Nathan David Perlman (August 2, 1887 – June 29, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician from New York who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1920 to 1927.

Perlman wanted to disrupt rallies in New York organized by the German American Bund, but could not find any legal means or justification to do so.

Setting the law aside, Perlman then conspired with the organized crime figure Meyer Lansky to violently attack the rallies using Jewish mobsters.

[5] Perlman was a senior official of the American Jewish Congress and, in 1945, consulted with and provided assistance to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, President Truman's appointee to serve as chief U.S. prosecutor of Nazi war criminals.

Perlman died at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, and was buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens.