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Peter M. Howley
Peter M. Howley is an American virologist and pathologist, the Shattuck Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for showing how high-risk HPV oncoproteins disable tumor suppressor pathways.
Peter M. Lansdorp
Peter M. Lansdorp, also known as Peter Lansdorp, is a Dutch-trained medical geneticist and cancer researcher in Vancouver who developed the Q-FISH and flow-FISH telomere measurement methods and Strand-seq.
Peter M. M. Rae
Peter M. M. Rae is a molecular biologist at Yale University known for characterizing the large intervening sequences interrupting Drosophila ribosomal DNA genes, publishing from 1970 to 1983.
Peter M. Rentzepis
Peter M. Rentzepis is a Greek-born physical chemist who originated picosecond ultrafast spectroscopy, pioneered 3D optical storage, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.
Peter M. Sadow
Peter M. Sadow is an American anatomic pathologist, Director of Head and Neck Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor, known for research on thyroid carcinogenesis.
Peter M. Shearer
Peter M. Shearer is an American seismologist and professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, known for imaging Earth's mantle and the textbook Introduction to Seismology.
Peter M. Small
Peter M. Small is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist who established the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis at UCSF and Stanford, then designed and ran the Gates Foundation's global tuberculosis program.
Peter M. Steinert
Peter M. Steinert (1945–2003) was an Australian-born cell biologist who led the Laboratory of Skin Biology at the NIH and linked keratin mutations to blistering skin disease.
Peter M. Strebel
Peter M. Strebel is a South African-trained physician-epidemiologist who led measles and rubella control at the CDC, WHO in Geneva, and Gavi, and is now a consultant in Geneva.
Peter M. Vitousek
Peter M. Vitousek is an American ecosystem ecologist, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for research on the global nitrogen cycle and Hawaiian ecosystems, and winner of the 2010 Japan Prize.
Peter M.A. Calverley
Peter M.A. Calverley, born 1949, is a British pulmonologist and Emeritus Professor of Respir Medicine at Liverpool, known for the TORCH and TIOSPIR COPD trials.
Peter MacKay
Peter MacKay (born 1966), Nova Scotia MP from 1997, final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party (elected May 31, 2003), who merged it with the Canadian Alliance in 2003 and later served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, 2013-2015.
Peter MacNicol
Peter MacNicol (born 1954, Dallas) is an American actor who won the 2001 Emmy as John Cage on Ally McBeal, played Stingo in Sophie's Choice and Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II, and voiced Doctor Octopus and the Mad Hatter.
Peter Macon
Peter Jerrod Macon is an American actor, Emmy-winning narrator (Animated Tales of the World, 2002), known as Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on The Orville (2017-2022) and as Raka in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), trained at Yale School of Drama.
Peter Madsen
Peter Madsen (born 1971), Danish engineer, co-founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals and builder of the UC3 Nautilus submarine; convicted in 2018 of murdering journalist Kim Wall aboard it and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Péter Magyar
Péter Magyar (born 1981), Hungarian lawyer and Tisza party leader, ended Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule in the April 2026 election and became Hungary's 60th prime minister on 9 May 2026 with a two-thirds majority.
Peter Maher
Peter Maher (Peter Kevin Maher, born 1960, Ottawa) is a Canadian marathon runner raised in Killarney, Ireland; two-time Olympian (Seoul 1988, 46th; Barcelona 1992, DNF) with a 2:11:46 marathon best from London 1991. Not the jockey or hockey player of the same name.
Peter Maivia
High Chief Peter Maivia (Fanene Leifi Pita Anderson, 1937–1982), Samoan territory-era wrestler and NWA Hawaii promoter, blood-brother of Amituana'i Anoa'i, adoptive grandfather of The Rock, WWE Hall of Famer 2008.
Peter Malfertheiner
Peter Malfertheiner (born 1950 in Kastelruth, Italy) is a German gastroenterologist known for Helicobacter pylori research, first-authoring the Maastricht V consensus report, and chairing gastroenterology at Magdeburg from 1995 to 2016.
Peter Malkin (פיטר צבי מלכין)
Peter Malkin (פיטר צבי מלכין), 1927–2005, Israeli Shin Bet and Mossad operative who seized Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires on May 11, 1960, and later wrote Eichmann in My Hands, an account partly disputed by documentary evidence.
Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson (born 1953), British Labour politician, New Labour architect, MP for Hartlepool 1992-2004, twice resigned from Blair's Cabinet, EU trade commissioner 2004-2008, business secretary 2008-2010, and UK ambassador to the US in 2025 until dismissed over Jeffrey Epstein ties.
Peter Mander
Peter Garth Mander (1928-1998), New Zealand yachtsman and clothing-industry businessman; with Jack Cropp won the Sharpie class at Melbourne 1956, New Zealand's first Olympic yachting gold, and co-founded the NZ Yachting Federation.
Peter Mangione
Peter Mangione (born 2001, Hunt Valley, Maryland) is an American soccer midfielder for Brooklyn FC in the USL Championship; two-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year at Penn State, formerly of FC Cincinnati 2. Not Luigi Mangione.
Peter Manjarrés
Peter Manjarrés, born Pedro Rafael Manjarrés Romero, is a Colombian vallenato singer from Valledupar known as "El Caballero del Vallenato", winner of Latin Grammys in 2008 and 2009.
Peter Manniche
Peter Manniche (1889–1981) was a Danish folk high school headmaster who founded the International People's College at Helsingør in 1921 and led it until 1954, working for peace through education.
Peter Mansbridge
Peter Mansbridge (born 1948, London, England) is a Canadian retired broadcaster, CBC News chief correspondent and anchor of The National from 1988 to 2017, discovered in Churchill, Manitoba in 1968; later host of The Bridge podcast.
Peter Manuel
Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (1927-1958), Scottish serial killer born in New York, murdered at least eight people around Glasgow and Lanarkshire 1956-1958, conducted his own defence, and was hanged at Barlinnie Prison on 11 July 1958.
Peter Marc Jacobson
Peter Marc Jacobson (born 1957, Queens, New York) is an American TV writer, producer, director, and actor, co-creator with ex-wife Fran Drescher of The Nanny (CBS, 1993–1999) and Happily Divorced (TV Land, 2011–2013), based on his coming out after their marriage.
Peter Margolis
Peter Margolis is an American pediatric health-systems researcher at Stanford, elected to the National Academy of Medicine, known for building learning health networks like ImproveCareNow.
Peter Mark Richman
Peter Mark Richman (born Marvin Jack Richman, 1927–2021), also billed as Mark Richman, was an American character actor in over 30 films and 130 TV series, known for Cain's Hundred, Three's Company, Dynasty, and Beverly Hills 90210.