Pete

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Pete is a common nickname for the given name Peter.

Pete may specifically refer to:

In athletics:

• The Petersen Events Center, an athletics complex and basketball arena on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh
• Pete Rose, an American former player and manager in Major League Baseball
• Pete the Penguin, mascot of Youngstown State University
• Pete Sampras, tennis player
• Pete, most intoxicated person in Newcastle, Australia

In fiction:

• Pete (Disney character)
• Pete, a character in the Animal Crossing video game series
• Pete the Pup, from the "Our Gang" series of comedies
• Power Pete, the main character of the video game of the same name
• "Pete (Red Dwarf episode)", a two-part story in the British science fiction situation comedy Red Dwarf

In music:

• Pete Townshend, guitarist of the band The Who
• Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive
• Pete Wentz, bassist of the band Fall Out Boy
• Pete Doherty, singer and songwriter of Babyshambles and former member of The Libertines
• Pete Best, the first drummer for The Beatles
• Pete Holland, former vocalist now working for East Midlands Trains

In television:

• Pete Bennett, 2006 Big Brother UK winner
• Pete Burns, Dead or Alive artist, television presenter and comedian
• The Adventures of Pete & Pete

In other fields:

• the Allied reporting name "Pete" for the Mitsubishi F1M seaplane
• Polyethylene terephthalate (PETE), a polymer
• Pete Price UK Radio Chat show host
• The Pete Collective an unnecessary world record gathering of people called Pete