List of Famous people named Peter

Peter Parros is an American actor and screenwriter. His acting credits include stage, screen and television. Parros portrays Judge David Harrington on Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network, but he may be most recognized for his nearly decade-long portrayal of Dr. Ben Harris on the CBS soap As the World Turns.

Péter Halász was a Hungarian actor, director and playwright. In 1993 he won the Hungarian Film Critics Awards for Best Actor. He founded several theater companies in Budapest and New York City including the Kassák Haz Studió, the "appartement theatre", Squat Theatre, Love Theatre and Varosi Szinhaz. As a film actor he appeared Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Sunshine (1999), and The Breed, among others. In February, 2006 his terminal liver cancer led to his final performance: lying in an open coffin in a Budapest art museum. He died a month after at the age of 62. He had four children: Judith Halasz, Cora Fisher, Gabor Halasz, and David Halasz.

Peter Frankenberg is a German researcher, professor and politician (CDU). Prof. Dr. Peter Frankenberg was Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2001 to 2011. Previously he was chaired professor and President (rector) at the University of Mannheim from 1994 until 2001.

Peter John Landin was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.

Peter Allen Oppegard is an American retired pair skater and coach. With his partner Jill Watson, he is the 1988 Olympic bronze medalist and a three-time U.S. national champion.

Peter Williams is a Jamaican-born Canadian actor. He is known for playing Apophis, a primary antagonist on Stargate SG-1.

Peter Maurer is the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), appointed 1 July 2012. Maurer was born in Thun, Switzerland.