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Peter Tschentscher
Peter Tschentscher is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who has led Hamburg as First Mayor since 2018 and was re-elected in May 2025.
Peter Tugwell
Peter Tugwell is a Canadian rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa, known for rheumatoid arthritis trials, co-founding the Cochrane Collaboration, and health equity in evidence synthesis.
Peter Turkson
Peter Turkson, born 1948, is a Ghanaian cardinal, the first in his country, who was Archbishop of Cape Coast, led Vatican justice offices, and drafted Laudato Si'.
Peter Turnbaugh
Peter Turnbaugh is an American microbiome researcher and professor at UCSF known for showing that the gut microbiome of obese mice transmits increased energy harvest.
Peter Twiss
Peter Twiss, born Lionel Peter Winterton Twiss, was a British test pilot who in 1956 flew the Fairey Delta 2 past 1,000 mph, breaking the world air-speed record.
Peter Tyack
Peter Tyack is a behavioral ecologist who studies whale and dolphin communication and is Professor of Marine Mammal Biology at the University of St Andrews.
Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer is a British community psychiatrist, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, who chaired the WHO group revising personality disorder classification for ICD-11 and developed nidotherapy.
Peter U. Clark
Peter U. Clark is an American paleoclimatologist and University Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, known for research on glaciers, ice sheets, and past sea level.
Peter Ueberroth
Peter Ueberroth (born 1937) is an American executive who ran the privately financed, profitable 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and served as Major League Baseball's sixth commissioner, 1984-1988, also leading the USOPC.
Peter Unger
Peter Unger, New York University philosopher, author of Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism (1975), defends universal ignorance via a theory of absolute terms like 'certain' and 'know'.
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Ustinov (Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov, 1921–2004) was a British actor, playwright, director, and raconteur of Russian, German, French, and Ethiopian descent; won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, three Emmys, a Grammy, and served 36 years as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Peter Utzschneider
Peter Utzschneider, born 1946 in Murnau am Staffelsee, West German bobsledder and brakeman for pilot Wolfgang Zimmerer; Olympic gold two-man Sapporo 1972, two four-man bronzes, four world titles.
Peter V. Coveney
Peter V. Coveney, also known as Peter Coveney, is a computational scientist who directs the Centre for Computational Science at University College London and works on multiscale modeling and high-performance computing.
Peter V. Kharchenko
Peter V. Kharchenko is a computational biologist and Gilbert S. Omenn Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for single-cell RNA sequencing tools like Conos and velocyto.
Peter V'landys
Peter V'landys AM, Australian sports administrator: Executive Chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission from 2026, ARLC chairman from 2019, and Racing NSW chief executive 2004-2026; secured the $5.3 billion NRL media rights deal and created The Everest.
Peter Vack
Peter Vack (Peter Brown, born 1986) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer from New York, known for Mozart in the Jungle, I Just Want My Pants Back, and directing Assholes and www.RachelOrmont.com.
Peter Vail
Peter Robbins Vail (1930–2024) was an American geologist who pioneered sequence stratigraphy during three decades at Exxon research laboratories, producing the global sea-level curves known as the Vail curves.
Peter Valent
Peter Valent is an Austrian hematologist and physician-scientist at the Medical University of Vienna whose work on mastocytosis underlies the WHO classification of mast cell diseases.
Peter Van Hoesen
Peter Van Hoesen is a Belgian electronic music producer, sound designer, and mastering engineer, born in 1970 in Schoten, Belgium, known for a bass-heavy, psychedelic take on techno.
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 1938, is a Dutch theoretical physicist who co-discovered supergravity at Stony Brook in 1976 and shared the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in 2019.
Peter Vandenabeele
Peter Vandenabeele is a Belgian cell death researcher, senior full professor at Ghent University who leads the Cell Death and Inflammation Unit at VIB-UGent, studying necroptosis and inflammation.
Peter Vanderkaay
Peter William Vanderkaay, American middle-distance freestyle swimmer born 1984 in Royal Oak, Michigan; three-time Olympian (2004, 2008, 2012) with two relay golds and two individual bronzes, five-time NCAA champion for Michigan.
Peter Vaughan
Peter Vaughan (Peter Ewart Ohm, 1923-2016), English character actor of Porridge's Harry Grout, Our Friends in the North's Felix Hutchinson, and Maester Aemon in Game of Thrones; 222 screen credits over seven decades.
Peter Venkman
Peter Venkman is the fictional parapsychologist played by Bill Murray in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989); written for John Belushi, he is the team's skeptic, voiced by Lorenzo Music in The Real Ghostbusters, and reprised in Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
Peter Vesterbacka
Peter Vesterbacka is a Finnish marketing executive and entrepreneur who served as chief marketing officer of Angry Birds developer Rovio from 2010 to 2016, then founded Finest Bay Area to promote a Helsinki–Tallinn undersea tunnel.
Peter Vidmar
Peter Vidmar is a retired American artistic gymnast and UCLA alumnus. He won two gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, later chairing the USA Gymnastics Board.
Peter Vogt
Peter Vogt, also publishing as P. R. Vogt, is an American marine geophysicist who argued from the late 1960s that sea-floor spreading runs in episodes, not at a steady state.
Peter von Hippel
Peter H. von Hippel is an American molecular biologist and biophysical chemist, emeritus professor at the University of Oregon, known for kinetic studies of transcription and DNA replication.
Peter von Kant
Peter von Kant is a 2022 French drama directed by François Ozon, starring Denis Ménochet and Isabelle Adjani, adapted from Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Peter Vonhof
Peter Vonhof (born 1949, Berlin), West German track cyclist, two-time Olympic gold medallist in the 4,000 m team pursuit (Munich 1972, Montreal 1976) and four-time amateur world champion (1970, 1973-75) with the Gold-Vierer.