Peter may refer to:
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List of people named Peter
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Peter is a common name. As a given name, it is generally derived from Peter the Apostle, born Simon, whom Jesus renamed "Peter" after he declared that Jesus indeed was the Messiah. The name "Peter" roughly means ...
, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
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Peter (given name)
Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new n ...
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Saint Peter
) (Simeon, Simon)
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, birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire
, death_date = Between AD 64–68
, death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire
, parents = John (or Jonah; Jona)
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(died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
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Peter (surname)
Peter is a surname which is also a common masculine given name (see here). It is derived, via Latin "petra", from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone" or "rock".
List of people
* Babett Peter (born 1988), German football ...
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Culture
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Peter (actor)
(born August 8, 1952, in Sakai, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese singer, dancer and actor who has appeared in Akira Kurosawa's '' Ran'' and Toshio Matsumoto's '' Bara no Sōretsu''. Ikehata uses the stage name when he appears on TV variety shows a ...
(born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor
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''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip
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''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster
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''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film
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"Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe''
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''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith
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"Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather
Animals
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Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London
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