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Pieter Sonneveld
Pieter Sonneveld is a Dutch professor of hematology at Erasmus MC Rotterdam, head of hematology from 2011 to 2017, known for the daratumumab trials CASTOR, CASSIOPEIA, and PERSEUS and for founding the European Myeloma Network.
Pieter Timmers
Pieter Timmers (born 1988, Neerpelt, Belgium), Belgian freestyle sprint swimmer; Olympic silver 100 m freestyle Rio 2016 in 47.80 (national record), short course 4x50 relay world record 2013, retired 2020 at the ISL in Budapest.
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter van den Hoogenband (Hoogie, The Dutch Dolphin), born 1978 in Maastricht, is a Dutch former swimmer, triple Olympic champion (100/200 free 2000, 100 free 2004), first man under 48 seconds for 100 m freestyle, later Dutch chef de mission.
Pieter van Dokkum
Pieter van Dokkum is a Dutch-born astronomer and Yale professor who studies galaxy formation, built the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, and discovered galaxies apparently lacking dark matter.
Pieter Zeeman
Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943) was a Dutch physicist who discovered the splitting of spectral lines by a magnetic field and shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz.
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Pieter-Dirk Uys, born 1945 in Cape Town, is a South African actor, playwright, and political satirist best known for performing the Afrikaner socialite Evita Bezuidenhout since the late 1970s.
Pieter-Steph du Toit
Pieter-Steph du Toit (Pieter Stephanus du Toit), South African Springbok loose forward born 1992, two-time World Rugby Player of the Year (2019, 2024), 2019 and 2023 World Cup winner, known for extreme tackle volume and surviving a 2020 leg injury.
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg, also called uMgungundlovu, is the capital of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, founded in 1838 and named after Voortrekker leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz; known for the 1893 Gandhi train incident and the Comrades Marathon.
Pietism
Pietism, or Lutheran Pietism, is a movement of renewal within Lutheranism begun by Philipp Jakob Spener's Pia Desideria in 1675, stressing heart religion and lay Bible reading.
Pietra dura
Pietra dura, in Italy also called commesso, is a decorative technique in which shaped colored stones are fitted into a stone backing to form pictorial designs.
Pietra Papa
Pietra Papa: medieval Roman toponym (Prata Papi) in the Marconi quarter, right bank of the Tiber, site of a Roman riverside villa, a Claudian-era 400 m quay, and the Hadrianic athlete mosaic now in the National Roman Museum.
Pietra Quintela
Pietra Quintela (born 2007) is a Brazilian actress and model, daughter of ex-Dominó member Marcos Quintela. Known as Lorena in SBT's Poliana telenovelas, she debuted on Globo in 2026 as Hanna in Por Você.
Pietra Tordin
Pietra Adao Tordin (born 2004, Doral, Florida) is a dual US-Brazilian forward for Portland Thorns FC in the NWSL; Princeton All-American, 2024 U-20 World Cup bronze medalist, 2026 contract extension through 2029, first USWNT cap October 2026.
Pietrarossa di Trevi
Pietrarossa di Trevi (Santa Maria di Pietrarossa) is an Umbrian archaeological site identified with Roman Trebiae, excavated since 2015 by the University of Perugia under Donatella Scortecci, with a domus, public complex, marine-themed mosaics, and occupation from the 3rd century BC to the 7th–8th centuries AD.
Pietro Aldobrandini
Pietro Aldobrandini (1571–1621) was an Italian cardinal and statesman, cardinal-nephew of Pope Clement VIII, who concentrated papal diplomacy as secretary of state and received Ferrara's annexation in 1598.
Pietro Alfieri
Pietro Alfieri (1801–1863) was an Italian priest, musicologist, and composer who taught Gregorian chant at the English College in Rome and published the first large modern collection of Palestrina's music.
Pietro Aretino
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), Italian satirist, playwright, and letter writer of Arezzo and Venice, author of the Ragionamenti, La Cortigiana, and six books of Lettere; called flagello dei principi, later indexed by the Church.
Pietro Badoglio
Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956), Marshal of Italy, led the 1935–36 Ethiopian conquest and headed the Italian government from 25 July 1943, signing the Cassibile armistice, until 10 June 1944.
Pietro Barilla
Pietro Barilla (1913–1993) was an Italian businessman who led the Barilla pasta company of Parma, sold it to W.R. Grace in 1971, and bought it back in 1979.
Pietro Bembo
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) was a Venetian humanist, Petrarchan poet, and cardinal whose Prose della volgar lingua (1525) set the standard of written Italian for centuries.
Pietro Bianchi
Pietro Bianchi names two Italian Olympic medalists: a Milanese gymnast (born 1888 or 1883) with team gold at Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920, and a Genoese weightlifter (1895-1962) who took 1920 middleweight silver on a coin toss.
Pietro Cannella
Pietro Cannella, also known as Giampiero, is an Italian politician appointed Undersecretary of State for Culture by presidential decree in April 2026 and sworn in at Palazzo Chigi.
Pietro De Camilli
Pietro De Camilli is an Italian-born American neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for work on synaptic vesicle recycling and Stiff-Man syndrome.
Pietro della Valle
Pietro della Valle (1586–1652) was a Roman nobleman whose travels produced the Viaggi, a detailed account of Persia and India in the early 17th century.
Pietro Ferrero
Pietro Ferrero was an Italian pastry maker who founded the Ferrero confectionery company in Alba, Piedmont, in 1946, creating the hazelnut-cocoa block that was the ancestor of Nutella.
Pietro Fittipaldi
Pietro Fittipaldi (born 1996, Miami) is a Brazilian racing driver, grandson of Emerson Fittipaldi; two F1 starts for Haas in 2020, IndyCar with Dale Coyne and RLL, and LMP2 winner at Monza 2023.
Pietro Gambardella
Pietro Gambardella is an Italian condensed-matter physicist who leads the Materials Department at ETH Zurich, known for current-induced magnetization switching and the first ferromagnetism in monatomic metal chains.
Pietro Gasparri
Pietro Gasparri (1852–1934) was an Italian cardinal and papal diplomat who directed the 1917 Code of Canon Law and signed the Lateran Pacts with Mussolini in 1929.
Pietro Gussalli Beretta
Pietro Gussalli Beretta, born in Brescia, Italy, in 1962, is President and CEO of Beretta Holding, a fifteenth-generation Beretta who leads the world's largest firearms company.
Pietro Lampertico
Pietro Lampertico is an Italian hepatologist and Full Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Milan, known for clinical research on hepatitis B and hepatitis D.