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Alan Peters
Alan Peters
Alan Peters OBE was a British furniture designer maker and one of the very few direct links with the Arts and Crafts Movement, having apprenticed to Edward Barnsley. He set up his own workshop in the Sixties...

, British furniture maker
Andrew James Peters
Andrew James Peters
Andrew James Peters was an American politician. He was born on April 3, 1872 in Jamaica Plain, a section of Boston. His family had been in Massachusetts since the first Andrew Peters arrived there in 1657. Peters attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He served two terms in the...

(1872-1938), Mayor of Boston
Andrew Peters
Andrew Peters
Andrew Peters is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger- Playing career :Peters was drafted 34th overall by the Sabres in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft...

(b. 1980) Canadian ice hockey player
Andi Peters
Andi Peters
Andi Eleazu Peters is an English television presenter and television producer.-Education:Peters was educated at Emanuel School, a co-educational independent school in Battersea, in south-west London.-Life and career:...

(b. 1970), British television presenter
Arno Peters
Arno Peters
Arno Peters developed the Peters world map, based on the Gall–Peters projection.Born in Berlin, Germany, he began his career as a filmmaker who studied American techniques of filmmaking during the late 1930s, and helped to revolutionize film production in Germany at the time...

(1916-2002), German filmmaker
Arnold Peters
Arnold Peters
William Arnold Peters was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Timiskaming in the Canadian House of Commons from 1957 to 1980...

(1922-1996), Canadian politician
Arthur Peters
Arthur Peters
Arthur Peters was the ninth Premier of Prince Edward Island.Arthur Peters and his brother Frederick Peters were born in Charlottetown....

(1854-1908), Canadian politician
Aulana L. Peters
Aulana L. Peters
Aulana L. Peters is a retired partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she was active partner from 1980 to 1984 and from 1988 to 2000....

, American lawyer
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings...

(b. 1948), American actress
Brock Peters
Brock Peters
Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the role of Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird...

(1927-2005), American actor
Butz Peters
Butz Peters
Butz Peters is a German television presenter and jurist who presented Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst from 1997 to 2001.-External links:...

(b. 1958), German television presenter
Caleigh Peters
Caleigh Peters
Caleigh Anne Forsyth-Peters is a pop rock musician. Born in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of Jon Peters and producer Christine Forsyth-Peters. Caleigh graduated from the Archer School for Girls in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California in June 2007. She is the god-daughter of Barbra...

(b. 1988), American musician, daughter of Jon Peters
Caroline Peters
Caroline Peters
Caroline Peters is a German actress. She played Pia Himmelman in the 2004 Israeli film Walk on Water.- Awards :* 2007 : Won the Adolf Grimme Award for Arnies Welt in Germany...

(b. 1971), German actress
Cash Peters
Cash Peters
Cashman "Cash" Peters is a British author, television, and radio contibutor who writes on travel and show business.-Biography:Peters was born in Stockport, England. By 15, he had written material for radio and TV shows including The Two Ronnies and The News Huddlines...

, British travel writer
Christian August Friedrich Peters
Christian August Friedrich Peters
Christian August Friedrich Peters was a German astronomer. He was the father of astronomer Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters.He was born in Hamburg and died in Kiel....

(1806-1880), German astronomer
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters was a German-American astronomer, and one of the first to discover asteroids....

(1813-1890), Danish-born American astronomer
Clarence James Peters (b. 1940), known as C.J. Peters, American physician and virologist
Clayre Peters, American model
Dan Peters
Dan Peters
Daniel Joe Peters is the drummer for Mudhoney. He joined Bundle of Hiss when he was fifteen years old. He also played drums for Nirvana, appearing on one single, "Sliver". Peters' only live appearance with Nirvana was on September 22, 1990, in Seattle, Washington, at the Motor Sports International...

(b. 1967), American rock drummer
David Wilfrid Peters
David Wilfrid Peters
David Wilfrid Peters is a Business Administration professor at University of Guelph-Humber and a consultant on finance and risk management issues. He was previously a professor at Bishop's University...

(b. 1958), Canadian economist
Dean Peters
Dean Peters
Dean R. Peters was an American professional wrestler and referee. He was perhaps best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names Brady Boone and Battle Kat....

(1958-1998), American wrestler
Douglas Peters
Douglas Peters
Douglas Dennison Peters, PC is a Canadian banker, economist and politician.-Life and career:Peters was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Mary Gladys and Dr. Wilfrid Seymour Peters. In 1954, he married Audrey Catherine Clark...

(b. 1930), Canadian banker and politician
Duane Peters
Duane Peters
Duane Peters , nicknamed "The Master of Disaster", is a punk rock singer/songwriter and professional skateboarder. Active since 1977, he is probably best known as the singer in the California punk rock band U.S...

(b. 1961), skateboarder and punk singer/songwriter
Elizabeth Peters, pseudonym used by American author Barbara Mertz
Ellis Peters, pseudonym used by author Edith Pargeter
Edith Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM , also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was a British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both...
Emmitt Peters
Emmitt Peters
Emmitt Gordon Peters, Sr. the "Yukon Fox", is an Alaskan American hunter, fisher, trapper, and dog musher. The last rookie to win the 1,049 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race , he and his lead dogs Nugget and Digger shattered the previous speed record by almost six days.Peters is an Athabaskan...

(b. 1940), American dog sled racer
Erik Peters
Erik Peters
Erik Peters, F.C.A., served as Auditor General of Ontario between 1993 and 2003.-References:* *...

, Canadian civil servant
Francis Edwards Peters
Francis Edwards Peters
Francis Edward Peters , who generally publishes as F.E. Peters, is Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History at New York University.Peters studied at St...

, American scholar on Middle Eastern religions
Frederick Peters
Frederick Peters
Frederick Peters was a lawyer and Prince Edward Island politician, who served as the sixth Premier of Prince Edward Island.-Early life and career:Peters was born in Charlottetown and educated at King's College in Nova Scotia...

(1851-1919), Canadian lawyer and politician
Frederick Emerson Peters
Frederick Emerson Peters
Frederick Emerson Peters was an American impostor who wrote bad checks masquerading as scholars and famous people. In an age before mass communication, few store owners bothered to ID check writers....

(1885-1959), American fraudster
Frederick Thornton Peters
Frederick Thornton Peters
Frederick Thornton Peters, VC, DSO, DSC & Bar was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Frederick Thornton "Fritz" Peters was 53 years old, and a captain in...

(1889-1942), Canadian Captain in the Royal Navy
Gary Peters (baseball player) (b. 1937), former American baseball player
Gary Peters (footballer)
Gary Peters (footballer)
Gary David Peters is an English former professional footballer and now manager. He is currently Director of Football at Hereford United.-Playing career:...

(b. 1954), British football manager
Gary Peters (Michigan politician)
Gary Peters (Michigan politician)
Gary Peters is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of Oakland County, a suburban county northwest of Detroit. He previously represented the 14th District in the Michigan Senate, and was a political science professor at...

(b. 1958), former Michigan state senator
George Henry Peters
George Henry Peters
George Henry Peters was an US astronomer. He died in Washington, D.C.He worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory as an astrophotographer, discovering three asteroids and photographing the Sun's corona.-External links:* -Obituary:...

(1863-1947), American astronomer
Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters is a singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. She was born in New York and raised in Boulder, Colorado, but moved to Nashville in the late 1980s...

(b. 1957), American country singer
Herman Peters
Herman Peters
Herman Peters was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s. An international representative centre, he played his club football with North Sydney in the NSWRFL premiership....

(1899-1989), Australian rugby league footballer
Hugh Peters
Hugh Peters
Hugh Peters [or Peter] was an English preacher.-Early life:He was baptized on 29 June 1598 in Fowey, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge....

(1598-1660), English preacher and regicide
Ivo Peters
Ivo Peters
Ivo Peters BEM was an English railway photographer. Peters spent his life in Bath, Somerset and is best known for his amateur photographs and cine films of steam railways in the British Isles, particularly of the Somerset and Dorset Railway.-Early life:Ivo Peters took his first railway photograph...

(1915-1989), English photographer of steam railways
J. Peters
J. Peters
J. Peters was the most commonly known pseudonym of a man who last went by the name "Alexander Stevens" in 1949. Peters was an ethnic Jewish journalist and political activist who was a leading figure of the Hungarian language section of the Communist Party USA in the 1920s and 1930s...

, head of secret apparatus of the CPUSA in the 1930s
Jaime Peters
Jaime Peters
Jaime Bryant Peters is a Canadian soccer player of Grenadian descent who plays as a right winger for Football League One club Bournemouth on loan from Ipswich Town. He has also played 26 times for Canada.- Career :...

(b. 1987), Canadian soccer player
James Peters (rugby player) (1879-1954), English rugby player
James Lee Peters
James Lee Peters
James Lee Peters was an American ornithologist.Peters was Curator of Birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard University...

(1889-1952), American ornithologist
Jan Peters (football) (b. 1953), retired Dutch football (soccer) player
Jason Peters
Jason Peters
-Buffalo Bills:Peters was picked up by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted rookie free agent in April 2004. He was cut then re-signed to the Bills' practice squad. He was signed to the active roster on November 12, 2004...

(b. 1982), American football player
Jean Peters
Jean Peters
Jean Peters was an American actress, known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s and as the second wife of Howard Hughes...

(1926-2000), American actress
Jeff Peters
Jeff Peters
Jeff Peters ' is a consultant, author and speaker whose work is widely known in the Fusebox community. He has written several books, both for and , and articles for magazines including ColdFusion Developers Journal and Pocket PC Magazine. Mr...

, computer consultant
Jim Peters (athlete) (1918-1999), English long-distance runner
Jim Peters (politician) (b. 1937), New Zealand politician
Joan Peters
Joan Peters
Joan Peters is a former CBS news producer of otherwise unnamed documentaries, and the author best known for a number of theses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, put forward in her book From Time Immemorial, published in 1984 in which she claims that the Palestinians are largely not indigenous...

(b. 1938), American journalist
John Peters (chess player) (b. 1951), American chess player
John A. Peters (1822-1904)
John A. Peters (1822-1904)
John Andrew Peters was a U.S. Congressman from Maine, and the uncle of John Andrew Peters. He was also Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court....

, a US representative from Maine
John A. Peters (1864-1953)
John A. Peters (1864-1953)
John Andrew Peters was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and a nephew of John Andrew Peters.Born in Ellsworth, Maine, Peters attended public schools and graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1885 where he studied law.He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Ellsworth in...

, a US representative from Maine
John Samuel Peters
John Samuel Peters
John Samuel Peters was an American politician and the 26th Governor of Connecticut.Peters was born in Hebron, Connecticut on September 21, 1772. He studied medicine and practiced in Heborn. In 1810 he was elected to in the Connecticut House of Representatives and was re-elected in 1816 and 1817...

(1772-1858), American politician and governor of the state of Connecticut
Jon Peters
Jon Peters
Jon Peters is an American movie producer.-Early life:Peters was born John H. Peters in Van Nuys, California, the son of Helen , a receptionist, and Jack Peters, a cook...

(b. 1945), American film producer
Josef Peters (driver)
Josef Peters (driver)
Josef Peters was a racing driver from Düsseldorf, Germany. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on August 3, 1952. He failed to finish, scoring no championship points....

(1914-2001), German Formula One driver
Julie Anne Peters
Julie Anne Peters
-Personal life:Julie Anne Peters was born in Jamestown, New York, on 16 January 1952. When she was five, her family moved to the Denver suburbs in Colorado. Her parents divorced when she was in high school...

(b. 1942), American children's writer
Karl Peters
Karl Peters
Karl Peters , was a German colonial ruler, explorer, politician and author, the prime mover behind the foundation of the German colony of East Africa...

(1856-1918), German traveller in East Africa
Kenroy Peters
Kenroy Peters
Keon Kenroy Peters is a St Vincent-born cricketer who played in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup for the West Indies in 2000. He also played a number of first class matches for Windward Islands.-References:...

(b. 1982), cricketer from St Vincent
Lauri Peters
Lauri Peters
Lauri Peters is an American actress, dancer, singer, drama teacher and author. Birth name - Patricia Peterson.Peters created the role of Liesl Von Trapp in the original 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Supporting or Featured Actress in...

(b. 1943), American actress
Lennie Peters, British singer from Peters and Lee
Peters and Lee
Peters and Lee were a successful British folk/pop duo of the 1970s, comprising Lennie Peters and Dianne Lee .-Background:...
Mariko Peters
Mariko Peters
Mariko Peters is a Dutch politician and former civil servant and lawyer. She has been an MP since November 30, 2006...

(b. 1969), Dutch politician
Martin Peters
Martin Peters
Martin Stanford Peters, MBE is a former football player and member of the victorious England team which won the 1966 World Cup as well as playing in the 1970 FIFA World Cup....

(b. 1943), English footballer
Mary Peters (athlete)
Mary Peters (athlete)
Dame Mary Elizabeth Peters, DBE, DL is a former British athlete, competing mainly in the pentathlon and shot put.-Biography:Mary Peters was born in Halewood, Lancashire, but moved to Ballymena at age eleven...

(b. 1939), British athlete
Mary Peters (politician)
Mary Peters (politician)
Mary E. Peters served as the United States Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009. She is the second woman to hold the position.-Public service career:...

(b. 1948), U.S. transportation official
Michael Peters
Michael Peters
Michael Douglas Peters was an American choreographer.-Biography:Peters was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in New York City to an African American father and Jewish mother. His first major breakthrough came when he did choreography for Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" in 1975...

(1948-1994), American choreographer
Michael Peters (designer)
Michael Peters (designer)
-Michael Peters OBE:Michael Peters OBE is internationally famous as a designer. He has been on the forefront of design industry for more than 35 years. His work has revolutionised the relationship between design and business and his influence on consumers has been enormous...

, British designer
Mike Peters (cartoonist) (b. 1943), American cartoonist
Mike Peters (musician)
Mike Peters (musician)
Mike Peters is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of The Alarm. He currently lives in Dyserth, North Wales with his family. After The Alarm split up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work, which he has been releasing under the name "The Alarm" since 2000...

(b. 1959), Welsh singer, musician and song writer with The Alarm
Mike Peters, drummer with Cancer Bats
Cancer Bats
Cancer Bats are a hardcore punk/sludge metal band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Background:Cancer Bats originated in May 2004 with singer Liam Cormier and guitarist Scott Middleton, former member of Toronto heavy metal band At the Mercy of Inspiration...
Mitchell Peters
Mitchell Peters
Mitchell Peters is former principal timpanist and percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He has composed well-known pieces for the marimba such as Yellow After the Rain and Sea Refractions; it is said that these works were composed because Peters felt that there was a lack of...

, American percussionist and composer
Molly Peters
Molly Peters
Molly Peters is an English actress. She appeared in only three films during the 1960s. Her best known appearance was the role of Bond girl, Patricia Fearing or Pat, a nurse who takes care of James Bond while he's on vacation at her health clinic in Thunderball...

(b. 1942), British actress
Nancy Peters
Nancy Peters
Nancy Joyce Peters is an American publisher, writer, and co-owner with Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books and Publishers in San Francisco....

, Anenrican author and publisher
Nick Peters
Nick Peters
Nick Peters, is a former baseball writer, who mostly covered San Francisco Giants games in his career, one that spanned 47 seasons ....

, former American baseball writer
Ralph Peters
Ralph Peters
Ralph Peters is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel andauthor. As a novelist he has sometimes written under the pen name Owen Parry.-Personal:...

(b. 1952), American soldier and writer
Ralph Peters (LIRR)
Ralph Peters (LIRR)
Ralph Peters was the son of another railroad man, Richard Peters and president of the Long Island Rail Road. He was elected president of the LIRR in April 1905....

(1853-??), American railroad president
Randolph Peters
Randolph Peters
Randolph Peters is a Canadian composer who is particularly known for his output of roughly 100 film scores made mostly for Canadian films. A graduate of the University of Winnipeg and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Peters has also written a large amount of music for Canadian...

(b. 1959), Canadian composer
Ray Peters
Ray Peters
Raymond James Peters is a retired American professional baseball player and a former Major League pitcher. Peters, a , right-hander, attended Harvard University. He was drafted by the Seattle Pilots in the first round of the 1969 amateur draft...

(b. 1946), American baseball player
Raymond Peters
Raymond Peters
Raymond Harry Peters was Professor of Polymer and Fibre Science, University of Manchester, 1955-1984, then Professor Emeritus....

(1918-1995), British polymer chemist
Rebecca Peters
Rebecca Peters
Rebecca Peters is the former Director of the International Action Network on Small Arms .As chair of the National Coalition for Gun Control at the time of the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, Peters played a key role in the introduction of stricter gun control and gun confiscation, in Australia, an...

, Australian gun activist
Red Peters
Red Peters
Red Peters is a musician and songwriter from the Boston area who has made five CDs titled I Laughed... I Cried... I Fudged My Undies!, Ol' Blue Balls Is Back!, "The Best Of The Red Peters Comedy Music Hour, Vol. #1", "It's A Red Peters Christmas! Vol. 1" plus "Red Peters Presents- The Summer Song...

, American musician and songwriter
Richard Peters (cleric)
Richard Peters (cleric)
Richard Peters was an American cleric and a civil servant in colonial Pennsylvania. For many years he was the rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia....

(1704–1776), Pennsylvania colonial minister, uncle of the Continental Congressman
Richard Peters (football coach)
Richard Peters (football coach)
Richard "Dick" Peters was the 16th head college football coachfor the Ottawa University Braves located in Ottawa, Kansasand he held that position for four seasons, from 1949 until 1952....

(1920-1973), American football coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas
Richard Peters, Jr.
Richard Peters (Continental Congress)
Richard Peters sometimes Richard Peters, Jr., to distinguish from his uncle, though this can also mean his son Richard), was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783...

(1744–1828), Pennsylvania jurist, Continental Congressman, Continental Army official
Richard Peters (Supreme Court)
Richard Peters (Supreme Court)
Richard Peters, Jr. was the fourth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1828 to 1843....

(1780–1848), Reporter of Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, son of the Continental Congressman
Richard Peters (Atlanta)
Richard Peters (Atlanta)
Richard Peters was an American railroad man and a founder of Atlanta.Grandson of Judge Richard Peters, Jr...

(1810–1889), a founder of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, grandson of the Continental Congressman
Richard Stanley Peters
Richard Stanley Peters
Richard Stanley Peters is a British philosopher. His work belongs mainly to the areas of political theory, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of education.- Biography :...

(b. 1919), British philosopher
Rick Peters
Rick Peters
Rick Peters is an American actor. He has appeared in several films and numerous television shows, and perhaps best known for his roles as Bobby Manning in Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye and Admiral Brigman in the Aquaman pilot. He also plays the role of Elliot in the 4th season of Dexter...

(b. 1966), American actor
Rick Peters (baseball) (b. 1955), former American baseball player
Robert Peters
Robert Peters
Robert Louis Peters is a poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924. He holds a Ph.D in Victorian literature. His poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis...

(b. 1924), American poet
Roberta Peters
Roberta Peters
Roberta Peters is an American coloratura soprano.One of the most prominent American singers to achieve lasting fame and success in opera, Peters is noted for her 35-year association with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York...

(b. 1930), American singer
Sir Rudolph Albert Peters
Rudolph Peters
Sir Rudolph Albert Peters was a British biochemist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1935. His effort investigating the mechanism of arsenic war gases was deemed crucial in maintaining battlefield effectiveness facing the threat of lewisite attacks...

(1889-1982), British biochemist
Russell Peters
Russell Peters
Russell Dominic Peters is an Indo-Canadian comedian, actor and disc jockey. He began performing in Toronto in 1989 and has been nominated for four Gemini Awards.-Early life :...

(b. 1970), Canadian comedian
Ryan Peters
Ryan Peters
Ryan Vincent Peters is a former professional footballer currently playing for Braintree Town.He can play at right wing or centre forward. In his first senior appearance he scored a debut goal against Sheffield Wednesday in 2005 for Brentford.Since signing professional terms with Brentford, he has...

(b. 1987), English footballer
Sir Shina Peters (b. 1958), Nigerian politician
Stephen Peters
Stephen Peters
Stephen David Peters is an English cricketer. He has played for the county cricket teams of Essex and Worcestershire...

(b. 1978), English cricketer
Steve Peters (politician) (b. 1963), Canadian politician, from Ontario
Steve Peters (Manitoba politician)
Steve Peters (Manitoba politician)
Steve Peters was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Manitoba legislature from 1958 to 1966, as a representative of the social-democratic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and its successor, the New Democratic Party.Peters was educated at Winnipeg and the neighbouring suburb of...

(1912-1976), Canadian politician, from Manitoba
Steve Peters (game designer)
Steve Peters (game designer)
Steve Peters is a game designer specializing in alternate reality games. He worked with alternate reality game design company 42 Entertainment as Experience Design Director...

(b. 1961), American game designer
Susan Peters
Susan Peters
Susan Peters was an American stage, film and television actress.-Early life:Peters was born Suzanne Carnahan in Spokane, Washington. First contracted by Warner Brothers, she subsequently began working for MGM Studios after completing high school. Her first job was to read with potential actors in...

(1921-1952), American actress
Susan Peters (TV anchor)
Susan Peters (TV anchor)
Susan Peters is a main anchor on KAKE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas.Susan graduated from Western Illinois University with a B.A. in Communications.-Career history:...

, American broadcaster
Thomas Peters (black leader)
Thomas Peters (black leader)
Thomas Peters was one of the Black Loyalist Founding Fathers of Sierra Leone. Peters, along with David George, Moses Wilkinson, Cato Perkins, and Joseph Leonard, were influential blacks who recruited African settlers in Nova Scotia for colonization of Sierra Leone...

(1738–1792), one of the leaders of the African Americans brought to Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War
Thomas Peters (supercentenarian)
Thomas Peters (supercentenarian)
Thomas Peters was a Dutch supercentenarian. He is the earliest recorded supercentarian accepted by Guinness World Records. Originally in a footnote, the Peters case was later promoted although subsequent questions were raised about documentation. Indeed, it appears that if the documentation ever...

(1745–1857), early national longevity recordholder
Tom Peters
Tom Peters
Thomas J. "Tom" Peters is an American writer on business management practices, best-known for In Search of Excellence .-Life and career:Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland...

(b. 1942), author of In Search of Excellence
Tim A. Peters
Tim A. Peters
The Rev. Timothy A. Peters, an American humanitarian aid worker living in Seoul, South Korea, operates and is widely regarded as one of the world's most visible advocates for human rights in North Korea....

, American humanitarian aid worker
Timothy Peters
Timothy Peters
Timothy Peters is an American NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race car driver. He currently drives the No. 17 K&N Engineering, Inc. Toyota for Red Horse Racing. He is a former member of the Bobby Hamilton Racing and Richard Childress Racing driver development programs.-Racing career:He began his...

(b. 1980), American racing driver
Tina Peters
Tina Peters
Kristina Peters is a former field hockey player from Germany.Peters was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. A player from hockey club RTHC Bayer Leverkusen, she competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in...

(b. 1968), German field hockey player
Tom Peters
Tom Peters
Thomas J. "Tom" Peters is an American writer on business management practices, best-known for In Search of Excellence .-Life and career:Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland...

(b. 1942), American business consultant and writer
Vicki Peters
Vicki Peters
Vicki Peters is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1972 issue...

(b. 1950), American model and actress
Volney Peters
Volney Peters
Volney Monroe Peters is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League and the American Football League.-Early life:Peters graduated from San Diego's Hoover High in 1947....

(b. 1928), American football player
Warren Peters
Warren Peters
Warren Peters is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently in the Minnesota Wild organization of the National Hockey League...

(b. 1982), Canadian hockey player
Wendi Peters
Wendi Peters
Wendi Louise Peters is an English television and theatre character actress. Peters is married to Kenny Linden and they have one daughter together called Gracie who was born in 2000.-Film:...

(b. 1968), British actress
Wilfred Peters
Wilfred Peters
Wilfred Peters, MBE was a Belizean accordionist and band leader, known as the "King of Brukdown". He toured Europe and North America with his band, the Boom & Chime Band, and was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth in 1997 for his cultural contributions.A Belizean national icon Mr. Peters was one of...

, Belizean accordionist
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...

(1815-1883), German naturalist
William Peters (lawyer) (1702-1786), American colonial period judge
William Theodore Peters
William Theodore Peters
William Theodore Peters was an American poet and actor. Associated with 1890s decadence, he was a friend of Ernest Dowson, who dedicated a poem to him, "To William Theodore Peters on His Renaissance Cloak". In October 1892, he commissioned Dowson to write the play that would ultimately become the...

an American poet and actor during the 1890s
William Wesley Peters
William Wesley Peters
William Wesley Peters was a noted architect and engineer, apprentice to and protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright.Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Peters was educated at Evansville College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

(1912-1991), American architect
Winston Peters
Winston Peters
Winston Raymond Peters is a New Zealand politician and leader of New Zealand First, a political party he founded in 1993. Peters has had a turbulent political career since entering Parliament in 1978. He served as Minister of Maori Affairs in the Bolger National Party Government before being...

(b. 1945), New Zealand politician and leader of the New Zealand First Party
Winston Peters, Trinidad and Tobago politician usually known as Gypsy (calypsonian)
Gypsy (calypsonian)
Winston Edward Peters, also known by his sobriquet Gypsy is a Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian and politician and currently serves as that country's Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism....
Yakov Peters
Yakov Peters
Jēkabs Peterss or Yakov Khristoforovich Peters was a Latvian Communist revolutionary, Soviet politician, chekist, and terrorist. Together with Feliks Dzerzhinsky, he was one of the founders and chiefs of the VChK...

(1886-1936), Latvian deputy director of the Cheka

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