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Peter Scully

Peter Gerard Scully is an Australian sex offender serving life imprisonment in the Philippines for trafficking and raping children, with a further 129 years added in 2022.

Peter Segal, born 1962 in New York City, is an American comedy director of Naked Gun 33⅓, Tommy Boy, 50 First Dates, and Get Smart, whose films grossed over $1 billion worldwide despite mixed critical reception.

Peter Seisenbacher

Peter Seisenbacher, Austrian judoka (born 1960, Vienna), middleweight -86 kg; Olympic gold 1984 and 1988, first judoka to defend an Olympic title; world champion 1985; later convicted of sexual abuse and sentenced to five years in prison.

Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (Richard Henry Sellers, 1925-1980), British comic actor of The Goon Show, Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films, Dr. Strangelove, and Being There; Oscar-nominated, never won.

Peter Selzer

Peter Selzer (Wolfgang Peter Selzer, born 1946, Torgau) is a German race walker for East Germany, 50 km; fourth 1968 and fifth 1972 Olympics, three European medals, five world records, later Berlin head coach.

Peter Sendel

Peter Sendel (born 1972, Ilmenau), German biathlete nicknamed "Sendusch"; 1998 Nagano Olympic relay gold, 2002 Salt Lake City relay silver, six World Championship medals; later DSV coach and Oberhof World Cup competition director.

Peter Serafinowicz

Peter Serafinowicz (born 1972) is an English actor and comedian, voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, co-creator of Look Around You, star of The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Pete in Shaun of the Dead, The Tick, and host of Netflix's Million Dollar Secret.

Peter Sercel

Peter Sercel is a condensed matter theorist who trained at Caltech and taught at the University of Oregon from 1992 to 2002, known for modeling spin splitting in hybrid perovskites.

Oct 10, 2026

Peter Shaw Ashton

Peter Shaw Ashton (born 1934) is a British botanist and tropical forest ecologist, a world authority on the Dipterocarpaceae, who co-founded the Smithsonian forest-plot network CTFS.

Oct 10, 2026

Peter Shawhan

Peter Shawhan, also known as Peter Sven Shawhan, is an American physicist and professor at the University of Maryland who helped validate LIGO's first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.

Oct 10, 2026

Peter Sheridan Dodds

Peter Sheridan Dodds is a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont who works on network science and contagion, and is best known for the Hedonometer, a Twitter-based instrument measuring happiness.

Peter Shilton

Peter Shilton (born 1949, Leicester), English goalkeeper; record 125 England caps 1970–1990, world-record 1,390 club appearances, two European Cups with Nottingham Forest, and the Hand of God goal in 1986.

Peter Shor

Peter Shor is an American theoretical computer scientist, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, known for Shor's 1994 quantum factoring algorithm and for quantum error correction.

Peter Siddle

Peter Siddle (born 1984, Traralgon, Victoria), Australian right-arm fast-medium bowler; 221 Test wickets in 67 Tests, 241 international wickets, 2010 birthday Ashes hat-trick; retired internationally 2019, later NSW Blues bowling coach.

Peter Sidi

Peter Sidi (Péter Sidi), Hungarian rifle shooter born 1978 in Komárom; five Olympian (2000–2016), 2010 world champion 50m rifle 3 positions, 2009 Shooter of the Year, later listed under Romania.

Peter Siebold

Peter Siebold (born 1971) is an American aerospace engineer and test pilot at Scaled Composites in Mojave, California, who flew SpaceShipOne above 100,000 feet and survived the 2014 SpaceShipTwo breakup.

Peter Simmonds

Peter Simmonds is a virologist known for his work on the evolution and taxonomy of human viruses, especially hepatitis C virus, and is now Visiting Professor at the University of Turku.

Sep 24, 2026

Peter Simon Pallas

Peter Simon Pallas (Пётр Симон Паллас), 1741 to 1811, was a German-born naturalist in Russian service who led the Orenburg expedition surveying the Volga, Urals, and Siberia.

Peter Singer

Peter Singer (born 1946) is an Australian utilitarian philosopher, author of Animal Liberation (1975) and "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" (1972), central to applied ethics, animal rights, and effective altruism.

Peter Sintz

Peter Vaughan Sintz (born 1940 or 1941), American freestyle swimmer: 1959 Pan Am gold 4x200 relay, world-record relays with Indianapolis AC, two Big Ten titles for Indiana, later a Mobile, Alabama lawyer and USMS masters champion.

Oct 20, 2026

Peter Sitt

Peter Sitt (born 1969, Cologne) is a German freestyle swimmer, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, 1991 world champion in the same relay, and former 4x200 m freestyle relay world record holder.

Oct 20, 2026

Peter Skantar

Peter Škantár (born 1982, Kežmarok) is a Slovak slalom canoeist who won C2 gold at Rio 2016 with cousin Ladislav Škantár, took three European titles, and later coached Matej Beňuš at the Police Sports Centre.

Peter Slavin

Peter Slavin is an American physician-executive, president of Massachusetts General Hospital from 2003 to 2021, who became president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in October 2024.

Peter Sleight

Peter Sleight (1929–2020) was a British cardiologist, the first Field-Marshal Alexander Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford, who chaired the ISIS trials recruiting about 140,000 patients.

Oct 20, 2026

Peter Snell

Peter Snell (1938–2019), New Zealand middle-distance runner coached by Arthur Lydiard; triple Olympic gold medallist (800m Rome 1960; 800m and 1500m Tokyo 1964) and world record-holder at 800m, mile, and 1000m.

Peter Snow

Peter Snow, also known as Peter John Snow, is a British television and radio presenter who anchored BBC Two's Newsnight from 1979 and presented election night coverage until 2005.

Peter Sobiloff

Peter Sobiloff is a software investor and Managing Director at Insight Partners, where he joined in 1998, known for investments including Medidata Solutions and Think Systems.

Peter Sohn

Peter Sohn (born 1977, Bronx) is a Korean American Pixar animator, voice actor, and director of The Good Dinosaur (2015) and Elemental (2023), now Vice President, Creative, and director of Incredibles 3.

Péter Somogyi

Péter Somogyi, born in Hungary in 1950, is a Hungarian-British neurobiologist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford known for classifying hippocampal interneurons and winning the 2011 Brain Prize.