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Piet Wernink
Piet Wernink (Petrus Adrianus Wernink, 1895–1971), Dutch sailor; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 6.5 metre class aboard Oranje with Joop and Berend Carp, counted as the Netherlands' first Olympic gold.
Piet-Hein Geeris
Piet-Hein Geeris (born 1972, Boxtel) is a retired Dutch field hockey forward and midfielder; 194 caps, 29 goals, Olympic gold at Sydney 2000, 1998 World Cup winner, three-time Champions Trophy winner.
Pietà
Pietà (Italian for pity and piety), a Christian art subject showing the dead Christ in the Virgin Mary's lap; not a Gospel scene, begun in the 14th century from the German Vesperbild, and most famously Michelangelo's signed 1498–1499 Vatican marble Pietà.
Pietà (Bouguereau)
Pietà (1876) is a monumental oil painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau showing Mary cradling the dead Christ with sorrowing angels, painted as a memorial to his son Georges and now in the Dallas Museum of Art.
Pietà (Michelangelo)
Pietà (Michelangelo), also Vatican Pietà or Madonna della Pietà: 1499 marble sculpture in St. Peter's Basilica of Mary holding the dead Christ; Michelangelo's only signed sculpture, commissioned by Cardinal Jean de Bilhères.
Pieta (피에타)
Pieta (피에타) is Kim Ki-duk's 2012 South Korean drama about a Seoul debt collector and a woman claiming to be his mother; it won the 69th Venice Golden Lion, a first for a Korean director.
Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley who directs the Robot Learning Lab, co-founded Gradescope and Covariant, and joined Amazon as a Scholar in 2024.
Pieter Aertsen
Pieter Aertsen, called Lange Pier for his height, was a Dutch painter from Amsterdam (c. 1508–1575) who pioneered monumental market and kitchen scenes, notable for his 1551 Meat Stall.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, also known as Brueghel the Elder, was a Netherlandish painter of the Northern Renaissance, known for landscapes and peasant scenes, who died in 1569.
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein is a chemical biologist and mass spectrometry researcher at UC San Diego who co-develops the GNPS platform for molecular networking in metabolomics.
Pieter C. Smits
Pieter C. Smits is a Dutch interventional cardiologist, Director of Interventional Cardiology at Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam, and lead investigator of the COMPARE and MASTER DAPT stent trials.
Pieter C. Wensink
Pieter C. Wensink was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus of biochemistry at Brandeis University, known for mapping Drosophila chromosomes and dissecting sex-specific gene regulation; he died in 2012.
Pieter Claesz
Pieter Claesz (1596/97–1660) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter who spent his career in Haarlem and became its leading painter of breakfast and vanitas still lifes.
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) was a Flemish painter, sculptor, architect, and tapestry designer active in Antwerp and Brussels who ran one of the largest workshops in the Southern Netherlands.
Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy
Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy was a Dutch Mennonite utopist who led a cooperative settlement at Zwaanendael on the Delaware, founded in 1663 and destroyed in 1664.
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647) was a Dutch Golden Age poet, playwright, and historian, called the head of the Dutch poets, who served as Drost of Muiden.
Pieter Cullis
Pieter Cullis is a Canadian biochemist and professor at the University of British Columbia whose lab developed ionizable lipids that made lipid nanoparticles workable for delivering mRNA drugs.
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter born in Rotterdam in 1629, known for sunlit domestic interiors and view-through-doorway compositions painted in Delft.
Pieter De Somer
Pieter De Somer was a Belgian physician and biologist who founded the Rega Institute in Leuven and served as the first lay rector of KU Leuven.
Pieter Heerma
Pieter Heerma is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Alliance who has been Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in the Jetten government since 2024.
Pieter Hendrik van Cittert
Pieter Hendrik van Cittert (died 1959) was a Dutch physicist at Utrecht University known for the van Cittert–Zernike theorem of radio interferometry and an iterative deconvolution method in image processing.
Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo (born 1976) is a South African photographic artist in Cape Town, best known for The Hyena & Other Men, portraits of Nigeria's hyena handlers.
Pieter Kasteleyn
Pieter Willem Kasteleyn was a Dutch theoretical physicist who spent his life in Leiden and is known for the exact 1961 solution of the two-dimensional dimer problem, now called Kasteleyn's theorem.
Pieter M. de Wolff
Pieter M. de Wolff (Pieter Maarten de Wolff, 1919–1998) was a Dutch crystallographer at Delft who introduced the superspace approach for describing incommensurately modulated crystal structures.
Pieter Mulier
Pieter Mulier, Belgian designer and trained architect, longtime right hand of Raf Simons at Jil Sander, Dior, and Calvin Klein; Alaïa creative director 2021–2026, Versace chief creative officer from July 2026.
Pieter Omvlee
Pieter Omvlee is a Dutch software developer who co-founded Sketch, the Mac-based user-interface design application, with designer Emanuel Sá and serves as its chief executive officer.
Pieter P. Tans
Pieter P. Tans, also known as Pieter Tans, is a climate scientist who led NOAA's Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group from 1985 to 2019, maintaining the Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network.
Pieter R. Cullis
Pieter R. Cullis is a Canadian biophysicist and UBC professor whose lipid nanoparticle drug delivery technology underlies the siRNA drug Onpattro and the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
Pieter R. Roelfsema
Pieter R. Roelfsema is a Dutch neuroscientist who leads the Vision and Cognition group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, studying visual perception.
Pieter Rein ten Wolde
Pieter Rein ten Wolde (born 1970) is a Dutch biophysicist who leads the Biochemical Networks group at AMOLF and is a professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.