Perry is a town in Wyoming County, New York, United States.

The serpent is celebrated by images throughout the town and previously by a summer festival.

Chester A. Arthur, the twenty-first President of the United States spent some of his childhood years in the Village of Perry after being born in Fairfield, Vermont.

Irving C. Tomlinson, a Universalist minister who became a prominent Christian Scientist, was born in Perry in 1860.

Landscape artist Lemuel M. Wiles was from Perry and had an art school at Silver Lake.

His son Irving Ramsey Wiles was a noted portrait artist.

26.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.