Peter

People and things named Peter include:

• Christ's disciple, Peter
• Peter the Deacon, a confidant of Pope Gregory I and rector of Sicily
• Two modern (and still-living) antipopes (Antipope Peter II)
• Peter the Great, the first Emperor of the Russian Empire
• Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow
• Peter, the blond caveman from the comic strip B.C.
• Peter (ピーター), a Japanese transvestite and actor who has appeared in Akira Kurosawa's Ran (among other films).
• Peter is a principal character in Sheri S. Tepper's True Game novels.
• Peter Cook (November 17, 1937 – January 9, 1995) an English satirist, writer and comedian
• Peter Gabriel, a famous English musician and former frontman in the progressive rockband Genesis
• Peter Griffin, the title character of the animated TV series Family Guy.
• Peter Jennings (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) the lead news anchor for the ABC network from the 1980s to the 2000s
• Peter O'Toole a famous Irish-born film actor
• Peter Pan, a fictional character created by J. M. Barrie of a little boy who refuses to grow up
• Peter Parker a fictional character , the alter ego of Spider-Man and a Marvel Comics superhero created by Stan Lee
• Peter Pevensie is one of the main characters in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
• Peter Rabbit, the famous Beatrix Potter children's character
• Peter Sellers (September 8, 1925 – July 24, 1980) a British comedian, talented comic actor, and performer on The Goon Show
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) a Russian composer of the Romantic era.
• Blue Peter is a long-running children's TV programme in the United Kingdom, named after a flag.
• Peter and the Wolf is a musical story by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1933
• "Peter" can also be a slang term meaning "penis."
• Peter is the name of five Portuguese Kings and several Princes (See: Peter of Portugal)