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Peter Ganz
Peter Ganz is a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF who directs vascular research at San Francisco General and pioneered endothelial biology and proteomics.
Peter Garred
Peter Garred is a Danish clinical immunologist and professor at Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen, known for research on mannose-binding lectin and ficolins in innate immunity.
Peter Garrett
Peter Garrett AM (born 1953, Wahroonga, Sydney) is an Australian singer, activist, and former Labor minister: Midnight Oil frontman of Beds Are Burning fame, two-term Australian Conservation Foundation president, and federal Environment then Education Minister 2007-2013.
Peter Gassner
Peter Gassner is a software executive, the founder and chief executive officer of Veeva Systems, a cloud software company serving the global life sciences industry, founded in 2007.
Peter Gavin Hall
Peter Gavin Hall (1951–2016) was an Australian statistician and probabilist, Professor of Statistics at the University of Melbourne, known for his work on the bootstrap and functional data analysis.
Peter Gay
Peter Gay (Peter Joachim Frohlich, 1923–2015), German-born American historian at Columbia and Yale, author of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, The Bourgeois Experience, and Freud: A Life for Our Time; National Book Award 1967.
Peter Geach
Peter Thomas Geach (1916–2013) was a British philosopher and professor of logic at the University of Leeds, known for the Frege Point, relative identity, and reviving Frege in Britain.
Peter George Ingle Stovin
Peter George Ingle Stovin was a British pathologist, born in Jinan, China, who co-described Hughes–Stovin syndrome in 1959 and worked on cardiac transplant pathology at Royal Papworth Hospital.
Peter George Niger
Peter George Niger, also known as Petrus Nigri, was a Bohemian Dominican theologian and anti-Jewish polemicist whose 1475 Esslingen incunable contained the first printed Hebrew characters in Germany.
Peter Gilmore
Peter Gilmore (John Peter Gilmore, 1931–2013), British actor born in Leipzig, played Captain James Onedin in 91 episodes of the BBC's The Onedin Line (1971–1980), appeared in 11 Carry On films and Doctor Who's Frontios, and married Anne Stallybrass.
Peter Glanz (filmmaker)
Peter Glanz (born 1983) is a British American writer, director, and producer known for The Longest Week (2014) and for co-writing Marvel's Captain America: Brave New World (2025).
Peter Goadsby
Peter J. Goadsby is an Australian-born neurologist and headache researcher at King's College London whose CGRP work led to new migraine drugs; he shared the 2021 Brain Prize.
Peter Goddard (mathematical physicist)
Peter Goddard (born 1945) is a British mathematical physicist who proved the string theory no-ghost theorem and directed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 2004 to 2012.
Peter Godfrey‐Faussett
Peter Godfrey-Faussett is an infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for tuberculosis and HIV research in Zambia and South Africa.
Peter Goldman
Peter Goldman (1929–2017) was an American clinical pharmacologist and Harvard's Maxwell Finland Professor who pioneered the study of how gut bacteria metabolize drugs, notably sulfasalazine.
Peter Goldreich
Peter Goldreich, born 1939 in New York City, is an American theoretical astrophysicist and planetary scientist, emeritus at Caltech, known for work on planetary rings and pulsars.
Peter Gotti
Peter Gotti (1939–2021), brother of John Gotti, was acting boss of the Gambino crime family 1999–2002; convicted of racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and plotting to kill Sammy Gravano, he died in federal prison at Butner.
Peter Graf
Peter Graf (1938-2013), German insurance and used-car salesman, father, coach and manager of tennis champion Steffi Graf; convicted 1997 in Mannheim of evading about $7.4 million in taxes on her earnings, imprisoned, released April 1998, died of pancreatic cancer.
Peter Grant (evolutionary biologist)
Peter Grant, born 1936, is a British evolutionary biologist at Princeton known for studying Darwin's finches in the Galápagos with his wife Rosemary since 1973.
Peter Grant (music manager)
Peter Grant (1935–1995), English rock manager of Led Zeppelin 1968–1980, ex-wrestler (Count Bruno) and actor; won $210,000 Atlantic advance, 90% gate splits, founded Superhype and Swan Song Records.
Peter Graves
Peter Graves (Peter Duesler Aurness, 1926-2010), American actor, brother of James Arness; played Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible (1967-73 and 1988-90 revival), Captain Oveur in Airplane!, and hosted A&E's Biography, winning a 1997 Emmy.
Peter Gray (fintech executive)
Peter Gray is an Australian fintech executive who co-founded the buy now, pay later company Zip Co (formerly ZipMoney) with Larry Diamond in 2013, later serving as its global chief operating officer and ANZ chief executive.
Peter Green (musician)
Peter Green, born Peter Allen Greenbaum (1946 to 2020), was an English blues-rock guitarist who founded Fleetwood Mac and wrote Albatross, Black Magic Woman, and Oh Well.
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, born 1942 in Newport, Wales, is a British painter-turned-film director known for The Draughtsman's Contract, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, and image-based, structured arthouse cinema.
Peter Greene
Peter Greene (born Peter Green, 1965-2025) was an American character actor from Montclair, New Jersey, known for villains Zed in Pulp Fiction and Dorian Tyrell in The Mask, and for Clean, Shaven; died in Manhattan.
Peter Grieß
Peter Grieß, also known as Johann Peter Grieß, was a German-born British industrial chemist who discovered diazonium salts in 1858, the basis of the azo dye industry.
Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin (Justin Peter Griffin) is the bumbling Irish-American patriarch of Family Guy, voiced by creator Seth MacFarlane since 1999; husband of Lois, father of Meg, Chris, and Stewie in Quahog, Rhode Island, and frequent subject of Homer Simpson comparisons.
Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time
Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time (ピーター・グリルと賢者の時間) is Daisuke Hiyama's fantasy harem ecchi comedy manga, serialized in Futabasha's Monthly Action 2017–2024 in 15 volumes, with a two-season Wolfsbane anime (2020, 2022) licensed by Sentai and Seven Seas.
Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes is Benjamin Britten's three-act opera (1945) with a libretto by Montagu Slater after George Crabbe's poem The Borough, about a fisherman suspected of killing his apprentices; premiered at Sadler's Wells with Peter Pears, famous for its Four Sea Interludes.
Peter Grogg
Peter Grogg (1942–2025) was a Swiss entrepreneur who founded the peptide manufacturer Bachem in 1971 and led it as chief executive for over 30 years.