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Peter Dirks
Peter B. Dirks is a Canadian neurosurgeon and cancer stem-cell biologist at SickKids in Toronto, best known for identifying cancer stem cells in human brain tumors in 2003 and 2004.
Peter Doig
Peter Doig is a British painter born in Edinburgh in 1959, known for atmospheric, memory-laden landscape paintings influenced by his peripatetic life in Trinidad, Canada, and London.
Peter Dolfen
Peter James Dolfen (1880-1947), American pistol shooter from Springfield, Massachusetts; won gold in team free pistol and silver in individual 50m free pistol at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
Peter Donat
Peter Donat (Pierre Collingwood Donat), 1928-2018, Canadian-American stage and screen actor, nephew of Robert Donat, ACT core member and Stratford player, known as William Mulder on The X-Files and for The Godfather Part II.
Peter Donlon
Peter Dwight Donlon (1906-1979), American rower; stroked the Cal Berkeley eight to 1928 Amsterdam Olympic gold in 6:03.2, later assisted coach Ky Ebright's 1932 gold crew; medal donated to UC Berkeley in 2024.
Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly, also known as Sir Peter Donnelly, is an Australian statistician and statistical geneticist at Oxford known for genetic analysis tools and human genetics research.
Peter Doocy
Peter Doocy is Fox News' senior White House correspondent and a rotating anchor of The Sunday Briefing. Son of Steve Doocy, he joined Fox in 2009, covered Biden and Trump White Houses, and is known for viral briefing-room exchanges.
Peter Doolittle
Peter Doolittle is an American educational psychologist and professor at Virginia Tech whose research examines working memory in multimedia learning; his 2013 TED Talk has over 3 million views.
Peter Douglas
Peter Vincent Douglas (born 1955) is an American film producer, son of Kirk Douglas and Anne Douglas; producer of The Final Countdown, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and the hit comedy Fletch, and a 1988 Primetime Emmy winner. Distinct from actors and other namesakes.
Peter Doyle (mathematician)
Peter Grant Doyle is a mathematician, Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, best known as coauthor of Random Walks and Electric Networks and for work on circle packing.
Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) was an Austrian-born American writer, professor, and management consultant who pioneered management as a discipline, coining "knowledge worker," "management by objectives," and "profit center."
Peter Drury
Peter Drury (born 1967), English football commentator; lead Premier League voice for NBC Sports since 2022 and Sky Sports since 2023/24, formerly BBC Radio, ITV, and BT Sport, known for poetic commentary and 2014 and 2018 World Cup final calls.
Peter Duesberg
Peter Duesberg, born Peter Heinz Hermann Duesberg, was a German-born molecular biologist at UC Berkeley who identified the first viral cancer gene in 1970 and later disputed that HIV causes AIDS.
Peter Duncan (actor)
Peter Duncan (born 1954, London), English actor and presenter, Blue Peter presenter 1980-86, Duncan Dares star, UK Chief Scout from 2004, Olivier-nominated for The Card; distinct from the Australian writer of Rake.
Peter Durant
Peter Durant is an American Republican politician, a Massachusetts state senator for the Worcester and Hampshire district elected in 2023 after 12 years in the House.
Peter Dutton
Peter Dutton (born 1970), Australian Liberal politician, MP for Dickson 2001-2025, minister for immigration, home affairs, health, and defence, and Leader of the Opposition 2022-2025; lost the 2025 election and his own seat, the first opposition leader to do so.
Peter E. Lipsky
Peter E. Lipsky is an American immunologist and rheumatologist known for the anti-TNF trials that established infliximab plus methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis, and for B-cell research in lupus.
Peter E. Newburger
Peter E. Newburger is an American pediatric hematologist-immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for research on chronic granulomatous disease and severe chronic neutropenia.
Peter E. Nielsen
Peter E. Nielsen (Peter Eigil Nielsen), born 1951, is a professor at the University of Copenhagen who invented the DNA mimic peptide nucleic acid (PNA) in 1991.
Peter Ebdon
Peter Ebdon, English snooker player (born 1970), 2002 World Champion who beat Stephen Hendry 18-17; nine ranking titles, career-high world No. 3, retired 2020, later a coach.
Peter Egan
Peter Egan is an English actor who won the 1974 BAFTA for Most Promising Newcomer for The Hireling and played the Duke of Sutherland in Chariots of Fire.
Peter Ekblom
Peter Ekblom is a developmental biologist known for research on laminin and epithelial tissue formation during kidney organogenesis, carried out at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen.
Peter Elsbach
Peter Elsbach is a physician-scientist at New York University School of Medicine whose research, from 1959 into the 2000s, centered on how phagocytic white blood cells kill bacteria, especially the bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein.
Peter Elzinga
Peter Elzinga (born 1981) is a Dutch compound archer, ranked world number one in 2004, who set four world records and won European titles individually and with Dutch teams.
Peter England
Peter England is a menswear brand founded in the late 19th century in Londonderry, Ireland, to supply British military shirts, and known today as one of India's largest menswear brands.
Péter Erdő
Péter Erdő, born in Budapest in 1952, is a Hungarian cardinal and canon lawyer who has served as Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest since 2002 and led the Council of European Bishops' Conferences from 2006 to 2016.
Peter Erskine
Peter Erskine, born 1954 in Somers Point, New Jersey, is an American jazz drummer, Kenton and Weather Report alumnus (five albums, Grammy for 8:30), Steps Ahead and ECM recording artist, two-time Grammy winner, USC professor, and Fuzzy Music label owner.
Péter Esterházy
Péter Esterházy (Esterházy Péter, 1950–2016) was a Hungarian writer and essayist, winner of the Kossuth Prize, whose family novel Harmonia caelestis (2000) brought postmodern technique into Hungarian literature.
Peter Etebo
Oghenekaro Peter Etebo, Nigerian defensive midfielder born 1995 in Warri; 45 Nigeria caps, 4 Olympic goals vs Japan 2016; Stoke City £6.35m signing, now Gençlerbirliği captain recovering from an Achilles rupture.
Peter Evans
Peter Evans, full name Peter Maxwell Evans, is an Australian former breaststroke swimmer from Perth who won four Olympic medals across the 1980 Moscow and 1984 Los Angeles Games.