# Pete (given name)

Pete is a given name. It is a diminutive form of the given name Peter. It is the given name of:

## People

* Pete Accetturo, American YouTuber and voice actor
* Pete Alonso (born 1994), American baseball player
* Pete Appleton (1904–1974), American baseball player
* Pete Buttigieg (born 1982), American politician
* Pete Berezney (1923–2008), American football player
* Pete D'Alonzo (1929–2001), American football player
* Pete Davidson (born 1993), American comedian
* Pete Docter (born 1968), American animator, film director and producer
* Pete Elverum, American politician
* Pete Fairbanks (born 1993), American baseball player
* Pete Fountain (1930–2016), American clarinet player
* Pete Gardner (born 1964), American actor
* Pete Gudauskas (1916–2003), American football player
* Pete Ham (1947–1975), Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist, member of the rock band Badfinger
* Pete Hamill (1935–2020), American journalist and author
* Pete Hamilton (1942–2017), American NASCAR driver
* Pete Loeffler, American singer-songwriter and musician, member of the rock band Chevelle
* Pete Maki, American baseball coach
* Pete Maravich (1948-1988), American basketball player
* Pete Mikolajewski (born 1943), American football player
* Pete Murray (Australian singer-songwriter) (born 1969), Australian singer-songwriter
* Pete Murray (DJ) (born 1925), British radio and television presenter and actor
* Pete Nice (born 1967), American rapper
* Pete Perini (1928–2008), American football player
* Pete Postlethwaite (1946–2011), English actor
* Pete Price (born 1946), British radio presenter
* Pete Ricketts (born 1964), American businessman
* Pete Sampras (born 1971), American tennis player
* Pete Seeger (1919–2014), American folk singer
* Pete Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
* Pete Townshend (born 1945), English guitarist, singer, songwriter (The Who)
* Pete Trgovich, American basketball player
* Pete Walker (baseball), American baseball player and coach
* Pete Wentz (born 1979), bassist of the band Fall Out Boy
* Pete Werner (born 1999), American football player
* Pete Woodworth (born 1988), American baseball coach

## Fictional characters

* Pete Beale, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders
* Pete Campbell, on the American television series Mad Men
* Pete Miller, on the American television series The Office
* Pete Dinglewood, protagonist of Step Closer, the first story in the book Five Nights at Freddy's Step Closer.
* Play-Doh Pete, the mascot of Play-Doh compound who was around from 1960 to 2002
* Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, in Top Gun
* Pete (Disney), an anthropomorphic cartoon character in Disney media
* Pete the Cat, a fictional cat from the "Pete the Cat" series of books
* Pete the Pup, from the Our Gang series of comedies
* Pete, in the movie Shaun of the Dead
* Pete & Pete, the title characters of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, an American children's television series
* Old Puffer Pete, in the TV series Chuggington
* Pete Crane, a construction vehicle in Putt-Putt Enters the Race
* Pete, the freight engine in The Little Engine That Could
* Pete Malloy, one of the two main characters in the TV series Adam-12
* Pete McGee, a character from The Ghost and Molly McGee
* Pete, the title character of Pete the Tramp, an American comic strip published from 1932 to 1963
* Pete Wisdom, from Marvel Comics
* Stinky Pete, a character of Woody's Roundup and the main antagonist of Toy Story 2
* Cactus Pete, the cameo husband of Cactus Polly on Oswald
* Cordwood Pete, younger brother of American folk legend Paul Bunyan
* Pete, a character in the Animal Crossing video game series
* Pete, the title character of Power Pete, a video game
* Pete, a character from Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race
* Pete Wheeler, the main character in the Backyard Sports game series