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Peter F. Barnes
Peter F. Barnes is an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases known for tuberculosis research, including documenting the HIV-driven resurgence of tuberculosis and showing it spread mainly at Los Angeles homeless shelters.
Peter F. Cohn
Peter F. Cohn is a cardiologist and professor at Stony Brook University whose work on silent myocardial ischemia and noninvasive testing shaped post-infarction risk stratification.
Peter F. Hamilton bibliography
Peter F. Hamilton bibliography: complete book list of the British SF author (born 1960), covering Greg Mandel, Night's Dawn, the Commonwealth Saga, Void Trilogy, Salvation Sequence, Arkship Trilogy, and the Exodus duology.
Peter F. Leadlay
Peter F. Leadlay (P F Leadlay) is a British biochemist at Cambridge known for his work on polyketide synthases, the enzyme assembly lines that build antibiotics.
Peter F. Moulton
Peter F. Moulton is an American laser physicist and engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory who invented the Ti:sapphire tunable solid-state laser in 1982 and belongs to the National Academy of Engineering.
Peter Faber
Peter Faber, also known as Pierre Favre, was a Jesuit priest and theologian, the first companion of Ignatius of Loyola and the first Jesuit to enter Germany.
Peter Facinelli
Peter Facinelli (born 1973) is an American actor, director, and producer from Queens, New York, known for Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight saga, Dr. Fitch Cooper on Nurse Jackie, and films like Can't Hardly Wait.
Peter Fajfar
Peter Fajfar, born 1943 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian earthquake engineer known for the N2 method, a seismic analysis procedure adopted in Eurocode 8 in 2002.
Peter Falk
Peter Falk (1927–2011), American actor, played Lieutenant Columbo in Prescription: Murder (1968), the NBC series (1971–77), and ABC movies (1989–2003), 69 episodes; five Emmys, two Oscar nominations.
Peter Farkas
Péter Farkas (Farkas Péter), Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1968 in Budapest; Olympic middleweight (82 kg) champion at Barcelona 1992, world champion 1990-91, later imprisoned for a marijuana farm and recaptured in Andorra.
Peter Farley
Peter Farley (1940–2010) was an American physician and businessman who co-founded Cetus Corporation in Berkeley in 1971, five years before Genentech, and served as its president.
Peter Farquhar
Peter Farquhar (1946-2015), Scottish-born English teacher and University of Buckingham lecturer, murdered in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, by Benjamin Field; Field's 2019 murder conviction was quashed in 2026.
Peter Farrelly
Peter Farrelly (born 1956), American director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist; with brother Bobby made Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, then won the Best Picture Oscar for Green Book (2018); recent films include Ricky Stanicky, Balls Up, and I Play Rocky.
Peter Fenton (venture capitalist)
Peter Fenton is an American venture capitalist, a general partner at Benchmark since 2006, best known for backing Twitter, Yelp, and Elastic and for later AI investments like Sierra.
Peter Fick
Peter Fick (Peter Joseph Fick, 1913-1980), American sprint freestyle swimmer for Yale and NYAC; set three 100 m freestyle world records (56.8, 56.6, 56.4) breaking Weissmuller's mark, placed sixth at the disputed 1936 Berlin Olympic final, and anchored the first sub-four-minute 4x100 m relay.
Peter Finch
Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch, 1916-1977), English-born Australian actor and radio performer; first Australian to win an acting Oscar, posthumously for Network (1976); four-time BAFTA-winning British film star.
Peter Firth
Peter Firth (born 1953, Bradford) is an English actor, Oscar-nominated for Equus (1977) and Golden Globe winner, best known as Harry Pearce in BBC's Spooks (2002-2011); not related to Colin Firth.
Peter Fitzroy Green
Peter Fitzroy Green is an American polymer physicist and materials scientist at the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons, also Peter John FitzSimons, Australian author, journalist, and former Wallabies lock; wrote Kokoda, Batavia, Gallipoli, Nancy Wake; chaired the Australian Republican Movement 2015-2022.
Peter Fleming (writer)
Peter Fleming (Robert Peter Fleming, 1907–1971), British travel writer and journalist, elder brother of Ian Fleming; author of Brazilian Adventure, One's Company, and News from Tartary, and wartime head of strategic deception in South East Asia Command.
Peter Fonda
Peter Fonda (1939/1940-2019), American actor, producer, and director, son of Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda; co-wrote, produced, and starred in Easy Rider (1969), earning an Oscar screenplay nomination, and later an Best Actor nomination for Ulee's Gold.
Peter Ford (actor)
Peter Newton Ford (born 1945, Los Angeles), American retired actor, singer, and businessman, son of Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell; known for Cade's County, Wilbur and the Baby Factory, Police Story, and his 2011 biography Glenn Ford: A Life; distinct from the Australian actor and the Australian entertainment reporter of the same name.
Peter Forsberg
Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey center (born 1973, Ornskoldsvik), Hart and Art Ross winner 2003, two Stanley Cups, two Olympic and two World golds, Hockey Hall of Fame 2014.
Peter Fourier
Peter Fourier (Pierre Fourier, 1565–1640) was a French canon regular who rebuilt the parish of Mattaincourt in Lorraine and, with Alix Le Clerc, founded the Canonesses of Notre Dame.
Peter Fox
Peter Fox is the stage name of Pierre Baigorry, a German reggae and hip-hop musician from Berlin and a member of the band Seeed, co-founded in 1998.
Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton (born 1950, Beckenham, England), English rock guitarist of the Herd and Humble Pie, whose 1976 live album Frampton Comes Alive! sold over 10 million copies and popularized the talk box; 2007 Grammy winner and 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Peter Francisco
Peter Francisco (Pedro Francisco, 1760-1831), the "Virginia Giant," a Portuguese-born orphan raised in Virginia who became a celebrated Revolutionary War soldier; his documented service is real, but famous feats like the Camden cannon are largely legend.
Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan, Oxford Professor of Global History and Byzantinist, author of The Silk Roads (2015), The New Silk Roads (2018) and The Earth Transformed (2023), Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.
Peter Franzén
Peter Vilhelm Franzén, born 1971 in Keminmaa, Finland, is a Finnish actor, director, and author; three-time Jussi Award winner best known as King Harald Finehair in Vikings, distinct from other people named Peter Franzen.
Peter Fraser
Peter Fraser is a molecular biologist who studies how 3D chromatin folding controls gene expression, having led the Nuclear Dynamics program at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge.