List of Famous people named Peter

Peter Angermann is a German painter based in Nuremberg.

Peter Agre is an American physician, Nobel Laureate, and molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.

Peter William Connolly FSA was a British scholar of the ancient world, Greek and Roman military equipment historian, reconstructional archaeologist and illustrator. He was a regular contributor to such periodicals as the Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies and Roman Frontier Studies.

Peter Schenk the Younger was a Dutch engraver and map publisher active in Leipzig.

Peter Hauk is a German politician of the CDU party. He has been a member of the Landtag of Baden-Wuerttemberg since 1992. From 2005 until 2010 he was Minister for Nutrition and Rural Areas, and from 2010 until the election of Guido Wolf to faction leader in 2015, he was CDU group leader and leader of the opposition in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. Since 12 May 2016 he is a member of the Cabinet Kretschmann II as Minister for Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection.