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 Jonas Bergius

First Name Peter
Last Name Bergius
Died on July 10, 1790

Peter Jonas Bergius was a Swedish medical doctor and botanist.

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Peter Hepp

First Name Peter
Last Name Hepp
Born on June 30, 1961 (age 64)
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Peter Zinner

First Name Peter
Last Name Zinner
Born on July 24, 1919
Died on November 13, 2007 (aged 88)
Born in Austria

Peter Zinner was an Austrian-born American filmmaker who worked as a film editor, sound editor, and producer. Following nearly fifteen years of uncredited work as an assistant sound editor, Zinner received credits on more than fifty films from 1959 to 2006. His most influential films are likely The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, both of which appear on a 2012 listing of the 75 best edited films of all time compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

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Peter Seifert

First Name Peter
Last Name Seifert
Born on July 27, 1941 (age 84)
Born in Germany, Saxony
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Peter Mattei

First Name Peter
Last Name Mattei
Born on June 3, 1965 (age 60)

Peter Mattei is a Swedish operatic baritone, particularly known for his performances in Mozart's baritone roles.

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Peter Mücke

First Name Peter
Last Name Mücke
Born on November 21, 1946 (age 79)
Born in Germany
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Peter Medawar

First Name Peter
Last Name Medawar
Born on February 28, 1915
Died on October 2, 1987 (aged 72)

Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance were fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his scientific works he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings. Famous zoologists such as Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers", and Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known".

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Peter Wittig

First Name Peter
Last Name Wittig
Born on August 11, 1954 (age 71)

Peter Wittig is a former German diplomat and has been Germany's Ambassador to the Court of St. James in the United Kingdom from July, 2018, to April, 2020, after having served as Ambassador to the United States from April 30, 2014, to June 20, 2018 and Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York from 2009 to 2014.

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Peter Whittle

First Name Peter
Last Name Whittle
Born on February 27, 1927
Died on August 10, 2021 (aged 94)

Peter Whittle is a mathematician and statistician from New Zealand, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge.

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Peter Hogg

First Name Peter
Last Name Hogg
Born on March 12, 1939
Died on February 4, 2020 (aged 80)

Peter Wardell Hogg was a Canadian legal scholar and lawyer. He was best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law, with the most academic citations in Supreme Court jurisprudence of any living scholar during his lifetime, according to Emmett Macfarlane of the University of Waterloo.

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