List of Famous people named Peter

Name Peter is among the most common names in Germany, USA, England, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Austria. Shortened forms: Pete. Similar names: Pete, Pieter, Petter, Peeter, Petteri, Petero, Peteiro. Here are some famous Peters:

Peter Leslie

First Name Peter
Last Name Leslie
Born on January 1, 1686 (age 340)
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Peter Craven Westenra

First Name Peter
Last Name Westenra
Born on September 12, 1855
Died on January 2, 1932 (aged 76)
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Peter Douglas Hancock

First Name Peter
Last Name Hancock
Born on June 19, 1958 (age 68)
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Peter Gould

First Name Peter
Last Name Gould
Born on November 30, 1949 (age 76)

Peter Gould is an American television writer, director and producer. He worked on all five seasons of the AMC drama Breaking Bad. He was nominated for four Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards for his work on the series. After Breaking Bad ended, he went on to become the co-creator and co-showrunner, with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, of the show's spinoff, Better Call Saul. He became the series' sole showrunner after Gilligan left the writers room.

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Peter William Rowley

First Name Peter
Last Name Rowley
Born on July 20, 1934
Died on March 21, 2013 (aged 78)
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Peter Hargreaves

First Name Peter
Last Name Hargreaves
Born on October 5, 1946 (age 80)
Net Worth $4.2B

Peter Kendal Hargreaves CBE is an English co-founder with Stephen Lansdown of Hargreaves Lansdown, one of the United Kingdom's largest financial services businesses. He is a shareholder of Hargreaves Lansdown but no longer a director or employee. He is a partner in Blue Whale Capital, an investment boutique that was launched in 2017.

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Peter Hillary

First Name Peter
Last Name Hillary
Born on December 26, 1954 (age 71)

Peter Edmund Hillary is a New Zealand mountaineer, philanthropist and writer. He is the son of adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. When Peter Hillary summited Everest in 1990, he and his father were the first father/son duo to achieve the feat. Hillary has achieved two summits of Everest, an 84-day trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, and an expedition guiding astronaut Neil Armstrong to land a small aircraft at the North Pole. He has climbed many of the world's major peaks, and on 19 June 2008, completed the Seven Summits, reaching the top of the highest mountains on all seven continents, when he summited Denali in Alaska.

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Peter Denis Browne

First Name Peter
Last Name Browne
Born on March 11, 1825
Died on November 17, 1883 (aged 58)
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Peter Hughes

First Name Peter
Last Name Hughes
Born on May 20, 1922
Died on February 5, 2019 (aged 96)

Peter Clowe Hughes was an English actor with a career spanning five decades. He was an actor, founder and director of theatre, but was best known for his film and television roles.

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Peter F. Hamilton

First Name Peter
Last Name Hamilton
Born on March 2, 1960 (age 66)

Peter F. Hamilton is a British author. He is best known for writing science fiction space opera. As of the publication of his 10th novel in 2004, his works had sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.

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