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Peter “Pete” Buttigieg is an American democratic politician, former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the 19th United States Secretary of Transportation. A Navy veteran who served in the Afghanistan War, he ran for President of the United States in 2020. He has been mentioned as a potential running mate for presidential candidate, Kamala Harris.
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Peter Neufeld is a prominent, exceptionally talented American criminal defense attorney. A member of the iconic “Dream Team”, he defended (and ultimately acquitted) former NFL player O.J. Simpson in his murder trial.
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Peter Gronkowski from the book Payback on Poplar Lane by Margaret Minicks is a famous fictional bearer of this name.
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Peter Brock, AM (1945 – 2006), known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, the Sandown 500 touring car race nine times, the Australian Touring Car Championship three times, the Bathurst 24 Hour once and was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2001. Brock's business activities included the Holden Dealer Team (HDT) that produced Brock's racing machines as well as a number of modified high-performance road versions of his racing cars.
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Peter Griffin from Family Guy!
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Peter “Pin” Hawthorne is a main character in Free Rein, and the boyfriend of protagonist Zoe Phillips.
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If you look at the association with Peter Parker, Peter Pan, Peter Piper, and Peter Griffin.
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This is the name of Austrian school economist Peter Schiff. Schiff is known for his prediction of the housing bubble and subprime mortgage crisis. He is President of a company called Euro Pacific Capital and was economic adviser to Ron Paul's Presidential campaign in 2008. Schiff also runs the Peter Schiff Show a radio show and Podcast where he discusses economics, finance, and politics. He has published several books as well mostly about economics and finance. He is known for his belief in the owning of gold and silver as part of a diversified portfolio and concerns about an inflationary crisis. Critics suggest that some of his predictions occurred over a longer time frame than he has projected and that certain predictions about investments have been less successful than he has suggested.
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Struwwelpeter, AKA Shockheaded Peter, the title character of Heinrich Hoffman's book...
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Peter Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director, singer and writer. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It.
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Captain Peter Burkill of British Airways flight 38 performed a crash landing after the Boeing 777 suffered fuel starvation which caused its engines to shut down near London Heathrow. Everyone onboard made out of the aircraft alive thanks to Captain Burkill and his fellow crew.
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Peter Gerard Scully was an Australian man who got life imprisonment in the Philippines after producing and selling several graphic and heinous videos on the dark web which showed torture and sexual abuse of infants, as well as many other videos graphic in nature. Scully also kidnapped and abused children and made them his slaves. He also was found to have murdered at least one of his victims.
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Peter Rabbit.
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Peter Pettigrew is a character of J.K. Rowling's creation.
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Fictional Bearer: Artham Peet Wingfeather "Peet the Sock Man" from Wingfeather Saga. Named after author's older brother Peter.
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Famous Bearer: Peter Furler. Newsboys. Australian. Bald, dark eye make-up, scary looking, but oh so sweet in life. Very joyous man.
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Peter Steele was the frontman of the gothic metal band Type O Negative.
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Peter White is a smooth jazz guitarist bearing the name.
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Bruno Mars' real name.
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Peter Pettigrew was the Secret keeper to the Potters and a death eater in Harry Potter.
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Peter Cushing was the English actor who was always hunting Dracula ( Christopher Lee). Peter Benchly wrote “Jaws”. Peter (Pete) Rose holds the MLB record for career hits. Peter Noone was frontman for 60’s group Herman’s Hermits. Peter Lorre who was in hundreds of movies including “Casablanca”. Peter Maravich (Pistol Pete) hall of fame NBA star.. Peter Gabriel musician. Peter (Pete) Best one time Beatles drummer, Peter Ustinov actor. Peter Fonda actor, Peter Lawford actor and Kennedy relative. Peter Wolff frontman for Jay Guiles Band, Peter Jennings network newscaster, The fact that its also the most common name among Fortune 500 CEOs would indicate a lot of successful people bear the name for Pete’s sake.
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Peter Mayhew is an actor who portrayed Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies from 1977 to 2015.
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Famous bearers of this name include:
Peter Warren Hatcher was the main character of the Judy Blume novel “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.”
Peter Billingsley was the actor who played Ralphie Parker in the movie “A Christmas Story.”
Peter Falk was an actor best known for playing the titular character of the show “Columbo.”
Peter Venkman was one of the main characters in the original Ghostbusters movie.
Peter Jason Quill (aka Star-Lord).
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Peter Baker from “Sleepaway Camp.”.
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Peter Warren Hatcher was the main character of the Judy Blume novel “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.”
Peter Billingsley was the actor who played Ralphie Parker in the movie “A Christmas Story.”
Peter Falk was an actor best known for playing the titular character of the show “Columbo.”
Peter Venkman was one of the main characters in the original Ghostbusters movie.
Peter Jason Quill (aka Star-Lord).
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Peter Baker from “Sleepaway Camp.”.
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Peter Robbins (born Louis Nanasi) was the original voice actor for Charlie Brown. He voiced him in, among other things, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”.
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Peter Prevc is a Slovenian ski jumper, often regarded as one of the best Slovenian ski jumpers of all time. He was the first ski jumper to jump 250 metres.
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This was the name of multiple saints, including Jesus' apostle Simon Peter, St. Peter the Aleut of Alaska, and St. Peter of Sebaste, the brother of St. Basil the Great.
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Peter Bryan is a serial killer from the UK. A cannibalistic animal, he ate his victims' brains. Sick!
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Peter Sutcliffe, dubbed the "Yorkshire Ripper," is one of Britain's worst serial killers.
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Peter Sohn is an American animator, director, voice actor, and storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. Sohn was born in The Bronx and raised in New York City. His parents were Korean immigrants. He attended CalArts and while there got a summer job working on Brad Bird's The Iron Giant. After graduating from school he worked at The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. before coming to Pixar. He graduated from High School in 1995.
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Peter Kürten was a German serial killer known as both The Vampire of Düsseldorf and the Düsseldorf Monster, who committed a series of murders and sexual assaults between February and November 1929 in the city of Düsseldorf. In the years prior to these assaults and murders, Kürten had amassed a lengthy criminal record for offenses including arson and attempted murder. He also confessed to the 1913 murders of a 9-year-old girl in Mülheim am Rhein, and a 17-year-old girl in Loscheckes.
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Peter James Crouch is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Stoke City. He was capped 42 times by the England national team between 2005 and 2010, scoring 22 goals for his country in that time, and appearing at two World Cups.
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Pyotr is the Russian version of this name (pronounced "p-yo-ter"). It was the name of famous Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Peter Hayes is a character from the Divergent trilogy.
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Peter Gene Hernandez, singer (1985-) stage name Bruno Mars. He sung the songs 'Lazy Song', 'Grenade', 'Just the way you are' and 'Talking to the Moon'.
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Peter Hayden Dinklage, actor best known for his role Tyrion Lannister in HBO's 'Game of Thrones' for which he won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actor in 2011. His notable filmography also includes 'The Station Agent' (2003), 'Elf' (2003), 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian' (2008), 'A Little Bit of Heaven' (2011), and 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' (2014).
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Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor (aka Crickity-Crickit) in Doctor Who, as well as Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small and Henry Sharpe in Law and Order UK.
Peter Purves, who played First Doctor companion Steven Taylor and was also a presenter on Blue Peter.
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Peter Purves, who played First Doctor companion Steven Taylor and was also a presenter on Blue Peter.
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Peter Brady was the awkward middle son from the TV show The Brady Bunch. He was portrayed by actor Christopher Knight.
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Peter Capaldi will be playing the Twelfth Doctor in the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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The main character in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall is named Peter. He writes a self-loathing song called "Peter You Suck".
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Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor.
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. :D
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Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1756-1811) was an English painter and collector of Swiss parentage.
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Sir Peter Blake is a British painter, sculptor and designer, a leading exponent of Pop art.
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Peter Yarrow is from the 1960's folk singing group, Peter Paul and Mary.
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Famous bearer: Peter Townshend, who sometimes went by Pete, the guitarist from the English rock band, The Who.
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Peter Yu Tae-chol was one of the Korean martyrs.
His story, even though undetailed and short, made me cry.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Yu_Tae-chol
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His story, even though undetailed and short, made me cry.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Yu_Tae-chol
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Peter Jennings, the former news anchor of ABC World News Tonight.
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Peter Tchaikovsky Russian composer.
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I am in the process of attempting to respond to the first 1000 results in a google search for 'Peter the Roman', the final pontiff in the St. Malachy prophecies. Total results are over 3 million. Yet, the prophecy given in 1139 A.D. was in virtual obscurity for over 400 years until the invention of the printing press. In the computer age there has been a resurgence in the interest of the list of names.
Even Nostradamus spoke of 'Peter the Roman' in Century VII, #24.
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Even Nostradamus spoke of 'Peter the Roman' in Century VII, #24.
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Peter "Pete" is the oldest of the four Hollister children in the "Happy Hollisters" series of children's books.
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Corporal Peter Newkirk of the RAF, played by Richard Dawson (who later went on to host Family Feud). He was one of the main characters in Hogan's Heroes.
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Peter Forsberg is a Swedish ice hockey player who won two Stanley Cups with the Colorado Avalance.
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Peter Facinelli is a famous bearer of the name.
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Actor Peter Sellers who played Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series.
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Peter Corey, a children's writer who was born in Walsall, West Midlands (UK). He also acts and does stand up comedy.
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Peter Carlisle fom the the television show Blackpool.
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Peter is sometimes listed as the first name of the composer P. I. Tchaikovsky, although his name was really Pyotr.
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A famous bearer is Emmy Award-winning soap opera actor Peter Bergman (born June 11, 1953), best known for his role as Jack Abbott on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless," a role he's held since 1989.
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A famous bearer is English actor Peter Ustinov (April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004). He's well known for his Academy Award-winning roles in 'Spartacus' (1960) and 'Topkapi' (1964), among other film roles. He was also an accomplished writer and playwright.
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The name is borne by Dorothy L. Sayer's fictional detective, Lord Peter Wimsey. He's a beloved and well-known fictional character.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey
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A famous dude of this name is Peter Tork from the Monkees.
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Actually, Peter Tork was born Peter Halsten Thorkelson.
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A famous bearer was Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish painter.
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Peter was Ike Broflovski's name before he was adopted. Ike is Kyle's little brother in the show South Park.
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Peter Cottontail is a famous bearer. Lol.
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Famous bearer: James "Peter" Longsreet, a Confederate Civil War general who was blamed for the loss at Gettysburg.
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In Denmark Winnie-the-Pooh is called Peter Plys. "Plys" is a word Danish children sometimes put in front of teddy ("Plysbjørn").
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Peter Petrelli is one of the main characters in the television series Heroes.
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There are authors named Peter Abrahams, Peter Blauner, Peter Clement, and Peter Robinson.
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Peter Jackson is a Hollywood movie director most famous for his Lord of the Rings films. (I've heard that he is directing The Hobbit, too.)
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Famous fictional bearers: Peter Pevenesie in The Chronicles of Narnia, Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie's novel, and Peter Calamy in Master and Commander.
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A famous bearer is Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips. He was born on November 15, 1977.
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The next Pope is susposed to be Pope Peter (The Roman). He is supposed to be the antichrist.
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I find this comment rather bizarre. Good for a laugh perhaps, but I really hope nobody believes them! (The legend of Pope Peter II being the last pope as St Peter was the first is a very old one but no more sensible for that.)
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Another famous Peter is the tall British soccer player Peter Crouch.
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A famous bearer of the name Peter is Peter Van Daan, one of the eight residents of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam. He was described thoroughly in The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Peter Parker: Spider-Man's alter-ego.
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Peter Rabbit is the name of a Beatrix Potter character.
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Peter Wentz: Bassist for Fall Out Boy, too emo for emo, and world renowned pedophile.
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A famous bearer is actor Peter Boyle (born October 18, 1935). He won an Emmy in 1996 for an appearance on "The X-Files". He also known for his role as Frank Barone, the cranky slob on "Everybody Loves Raymond," which he mainained until the show's final airing on May 16, 2005.
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Peter was the name of the oldest Son of Adam in C.S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe".
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Famous bearer: Peter Doherty, frontman of British band Babyshambles and former co-frontman of the Libertines. Infamous for his drug use and reckless lifestyle.
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A famous bearer of the name is Peter Griffin of the father in "Family Guy". That show is hilarious.
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Other famous literary bearer: Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up in J.M. Barrie's classic. [noted -ed]
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Famous Bearer: Peter Pettigrew from the Harry Potter books.
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