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Peter Mogila

Peter Mogila, also known as Petro Mohyla, was a Moldavian-born Orthodox metropolitan of Kyiv from 1633 who founded the Kyivan Mohyla Academy and was canonized in 1996.

Oct 21, 2026

Peter Møller

Peter Møller (Peter Møller Nielsen), Danish forward born 1972 in Hjørring; AaB, FCK, Brøndby, PSV, Oviedo, Fulham; 20 caps, 5 goals; 1992 Olympics, 1998 World Cup; DBU football director from 2018.

Peter Molnar

Peter Molnar (1943–2022) was an American geophysicist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for work on the tectonics of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.

Peter Molyneux, English game designer, creator of the god game genre with Populous (1989); led Bullfrog, Lionhead (Fable), and 22Cans; known for overpromising, the Godus Kickstarter controversy, and Masters of Albion (2026).

Peter Mombaerts

Peter Mombaerts is a Belgian-born neuroscientist who uses mouse genetics to study olfactory wiring, and received the 1997 Presidential Early Career Award at Rockefeller University.

Sep 21, 2026

Peter Moore (biophysicist)

Peter Moore, born 1939, is an American biophysicist and Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale known for determining the atomic structure of the ribosome's large subunit.

Peter Moore (serial killer)

Peter Moore (born 1946), the 'man in black', a north Wales cinema manager who murdered four men in 1995, received a whole-life tariff at Wakefield after his 1996 Mold Crown Court trial.

Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan (born 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright, creator of The Crown, writer of The Queen, Frost/Nixon, The Deal, and The Last King of Scotland, known for fact-based dramas about public figures.

Peter Morgan (Zimbabwean water and sanitation researcher)

Peter Morgan, born 1943, is a Zimbabwean water and sanitation researcher known for the Blair toilet, the Bush Pump, and ecological sanitation, winning the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize.

Peter Morton

Peter Morton is an American businessman who co-founded the Hard Rock Cafe in London in 1971 and built the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Peter Mountford (South African businessman)

Peter Mountford is a South African businessman and Chartered Accountant who has been chief executive of Super Group Limited since 2009, rescuing the near-bankrupt logistics and dealership group and leading over 18,800 people across 12 countries.

Peter Mueller

Peter Mueller is a Principal Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who applies krypton-81 radiodating to deep groundwater and received the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Peter Mühlens

Peter Mühlens (1874–1943) was a German tropical physician and hygienist who directed the Hamburg tropical institute from 1933 and introduced major antiparasitic drugs into practice.

Peter Mukerjea

Peter Mukerjea (born 1956, UK; birth name Pratim), former CEO of Star India who made Star Plus the top Hindi channel via Kaun Banega Crorepati, later co-founded INX Media, and was arrested in the 2015 Sheena Bora murder case.

Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan, born 1959 in Scotland, is a Scottish actor and filmmaker known for the Cannes Best Actor win for My Name Is Joe (1998) and directing Orphans, The Magdalene Sisters, and Neds.

Peter Muller (hedge fund manager)

Peter Muller, known as Pete Muller, is an American quantitative hedge fund manager who founded PDT Partners, a statistical arbitrage firm spun out of Morgan Stanley in 2012.

Peter Müller‐Buschbaum

Peter Müller-Buschbaum (born 1966) is a German physicist who heads the Chair of Functional Materials at the Technical University of Munich, studying solar cells and batteries.

Sep 21, 2026

Peter Mündel

Peter Mündel, often published as Peter Mundel, is a German-trained nephrologist known for podocyte biology research, who led a Harvard lab and became Goldfinch Bio's chief scientific officer in 2018.

Sep 23, 2026

Peter Mundy

Peter Mundy (died in or after 1667) was an English traveler for the East India Company and eyewitness of the Gujarat famine of 1630 to 1632.

Peter Munk

Peter Munk (1927–2018) was a Hungarian-born Canadian businessman who founded Barrick Gold in Toronto in 1983, built it into the world's largest gold miner, and gave his name to Toronto's Munk School and cardiac center.

Peter Murphy (musician)

Peter John Murphy (born 1957) is the English baritone vocalist of Bauhaus, pioneers of gothic rock, and a solo artist behind Deep and "Cuts You Up"; his eleventh album Silver Shade appeared in 2025.

Peter Murray (metallurgist)

Peter Murray (1920–2009) was a British-born nuclear metallurgist who worked at Harwell and Westinghouse and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Peter Murrell

Peter Murrell, former SNP chief executive (1999-2023) and estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon, pled guilty in May 2026 to embezzling £400,310.65 from the party and was sentenced to five years and three months in June 2026 in Operation Branchform.

Peter N. Belhumeur

Peter N. Belhumeur is an American computer vision scientist, professor of computer science at Columbia University, known for face recognition research and the Leafsnap plant-identification app.

Peter N. Devreotes

Peter N. Devreotes is an American cell biologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine known for work on signal transduction, gradient sensing, and chemotaxis.

Peter N. Goodfellow

Peter N. Goodfellow is a geneticist who pinpointed SRY, the Y-chromosome gene that determines testis development, and later led discovery research at SmithKline Beecham and GlaxoSmithKline.

Sep 21, 2026

Peter N. Le Souëf

Peter N. Le Souëf is an Australian pediatric respiratory physician and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Western Australia, known for research on childhood asthma.

Peter N. T. Wells

Peter N. T. Wells, full name Peter Neil Temple Wells, was a British medical physicist who pioneered ultrasound for diagnosis and surgery and founded Doppler blood-flow measurement.

Peter Nathan Ganong

Peter Nathan Ganong is an American labor economist and Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's Harris School, known for research on unemployment insurance and mortgage default.