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Peter Baynham
Peter Baynham (born 1963, Cardiff) is a Welsh screenwriter and comedian who co-wrote The Day Today, Brass Eye and I'm Alan Partridge, and the Borat films; Oscar-nominated twice, WGA winner 2021.
Peter Beak
Peter Beak was an American organic chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for the endocyclic restriction test and the complex-induced proximity effect in organolithium chemistry.
Peter Beale
Peter Beale is a fictional EastEnders character, son of Ian and Cindy Beale and twin of Lucy, born in 1993 and played by seven actors including Thomas Law, Ben Hardy, and Dayle Hudson.
Peter Beard
Peter Beard (1938-2020) was an American photographer, diarist, and collagist of East African wildlife; author of The End of the Game, founder of Hog Ranch, known for blood-and-ink diary collages.
Peter Beardmore
Peter Beardmore is a materials scientist who trained in England, directed the Ford Research Laboratory until 2000, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.
Peter Beardsley
Peter Beardsley (born 1961, Newcastle) is an English former forward who won two First Division titles and the 1989 FA Cup with Liverpool (175 apps, 59 goals), starred in two Newcastle United spells (119 goals), and earned 59 England caps, scoring nine goals.
Peter Beck
Sir Peter Beck is a New Zealand engineer and entrepreneur who founded Rocket Lab in Auckland in 2006 and has led it as chief executive since 2013.
Peter Beckford
Peter Beckford is the name of two successive Jamaican planters and politicians: a colonel who served as lieutenant-governor in 1702, and his son, speaker of the assembly.
Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens was a German architect, painter, and designer, a pioneer of industrial design and corporate identity through his AEG work from 1907, including the Turbine Factory.
Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley (1940-2006), American author and journalist, wrote the 1974 bestseller Jaws, co-wrote its Spielberg film adaptation, then became a leading shark and ocean conservation advocate with his wife Wendy.
Peter Benton
Peter Benton is a fictional surgeon played by Eriq La Salle on NBC's ER (1994–2002 regular, guest in season 15); a County General general surgeon whose arcs include his deaf son Reese's custody battle and mentoring John Carter.
Peter Berg
Peter Berg (Peter Winkler Berg, born 1964) is an American actor turned director, writer, and producer, known for Chicago Hope, Friday Night Lights, Lone Survivor, American Primeval, and the upcoming Call of Duty film.
Peter Berger
Peter Berger (born 1949, Konstanz) is a West German rower of RV Neptun Konstanz who won coxed fours gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics in 6:31.85 with the Bullenvierer crew, after placing 12th at Mexico City 1968.
Peter Bergmann
Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1915–2002) was a German-American physicist who worked as Albert Einstein's assistant on unified field theory and pioneered quantum gravity research at Syracuse University.
Peter Bergmann case
Peter Bergmann case: unsolved 2009 Sligo, Ireland death of an unidentified man who used the false name Peter Bergmann, gave a fake Vienna address, discarded his belongings, and was found dead on Rosses Point beach; still unidentified.
Peter Bernek
Péter Bernek (Bernek Péter), born 1992 in Budapest, is a retired Hungarian swimmer, 2014 short-course world champion in the 400 m freestyle, two-time European champion, and three-time Olympian (2012, 2016, 2020).
Peter Besmer
Peter Besmer (1940–2024) was a Swiss-born cancer biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering who worked out Kit receptor biology and built the first GIST mouse models.
Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel (1935–2025) was a Swiss writer of German known for very short prose. He made his breakthrough in 1964 and later won the Prize of the Gruppe 47.
Peter Billingsley
Peter Billingsley (born 1971) is an American actor and producer, best known as Ralphie in A Christmas Story (1983) and as executive producer of Iron Man (2008), distinct from the SEC case defendant Robert H. Billingsley.
Peter Biros
Péter Biros (Fácán), Hungarian water polo player born 1976 in Miskolc; won Olympic gold 2000, 2004, 2008, world title 2003, 352 caps; later women's youth coach.
Peter Bischoff
Peter Bischoff, also known as Franz Peter Bischoff, was a German physician and racing sailor who won an Olympic gold medal in the Star class at the 1936 Berlin Games.
Peter Bjorn and John
Peter Bjorn and John, Swedish indie pop trio formed in Stockholm in 1999 (Peter Morén, Björn Yttling, John Eriksson), broke through with the 2006 album Writer's Block and the whistling single Young Folks; nine studio albums through Endless Dream (2020).
Peter Blake (artist)
Sir Peter Blake (born 1932, Dartford, Kent) is a British Pop Art pioneer, painter, collagist, and printmaker, co-creator with Jann Haworth of the Beatles' 1967 Sgt. Pepper album cover; CBE 1983, knighted 2002; distinct from the New Zealand sailor of the same name.
Peter Blange
Peter Blange, born in 1964 in Voorburg, the Netherlands, is a retired Dutch volleyball setter who captained the national team to the 1996 Olympic gold medal and holds the Dutch record of 500 international matches.
Peter Blau
Peter Blau (1918–2002) was an Austrian-born American sociologist, a pioneer of social exchange theory and organizational sociology who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Peter Blunt
Major-General Peter John Blunt (1923–2003) was a British Army officer and businessman who served as Transport Officer-in-Chief and won the George Medal for a 1959 tanker rescue in Germany.
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich (Петар Богдановић), 1939 to 2022, was an American film director, critic, and historian of the New Hollywood movement, best known for The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, and Paper Moon.
Peter Boghossian
Peter Boghossian is an American philosopher, former Portland State University faculty member (2010-2021), author of A Manual for Creating Atheists, developer of Street Epistemology, and co-organizer of the 2017-2018 Grievance Studies hoax papers with James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose.
Peter Bonerz
Peter Bonerz (born 1938), American television director and comic actor, played orthodontist Jerry Robinson on The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78), then directed hundreds of sitcom episodes including Murphy Brown, Friends, ALF, and Home Improvement.
Peter Bonetti
Peter Bonetti (1941-2020), 'the Cat', Chelsea goalkeeper with 729 appearances and 208 clean sheets; won League Cup 1965, FA Cup 1970, Cup Winners' Cup 1971; seven England caps and 1966 World Cup squad member.