Peter
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Peter is a common given name for males: see Peter (name).
Peter could refer to the following:
- Real people
- Saint Peter, Jesus' disciple
- Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow
- Saint Peter the Aleut, Eastern Orthodox Christian martyr in California
- Antipope Peter II
- Peter, bishop of Zaragoza (Spain) in 1112.
- Peter of Aquila, Italian Franciscan theologian and bishop
- Peter of Auvergne, scholastic philosopher
- Peter of Bergamo, Dominican theologian
- Peter of Portugal, the name of five Portuguese Kings and several Princes
- Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great), the first Emperor of the Russian Empire
- Peter of Poitiers, French theologian
- Peter the Deacon, a confidant of Pope Gregory I and rector of Sicily
- Peter the Hermit, a peasant religious icon during the First Crusade
- Peter (actor) (ピーター), a Japanese transvestite and actor who appeared in Akira Kurosawa's Ran
- Peter Cantor, French theologian
- Peter Cellensis, Bishop of Chartres
- Peter David, an American writer
- Peter de Vinea, Most prominent statesman at the court of Frederick II
- Peter Frampton musician
- Peter Mansbridge, CBC's 'The National' anchor.
- Peter Ostrum American actor
- Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician
- Peter Saarsgard, actor
- Peter Serafinowicz, English comedy actor
- Peter Stormare, actor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer of the Romantic era
- Peter Tomarken, game show host
- Peter Wentz, bassist for the band Fall Out Boy
- Fictional people
- The blond caveman from the comic strip B.C.
- A principal character in Sheri S. Tepper's The True Game novels
- Peter Griffin, a main character on the animated series Family Guy
- Peter Pan
- Peter Parker, the alter ego of Spider-Man
- Peter Petrelli, a character on NBC's Heroes
- Peter Pettigrew, a character in the Harry Potter series
- Peter Pevensie, a major character in The Chronicles of Narnia
- Petey Piranha, a plant character that drives a pipe shaped Kart in the Nintendo Gamecube game "Mario Kart: Double Dash"
- Peter Potamus
- Dr. Peter Venkman A character played by Bill Murray in the Ghostbusters movies
- Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan A character pleayed by Patrick Marber
- Fictional Animals
- Peter Rabbit, the main character in a series of children's books by Beatrix Potter
- Other uses
- Peter is a euphemism for penis (US usage)
- Peter is used in adjective form to mean sexy or manly (Vietnamese usage)
- Peter is a euphemism for someone who affects upper-class airs (Tamil usage; see definition in Madras Tamil)
- Peter is used in verb form to refer to diminishment or reduction
- Peter (software), an IDE
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