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Peter Fratzl

Peter Fratzl, born 1958 in Vienna, is an Austrian materials scientist directing biomaterials research at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.

Oct 21, 2026

Peter Frenkel (born 1939, Eckartsberga) is a German race walker and photographer who won 20 km walk gold for East Germany at Munich 1972 and bronze at Montreal 1976, setting 20 km track walk world records in 1970 and 1972.

Peter Freuchen

Peter Freuchen (Lorentz Peter Elfred Freuchen, 1886-1957), Danish polar explorer, Thule trading-post manager and writer; co-founded Thule with Knud Rasmussen in 1910, joined the 1st and 5th Thule expeditions, lost a foot to frostbite in 1924, wrote novels and memoirs about Inuit life, made the Oscar-winning film Eskimo, and won The $64,000 Question in 1956.

Oct 10, 2026

Peter Freyer

Sir Peter Johnston Freyer (1851–1921) was an Irish surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who, after retiring to London, performed and publicised the suprapubic prostatectomy from 1900.

Peter Friedl

Peter Friedl is a cell biologist who holds the chair for Microscopical Imaging of the Cell at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for discovering collective cancer cell invasion.

Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman (born 1949, New York City) is an American stage and screen actor, Tony-nominated as Tateh in Ragtime, an Obie winner for Circle Mirror Transformation, and Frank Vernon in all four seasons of HBO's Succession.

Peter Furler

Peter Furler (born 1966) is an Australian Christian rock singer, songwriter, and producer, co-founder and 1997-2009 frontman of Newsboys, Inpop Records co-founder, and solo artist behind On Fire (2011) and Sun and Shield (2014), with over 7 million albums sold.

Peter G. Bolhuis

Peter G. Bolhuis, also published as Peter Bolhuis, is a Dutch computational physical chemist at the University of Amsterdam known for pioneering transition path sampling.

Peter G. Brewer

Peter G. Brewer, also known as Peter Brewer, is a British-born chemical oceanographer at MBARI known for work on the ocean carbon cycle and ocean acidification.

Peter G. Bruce

Peter G. Bruce is a British materials chemist, Wolfson Professor at Oxford, founder of the Faraday Institution, and pioneer of the rechargeable lithium-air battery, knighted in 2022.

Peter G. Davis

Peter G. Davis is an Australian neonatologist and researcher at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne who has led more than 20 trials of newborn respiratory support.

Peter G. Gillespie

Peter G. Gillespie, who publishes as Peter G. Barr-Gillespie, is an American sensory neuroscientist at OHSU's Vollum Institute known for work on inner-ear hair-cell mechanotransduction.

Peter G. Pappas

Peter G. Pappas is an infectious-diseases physician and medical mycology researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for leading the IDSA candidiasis guidelines and the Mycoses Study Group.

Sep 19, 2026

Peter G. Peterson

Peter G. Peterson was an American financier who co-founded The Blackstone Group in 1985 after leading Lehman Brothers and serving as Nixon's Secretary of Commerce, then spent his fortune on deficit-reduction advocacy.

Oct 10, 2026

Peter G. Roll

Peter G. Roll (1933–2020) was an American physicist at Princeton University who co-built the radiometer confirming the cosmic microwave background and co-authored its 1965 interpretation.

Peter G. Schultz

Peter G. Schultz (born 1956) is an American chemist known for discovering catalytic antibodies and expanding the genetic code, and has led Scripps Research since 2015.

Sep 27, 2026

Peter G. Sheridan

Peter G. Sheridan (born 1950) is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey from 2006 to 2018.

Peter G. Wilhelm

Peter G. Wilhelm (1935–2025) was an American space systems engineer who spent 55 years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, working on roughly 100 satellites including GRAB.

Peter G. Wolynes

Peter G. Wolynes, born 1953, is an American theoretical chemist at Rice University known for the first analytical theory of protein folding and the random first-order transition theory of glasses.

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel (born 1950), English singer-songwriter, original lead singer of Genesis, then solo artist behind So and Sledgehammer; founder of WOMAD, Real World, and human rights organization WITNESS; Polar Music Prize 2009 laureate.

Peter Gabriel (1977 album)

Peter Gabriel (nicknamed Car) is Peter Gabriel's debut solo album, released 25 February 1977 after he left Genesis, produced by Bob Ezrin in Toronto and London, featuring Solsbury Hill, reaching UK number 7.

Peter Gabriel (1978 album)

Peter Gabriel (1978), nicknamed Scratch, is Peter Gabriel's second solo album, produced by Robert Fripp, recorded in the Netherlands and New York, released June 1978 on Charisma.

Peter Gabriel (1980 album)

Peter Gabriel (1980), aka Melt or Peter Gabriel III, is Peter Gabriel's third self-titled solo album, produced by Steve Lillywhite; it introduced the gated reverb drum sound on "Intruder", featured Kate Bush on the UK No. 4 single "Games Without Frontiers", and closed with the political song "Biko".

Peter Gabriel (1982 album)

Peter Gabriel (1982 album), also called Security or Peter Gabriel 4, is Gabriel's fourth self-titled solo album, released 10 September 1982, co-produced with David Lord, his first fully digital recording, featuring the Fairlight CMI and the US top 40 hit Shock the Monkey.