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Peter and Paul Fortress
Peter and Paul Fortress (Петропавловская крепость), Peter the Great's 1703 citadel on Zayachy Island in Saint Petersburg; six-bastion star fort, site of the Romanov burial cathedral and the Trubetskoy Bastion political prison, now a history museum.
Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf (Петя и волк), Prokofiev's 1936 symphonic fairy tale Op. 67, commissioned by Natalia Sats for the Moscow Children's Theatre, assigns each story character a distinct orchestral instrument to teach children the orchestra.
Peter and Wendy
Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's 1911 novelization of his 1904 play Peter Pan, published by Hodder & Stoughton and Scribner's, illustrated by F. D. Bedford, with the new final chapter When Wendy Grew Up.
Peter Andre
Peter Andre (Peter James Andrea, born 1973, Harrow, London) is a British-Australian Greek-Cypriot pop singer and TV personality known for Mysterious Girl, Flava, and I Feel You, his 1998 breakdown, and his 2004 I'm a Celebrity comeback with Katie Price.
Peter Angel
Peter Angel is a German cell biologist known for identifying the TPA-response element and the AP-1 transcription factor, and head of a DKFZ division in Heidelberg since 1995.
Peter Angerer
Peter Angerer (born 1959, Hammer, Bavaria), West German biathlete; 1984 Olympic 20 km champion, five Olympic medals, 1983 overall World Cup winner, 11 World Cup wins; 1986 doping disqualification.
Peter Antonie
Peter Antonie (born 1958, Melbourne) is an Australian rower, 1992 Olympic double sculls gold medallist with Stephen Hawkins, 1986 world and Commonwealth lightweight single scull champion, and 2003 Thomas Keller Medallist.
Peter Appel (actor)
Peter Appel (born 1959, New York City) is an American character actor with over 50 credits from 1989 to 2019, known for Léon: The Professional, The Jerky Boys, Luck, Oz, and Bad Education, and distinct from the GEUS geologist and ballet director of the same name.
Peter Arner
Peter Arner, born 1944 in Sweden, is a physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet known for showing that adult fat-cell number is fixed, with about 10% renewed yearly.
Peter Arvan
Peter Arvan is a physician-scientist, chief of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes at the University of Michigan since 2003, known for research on proinsulin misfolding in diabetes.
Peter Asher
Peter Asher (born 1944, London) is a British musician, producer, and manager: half of Peter & Gordon, head of A&R at Apple Records, and producer/manager for James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.
Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins, also known as Peter William Atkins, is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford, best known for the standard textbook Atkins' Physical Chemistry and popular science books.
Peter Attia
Peter Attia, Canadian-born American physician, founder of Early Medical, host of The Peter Attia Drive podcast, and author of Outlive (2023); known for Medicine 3.0 longevity framework, the four horsemen diseases, and his 2026 resignation from CBS News over Epstein emails.
Peter Avsenew
Peter Avsenew, Florida man twice convicted and sentenced to death for the 2010 murders of Stephen Adams and Kevin Powell in Wilton Manors; 2022 reversal over his mother's remote testimony, retrial, and pending appeal SC2024-0048.
Peter B. Becker
Peter B. Becker (Peter Becker) is a molecular biologist who studies chromatin dynamics and dosage compensation, and was Professor of Molecular Biology at LMU Munich from 1999 to 2026.
Peter B. deMenocal
Peter B. deMenocal is an American marine geologist and paleoclimatologist known for linking African climate change to human evolution, and president of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since 2020.
Peter B. Dervan
Peter B. Dervan, born 1945 in Boston, is an American chemical biologist and Caltech professor known for pyrrole–imidazole polyamides that read DNA sequences, winning the 2022 Priestley Medal.
Peter B. Kelemen
Peter B. Kelemen is an American petrologist and Arthur D. Storke Professor at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Peter B. Kronheimer
Peter B. Kronheimer is a mathematician at Harvard working on gauge theory and low-dimensional topology, known for proving Property P and the Milnor conjecture on torus knots.
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich, born in New York in 1953, is an American ecologist known for the worldwide leaf economics spectrum and long-term experiments on biodiversity and rising CO2.
Peter B. Teets
Peter B. Teets (1942–2020) was an American aerospace executive who led Lockheed Martin and served as Under Secretary of the Air Force and NRO director.
Peter Baczako
Peter Baczako (Péter Baczakó, 1951–2008) was a Hungarian weightlifter who won the 90 kg gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and bronze at Montreal in 1976.
Peter Ball (bishop)
Peter Ball was a Church of England bishop, Bishop of Lewes and then Gloucester, who was imprisoned in 2015 for sexually abusing young men in his care.
Peter Barlow (Coronation Street)
Peter Barlow (Peter Francis Barlow), fictional Coronation Street character born on screen 1965, twin son of Ken and Valerie Barlow; played by seven actors, most notably Chris Gascoyne 2000-2023; known for bigamy, alcoholism, and Stephen Reid storylines.
Peter Barrett (venture capitalist)
Peter Barrett is an American life-science venture capitalist and analytical chemist, a partner at Atlas Venture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 2002 who co-founded Celera Genomics.
Peter Barton Hutt
Peter Barton Hutt (1934–2026) was an American lawyer who practiced food and drug law at Covington & Burling for six decades, served as FDA Chief Counsel from 1971 to 1975, and created the nutrition label.
Peter Bärtsch
Peter Bärtsch is a German physician who led sports medicine at Heidelberg from 1991 to 2013 and showed in 1991 that nifedipine prevents high-altitude pulmonary edema.
Peter Bäuerle
Peter Bäuerle (born 1956) is a German organic chemist and professor emeritus at Ulm University, known for oligothiophene chemistry and organic solar cells, and a co-founder of Heliatek GmbH.
Peter Baum
Peter Baum is a professor of experimental physics at the University of Konstanz who pioneered attosecond electron microscopy, earning ERC grants and the 2022 Falling Walls prize.
Peter Baumann
Peter Baumann, born 1969, is a German molecular biologist known for discovering the telomere end-binding protein Pot1; since 2018 he has led research at IMB Mainz and holds a professorship there.