All articles starting with P

Peter Haggett

Peter Haggett (1933–2025) was a British human geographer, professor at Bristol from 1966 to 1998, who led the quantitative revolution and later studied epidemic spread.

Peter Hagoort

Peter Hagoort, born in 1954, is a Dutch cognitive neuroscientist known for the Memory-Unification-Control model of language and for directing the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Peter Hall (1930–2017) was an English theater and opera director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company, led the National Theatre from 1973 to 1988, and directed the English-language premiere of Waiting for Godot in 1955.

Peter Hall (town planner)

Sir Peter Hall (1932–2014) was a British town planner and geographer, widely credited as the originator of the enterprise zone and author of around 50 books.

Peter Hamm

Peter Hamm is a German and Swiss physical chemist known for two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy, a laser method reading molecular motion on femtosecond timescales, and a professor at the University of Zurich since 2007.

Peter Handke

Peter Handke (born 1942, Griffen, Carinthia) is an Austrian novelist and playwright, author of Die Hornissen, Publikumsbeschimpfung, Wunschloses Unglück and Die Wiederholung, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature and a controversial figure for his pro-Serbian writings on the Yugoslav wars.

Peter Hänggi

Peter Hänggi, born 1950 in Switzerland, is a theoretical physicist who held the Theoretical Physics chair at the University of Augsburg and won the 2023 Lars Onsager Prize.

Sep 27, 2026

Peter Hanke

Peter Hanke is an Austrian Social Democratic politician, Federal Minister for Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure since 2025, after serving on Vienna's city government for finance from 2018.

Peter Harrowell

Peter Harrowell (Peter R. Harrowell) is an Australian materials chemist and professor at the University of Sydney known for work on crystal growth, glass-forming liquids, and ultrafast metal crystallization.

Peter Hastings (director)

Peter Livingston Hastings (born 1960) is an American animation writer, producer, and director known for Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, and directing The Country Bears (2002) and Dog Man (2025).

Sep 27, 2026

Peter Haubner

Peter Haubner, born in Salzburg in 1960, is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party and Second President of the National Council, elected in 2024.

Peter Hayes (hepatologist)

Peter Hayes, in full Peter Clive Hayes, is a British hepatologist, Professor of Hepatology at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on portal hypertension and acute liver failure.

Peter Hebert

Peter Hebert is an American venture capital investor who co-founded Lux Capital, a firm with $7 billion under management, and led investments in Auris Health, Luxtera, and Matterport.

Peter Hébert

Peter Hébert is an American venture capital investor who co-founded Lux Capital in 2000, where his investments include Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson in 2019 for up to $6 billion.

Peter Hedges

Peter Hedges (born 1962) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director known for What's Eating Gilbert Grape and directing Pieces of April and Ben Is Back.

Peter Hegemann

Peter Hegemann, born 1954 in Münster, is a German biophysicist at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin who discovered channelrhodopsins, the light-gated ion channels behind optogenetics, and shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Peter Hein

Peter Hein is an Indian action choreographer and stunt coordinator in South Indian cinema, and the first winner of the National Film Award for Best Stunt Choreography.

Peter Heller (writer)

Peter Heller (born 1959) is an American novelist and adventure writer, author of The Dog Stars, The River, and Burn, and of four nonfiction adventure books; Dartmouth and Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate living in Denver.

Peter Hermann (actor)

Peter Hermann (born 1967) is an American actor and children's author, husband of Mariska Hargitay; known as Charles Brooks on Younger, Trevor Langan on Law & Order: SVU, and Jack Boyle on Blue Bloods.

Peter Herrlich

Peter Herrlich, born 1940 in Munich, is a German molecular biologist known for work on signal transduction, the UV response, and CD44 splice variants in tumor metastasis.

Peter Hess (biophysicist)

Peter Hess was an ion-channel biophysicist at Yale and Harvard Medical School whose 1984 Nature paper explained how calcium channels select and conduct ions, using single-channel recordings of cardiac cells.

Peter Heylyn

Peter Heylyn (1600–1662) was an English church historian and controversialist, sub-dean of Westminster, called the chief ideologue of the Laudian movement; his works include Ecclesia Restaurata.

Peter Higgs

Peter Ware Higgs (1929–2024) was a British theoretical physicist who proposed the Higgs mechanism, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, and gave the Higgs boson its name.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter Hillmen

Peter Hillmen (P. Hillmen) is a British hematologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds known for the eculizumab trials that led to PNH approval in 2007.

Peter Hilton

Peter Hilton (1923–2010) was a British mathematician who contributed to algebraic topology and homological algebra and worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

Peter Hinwood

Peter Hinwood (born 1946, Bromley, England) is an English former actor and model, the mostly mute Rocky in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), later a London antiques dealer with Christopher Gibbs.

Peter Hirsch (materials scientist)

Peter Hirsch, full name Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch, was a British materials scientist who in 1956 first observed dislocations moving in metals by electron microscopy, and led Oxford's metallurgy department.

Peter Hitchens

Peter Jonathan Hitchens, born in Malta in 1951, is a British journalist and author, a Mail on Sunday columnist, and the younger brother of Christopher Hitchens.

Oct 21, 2026

Peter Hochschorner

Peter Hochschorner (born 1979, Bratislava), Slovak slalom canoeist; with twin brother Pavol won C2 slalom gold at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, bronze London 2012; retired 2021.