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Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), British physician, Royal Society secretary, and physiologist, compiler of the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852), a six-class classified synonym list; also known for Bridgewater Treatise and persistence-of-vision work.
Peter Marler
Peter Marler (1928–2014) was a British-born American ethologist whose experiments showed songbirds learn their songs, established the auditory template hypothesis, and put animal communication on an experimental footing.
Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall (born 1982) is an American former backstroke swimmer, Stanford graduate, and short-course specialist with 47 AQUA medals, eight world records including 100m back marks of 49.94 and 49.63, now a freediver and ocean conservationist in Cape Town.
Peter Marshall (entertainer)
Peter Marshall (Ralph Pierre LaCock, 1926-2024), American actor, singer, and game show host; brother of Joanne Dru; hosted over 5,000 episodes of The Hollywood Squares (1966-1981), winning four Emmy Awards.
Peter Martyr
Peter Martyr, born Pietro da Verona around 1205, was a Dominican friar and papal inquisitor against Cathar heresy in Lombardy, assassinated near Milan in 1252.
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (Pedro Mártir de Anglería) was an Italian historian serving the Spanish crown whose De Orbe Novo of 1530 recorded the New World discoveries.
Peter Martyr Vermigli
Peter Martyr Vermigli (Pietro Martire Vermigli, 1499–1562) was an Italian Augustinian prior who became a formative shaper of Reformed Protestantism, serving as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford and later teaching Hebrew at Zurich.
Peter Max
Peter Max (Peter Max Finkelstein, 1937-2026), German-born American psychedelic pop artist of 1960s flower power; poster, stamp, and official-event artist; 70 product lines; also known for Statue of Liberty series and commercial controversies.
Peter Maximoff
Peter Maximoff is the Fox X-Men film version of Marvel's Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters in Days of Future Past, Apocalypse, Deadpool 2, and Dark Phoenix; renamed from Pietro, famed for the Pentagon kitchen scene, and later echoed by Ralph Bohner in WandaVision.
Peter May (writer)
Peter May (writer): Scottish crime writer (1951–2026), author of the Lewis Trilogy set on the Isle of Lewis, the China Thrillers, and the Enzo Files; formerly STV television dramatist, creator of Machair.
Peter Mayhew
Peter William Mayhew (1944–2019) was a 7 ft 3 in British-American actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films from 1977 to 2015, without speaking a word.
Peter McAleese
Peter McAleese (1942–2024), Scottish soldier and mercenary of the Parachute Regiment, 22 SAS, Rhodesian SAS and 44 Parachute Brigade; led the 1989 Cali Cartel-funded Operation Phoenix plot against Pablo Escobar and wrote No Mean Soldier.
Peter McCulloch
Peter McCulloch is a Scottish surgeon and Professor of Surgical Science and Practice at the University of Oxford, known for the IDEAL framework for evaluating surgical innovation and for patient-safety research.
Peter McGraw
Peter McGraw is an American marketing and psychology professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who co-created the benign violation theory of humor and founded the Humor Research Lab.
Peter McL. Black
Peter McL. Black, also known as Peter M. Black, is a Canadian-born neurosurgeon and brain tumor researcher who is Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery, Emeritus, at Harvard.
Peter McMullen
Peter McMullen is a mathematician at University College London who works on convex polytopes; he proved the Upper Bound Theorem in 1970 and conjectured the g-theorem.
Peter McNeeley
Peter McNeeley, "The Hurricane," American heavyweight boxer from Medfield, Massachusetts, 47-7 pro record. Best known as Mike Tyson's first post-prison opponent, stopped in 89 seconds on August 19, 1995.
Peter McRobbie
Peter McRobbie, Scottish-born American character actor (born 1943, Hawick, Scotland), Yale Drama School 1966; known for Pop Pop in The Visit, Father Lantom in Daredevil, Judge Walter Bradley in Law & Order, and eight Woody Allen films.
Peter Medawar
Peter Brian Medawar was a British immunologist and zoologist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1915, who shared the 1960 Nobel Prize for discovering acquired immunological tolerance.
Peter Meer
Peter Meer is an electrical engineer and computer vision researcher, a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University from 1991 to 2018, known for the mean shift algorithm and kernel-based object tracking.
Peter Mehringer
Peter Joseph Mehringer (Kansas Whirlwind), 1910-1987, American wrestler; self-taught via mail-order course, won 1932 Olympic light-heavyweight freestyle gold, first KU gold medalist, also NFL lineman, stuntman, and engineer.
Peter Meijer
Peter Meijer (born 1988), Republican former U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd District (2021-2023), Army Reserve veteran and Meijer grocery heir; one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after January 6, 2021, then lost the 2022 primary to Trump-backed John Gibbs.
Peter Melius
Peter Melius (Hungarian: Melius Juhász Péter, c. 1536–1572) was a Hungarian Reformed pastor and the first Calvinist bishop of Debrecen, who convened the synods that gave the Hungarian Reformed church its confessions.
Peter Mensah
Peter Mensah (born 1959, Ghana) is a Ghanaian-English actor, former British Gas engineer, known for the Persian messenger in 300, Doctore/Oenomaus in Spartacus, Avatar, and Gladiator II.
Peter Metcalf
Peter Metcalf is an American outdoor-industry entrepreneur who co-founded Black Diamond Equipment in 1989 from the bankruptcy of Chouinard Equipment and led it until 2015.
Peter Meyer (cosmic-ray physicist)
Peter Meyer (1920–2002) was a German-born cosmic-ray physicist at the University of Chicago, known for measurements of cosmic-ray acceleration and for instruments flown on balloons, satellites, and the Space Shuttle.
Peter Michael Escovedo
Peter Michael Escovedo III (born 1961, Alameda County, California) is an American percussionist, producer, and Emmy-nominated musical director, son of Pete Escovedo, brother of Sheila E., music director of The Wayne Brady Show, and producer of Sex Cymbal and Rhythm of the Night.
Peter Miles
Peter Miles, born Peter Kanyike, is a Ugandan reggae and dancehall artist from Entebbe, best known for his 2003 debut single "One Time"; he announced his retirement from music in 2026.
Peter Mitchell (biochemist)
Peter Mitchell (1920–1992) was a British biochemist who proposed the chemiosmotic theory, explaining how cells use proton gradients to make ATP, winning the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Peter Model
Peter Model (1933–2017) was a molecular geneticist at The Rockefeller University who studied bacteriophage f1, protein secretion, and the phage shock protein response, and contributed to phage display.