List of Famous people named Peter

Peter Manigault was a Charleston, South Carolina attorney, plantation owner, slave owner and colonial legislator. He was the wealthiest man in the British North American colonies at the time of his death and owned hundreds of slaves. He was the son-in-law of Joseph Wragg, the largest slave trader of North America in the 1730s.

Peter Douglas Dawson is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

Peter Christopher Sebastian Theroux is an American writer and translator from Boston, Massachusetts. The younger brother of writers Alexander Theroux and Paul Theroux, during college Peter studied for a year at the University of Cairo. He became interested in Arabic literature and has made it his life's work. He has translated numerous works of both historic and chiefly contemporary fiction by Egyptian, Iraqi and Lebanese authors. In addition, he has written articles and published a travel book, Sandstorms (1990), about his extensive travels in the Middle East.

Peter Demetz is an American literature scholar of Germany and a Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale University, and also a published author. He was formerly the Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers University.

Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky was a Russian chess player and author. He won the Soviet Championship in 1923 and, jointly, 1927.