Peel or Peeling may refer to:

Places

Australia

Peel (Western Australia) The Peel region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is located on the west coast of Western Australia, about south of the state capital, Perth. It consists of the City of Mandurah, and the Shires of Boddington, Murray, Serpe ...

* Peel Island, Queensland * Peel, New South Wales *

Peel River (New South Wales) Peel River, a watercourse that is part of the Namoi catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the North West Slopes and Plains district of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features The river rises on the northern slope ...

Canada

* Peel Parish, New Brunswick *

Peel, New Brunswick Peel is a Canadian rural community in Carleton County, New Brunswick. It is located on the east side of the Saint John River, 5.71 km NNW of Hartland, on the road to Stickney. It is part of Peel Parish. History A post office was first e ...

, an unincorporated community in Peel Parish *

Peel River (Canada) The Peel River (' in Gwich’in) is a tributary of the Mackenzie River in the Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada. Its source is in the Ogilvie Mountains in the central Yukon at the confluence of the Ogilvie River and Blackstone River ...

, tributary of the Mackenzie River *

Peel Sound Peel Sound is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It separates Somerset Island on the east from Prince of Wales Island on the west. To the north it opens onto Parry Channel while its southern end merges with Franklin Stra ...

, Nunavut *

Regional Municipality of Peel The Regional Municipality of Peel (informally Peel Region or Region of Peel, also formerly Peel County) is a regional municipality in the Greater Toronto Area, Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwes ...

, Ontario (Peel County until 1973) :* Peel (federal electoral district) :* Peel (provincial electoral district)

United Kingdom

* Peel Fell, a hill in Kielder Forest *

Peel Island, Cumbria Peel Island (formerly known as Montague Island or the Gridiron) is one of the three islands of Coniston Water in the English Lake District, Cumbria. The two others are Fir Island (which is connected to the shore unless the water is particularly ...

* Peels, Northumberland, in

Harbottle Harbottle is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England about south-east of the Scottish border, in the southeastern part of the Cheviot Hills and inside Northumberland National Park. The village is the site of Harbottle Castle buil ...

United States

* Peel, Arkansas * Peel, Oregon

Elsewhere

Peel, Isle of Man Peel ( gv, Purt ny h-Inshey – Port of the Island) is a seaside town and small fishing port in the Isle of Man, in the historic parish of German but administered separately. Peel is the third largest town in the island after Douglas and Ram ...

Peel, Netherlands De Peel is a region in the southeast of the Netherlands that straddles the border between the provinces of North Brabant and Limburg. The region is best known for the extraction of peat for fuel, which had been going on since the Middle Age ...

People

Surname

* Andrée Peel (1905–2010), member of the French Resistance during the Second World War * Ann Peel (born 1961), Canadian race walker *

Arthur Peel (disambiguation) Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel (1829–1912) was a British politician, Speaker of the House of Commons. Arthur Peel may also refer to: * Arthur Peel, 2nd Earl Peel Arthur William Ashton Peel, 2nd Earl Peel (29 May 1901 – 22 September 1969), s ...

Clifford Peel The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), commonly known as the Flying Doctor, is an air medical service in Australia. It is a non-profit organisation that provides emergency and primary health care services for those living in rural, remote a ...

(1894–1918), Australian World War I pilot *

Dwayne Peel Dwayne John Peel (born 31 August 1981) is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player. He was the most capped scrum-half for the Wales national rugby union team with 76 caps, until his record was surpassed by Mike Phillips on 16 March 2013. Yo ...

(born 1981), Welsh rugby union player *

Edward Peel (big-game fisherman) Sir Edward Townley Peel, KBE, DSO, MC (1884–1961) was a British army officer, businessman and amateur sportsman. He fought throughout World War I in three overseas theatres of war, rising in rank from private to colonel. He was a member of ...

(1884–1961), British army officer, businessman and amateur sportsman *

Edward Peel Edward Peel is an English television and stage actor. He was described by ''The Times'' in 2010 as a "veteran star of TV dramas" and "a familiar face on television for the past 40 years". Early life and education Peel trained as an actor at Ro ...

(born 1943), British actor *

Frederick Peel Sir Frederick Peel (26 October 1823 – 6 June 1906), was a British Liberal Party politician and railway commissioner. Background and education Peel was second son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, by his wife Julia Floyd, daug ...

(1823–1906), British politician and railway commissioner *

Harry Peel (disambiguation) Harry Peel may refer to: * Harry Peel (footballer) (1900–1976), English footballer * Harry Peel (ice hockey) (1879–1944), ice hockey player {{Hndis, Peel, Harry ...

Homer Peel Homer Hefner Peel (October 10, 1902 – April 8, 1997) was an American professional baseball player and manager during the first half of the 20th century. His career lasted for a quarter century (1923–42; 1946–50), including 21 years as an ...

(1902–1997), American Major League Baseball player *

Jennie Hallam-Peel The Queen Charlotte's Ball is an annual British debutante ball. The ball was founded in 1780 by George III as a birthday celebration in honour of his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, for whom the ball is named. The Queen Charlotte's Ball ...

, British debutante and chairwoman of the

Queen Charlotte's Ball The Queen Charlotte's Ball is an annual British debutante ball. The ball was founded in 1780 by George III as a birthday celebration in honour of his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, for whom the ball is named. The Queen Charlotte's Ball ...

* John Peel (disambiguation) *

Jonathan Peel Jonathan Peel, PC (12 October 1799 – 13 February 1879) was a British soldier, Conservative politician and racehorse owner. Background and education Peel was the fifth son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Ellen (née Yates ...

(1799–1879), British soldier and politician * Lawrence Peel (1799–1884), British judge in India * Mark Peel (historian) (born 1959), Australian historian and academic * Paul Peel (1860–1892), Canadian painter * Peter Peel (1866–1960), United States soccer administrator *

Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Excheque ...

(1788–1850), British founder of the (London) Metropolitan Police, later Prime Minister * Robert Peel (disambiguation) * Samuel W. Peel (1831–1924), U.S. Representative from Arkansas * Sir Sidney Peel, 1st Baronet (1870–1938), British soldier, financier and politician *

Thomas Peel Thomas Peel (1793 – 22 December 1865)Alexandra Hasluck,, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 2, MUP, 1967, pp 320-322. retrieved 2009-11-04 organised and lead a consortium of the first British settlers to Western Australia. He was ...

(1793–1865), early settler of Western Australia * William Peel (disambiguation)

Titles

Earl Peel Earl Peel is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Peel family descends from Robert Peel, eldest son of a wealthy cotton merchant. The family lands, known as Drayton Manor, in the County of Stafford would become more commonly kno ...

, title in the British peerage *

Peel baronets There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Peel, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Peel baronetcy, of Drayton Manor in the County of Stafford and of Bury in ...

, three separate British baronetcies

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* Peel (band), indie rock band from Austin, Texas * Peel (US band), a US band active from 1999–2001 formed by Kevin Ridel from Los Angeles, California

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Peel'' (1982 film), an Australian short film directed by Jane Campion * ''Peel'' (2019 film), a British comedy-drama starring Emile Hirsch *

Emma Peel Emma Peel is a fictional spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series '' The Avengers'', and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version. She was born Emma Knight, the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight. She ...

, a fictional character in the television series ''The Avengers''

Brands and enterprises

* Peel Hotels, UK hotel company *

Peel Engineering Company The Peel Engineering Company was a manufacturing company based in Peel on the west coast of the Isle of Man that primarily made fibreglass boats through its subsidiary company West Marine Ltd. and fairings for motorcycles. Description and his ...

, Manx boat and car manufacturer * Peel Technologies, makers of the Peel Smart Remote, an Android and iOS app to control TV and other home devices *

The Peel Group The Peel Group is a British infrastructure and property investment business, based in Manchester. In 2022, its Peel Land and Property estate extends to of buildings, and over of land and water. Peel retains minority stakes in its former ports ...

or Peel Holdings, UK property company, owner of several "Peel Centres"

Technology

* Peel (software), Mac application for listening to songs from MP3 blogs *

Peel (tool) A peel is a shovel-like tool used by bakers to slide loaves of bread, pizzas, pastries, and other baked goods into and out of an oven. It is usually made of wood, with a flat carrying surface (like a shovel's blade) for holding the baked good and ...

, long handled tool used in baking * PEEL, programmable electrically erasable logic, variant of the GAL (generic array logic) *

Bitrate peeling Bitrate peeling is a technique used in Ogg Vorbis audio encoded streams, wherein a stream can be encoded at one bitrate but can be served at that or any lower bitrate. The purpose is to provide access to the clip for people with slower Internet ...

, Ogg Vorbis technique for changing the bitrate of an audio stream

Transit

* Peel Hall tram stop, in Manchester, England * Peel railway station (Isle of Man), in Peel, Isle of Man * Peel Road railway station, in Peel, Isle of Man * Peel station (Montreal Metro), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Skin or rind

Peel (fruit) Peel, also known as rind or skin, is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which can be peeled off. The rind is usually the botanical exocarp, but the term exocarp also includes the hard cases of nuts, which are not named peels sin ...

, skin of fruit * Peeling of animal skin, also called

moulting In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body (often, but not always, an outer ...

* Peeling of human skin, also called

desquamation Desquamation occurs when the outermost layer of a tissue, such as the skin, is shed. The term is . Physiologic desquamation Keratinocytes are the predominant cells of the epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin. Living keratinocytes reside in ...

, such as from a sunburn *

Chemical peel A chemical peel is a technique used to improve and smooth the texture of the skin. Facial skin is mostly treated, and scarring can be improved. Chemical peels are intended to remove the outermost layers of the skin. To accomplish this task, the ch ...

, a treatment that uses a chemical solution to remove the outer layer of dead skin

Sports

* Peel A.F.C., an association football club from Peel, Isle of Man *

Peel Thunder Football Club The Peel Thunder Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The team is based in Mandurah, Western Australia, with their home ground being Rushton Park. The ...

, an Australian rules football club * Peel, a

croquet Croquet ( or ; french: croquet) is a sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. Its international governing body is the Worl ...

term

Other uses

* Center peel, or "Peel", infantry retreat technique *

Peel Commission The Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, was a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes of unrest in Mandatory Palestine, which was administered by Gre ...

, Royal Commission of Inquiry into Palestine, 1936–1937 *

Peel tower Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and about 1600. They were free-standing ...

, a fortified keep or watchtower