All articles starting with P

Peter Karran

Peter Karran is a British-based molecular biologist who studied DNA mismatch repair and thiopurine mutagenesis at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Clare Hall Laboratories from 1985.

Peter John Kay (born 1973) is an English comedian from Bolton known for Phoenix Nights, Car Share, and observational stand-up; his 2010-11 tour played to 1.2 million people and he holds The O2's only monthly comedy residency.

Peter Kay's Car Share

Peter Kay's Car Share is a BBC One sitcom (2015-2020) created by Paul Coleman and Tim Reid, starring Peter Kay as John Redmond and Sian Gibson as Kayleigh Kitson, supermarket colleagues in a company car-share scheme; a double BAFTA winner whose finale drew six million viewers.

Peter Kennaugh

Peter Kennaugh (born 1989, Douglas, Isle of Man), British road and track cyclist; 2012 Olympic team pursuit gold, two Dauphiné stages, two British road titles; Team Sky 2010-2017, Bora-Hansgrohe, retired 2019, now XDS Astana sports director.

Peter Kerley

Peter Kerley, full name Sir Peter James Kerley, was an Irish radiologist who described the chest X-ray lines named after him, Kerley A, B, and C lines.

Peter Kirby

Peter Kirby (born 17 December 1931, Montréal) is a Canadian bobsledder who won four-man gold at Innsbruck 1964 and the 1965 Worlds; also an Australian Paralympic athletics medalist from 1984.

Peter Klason

Peter Klason, born Johan Peter Klason (1848–1937), was a Swedish chemist and professor at the Royal Institute of Technology who devised the Klason lignin method.

Peter Kohnke

Peter Kohnke (1941–1975) was a West German small-bore rifle shooter who won the 50 m prone gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, scoring 590 points at age 18.

Peter Kolchinsky

Peter Kolchinsky is a Harvard-trained virologist who founded RA Capital Management, a Boston life-sciences firm with over $10 billion under management, and wrote The Great American Drug Deal.

Peter Koopman

Peter Koopman is an Australian developmental geneticist at the University of Queensland, best known for his role in the discovery of SRY, the Y-chromosome gene that determines male sex in mammals.

Peter Kraus

Peter Kraus names two German Olympians: sprinter Peter Friedrich Wilhelm Kraus (1932-2016), 1951 West German 200 m champion at Helsinki 1952, and field hockey goalkeeper Peter Kraus (1941-2024), 1972 Munich gold medallist with West Germany.

Peter Krause

Peter Krause (born 1965) is an American actor known for Casey McCall in Sports Night, Nate Fisher in Six Feet Under, Adam Braverman in Parenthood, and Bobby Nash in 9-1-1, now starring in NBC's Line of Fire.

Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft is an American Catholic philosopher and apologist who has taught philosophy at Boston College since 1965 and written about a hundred books, including the Handbook of Christian Apologetics.

Peter Kretschmer

Peter Kretschmer (Johann Peter Kretschmer, born 1992, Schwerin) is a German canoe sprint paddler, Olympic C2 1000 m gold medalist at London 2012 with Kurt Kuschela, and world champion in C2 2017, 2018, and 2023.

Peter Kropotkin (Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин)

Peter Kropotkin (Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин, 1842–1921) was a Russian geographer and revolutionary, a prince who renounced his aristocratic heritage to become the foremost theorist of anarchism and developer of anarchist communism, known for Mutual Aid (1902).

Sep 19, 2026

Peter Kuijper

Peter Kuijper, also spelled Cuyper, was a 17th-century Dutch brewer in Groenlo who took over the 1615 brewery and became known as the founder of Grolsch beer.

Sep 27, 2026

Peter Kullgren

Peter Kullgren is a Swedish politician of the Christian Democrats who serves as Minister for Rural Affairs, with a portfolio covering food, agriculture, forestry, hunting, and fishing.

Peter Kürten

Peter Kürten (1883-1931), the "Vampire of Düsseldorf", was a German serial killer convicted of nine murders and seven attempted murders in 1931 and guillotined in Cologne; the term Serienmörder was coined for his case.

Peter Kwong (actor)

Peter Kwong (1952–2025) was an American actor and martial arts expert, Rain in Big Trouble in Little China and Tommy Tong in The Golden Child, with nearly 90 screen credits and advocacy for Asian representation in Hollywood.

Peter L. Greenberg

Peter L. Greenberg is a hematologist and Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, at Stanford University, known for his work on the classification, prognosis, and treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes.

Peter L. Knight

Sir Peter L. Knight is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London whose quantum optics research laid foundations for quantum technology and drove the UK's National Quantum Technologies Programme.

Peter L. Pedersen

Peter L. Pedersen is an American biochemist and professor of biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins, known for research on mitochondrial hexokinase and the Warburg effect in cancer.

Peter L. Stern

Peter L. Stern, also known as Peter Stern, is a cancer immunologist and Group Leader at the University of Manchester, known for discovering the 5T4 oncofoetal antigen.

Peter L. Wizinowich

Peter L. Wizinowich is an optical scientist at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii who led its adaptive optics systems, earning the 2022 Joseph Weber Award.

Peter Laird

Peter Laird is an American comic book writer and artist who co-created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He founded Mirage Studios and later sold the franchise to Viacom in 2009.

Peter Langhorne

Peter Langhorne is a physician and stroke researcher at the University of Glasgow, professor of stroke care from 2001 to 2020, who founded the Stroke Unit Trialists' Collaboration.

Peter Laviolette

Peter Laviolette (born 1964, Norwood, Massachusetts) is an American NHL head coach, now with the Los Angeles Kings; 846 wins (seventh all-time), 2006 Stanley Cup with Carolina, Cup Finals with three franchises.

Peter Lawford

Peter Lawford (Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen, 1923–1984), English-American MGM star of the 1940s, Rat Pack member, and JFK brother-in-law via marriage to Patricia Kennedy; starred in Son of Lassie, Good News, and Ocean's 11.

Peter Lax

Peter Lax was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who spent his career at NYU's Courant Institute and won the 2005 Abel Prize for partial differential equations.