All articles starting with P

Peter Chen (Taiwanese-American computer scientist)

Peter Pin-Shan Chen (陈品山) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist who formalized and popularized the entity–relationship model in his 1976 paper, one of the most cited works in computer science.

Peter Cherepanov

Peter Cherepanov is a British-based molecular virologist and structural biologist at Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute who studies how HIV integrates into host DNA.

Peter Chernin (born 1951), American media executive; President and COO of News Corp and Fox Group chairman 1996-2009; greenlit Titanic and Avatar; founded Chernin Entertainment, The Chernin Group, and The North Road Company.

Peter Chrysologus

Peter Chrysologus (Pietro Crisologo, "of golden speech") was bishop of Ravenna in the mid-fifth century, famed for brief sermons and named a Doctor of the Church in 1729.

Peter Chung

Peter Y. Chung is a technology investor who joined Summit Partners in 1994, became its chief executive officer in 2015, and made the Forbes Midas List in 2013 and 2014.

Peter Claffey

Peter Claffey (born 1996, Portumna, Galway) is an Irish actor and former Connacht Rugby and Ireland U20s player who trained at Bow Street Academy and stars as Ser Duncan the Tall in HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026).

Peter Claver

Peter Claver (Pedro Claver) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who spent four decades caring for enslaved Africans at Cartagena, canonized in 1888 as the "Apostle of the Slaves."

Peter Clemenza

Peter Clemenza, aka Fat Clemenza, is the Bronx caporegime of the Corleone family in Puzo's The Godfather, played by Richard S. Castellano; he was written out of Part II after a pay dispute and replaced by Frankie Pentangeli.

Peter Clifford (statistician)

Peter Clifford (1943–2025) was a British statistician at the University of Oxford, co-originator of the Hammersley-Clifford theorem and the Voter model, and a contributor to particle filters and Monte Carlo methods.

Sep 27, 2026

Peter Coe Verbica

Peter Coe Verbica is an American Republican politician and Certified Financial Planner, the 2026 GOP nominee for the U.S. House in California's 19th district against Jimmy Panetta.

Peter Collins (cardiologist)

Peter Collins is a British clinical cardiologist, Professor at Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, known internationally for research on heart disease in women.

Peter Comestor

Peter Comestor (Pierre le Mangeur), ca. 1100 to 1178/9, was a French biblical scholar who became chancellor of Notre Dame's school in Paris and wrote the Historia scholastica.

Peter Constantin

Peter Constantin is an applied mathematician, the John von Neumann Professor at Princeton University, known for work on the Euler and Navier–Stokes equations of fluid mechanics.

Peter Cook

Peter Cook (1937–1995) was an English comedian, satirist and writer who led the British satire boom of the early 1960s as a founder of Beyond the Fringe.

Peter Cooper Hewitt

Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861–1921) was an American electrical engineer and grandson of industrialist Peter Cooper who invented the first commercially successful mercury-vapor lamp and the mercury-arc rectifier.

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Peter Cosgrove (born 1947, Sydney) is a retired Australian Army general, Military Cross recipient from Vietnam, INTERFET commander in East Timor 1999–2000, Chief of the Defence Force 2002–2005, Australian of the Year 2001, and Australia's 26th Governor-General 2014–2019.

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote (Robert Peter Cohon, born 1941) is an American actor, Emmy-winning narrator of Ken Burns documentaries, memoirist, and ordained Zen priest, known for E.T., Jagged Edge, and The Roosevelts.

Peter Craig

Peter Craig (born 1969, Los Angeles) is an American screenwriter, novelist, and producer, son of Sally Field, known for The Town, The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, and Dope Thief.

Peter Cresswell (scientist)

Peter Cresswell is a British-born immunologist at Yale School of Medicine whose laboratory worked out how MHC class I and II peptide complexes are assembled.

Peter Criss

Peter Criss, born Peter George John Criscuola in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945, is an American drummer and singer-songwriter, a founding member of Kiss whose "Beth" reached number 7.

Peter Criss (2025 album)

Peter Criss (2025) is the sixth solo album by Kiss co-founder drummer Peter Criss, released December 19, 2025 on Silvercat/Flatiron; 11 rock tracks with John 5, Billy Sheehan, Paul Shaffer, and Mike McLaughlin, reviving recordings started around 2008.

Sep 27, 2026

Peter Crosby (American politician)

Peter Crosby is an American politician and first-time candidate who is the Democratic nominee for Utah's 2nd Congressional District House seat in the 2026 election.

Peter Crouch

Peter Crouch (born 1981, Macclesfield) is a retired 6 ft 7 in English striker; 42 England caps, 22 goals, 100 Premier League goals with a record 52 headers, later a podcaster.

Peter Cullen

Peter Claver Cullen (1941–2026), Canadian voice actor, original voice of Optimus Prime from the 1984 Transformers series through the Michael Bay films, and Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh; also KARR, Predator vocal effects; 2023 Emmy Lifetime Achievement.

Peter Currie (biologist)

Peter Currie, also published as Peter D. Currie, is an Australian developmental and stem cell biologist who directs research at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University.

Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing (23 May 1913, Kenley, Surrey; died 1994) was an English actor, OBE, who played Baron Frankenstein and Van Helsing for Hammer Studios 1957-1974 opposite Christopher Lee, and Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars.

Peter D. Adams

Peter D. Adams is a cancer biologist who studies the epigenetics of aging and directs the Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

Peter D. Crompton

Peter D. Crompton is a physician-scientist in malaria immunology who is a Senior Investigator and chief of the Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Section at NIAID in Rockville, Maryland.

Peter D. Huntley

Peter D. Huntley is a U.S. Marine Corps major general commanding Marine Forces Special Operations Command as of 2025; former Marine Raider Regiment commander, 2d Marine Special Operations Battalion commander, and Special Operations Command South commander.