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Peter Borchmann
Peter Borchmann is a German hematologist and oncologist at University Hospital Cologne, chairman of the German Hodgkin Study Group since 2022 and a Hodgkin lymphoma trial researcher.
Peter Borwein
Peter Borwein (1953–2020) was a Canadian mathematician and professor at Simon Fraser University who, often with his brother Jonathan, developed fast algorithms for computing pi.
Peter Bosler
Peter Bosler is an American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories who works on Lagrangian numerical methods for climate modeling and won a 2025 PECASE award.
Peter Bosz
Peter Bosz (born 1963, Apeldoorn) is a Dutch football manager, PSV Eindhoven head coach since 2023 and three-time Eredivisie champion (2024-2026); formerly Ajax, Borussia Dortmund, and Bayer Leverkusen coach, Europa League finalist 2017.
Peter Bowles
Peter Bowles (1936-2022), English actor, Richard DeVere in To the Manor Born with Penelope Keith; also The Irish RM, Lytton's Diary, Rumpole; RADA and Old Vic trained.
Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle (1935–2006), American character actor from Philadelphia; played the Monster in Young Frankenstein (1974), Wizard in Taxi Driver, and Frank Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005); Emmy winner for The X-Files; former Christian Brothers monk.
Peter Brant
Peter M. Brant, American newsprint magnate, art collector, and publisher; chairman of White Birch Paper; owner of Warhol's Interview magazine (1989–2018 relaunch) and founder of the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Peter Breck
Peter Breck (Joseph Peter Breck, 1929–2012), American actor known as Nick Barkley on The Big Valley, lead of Black Saddle, Doc Holliday on Maverick, and star of Shock Corridor.
Peter Brian Bach
Peter Brian Bach (Peter B. Bach) is an American physician and health policy researcher known for work on cancer drug pricing, Medicare policy, and lung cancer screening.
Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow (born 1947), British-American financial journalist, author of Alien Nation (1995), and founder of VDARE.com, a leading anti-immigration and white nationalist-adjacent website suspended in 2024.
Peter Brock
Peter Geoffrey Brock (1945-2006), 'Peter Perfect' or 'King of the Mountain', Australian touring car driver; record nine Bathurst 1000 wins, nine Sandown wins, three ATCC titles with the Holden Dealer Team; killed in the 2006 Targa West rally.
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook (1925–2022), British theatre and film director; directed RSC landmark King Lear, Marat/Sade, and the trapeze Midsummer Night's Dream, founded CIRT and the Bouffes du Nord in Paris, staged the nine-hour Mahabharata, and wrote The Empty Space.
Peter Brown (actor)
Peter Brown (Pierre Lynn DeLappe, 1935–2016), American actor, Deputy Johnny McKay on Lawman (1958–62) and Texas Ranger Chad Cooper on Laredo (1965–67), later a soap opera regular; distinct from the Canadian actor and the Beatles manager of the same name.
Peter Brown (illustrator)
Peter Brown (born 1979) is an American children's book author and illustrator, creator of The Wild Robot series and the picture books The Curious Garden and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, and Caldecott Honor illustrator of Creepy Carrots!.
Peter Brown (investment manager)
Peter Fitzhugh Brown is an American investment manager who joined Renaissance Technologies in 1993 from IBM, became sole CEO in 2018, and chairs its board.
Peter Buck
Peter Lawrence Buck (born 1956, Berkeley, California), R.E.M. co-founder and guitarist known for jangly Rickenbacker arpeggios; later solo albums, Tuatara, the Minus 5, Filthy Friends, and production work.
Peter Buerhaus
Peter Buerhaus is an American nurse and healthcare economist, a professor at Montana State University who directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies and studies the nursing workforce.
Peter Buffett
Peter Buffett (born 1958, Omaha) is an American Emmy-winning composer, author, and philanthropist, youngest son of Warren Buffett; scored Dances with Wolves' Fire Dance and 500 Nations, wrote Life Is What You Make It, and co-leads the NoVo Foundation, distinct from Jimmy Buffett.
Peter Bühlmann
Peter Bühlmann (born 1965, in Zürich) is a Swiss statistician and full professor at ETH Zurich, known for stability selection, the MissForest imputation algorithm, and causal machine learning.
Peter Burgers
Peter M.J. Burgers is a Dutch-born biochemist and Marvin A. Brennecke Professor at Washington University School of Medicine, known for work on DNA replication, repair, and polymerase zeta.
Peter Burke (Irish politician)
Peter Burke is an Irish politician who serves as Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and has been a member of Dáil Éireann since 2016.
Peter Burling
Peter Burling, born 1991 in Tauranga, New Zealand, is a sailor: three Olympic 49er medals with Blair Tuke, three America's Cups with Emirates Team New Zealand, now helmsman of Luna Rossa for AC38 and co-CEO of SailGP's Black Foils.
Peter Burney
Peter Burney is a British respiratory epidemiologist and emeritus professor at Imperial College London who led the ECRHS, the first standardized international asthma survey, and the BOLD COPD study.
Peter Buser
Peter Buser, born 1946, is a Swiss mathematician at EPFL in Lausanne known for Buser's inequality, isospectral non-isometric surfaces, and his 1992 monograph Geometry and Spectra of Compact Riemann Surfaces.
Peter Butterworth
Peter Butterworth, English comic actor of the Carry On films, also a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm lieutenant, Stalag Luft III POW who helped organize the Great Escape and coded messages to MI9.
Peter C Gøtzsche
Peter C Gøtzsche (P. C. Gotzsche) is a Danish physician and medical researcher who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and was expelled from it in 2018.
Peter C. B. Phillips
Peter C. B. Phillips is a New Zealand-born econometrician and Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale, ranked 8th among economists worldwide and creator of the Phillips–Perron test.
Peter C. Brooks
Peter C. Brooks is an American angiogenesis and cancer biologist who leads a laboratory at MaineHealth Institute for Research in Scarborough, Maine, and teaches at Tufts.
Peter C. Burns
Peter C. Burns (born 1966 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian-American inorganic chemist at Notre Dame known for work on uranyl peroxide minerals and nuclear waste.
Peter C. Butler
Peter C. Butler is an endocrinologist at UCLA who studies pancreatic beta cells in diabetes and led a 2003 finding that type 2 diabetes involves reduced beta cell mass.