# 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 Hermanchuk (1952–2012), Ukrainian economist and politician
* 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 Punna, Finnish former footballer and executive
* 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 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
* Petro Zakhvalynsky (died 1943), Ukrainian nationalist

## Surname

* Charles Petro (born 2001), Malawian footballer
* Gustavo Petro (born 1960), current President of Colombia, 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
* Pamela Petro, American artist
* Nicolai N. Petro, American political science scholar
* Steve Petro (1914–1994), American National Football League player

## Cognomen

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

## Other

* Petro (cryptocurrency), Venezuelan cryptocurrency
* Petro lwa or Petwo, a family of lwa (loa) in Voudon (Voodoo)
* Petros (disambiguation)
* Petroleum