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Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson (born 1961) is the New Zealand director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies; The Return of the King won 11 Oscars including Best Director. Distinct from same-named physicists and academics.
Peter James (writer)
Peter James (born 1948) is the British crime writer and creator of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, the Brighton-set series behind ITV's Grace, 24 million sales, the CWA Diamond Dagger, and an OBE. Distinct from the ancient-history writer and the cinematographer of the same name.
Peter Jamvold
Peter Krefting Jamvold (1896–1962), Norwegian sailor with KNS Oslo; won gold in the 10 metres, Open (Olympic) class aboard Eleda at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; cousin of sailor Gunnar Jamvold.
Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings (1938-2005), Canadian-born ABC News anchor and senior editor of World News Tonight from 1983 to 2005; Big Three anchor with Brokaw and Rather, 16 Emmys, Order of Canada, died of lung cancer.
Peter Jensen (bishop)
Peter Jensen is a retired Australian Anglican bishop who was Archbishop of Sydney from 2001 to 2013, after leading Moore Theological College, and became the first General Secretary of GAFCON.
Peter Joel Basser
Peter Joel Basser is a biomedical engineer at the NIH known for inventing diffusion tensor imaging and tractography, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Peter John Bethell
Peter John Bethell is a coal preparation and mineral processing engineer, trained at the University of Nottingham, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for fine coal cleaning.
Peter John Campbell
Peter John Campbell is a cancer genomicist and clinician-scientist known for chromothripsis, kataegis, and mutational signatures, who led the Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation program at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Peter John Morris
Sir Peter John Morris (1934–2022) was an Australian-born transplant surgeon who led surgery at Oxford and served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Peter John Olivi
Peter John Olivi (Pierre Jean Olivi, 1248–1298) was a Languedoc-born Franciscan theologian whose doctrines of apostolic poverty, free will, and apocalyptic history drew repeated condemnation.
Peter John Ramos
Peter John Ramos Fuentes, Puerto Rican 7'3" (2.21 m) center born 1985 in Fajardo; drafted 32nd overall by Washington Wizards in 2004, played 6 NBA games, then 20 clubs in 8 countries and Puerto Rico's national team.
Peter John Wyllie
Peter John Wyllie, born 1930 in London, is a British-born experimental petrologist and Caltech professor emeritus known for laboratory work on magma formation, granite genesis, and carbonatite magmas.
Peter Johnson (medical oncologist)
Peter Johnson, also known as Peter M. Johnson, is a British medical oncologist at the University of Southampton known for the RAPID trial in Hodgkin lymphoma.
Peter Jonas (neuroscientist)
Peter Jonas (born 1961) is a German neuroscientist studying synaptic transmission and hippocampal microcircuits, a professor at ISTA in Austria since 2010 and a Wittgenstein Award winner.
Peter Jones (entrepreneur)
Peter David Jones is a British entrepreneur and investor, the last remaining original Dragon on Dragons' Den since 2005, with a fortune built on mobile-phone distribution.
Peter Joseph Embi
Peter Joseph Embi is an American physician-scientist in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who created the nation's first Chief Research Information Officer role.
Peter Joseph Felten
Peter Joseph Felten (1851–1929) was a German Catholic priest and New Testament scholar, professor of New Testament exegesis at the University of Bonn from 1888 and author of Neutestamentliche Zeitgeschichte.
Peter Jüni
Peter Jüni is a Swiss clinical epidemiologist who led the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and has been a professor at the University of Oxford since 2022.
Peter K. Gregersen
Peter K. Gregersen (born 1950) is an American rheumatologist and geneticist who heads the Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics in Manhasset, New York.
Peter K. H. Ho
Peter K. H. Ho is a Singaporean physicist and professor at the National University of Singapore who researches organic semiconductor devices, including LEDs and solar cells.
Peter K. Hepler
Peter K. Hepler is an American plant cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for work on cytokinesis and calcium signaling.
Peter K. Kitanidis
Peter K. Kitanidis, also known as Peter Kitanidis, is an environmental engineer and Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering known for the geostatistical approach to groundwater inverse problems.
Peter K. Liaw
Peter K. Liaw, also published as Peter Liaw, is a materials scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who studies the fatigue and fracture of high-entropy alloys and is a Fellow of ASM, MRS, and TMS.
Peter K. Lindenauer
Peter K. Lindenauer is an American physician and health-services researcher who studies hospital care quality and outcomes, now focused on COPD and pulmonary rehabilitation at UMass Chan – Baystate.
Peter K. Olitsky
Peter K. Olitsky (Peter Kosciusko Olitsky, 1886–1964) was an American virologist at the Rockefeller Institute who studied epidemic diseases and, with Albert Sabin, grew polio virus in human embryonic brain tissue in 1936.
Peter K. Sorger
Peter K. Sorger is a systems biologist at Harvard Medical School who heads its Program in Therapeutic Science and directs the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology.
Peter K. Vogt
Peter K. Vogt, born 1932 in Czechoslovakia, is an American cancer virologist and professor emeritus at Scripps Research who helped identify src, the first retroviral oncogene.
Peter K. Wellauer
Peter K. Wellauer is a molecular biologist known for mapping the structural organization of ribosomal DNA in Drosophila and Xenopus by electron microscopy at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore.
Peter Kadiru
Peter Kadiru (born 1997, Hamburg) is a German heavyweight boxer, 2014 Youth Olympic gold medalist, three-time European amateur champion, 23-2 pro, lost a 2026 WBA title fight to Murat Gassiev.
Peter Kareiva
Peter Kareiva is an American ecologist and conservation scientist known for habitat fragmentation research and ecosystem-services conservation, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy from 2003 to 2015.