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Pedro Lima (businessman)
Pedro Lima, born in 1964, is a Brazilian coffee executive who took over his family's coffee business in 1984 and built Grupo 3corações, Brazil's largest coffee company.
Pedro Lima (footballer, born 2006)
Pedro Lima (Pedro Henrique Cardoso de Lima), born 2006 in Cabedelo, Brazil, is a right-back from futsal and Sport Recife, sold to Wolverhampton for a record R$61 million in 2024, loaned to Porto B and São Paulo, a Brazil U17 World Cup player.
Pedro Linares López
Pedro Linares López (1906–1992) was a Mexican cartonero of Mexico City who created the alebrijes, fantastic papier-mâché creatures, and won Mexico's 1990 national arts prize.
Pedro López (serial killer)
Pedro Alonso López, the "Monster of the Andes" (el Monstruo de los Andes), is a Colombian serial killer born 1948 who confessed to over 300 murders of girls in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, was convicted in Ecuador, served 14 years, and vanished in 1999.
Pedro Luis Lazo
Pedro Luis Lazo Iglesias (El Rascacielos Pinareño), Cuban right-handed pitcher born 1973 in Pinar del Río; four Olympic medals (gold 1996, 2004; silver 2000, 2008) and all-time Serie Nacional wins leader with 257 victories.
Pedro M. Reis
Pedro M. Reis (Pedro Miguel Reis) is a physicist and mechanical engineer who studies the mechanics of slender structures and elastic instabilities, and is a Full Professor at EPFL in Switzerland.
Pedro Martínez
Pedro Jaime Martínez (b. 1971, Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic), MLB pitcher 1992-2009, three-time Cy Young winner, 219-100 with 2.93 ERA and 3,154 strikeouts, 2004 Red Sox champion, Hall of Fame 2015 first ballot, now a broadcaster.
Pedro Mir
Pedro Mir (Pedro Julio Mir Valentín, 1913–2000) was a Dominican poet known for the poem Hay un país en el mundo, declared Poeta Nacional in 1984.
Pedro Montt
Pedro Montt was a Chilean lawyer and politician who served as President of Chile from 1906 until his death in office in Bremen, Germany, in 1910.
Pedro Morales
Pedro Morales (Pedro Antonio Morales, 1942-2019), Puerto Rican WWE Hall of Fame wrestler; first WWE Triple Crown Champion, 1,027-day WWE Champion, record 619 days as Intercontinental Champion.
Pedro Munhoz
Pedro Munhoz, "The Young Punisher", Brazilian bantamweight (born 1986), 22-fight UFC veteran 2014-2026, RFA champion, BJJ black belt; notable wins over Garbrandt, Font, Rivera; released by UFC April 2026.
Pedro Nava
Pedro Nava (1903–1984) was a Brazilian physician and writer who practiced rheumatology for about fifty years, then won the Machado de Assis Prize for his six-volume memoirs (1972–1983).
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez was a Colombian soldier and mining engineer who served as president of Colombia from 1922 to 1926, creating the Banco de la República.
Pedro Neto
Pedro Lomba Neto, Portuguese winger born 2000 in Viana do Castelo; Braga, Lazio, Wolves, then Chelsea from August 2024; Conference League and Club World Cup winner 2025, Portugal Euro 2024 and Nations League 2025 squad member.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (PPK), Peruvian economist and politician, president of Peru 2016–2018 after a 50.12%–49.88% runoff win over Keiko Fujimori; resigned in the Kenjivideos impeachment crisis; later faced Odebrecht money-laundering accusations.
Pedro Pablo Roxas
Pedro Pablo Roxas (1847–1912) was a Spanish-Filipino businessman of Manila who became the principal owner and manager of the San Miguel brewery, later San Miguel Corporation.
Pedro Pagés (catcher)
Pedro Pagés (Pedro José Pagés) is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, drafted in 2019 who debuted in the major leagues in 2024.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo (1955) is Juan Rulfo's landmark Mexican novel, also known in English translation, in which Juan Preciado seeks his cacique father in the ghost town of Comala; its 68 fragmented, ghost-voiced sections made it a forerunner of the Latin American Boom.
Pedro Páramo (2024 film)
Pedro Páramo (2024) is a Mexican Netflix drama directed by Rodrigo Prieto, adapting Juan Rulfo's 1955 novel; screenplay by Mateo Gil, starring Manuel García-Rulfo and Tenoch Huerta, released November 6, 2024, winner of 7 Ariel awards.
Pedro Pascal
Pedro Pascal (José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal), Chilean American actor born 1975 in Santiago, known for Game of Thrones' Oberyn Martell, Narcos, The Mandalorian, and Emmy-nominated The Last of Us, plus Fantastic Four's Reed Richards.
Pedro Paterno
Pedro Paterno (1857–1911) was a Filipino statesman and writer who negotiated the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, presided over the Malolos Congress, and served as prime minister in 1899.
Pedro Pérez (Spanish chemist)
Pedro J. Pérez, born 1965 in Aroche, Spain, is a Spanish organometallic chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the Universidad de Huelva, known for coinage-metal C–H activation catalysts.
Pedro Petrone
Pedro Petrone Schiavone (El Artillero), Uruguayan centre forward (1905–1964), two-time Olympic champion 1924/1928, 1930 World Cup winner, top scorer of Paris 1924 with 7 goals, 24 goals in 28 caps for Uruguay, and Fiorentina's first foreign player.
Pedro Pierluisi
Pedro R. Pierluisi Urrutia, Puerto Rican PNP politician and attorney: Resident Commissioner in Congress 2009–2017, five-day governor in August 2019, and elected Governor of Puerto Rico 2021–2025, championing statehood.
Pedro Pinto da Silva
Pedro Pinto da Silva is a cell biologist who used freeze-fracture and freeze-etch electron microscopy to work out how membranes split and distribute components between their two halves.
Pedro Porro
Pedro Porro (Pedro Antonio Porro Sauceda) is a Spanish right-back who joined Tottenham Hotspur in 2023 for £40 million and won the 2026 World Cup with Spain.
Pedro Puy Fraga
Pedro Puy Fraga is a Spanish Popular Party politician who chairs the Economy Committee of the Congress of Deputies and teaches law at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Pedro Ramírez (baseball)
Pedro Javier Ramírez (born 2004, Temblador, Venezuela) is a Chicago Cubs switch-hitting infielder; signed as a non-drafted free agent in 2021, 2025 MiLB Gold Glove at third base, MLB debut May 23, 2026.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho
Pedro Rodrigues Filho (Pedrinho Matador, "Little Pedro the Killer"), Brazilian serial killer born 1954, convicted of 71 murders and claiming over 100 victims, mostly criminals; served decades under Brazil's 30-year sentence cap, released 2018, killed 5 March 2023 in Mogi das Cruzes.
Pedro Rollán Ojeda
Pedro Rollán Ojeda is a Spanish politician of the Partido Popular who serves as President of the Senate of Spain and previously served as mayor of Torrejón.