despite being wounded in the action cited in his Medal of Honor citation, he was killed by an artillery shell the next day while being transported to the infirmary.

An elementary school is named after him surrounding the old colony housing development in South Boston, Massachusetts.

Citation: He, voluntarily and alone, crawled to a German "pill box" machinegun emplacement, from which grenades were being thrown at his platoon.

In a hand-to-hand struggle he killed or wounded several of the occupants and captured about 25 prisoners, at the same time silencing 7 machineguns.