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Peter Soulé
Peter Soulé is a Republican candidate who advanced to the 2026 general election for the U.S. House in California's 16th Congressional District, running on public safety and affordability.
Peter Soulsby
Sir Peter Soulsby (born 1948) is the Labour City Mayor of Leicester, first directly elected in 2011 and re-elected in 2015, 2019, and 2023; formerly MP for Leicester South from 2005 to 2011.
Peter Spuhler
Peter Spuhler, born 1959, is a Swiss entrepreneur who bought Stadler Rail in 1989 with 18 employees, took it public in 2019, and remains chairman and largest shareholder.
Peter St George‐Hyslop
Peter St George-Hyslop (born 1953) is a Canadian neurologist and molecular geneticist known for identifying the presenilin genes that cause early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Peter Starlinger
Peter Starlinger (1931–2017) was a German geneticist and molecular biologist at the University of Cologne whose group sequenced McClintock's maize transposable elements Ac and Ds in the 1980s.
Peter Šťastný
Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey center born 1956 in Bratislava; defected from Czechoslovakia in 1980 to the Quebec Nordiques, second NHL scorer of the 1980s behind Gretzky, 1,239 points, Hall of Fame 1998.
Peter Staudhammer
Peter Staudhammer (1934–2008) was an American aerospace engineer who spent four decades at TRW, retiring in 2002 as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer overseeing 17,000 engineers.
Peter Steele
Peter Steele (Peter Thomas Ratajczyk, 1962–2010), American singer and bassist, frontman of gothic metal band Type O Negative and earlier thrash band Carnivore; 6 ft 8 in, deep bass voice, Bloody Kisses and October Rust.
Peter Steinberger (programmer)
Peter Steinberger, known online as @steipete, is an Austrian software engineer who founded the PDF company PSPDFKit, created the AI agent OpenClaw, and joined OpenAI in 2026.
Peter Sterling (neuroscientist)
Peter Sterling (born 1940) is an American neuroscientist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who pioneered 3D electron-microscopic reconstruction of retinal circuits and developed allostasis.
Peter Stickles
Peter Stickles (born 1976, New York City) is an American actor and producer known for Shortbus (2006), Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven, Cemetery Gates, and many indie horror films; married to Michael Carbonaro since 2014.
Peter Stoica
Peter Stoica, also known as Petre Stoica, is a signal processing researcher and Professor of Systems Modeling at Uppsala University, known for system identification, spectral analysis, and array processing.
Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare (Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm, born 1953) is a Swedish actor and director, a Royal Dramatic Theatre star known for Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Constantine, and Prison Break.
Peter Strasser
Peter Strasser is a chemist and professor of electrochemistry and electrocatalysis at TU Berlin since 2007, known for dealloyed core–shell catalysts for fuel cells and water electrolysis.
Peter Straub
Peter Francis Straub (1943–2022), American horror and literary novelist of Ghost Story, the Blue Rose trilogy, and Stephen King collaborations The Talisman and Black House; World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award winner.
Peter Strauss
Peter Strauss (born 1947) is the American actor, not the Columbia law professor Peter L. Strauss, Emmy winner for The Jericho Mile and star of Rich Man, Poor Man, Masada, and Kane & Abel.
Peter Strick
Peter L. Strick is an American systems neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh who maps brain circuits controlling movement and organs, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
Peter Stringfellow
Peter Stringfellow was a British nightclub owner and impresario who booked early Beatles, Who, and Rolling Stones shows and opened Stringfellows in Covent Garden in 1980.
Peter Strzok
Peter Strzok, former FBI Counterintelligence Section Chief and Deputy Assistant Director, led the Clinton email (Midyear) probe and opened Crossfire Hurricane; anti-Trump texts with Lisa Page led to his 2018 firing, though OIG reviews found no bias affecting decisions.
Peter Stumpp
Peter Stumpp, also Stubbe Peeter or Peter Stumpf, the Werewolf of Bedburg, was a German farmer executed 31 October 1589 after a torture-extracted confession to werewolfery, murder, and cannibalism, known chiefly through a 1590 London pamphlet.
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter (Pieter/Petrus) Stuyvesant, Dutch West India Company director-general of New Netherland 1647–1664, last Dutch governor before England took New Amsterdam and renamed it New York; one-legged Caribbean veteran, 1653 city charter, anti-Jewish orders, slave trade.
Peter Sunde
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, known online as brokep, is a Norwegian-Finnish internet entrepreneur and activist best known as a co-founder and spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, later founding Flattr and Njalla.
Peter Sundelin
Peter Sundelin (Peter Nils Sundelin), Swedish sailor born 1947 in Nacka; 1968 Olympic 5.5m gold with brothers Jörgen and Ulf; four Games 1968–1980; KSSS coach and Hall of Fame member.
Peter Sutcliffe
Peter Sutcliffe, aka Peter Coonan, the Yorkshire Ripper, English serial killer (1946-2020) who murdered 13 women and attempted seven more murders, 1975-1980; arrested in Sheffield January 1981 after nine police interviews, jailed for life.
Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland (1946–2018), Irish barrister and statesman; Attorney General of Ireland, EU Competition Commissioner, first WTO Director-General, chairman of BP, and UN Special Representative for International Migration 2006–2017.
Peter Sutter
Peter Sutter is a materials scientist and professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln known for epitaxial graphene growth on metals and twisted van der Waals nanowires.
Peter Svennilson
Peter Svennilson is a venture capitalist and founder of The Column Group, a San Francisco biotech firm, known for chairing Aragon and Seragon Pharmaceuticals to acquisition.
Peter Swerling
Peter Swerling (1929–2000) was an American mathematician and radar theoretician whose statistical models of fluctuating radar targets, the Swerling Cases I–IV, remain standard tools in radar system design.
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, full name Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, was a British mathematician who co-authored the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, one of the seven Clay Millennium Prize Problems.
Peter Szmidt
Peter Szmidt (Peter Charles Szmidt), Canadian freestyle swimmer born 1961 in Montréal; set the 400 m freestyle world record 3:50.49 in 1980 and swam at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.