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Peter S. Nelson
Peter S. Nelson is an American medical oncologist and cancer genomics researcher at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, specializing in inherited risk for advanced prostate cancer.
Peter Safran
Peter Safran (born 1965) is a British-American producer, founder of The Safran Company (2006), and Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of DC Studios with James Gunn, behind The Conjuring, Aquaman, and Superman.
Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal is the American host of NPR's news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! since May 1998, a playwright, author of The Incomplete Book of Running, PBS Constitution USA host, and marathoner.
Peter Sagan
Peter Sagan is a Slovak former professional road cyclist who won three consecutive road race world championships and a record seven Tour de France green jerseys.
Peter Salama
Peter Salama (1968–2020) was an Australian medical epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme from 2016 to 2019 after a career with UNICEF and the CDC.
Peter Salanki
Peter Salanki is a Swedish-trained network engineer who serves as chief technology officer of CoreWeave, the AI cloud-infrastructure company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CRWV since March 2025.
Peter Sallis
Peter Sallis (1921–2017), English actor and RADA graduate, played Norman Clegg in all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010) and voiced Wallace in every Wallace & Gromit film released in his lifetime; OBE 2007, Annie Award winner.
Peter Salmon (producer)
Peter Salmon (born 1956, Burnley) is a British TV producer and executive: BBC One controller 1997–2000, BBC Sport director, first Director BBC North at Salford, and Endemol Shine chief creative officer from 2016.
Peter Sandercock
Peter Sandercock is a neurologist and Emeritus Professor of Medical Neurology at the University of Edinburgh who led the International Stroke Trial and its successor, IST-3.
Peter Sarnak
Peter Sarnak, born in Johannesburg in 1953, is a South African-born mathematician at Princeton University known for analytic number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic quantum chaos.
Peter Sarnow
Peter Sarnow is a molecular biologist and Stanford professor known for work on the hepatitis C virus IRES and for identifying the liver microRNA miR-122 as essential for HCV replication.
Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard (John Peter Sarsgaard, born 1971, Illinois) is an American actor of Boys Don't Cry, Shattered Glass, Kinsey, The Lost Daughter, and Memory. Distinguished by a 2023 Venice Volpi Cup, two Emmy nominations (Dopesick, Presumed Innocent), and marriage to Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Peter Sarstedt
Peter Sarstedt (Peter Eardley Sarstedt, 1941-2017) was a British singer-songwriter born in Delhi, best known for the 1969 UK and European No. 1 'Where Do You Go to (My Lovely)', Ivor Novello winner shared with Space Oddity.
Peter Sasieni
Peter Sasieni is a British cancer epidemiologist and biostatistician, Professor at Queen Mary University of London, whose research reshaped NHS cervical screening and quantified HPV vaccination's impact.
Peter Sauber
Peter Sauber (born 1943, Zurich) is the Swiss founder of Sauber Motorsport, 1970 C1 constructor, Mercedes sportscar champion, F1 entrant from 1993, who sold to BMW in 2005, bought back in 2009, and sold fully in 2016.
Peter Scanavino
Peter Scanavino (born 1980, Denver) is an American actor best known as Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr. on Law & Order: SVU since 2014, ADA since 2019; Broadway debut in Shining City (2006), French Culinary Institute graduate.
Peter Schall
Peter Schall (born 1971) is a German soft condensed matter physicist and chair at the University of Amsterdam, known for imaging defects in colloidal crystals.
Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele (1935–2024), American composer and satirist, also known as P.D.Q. Bach's discoverer, creator of the fictional last son of J.S. Bach; Juilliard-trained, four consecutive Best Comedy Album Grammys, host of Schickele Mix.
Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff is an American stockbroker and financial commentator who leads Euro Pacific Capital, became known for predicting the 2008 housing collapse, and wrote Crash Proof.
Peter Schiffer
Peter Schiffer is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist known for pioneering artificial spin ice, launched at Penn State in 2006, and now serves as Princeton's Dean for Research.
Peter Schlemihl
Peter Schlemihl is the title character of Adelbert von Chamisso's 1814 literary fairy tale, a poor young man who sells his shadow for endless gold.
Peter Schmeichel
Peter Schmeichel (Peter Bolesław Schmeichel), Danish goalkeeper born 1963, EURO 1992 winner, Manchester United legend with 5 Premier League titles and the 1999 Champions League, IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper 1992 and 1993.
Peter Schmelcher
Peter Schmelcher is a theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Universität Hamburg since 2010, known for research on ultracold Rydberg atoms, strongly correlated bosons, and Bose-Einstein condensates.
Peter Schmid (medical oncologist)
Peter Schmid is a British-based medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, who leads the Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine at Barts Cancer Institute in London.
Peter Schmidt
Peter Schmidt is an econometrician and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, known for stochastic frontier analysis, panel data methods, and the KPSS stationarity test.
Peter Schnell (German IT entrepreneur)
Peter Schnell (born 1938) is a German mathematician and IT entrepreneur who co-founded Software AG in Darmstadt in 1969, led it until 1996, and developed the ADABAS database.
Peter Scholze
Peter Scholze, born 1987 in Dresden, Germany, is a German mathematician who created perfectoid spaces for p-adic geometry and won the 2018 Fields Medal, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.
Peter Schuster (Austrian chemist)
Peter Schuster (1941–2026) was an Austrian theoretical chemist who, with Manfred Eigen, developed the quasispecies and hypercycle models and the ViennaRNA package, and pioneered RNA sequence–structure maps.
Peter Schwerdtfeger
Peter Schwerdtfeger is a German-born theoretical chemist and physicist, a Distinguished Professor at Massey University in New Zealand known for relativistic quantum chemistry, especially gold and the heaviest elements.
Peter Scolari
Peter Thomas Scolari (1955–2021) was an American character actor known for Tom Hanks' roommate on Bosom Buddies and Michael Harris on Newhart, winning an Emmy for Girls.