Peter Fairley (born 2 November 1930 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - died 4 August 1998) was a science journalist who was the Science Editor for Independent Television News and TV Times magazine the late sixties and early seventies.
His name became synonymous with ITN's extensive live coverage of the Apollo moon landing missions.
His father was a telecommunications engineer. He attended Sutton Valence School, Kent and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and he was then the science correspondent for the London Evening Standard and made numerous radio broadcasts in the 1960s. He was also a familiar face to ITV's younger viewers with regular appearances on Magpie and the children's science fiction series Timeslip as well as science articles in ITV's children's magazine Look-in, and writing books on popular science. He died of cancer aged 67.