Petro

Petro is a masculine given name, a surname and an Ancient Roman cognomen. It may refer to:

Given name

Petro Balabuyev (1931-2007), Ukrainian airplane designer, engineer and professor, lead designer of many Antonov airplanes
Petro Doroshenko (1627–1698), Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1665–1672) and a Russian voyevoda (governor)
Petro Drevchenko (1863-1934), Ukrainian bandurist
Petro Dyachenko (1895-1965), Ukrainian military commander
Petro Dyminskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian politician, businessman and former footballer
Petro Franko (1890-1941), Ukrainian educator and author
Petro Georgiou (born 1947), Australian politician
Petro Goga, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly of Albania in 1924
Petro Kalnyshevsky (1691?–1803), last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host (in what is now Ukraine)
Petro Kharchenko (born 1983), Ukrainian former pair ice skater
Petro Kasui Kibe (1587–1639), Japanese Christian missionary, Jesuit priest and martyr
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1570-1622), political and civic leader
Petro Kondratyuk (born 1979), Ukrainian former footballer
Petro Korol (1941–2015), Ukrainian weightlifter and 1976 Olympic champion
Petro Nini Luarasi (1864-1911), Albanian nationalist, Christian orthodox priest, teacher and journalist
Petro Herkulan Malchuk (1965-2016), Ukrainian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
Petro Marko (1913–1991), Albanian writer
Petro Mirchuk (1913–1999), Ukrainian writer
Petro Nishchynsky (1832–1896), Ukrainian linguist and composer
Petro Pakhnyuk (born 1991), Ukrainian (until 2014) and Azerbaijani (since 2014) artistic gymnast
Petro Pereverza (born 1994), Ukrainian footballer
Petro Poga (1850-1944), Albanian nationalist, one of the delegates at the Albanian Declaration of Independence
Petro Poroshenko (born 1965), Ukrainian businessman and politician
Petro Prokopovych (1775–1850), the founder of commercial beekeeping
Petro Shelest (1908–1996), First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Petro Shoturma (born 1992), Ukrainian futsal player
Petro Slobodyan (born 1953), Soviet retired footballer and current Ukrainian coach
Petro Symonenko (born 1952), Ukrainian politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Petro Tkachenko (1878-1919), Ukrainian blind kobzar (musician)
Petro Trad (1876-1947), Lebanese lawyer, politician and briefly President of the French Mandate of Lebanon in 1943
Petro Trochanowski (born 1947), Polish poet
Petro Vlahos (1916-2013), Hollywood special effects pioneer
Petro Voinovsky (1913—1996), Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator
Petro Zakhvalynsky (died 1943), Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator

Surname

Gustavo Petro (born 1960), Colombian politician and economist
Jim Petro (born 1948), American politician and former Ohio Attorney General
Johan Petro (born 1986), French professional basketball player
Joe Petro III (born 1956), American artist
Joseph Petro (born 1944), former United States Secret Service agent, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Citigroup Security and Investigative Services
Steve Petro (1914-1994), American National Football League player

Cognomen

Titus Flavius Petro (fl. 1st century BC), paternal grandfather of the Roman Emperor Vespasian

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