Peters (surname)
Peters is a surname of English and German[1] origin, and may refer to
- Alan Peters, British furniture maker
- Andrew James Peters (1872-1938), Mayor of Boston
- Andrew Peters (b. 1980) Canadian ice hockey player
- Andi Peters (b. 1970), British television presenter
- Arno Peters (1916-2002), German filmmaker
- Arnold Peters (1922-1996), Canadian politician
- Arnold Peters (1925-2013), British actor
- Arthur Peters (1854-1908), Canadian politician
- Aulana L. Peters, American lawyer
- Bernadette Peters (b. 1948), American actress
- Brock Peters (1927-2005), American actor
- Butz Peters (b. 1958), German television presenter
- Caleigh Peters (b. 1988), American musician, daughter of Jon Peters
- Caroline Peters (b. 1971), German actress
- Cash Peters, British travel writer
- Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806-1880), German astronomer
- Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (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 (b. 1967), American rock drummer
- Dean Peters (1958-1998), American wrestler
- Douglas Peters (b. 1930), Canadian banker and politician
- Duane Peters (b. 1961), skateboarder and punk singer/songwriter
- Edgar E. Peters (b. 1952), asset manager and writer
- Eugène Peters (b. 1946), Dutch painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- Elizabeth Peters, pseudonym used by American author Barbara Mertz
- Ellis Peters, pseudonym used by author Edith Pargeter
- Emmitt Peters (b. 1940), American dog sled racer
- Erik Peters, Canadian civil servant
- Francis Edwards Peters, American scholar on Middle Eastern religions
- Frederick Peters (1851-1919), Canadian lawyer and politician
- Frederick Emerson Peters (1885-1959), American fraudster
- Frederick Thornton Peters (1889-1942), Canadian Captain in the Royal Navy
- Gary Peters (baseball player) (b. 1937), former American baseball player
- Gary Peters (footballer) (b. 1954), British football manager
- Gary Peters (Michigan politician) (b. 1958), former Michigan state senator
- George Henry Peters (1863-1947), American astronomer
- Gretchen Peters (b. 1957), American country singer
- Herman Peters (1899-1989), Australian rugby league footballer
- Hugh Peters (1598-1660), English preacher and regicide
- Ivo Peters (1915-1989), English photographer of steam railways
- J. Peters, head of secret apparatus of the CPUSA in the 1930s
- Jaime Peters (b. 1987), Canadian soccer player
- James Peters (rugby player) (1879-1954), English rugby player
- James A. Peters (1922-1972), American herpetologist
- James Lee Peters (1889-1952), American ornithologist
- Jan Peters (football) (b. 1953), retired Dutch football (soccer) player
- Jason Peters (b. 1982), American football player
- Jean Peters (1926-2000), American actress
- Jim Peters (athlete) (1918-1999), English long-distance runner
- Jim Peters (politician) (b. 1937), New Zealand politician
- Joan Peters (b. 1938), American journalist
- John Peters (chess player) (b. 1951), American chess player
- John A. Peters (1822-1904), a US representative from Maine
- John A. Peters (1864-1953), a US representative from Maine
- John Samuel Peters (1772-1858), American politician and governor of the state of Connecticut
- Jon Peters (b. 1945), American film producer
- Josef Peters (driver) (1914-2001), German Formula One driver
- Julie Anne Peters (b. 1942), American children's writer
- Karl Peters (1856-1918), German traveller in East Africa
- Kenroy Peters (b. 1982), cricketer from St Vincent
- Lauri Peters (b. 1943), American actress
- Lennie Peters, British singer from Peters and Lee
- Mariko Peters (b. 1969), Dutch politician
- Mark Peters (disambiguation), various people
- Martin Peters (b. 1943), English footballer
- Mary Peters (athlete) (b. 1939), British athlete
- Mary Peters (politician) (b. 1948), U.S. transportation official
- Michael Peters (1948-1994), American choreographer
- Michael Peters (designer), British designer
- Mike Peters (cartoonist) (b. 1943), American cartoonist
- Mike Peters (musician) (b. 1959), Welsh singer, musician and song writer with The Alarm
- Mike Peters, drummer with Cancer Bats
- Mitchell Peters, American percussionist and composer
- Molly Peters (b. 1942), British actress
- Nancy Peters, Anenrican author and publisher
- Nick Peters, former American baseball writer
- Ralph Peters (b. 1952), American soldier and writer
- Ralph Peters (LIRR) (1853-??), American railroad president
- Randolph Peters (b. 1959), Canadian composer
- Ray Peters (b. 1946), American baseball player
- Raymond Peters (1918-1995), British polymer chemist
- Rebecca Peters, Australian gun activist
- Red Peters, American musician and songwriter
- Richard Peters (cleric) (1704–1776), Pennsylvania colonial minister, uncle of the Continental Congressman
- Richard Peters (football coach) (1920-1973), American football coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas
- Richard Peters, Jr. (1744–1828), Pennsylvania jurist, Continental Congressman, Continental Army official
- Richard Peters (Supreme Court) (1780–1848), Reporter of Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, son of the Continental Congressman
- Richard Peters (Atlanta) (1810–1889), a founder of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, grandson of the Continental Congressman
- Richard Stanley Peters (b. 1919), British philosopher
- Rick Peters (b. 1966), American actor
- Rick Peters (baseball) (b. 1955), former American baseball player
- Robert Peters (b. 1924), American poet
- Roberta Peters (b. 1930), American singer
- Sir Rudolph Albert Peters (1889-1982), British biochemist
- Russell Peters (b. 1970), Canadian comedian
- Ryan Peters (b. 1987), English footballer
- Sir Shina Peters (b. 1958), Nigerian politician
- Stephen Peters (b. 1978), English cricketer
- Steve Peters (Ontario politician) (b. 1963), Canadian politician, from Ontario
- Steve Peters (Manitoba politician) (1912-1976), Canadian politician, from Manitoba
- Steve Peters (game designer) (b. 1961), American game designer
- Susan Peters (1921-1952), American actress
- Susan Peters (TV anchor), American broadcaster
- Thomas Peters (black leader) (1738–1792), one of the leaders of the African Americans brought to Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War
- Tom Peters (b. 1942), author of In Search of Excellence
- Tim A. Peters, American humanitarian aid worker
- Timothy Peters (b. 1980), American racing driver
- Tina Peters (b. 1968), German field hockey player
- Tom Peters (b. 1942), American business consultant and writer
- Vicki Peters (b. 1950), American model and actress
- Volney Peters (b. 1928), American football player
- Warren Peters (b. 1982), Canadian hockey player
- Wendi Peters (b. 1968), British actress
- Werner Peters (1918-1971), German actor
- Wilfred Peters, Belizean accordionist
- Wilhelm Peters (1815-1883), German explore and naturalist
- Wilhelm Peters (1851–1935), Norwegian painter
- William Peters (lawyer) (1702-1786), American colonial period judge
- William Theodore Peters an American poet and actor during the 1890s
- William Wesley Peters (1912-1991), American architect
- Winston Peters (b. 1945), New Zealand politician and leader of the New Zealand First Party
- Winston Peters, Trinidad and Tobago politician usually known as Gypsy (calypsonian)
- Yakov Peters (1886-1936), Latvian deputy director of the Cheka
References
- ↑ "German origin of the surname". Retrieved 2013-07-27.
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