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Peter Hollingworth
Peter John Hollingworth (1935–2026) was an Australian Anglican bishop and the 23rd Governor-General of Australia from 2001 to 2003, the first cleric in the office.
Peter Hommelhoff
Peter Hommelhoff is a German laser physicist at LMU Munich, known for attosecond control of electron emission from metal nanotips and acceleration on photonic chips.
Peter Hook
Peter Hook (born 1956), English bassist and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, known for high-register melodic 'lead bass' on 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and 'Blue Monday'; later led Peter Hook and The Light and wrote memoirs after leaving New Order in 2007.
Peter Hook & The Light (group)
Peter Hook & The Light is an English rock band formed in 2010 by Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook to perform their catalogs live.
Peter Hore
Peter Hore is a British biophysical chemist at Oxford known for work on NMR of proteins and on how migratory birds sense Earth's magnetic field.
Peter Horton
Peter Horton (born 1953, Bellevue, Washington) is an American actor-director, Gary Shepherd on thirtysomething (1987–91), director of The Cure (1995), and co-executive producer of Grey's Anatomy; ex-husband of Michelle Pfeiffer.
Peter Hotez
Peter J. Hotez (born 1958) is an American vaccine scientist and pediatrician who leads the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
Peter Howitt
Peter Howitt (born 1957, Manchester), English actor and film director; played Joey Boswell in Bread and wrote and directed Sliding Doors (1998), Johnny English (2003), and Antitrust (2001). Not the 2025 Nobel economist Peter Howitt, the 1928-2021 set decorator, or director Peter Hewitt.
Peter Howitt (Nobel laureate)
Peter Howitt, born 1946 in Guelph, Ontario, is a Canadian economist at Brown University who won a quarter share of the 2025 Nobel economics prize.
Peter Høyer
Peter Høyer is a theoretical computer scientist and associate professor at the University of Calgary, known for foundational work on quantum algorithms, query complexity, and quantum walks.
Peter Hua (Dr. Peter Ping Hua)
Dr. Peter Hua, or Peter Ping Hua, is a Chinese venture capital investor who serves as Managing Partner of SBCVC, investing in IT, healthcare, and new energy.
Peter Huchel
Peter Huchel, born Helmut Huchel (1903 to 1981), was a German poet and chief editor of the East German journal Sinn und Form until 1962.
Peter Huchel Prize
The Peter Huchel Prize (Peter-Huchel-Preis) is a German literary prize for German-language poetry, awarded annually since 1984 with 15,000 euros on Peter Huchel's birthday, 3 April, in Staufen im Breisgau.
Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar was an American photographer whose black-and-white portraits of 1970s and 1980s downtown New York artists won fame only after his death from AIDS in 1987.
Peter Hujar's Day
Peter Hujar's Day is a 2025 Ira Sachs film starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, recreating verbatim a 1974 taped interview between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, adapted from her 2021 book.
Peter Hummelgaard
Peter Hummelgaard is a Danish Social Democratic politician who became Minister for Finance in June 2026, swapping posts with Nicolai Wammen after serving as justice minister.
Peter Huybers
Peter Huybers is an American climate scientist and chair of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, known for work on ice age cycles and correcting historical sea surface temperature records.
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams (born 1943, New York) is an American director, writer, and cinematographer of Capricorn One, Outland, 2010, Timecop, and Sudden Death, notable for shooting his own films as director of photography.
Peter I of Serbia
Peter I of Serbia (Петар I, Peter I Karađorđević) was King of Serbia from 1903 to 1918 and then King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until his death in 1921.
Peter I, Duke of Bourbon
Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (Pierre Ier de Bourbon, c. 1311–1356), second Bourbon duke and grand chamberlain of France; married Isabelle de Valois, father of Queen Jeanne; killed at the Battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356.
Peter II of Russia
Peter II Alekseyevich (Пётр II Алексеевич), 1715–1730, Emperor of Russia 1727–1730, grandson of Peter the Great and last male Romanov; ruled under Menshikov then the Dolgorukys, died of smallpox before his wedding.
Peter II of Yugoslavia (Петар II Карађорђевић)
Peter II of Yugoslavia (Петар II Карађорђевић, 1923–1970), last king of Yugoslavia; proclaimed of age in the 27 March 1941 coup, exiled in London during World War II, married Princess Alexandra of Greece, died in Denver, reburied at Oplenac in 2013.
Peter II, Duke of Bourbon
Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (Pierre II de Bourbon, 1438–1503), also Peter of Beaujeu, French duke and patron who ruled Bourbonnais from Moulins from 1488 with Anne of France, daughter of Louis XI; duchy annexed by France in 1531.
Peter III
Peter III, born Karl Peter Ulrich, was emperor of All Russia from 1761 until his deposition by his wife Catherine II in 1762; he freed the nobility from state service.
Peter III of Russia (Пётр III Фёдорович)
Peter III of Russia (Пётр III Фёдорович), born Karl Peter Ulrich of Holstein-Gottorp, reigned as emperor from 25 December 1761 until his overthrow by Catherine II on 28 June 1762; he freed the nobility from compulsory service, abolished the Secret Chancellery, and withdrew Russia from the Seven Years' War.
Peter Inge, Baron Inge
Peter Inge, Baron Inge (1935-2022), British Army field marshal; last Chief of the Defence Staff appointed at five-star rank, Chief of the General Staff 1992, life peer 2001, Butler Inquiry member.
Péter István Mészáros
Péter István Mészáros is a Hungarian-born theoretical astrophysicist at Penn State known for the gamma-ray burst fireball model, developed with Martin Rees, and the Mészáros effect.
Peter J. Barnes
Peter J. Barnes, known in the literature as P. J. Barnes, is a British respiratory pharmacologist and Professor of Thoracic Medicine at Imperial College London, known for work on asthma and COPD.
Peter J. Bickel
Peter J. Bickel is a statistician who joined UC Berkeley in 1963 and is known for asymptotic theory of the bootstrap, semiparametric models, and high-dimensional inference.
Peter J. Bryant
Peter J. Bryant, also published as P J Bryant, is a developmental biologist and Research Professor at UC Irvine known for work on growth control and tumor-suppressor genes in the fruit fly Drosophila.