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Peter Philip Reese
Peter Philip Reese is an American transplant nephrologist and epidemiologist, a University of Pennsylvania professor who won the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for transplant research.
Peter Phillips
Peter Mark Andrew Phillips (born 1977) is the eldest child of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips, eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, a businessman with no royal title, and husband of Harriet Sperling since 2026.
Peter Piot
Peter Piot, born 1949 in Louvain, Belgium, is a physician-scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, documented heterosexual AIDS in Africa, and served as founding Executive Director of UNAIDS from 1995 to 2008.
Peter Piper
Peter Piper is a famous English tongue twister that first appeared in 1813 in London. It is known for its alliterative structure and its use in pronunciation studies.
Peter Popoff
Peter Popoff (born 1946) is a German-born American televangelist whose faith-healing crusades were exposed in 1986 when James Randi taped his wife feeding him audience details via radio earpiece; he rebuilt a Miracle Spring Water mail ministry, fined £150,000 by Ofcom in 2024.
Peter Porte
Peter Porte (Peter John Porte) is an American actor and producer from Greenwood Lake, New York, known for Ricky Williams on The Young and the Restless, Brad on Baby Daddy, Dimitri von Leuschner on Days of Our Lives, and Hallmark TV movies.
Peter Prevc
Peter Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper (born 1992, Kranj), four Olympic medals, 2015/16 World Cup champion, 250 m world record, retired March 2024, now Planica 2026 committee president.
Peter principle
The Peter principle, stated by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in 1969, holds that every employee in a hierarchy tends to rise to their level of incompetence.
Péter Pulay
Péter Pulay, born 1941 in Veszprém, Hungary, is a quantum chemist at the University of Arkansas whose analytic gradient method made routine molecular structure computation possible.
Peter Purves
Peter Purves (born 1939) is an English actor and TV presenter, Doctor Who companion Steven Taylor (1965–66, 46 episodes) and Blue Peter presenter 1967–1978, later Kickstart and Crufts presenter.
Peter Quail
Peter H. Quail is a plant molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for phytochrome research and his 1998 discovery of the transcription factor PIF3.
Peter Quill (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Peter Jason Quill, aka Star-Lord, is the MCU's Guardians of the Galaxy leader played by Chris Pratt from 2014 to 2023: an Earth child abducted in 1988, raised by Yondu, half-Celestial son of Ego, distinct from the comics' NASA-astronaut son of J'son of Spartax.
Peter Quillin
Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin (born 1983, Chicago) is a retired American boxer, WBO middleweight champion 2012-2014 with three defenses, ending 34-2-1, 1 NC (23 KOs).
Peter R. Bridenbaugh
Peter R. Bridenbaugh is a retired American materials executive who served as Alcoa's chief technology officer and chaired a National Research Council study on globalizing materials R&D.
Peter R. Buseck
Peter R. Buseck is an American geochemist and mineralogist who pioneered transmission electron microscopy of minerals, meteorites, and atmospheric aerosols during 60 years at Arizona State University.
Peter R. Crane
Peter R. Crane, also known as Peter Crane, is a British botanist and paleobotanist born in 1954 who studies the origin and early fossil history of flowering plants.
Peter R. Galle
Peter R. Galle is a German hepatologist who directs the I. Medical Clinic at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and chaired the 2018 EASL liver cancer guidelines.
Peter R. Holt
Peter R. Holt (1930–2024) was a Berlin-born American gastroenterologist known for Whipple's disease research and colorectal cancer prevention, and a Columbia University professor of medicine.
Peter R. Maroko
Peter R. Maroko is a physician-scientist in cardiology known for showing that the size of a myocardial infarction can be reduced by drugs and by restoring blood flow.
Peter R. Orszag
Peter R. Orszag, American economist; CEO and Chairman of Lazard since October 2023; former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (2007-2008) and OMB Director under Obama; health care cost policy specialist.
Peter R. Schreiner
Peter R. Schreiner, also known as Peter Schreiner, is a German physical organic chemist who holds the Liebig Chair at Justus Liebig University Giessen and won the 2024 Leibniz Prize.
Peter Rabbit
Peter Rabbit is Beatrix Potter's mischievous rabbit hero from The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first published by Frederick Warne in 1902 after private printing and six rejections, and sold over 46 million copies since.
Peter Rabbit (film)
Peter Rabbit (2018) is a live-action/CG comedy directed by Will Gluck, based on Beatrix Potter's character, with James Corden voicing Peter; released February 9, 2018, grossing $115.2M in the US, and notable for its blackberry allergy-scene controversy.
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, also called Peter Rabbit 2, is a 2021 live-action/CG-animated comedy directed by Will Gluck and a sequel to Peter Rabbit.
Peter Rachman
Peter Rachman (Perec Rachman, 1919-1962) was a Polish-born Notting Hill landlord notorious for intimidating rent-controlled tenants; "Rachmanism" entered the Oxford English Dictionary, and his posthumous 1963 exposure stemmed from the Profumo affair.
Peter Radford
Peter Frank Radford (born 20 September 1939, Walsall), British sprinter, Birchfield Harriers; 1960 Olympic 100m and 4x100m relay bronze, world records 200m/220y 20.5 (1960) and 4x110y 40.0 (1963); later BAF chairman and athletics historian.
Peter Rahal
Peter Rahal is an American consumer-brand founder who co-founded RXBAR in Chicago in 2012. After selling the company to Kellogg for $600 million in 2017, he launched David Protein.
Peter Rakich
Peter T. Rakich is an applied physicist and professor at Yale University whose lab demonstrated stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon waveguides and developed a silicon Brillouin laser.
Peter Rathjens
Peter Rathjens is a quantitative investor who co-founded Arrowstreet Capital, a Boston-based global equity manager, in 1999 and served as its Chief Investment Officer until 2023.
Peter Reckell
Peter Reckell (born 1955, Elkhart, Indiana) is an American actor and musician best known as Bo Brady on Days of Our Lives since 1983, with breaks for Knots Landing and other work; six Soap Opera Digest Awards, 2009 Daytime Emmy nomination.