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Perfect Stranger

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3899804
Source-derived summary

Perfect Stranger may refer to:

Books

The Perfect Stranger (book), an autobiography by P. J. Kavanagh

A Perfect Stranger (novel), a 1981 romance novel by Danielle Steel

The Perfect Stranger (novel) The Perfect Stranger (novel) A mystery by Megan Miranda

Films and TV

El Perfecto Desconocido, a 2011 film starring Colm Meaney

Perfect Stranger (film), a 2007 suspense film

The Perfect Stranger (film), a 2005 Christian film

Danielle Steel's A Perfect Stranger, a 1994 film

"A Perfect Stranger" (Upstairs, Downstairs), tenth episode of the third series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs

Music

Perfect Stranger (musician), an Israeli psytrance music producer

Perfect Stranger (band), an American country music quartet

Perfect Stranger (T. G. Sheppard album), a 1982 album by T. G. Sheppard

The Perfect Stranger (Frank Zappa album), a 1984 album by Frank Zappa

Desconocida (a.k.a. Perfect Stranger), 1998 studio album by Marta Sanchez

"Perfect Stranger" (Cheap Trick song), 2006

"Perfect Stranger" (Magnetic Man song), 2010

"Perfect Stranger" (Southern Pacific song), 1985

Perfect Stranger, a 2008 album by K.Maro

"Perfect Stranger", a song by Erasure from their 1991 album Chorus

"Perfect Stranger", a song by the Donnas from their 2009 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2011, 2007, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Perfect, Stranger and Wikimedia.
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This entry incorporates text from Perfect Stranger” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.