Biographies

Biographies is a category for works that tell the life stories of real people, highlighting their experiences, achievements, and historical significance. It includes both full-length accounts and shorter profiles written to inform and engage readers.

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Pete Overend Watts

Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite: celebrated British character actor

Pete van Wieren

Peter Abrahams

Peter Bacon Hales

Peter Ball (bishop)

Peter Bares

Peter Bares: German Organist and Composer (1936–2014)

Peter Beard

Peter Beard (1938–2020): American photographer, artist and diarist

Peter Bonetti

Peter Boulware

Peter Breck

Peter Breck — American film and television actor (1929–2012)

Peter Brock

Peter Brock — Australian Touring Car Driver

Peter Browne

Peter Browne (Mayflower passenger)

Peter Burmeister

Peter Burmeister (1941–2019) — German mathematician and professor

Peter Carter (diplomat)

Peter Carter (British diplomat)

Peter Cartwright (lawyer)

Peter Coleman

Peter Coleman: Australian writer, editor and politician

Peter Colotka

Peter Colotka (1925–2019) — Slovak lawyer, academic and politician

Peter Cook

Peter Cook (1937–1995)

Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson (1927–2015) — English author of children's fiction and detective stories

Peter Dodds McCormick

Peter Dodds McCormick: Composer of 'Advance Australia Fair' and Australian Schoolteacher

Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick

Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick: Scottish herald, private officer of arms and banker

Peter Ecklund

Peter Ecklund — American Jazz Cornetist

Péter Esterházy

Péter Esterházy — Hungarian writer and leading figure in postwar literature

Peter Fernandez

Peter Fernandez (1927–2010) — American voice actor, director and writer

Peter Finch

Peter Finch: British-born Australian actor and Academy Award winner

Peter Gammond

Peter Gammond: British music critic, writer, and sleeve-note author (1925–2019)

Peter George (professor)

Peter George (professor): Canadian economist and long-serving McMaster president

Peter Gilmore

Peter Gilmore (British actor)

Peter Groeger

Peter Groeger: East German Actor, Director and Voice Artist

Peter Hamm

Peter Hamm — German poet, author, critic and broadcaster (1937–2019)

Peter Henlein

Peter Henlein — early Nuremberg locksmith and pioneer of portable timepieces

Peter Hill-Wood

Peter Howell (actor)

Peter Hurford

Peter Hurford (1930–2019) — British organist and composer

Peter Isaacson

Peter Isaacson (1920–2017): Australian bomber pilot and publisher

Peter Jennings

Peter Jones (Australian politician)

Peter Jones (Australian politician, 1933–2017)

Peter Kaiser

Peter Kaiser (1793–1864): Liechtenstein Historian, Educator, and Politician

Peter Le Lievre

Peter Le Lievre (1812–1878): Guernsey artist, merchant and militia officer

Peter Leo Gerety

Peter Liechti

Peter Liechti: Swiss documentary filmmaker and visual essayist

Peter Lombard

Peter Lombard, medieval scholastic theologian

Peter Lougheed

Peter Lougheed: Alberta Premier, Lawyer, and Football Player

Peter Magowan

Peter Magowan: Safeway CEO and Managing Partner of the San Francisco Giants

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera: Chronicler of the Early Americas

Peter Masterson

Peter Mathews (politician)

Peter Mathews (Irish politician)