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)
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Petro Drevchenko
Petro Semenovych Drevchenko (1863 – 1934) was also known by the surname of Drevkin and Drygavka.
Biography
Drevchenko was born in 1863 in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine) to a family of servants. From th ...
(1863-1934), Ukrainian bandurist
* Petro Dyachenko (1895-1965), Ukrainian military commander
* Petro Dyminskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian politician, businessman and former footballer
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Petro Franko
Petro Ivanovych Franko (; 21 June 1890 – 28 June 1941) was a Ukrainian educator, pedagogue, writer, ethnographer, scientist, military leader, and politician. Franko was a co-founder of the Plast, a Ukrainian Scouting Organization and a former m ...
(1890-1941), Ukrainian educator and author
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Petro Georgiou
Petro Georgiou AO (born 30 November 1947) is a Greek Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.
Early life
Born i ...
(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
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Petro Kasui Kibe
Peter Kibe, SJ (; 1587 – 4 July 1639), also known as Petro Kasui Kibe, was a Japanese Jesuit and Christian martyr. Active during the 17th century AD, Peter, or Petro as he was known in Portuguese, he was one of few Japanese to visit major cit ...
(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
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Petro Korol
Petro Kindratovych Korol ( ua, Петро Король, 2 January 1941 – 2 July 2015) was a Ukrainian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.Petro Nini Luarasi (1864-1911), Albanian nationalist, Christian orthodox priest, teacher and journalist
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Petro Herkulan Malchuk
Petro Herkulan Malchuk, O.F.M. ( uk, Петро Геркулан Мальчук; ''pol. Piotr Malczuk'' 7 July 1965 – 27 May 2016) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr.
Life
Malchuk was born in Slobozia-Rașcov in the Moldovan ...
(1965-2016), Ukrainian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
* Petro Marko (1913–1991), Albanian writer
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Petro Mirchuk
Petro Mirchuk ( uk, Петро Мірчук) (1913–1999) was a Ukrainian writer living in the United States and a leading member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Mirchuk headed the OUN's propaganda apparatus in 1939. He was an ac ...
(1913–1999), Ukrainian writer
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Petro Nishchynsky
Petro Ivanovych Nishchynsky (; September 9, 1832 – March 4, 1896) was a Ukrainian linguist and composer. He was born in the village of Nemenka, currently in the Vinnytsia Oblast of Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a co ...
(1832–1896), Ukrainian linguist and composer
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Petro Pakhnyuk
Petro Pakhnyuk or Petro Pakhniuk ( uk, Петро Пахнюк; born 26 November 1991 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian (until 2014 and after 2017) and Azerbaijani (2014-2017) male artistic gymnast and member of the national team.
Career
He participated a ...
(born 1991), Ukrainian (until 2014) and Azerbaijani (since 2014) artistic gymnast
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Petro Pereverza
Petro Pereverza ( uk, Петро Іванович Переверза; born 10 July 1994 in Bahate, Izmail Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine) is a professional Ukrainian football striker.
Career
Pereverza is a product of the youth team systems of UF ...
(born 1994), Ukrainian footballer
* Petro Poga (1850-1944), Albanian nationalist, one of the delegates at the Albanian Declaration of Independence
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Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...
(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
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Petro Slobodyan
Petro Petrovych Slobodyan ( uk, Петро Петрович Слободян, russian: Пётр Петрович Слободян; 2 July 1953 in the village of Sheparivtsi, Stanislav Oblast – 15 December 2020) was a Soviet football player an ...
(born 1953), Soviet retired footballer and current Ukrainian coach
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Petro Symonenko
Petro Mykolayovych Symonenko ( uk, Петро́ Микола́йович Симоне́нко; born 1 August 1952) is a Ukrainian politician and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Symonenko was the Co ...
(born 1952), Ukrainian politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
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Petro Tkachenko
Petro Fedorovych Tkachenko (December 21, 1878 in Syniavtsi – January 3, 1919) was a prominent blind kobzar.
Biography
Petro Fedorovych Tkachenko-Halashko was one of the more outstanding kobzars of the Chernihiv region. He was born on Decemb ...
Petro Trad
Petro Trad ( ar, بترو طراد) (born Beirut, Lebanon in 1876, died in Beirut on 5 April 1947) was a Lebanese lawyer, politician, who served as President of the French Mandate of Lebanon for a brief period (22 July 1943 – 21 September 194 ...
(1876-1947), Lebanese lawyer, politician and briefly President of the French Mandate of Lebanon in 1943
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Petro Trochanowski
Petro Trochanowski or Piotr Trochanowski (born 10 August 1947) was born in Parchów, Silesia in the southwestern part of Poland to Lemko parents from Binczarowa. He is the editor of ''Besida'', published in Krynica since 1989. He is a spokespe ...
(born 1947), Polish poet
* Petro Vlahos (1916-2013), Hollywood special effects pioneer
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Petro Voinovsky Petro Voinovsky ( ro, Petru Voinovschi, russian: Пётр Войновский, uk, Петро Войновський; September 8, 1913, village Stanivtsi Dolyshni — April 8, 1996) was a Ukrainian nationalist. He lived in Bukovina (a region of m ...
(1913—1996), Ukrainian nationalist
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Petro Zakhvalynsky
Petro Zakhvalynsky ( uk, Петро Захвалинський, russian: Пётр Захвалынский), also known under pseudonym "Roman", (died 1943) was a Ukrainian nationalist, member of Andriy Melnyk's faction in OUN.
During the Russia ...
(died 1943), Ukrainian nationalist
Surname
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Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian economist, politician, and former guerrilla fighter who is the current president of Colombia since 2022. After taking office, Petro was considered by analysts as Colombia's ...
(born 1960), Colombian politician and economist
* Jim Petro (born 1948), American politician and former Ohio Attorney General
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Johan Petro
Johan Petro (born January 27, 1986) is a French former professional basketball player of Guadeloupean descent, who last played for the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA Development League. He was selected by the SuperSonics with the 25th overall pic ...
(born 1986), French professional basketball player
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Joe Petro III
Joe Petro III (born May 3, 1956) is a second-generation fine artist who works as a sculptor in bronze, clay and printmaking on silk-screen and handmade paper. He majored in Zoology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He worked with Kurt Vo ...
(born 1956), American artist
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Joseph Petro
Joseph Petro (born 1944) is the executive vice president and managing director of Citigroup Security and Investigative Services. He is also co-chairman of the United States Department of State's Overseas Security Advisory Council. He also served ...
(born 1944), former United States Secret Service agent, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Citigroup Security and Investigative Services
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Pamela Petro
Pamela Petro is an author, artist, and educator. Her books, including ''Travels in an Old Tongue'' (1996), ''Sitting up with the Dead'' (2001, UK, 2002, 2017 US), ''The Slow Breath of Stone'' (2005), and ''The Long Field'' (2021, UK 2023, US) inves ...
, American artist
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Nicolai N. Petro
Nicolai N. Petro is the Silvia-Chandley Professor of Peace Studies and Nonviolence (2017-2019) and Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island, in the United States. He also served as the US State Department's special assistant ...
, American political science scholar
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Steve Petro
Stephen Lawrence Petro (October 21, 1914 – August 15, 1994) was an American football Guard (American football), guard who played two seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL), Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted ...
(1914-1994), American National Football League player
Cognomen
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Titus Flavius Petro
Titus Flavius Petro was the paternal grandfather of the Roman emperor Vespasian.
What little is known of Petro comes from Suetonius, who says that he was a native of Reate in Latium, and had been one of the loyal soldiers of Pompeius during the ...
(fl. 1st century BC), paternal grandfather of the Roman Emperor Vespasian
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Petro (cryptocurrency)
The ''petro'' (₽), or ''petromoneda'', launched in February 2018, is a crypto token issued by the government of Venezuela.
Announced in December 2017, it is supposed to be backed by the country's oil and mineral reserves, and is intended ...
, Venezuelan cryptocurrency
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Petro lwa
The Petwo ( ht, Petwo), also spelled Petro and alternatively known as , are a family of lwa (loa) spirits in the religion of Haitian Vodou. They are regarded as being volatile and "hot", in this contrasting with the Rada lwa, which are regarded as ...
or Petwo, a family of lwa (loa) in Voudon (Voodoo)
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Petros (disambiguation)
Petros, the original Greek and Coptic version of the name Peter, meaning "stone" or "rock", may refer to:
People
* Petros (given name)
* Petros (surname)
* Petros (footballer), Brazilian footballer Petros Matheus dos Santos Araújo (born 1989)
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Petroleum
Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crud ...