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Peter C. Dedon
Peter C. Dedon is an American biological engineer and toxicologist who joined the MIT faculty in 1991 and studies tRNA and DNA modifications, leading antimicrobial resistance research in Singapore.
Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty, born 1940 in Brisbane, is an Australian veterinary-trained immunologist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for discovering MHC restriction, how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.
Peter C. Economus
Peter C. Economus, born 1943 in Youngstown, Ohio, is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, appointed by President Clinton in 1995.
Peter C. Farrell
Peter C. Farrell is an Australian-born chemical engineer who founded ResMed in 1989 and led the San Diego sleep apnea device maker as chief executive and chairman.
Peter C. Fineran
Peter C. Fineran is a New Zealand molecular microbiologist and professor at the University of Otago who studies how bacteria use CRISPR-Cas immunity to resist phages.
Peter C. Fishburn
Peter C. Fishburn (1936–2021) was an American mathematician who worked at Bell Labs on utility theory, voting and social choice, and combinatorics, winning the 1996 John von Neumann Theory Prize.
Peter C. Harris
Peter C. Harris is a nephrology geneticist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his part in identifying the PKD1 gene, the most common cause of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
Peter C. L. Beverley
Peter C. L. Beverley, born in 1943, is a British immunologist known for work on lymphocyte subsets, immunological memory, and the antibodies UCHT1 and UCHL1.
Peter C. Nowell̀
Peter C. Nowell (1928–2016) was an American physician-scientist and cancer cytogeneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who co-discovered the Philadelphia chromosome and won the 1998 Lasker Award.
Peter C. Scacheri
Peter C. Scacheri, also published as Peter Scacheri, is a molecular biologist and professor of genetics and genome sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Peter C. Schultz
Peter C. Schultz is an American glass chemist and materials scientist who co-invented the first low-loss optical fiber at Corning in 1970, the physical basis of global telecommunications, and holds 26 U.S. patents.
Peter C. Searson
Peter C. Searson is an American materials scientist and engineer, the Reynolds Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for tissue-engineered models of the blood-brain barrier.
Peter C. van der Vliet
Peter C. van der Vliet (born 1942) is a Dutch biochemist known for adenovirus DNA replication research, holding the physiological chemistry chair at Utrecht University from 1984 to 2007.
Peter C.M. van Zijl
Peter C.M. van Zijl is an MRI physicist and chemist at Johns Hopkins University, known for pioneering amide proton transfer (APT) imaging and CEST MRI, and founding director of the F.M. Kirby Research Center.
Peter Cambor
Peter Cambor (born 1978, Houston, Texas) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for Nate Getz on NCIS: Los Angeles, Barry on Grace and Frankie, Milo on Roadies, and the Emmy-nominated documentary As We Speak.
Peter Cameron (mathematician)
Peter Jephson Cameron is an Australian-born British mathematician at Oxford, Queen Mary, and St Andrews known for permutation groups, combinatorics, coining "oligomorphic", and an Erdős number of 1.
Peter Cancro
Peter Cancro is an American restaurant executive who bought a Point Pleasant, New Jersey sub shop in 1975, at age 17, and built it into Jersey Mike's Subs.
Peter Canisius
Peter Canisius (Pieter Kanis, 1521–1597) was a Dutch-born Jesuit priest and theologian in the Holy Roman Empire who founded colleges, wrote the most famous catechism of the Counter-Reformation, and was canonized in 1925.
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt is a Charlton Comics superhero created by Pete Morisi in 1966, whose scroll-based mental discipline powers inspired Watchmen's Ozymandias; later published by DC and Dynamite, including Gillen's 2019 series.
Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi (born 1958) is a Scottish actor from Glasgow, Oscar winner for Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, BAFTA-winning Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, and the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who (2014–2017), also a musician with the Dreamboys and solo albums.
Peter Caravan
Peter Caravan is a chemist and molecular imaging scientist who co-directs the Institute for Innovation in Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches radiology at Harvard Medical School.
Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey (born 1943, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria) is an Australian novelist, two-time Booker Prize winner for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang, three-time Miles Franklin winner, New York resident since 1990.
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919–2018), British Conservative statesman: Foreign Secretary 1979–82 who chaired the Lancaster House Agreement creating Zimbabwe and resigned over the Falklands, later NATO Secretary General 1984–88.
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920), Russian jeweler of Huguenot descent, headed the House of Fabergé in Saint Petersburg, created the fifty Imperial Easter Eggs for the Romanovs, held court jeweler titles from Russia, Britain, Sweden-Norway, and Siam, and fled revolutionary Russia in 1918.
Peter Carl Goldmark
Peter Carl Goldmark (1906–1977) was a Hungarian-born American engineer who led CBS Laboratories, invented the 33⅓ rpm LP record introduced in 1948, and developed the first commercial color-television system.
Peter Carlsson
Peter Carlsson (born 1970) is a Swedish entrepreneur, nicknamed "the Tesla Swede", who co-founded the battery manufacturer Northvolt in 2016 and led it as chief executive until November 2024.
Peter Carmeliet
Peter Carmeliet is a Belgian physician-scientist known for angiogenesis research and endothelial cell metabolism, leading a laboratory at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology.
Peter Cetera
Peter Cetera (Peter Paul Cetera), born 1944 in Chicago, is a singer, bassist, and songwriter, former frontman of the band Chicago and solo adult contemporary artist known for "Glory of Love" and "If You Leave Me Now."
Peter Charles
Peter Charles (born 1960, Bootle, England), British showjumper; rode for Ireland at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996, then for Great Britain; won London 2012 Olympic team jumping gold on Murka's Vindicat, Britain's first in 60 years; father of Harry Charles.
Peter Chen
Peter Chen, born 1960, is an American physical organic chemist who spent 1994 to 2025 as a professor at ETH Zurich, known for growing diamond from methyl radicals in 1994.