Peter

Peter — or sometimes the shortened Pete — is a first name common to many individuals. As a surname it is often styled in the possessive as with Peters. Less commonly, it is seen as a place name.
For ease of use, this list has been highly sectionalised, then alphabetised by last name.
== In-universe ==
=== As only name ===
* Peter (TV: The Beast Below)
* Piotr (TV: Cold War)
* Peter (PROSE: Dear Great Uncle Peter)
* Pete (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
* Peter (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
* Peter (PROSE: Most Horrid)
* Peter of Galilee (PROSE: Byzantium!)
* Peter (PROSE: Strange England)
* Peter (PROSE: Timechase)
* Peter (PROSE: Verdigris)
=== As first name ===
* Pete Callahan (TV: Doctor Who)
* Peter Capaldi (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor)
* Peter Capaldi (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)
* Peter Cushing (PROSE: Peaceful Thals Ambushed!)
* Peter Dalton (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)
* Peter Davison (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)
* Peter Dickson (PROSE: The Clockwise Man)
* Peter Hamilton (TV: Death to the Daleks)
* Peter Haydon (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen)
* Pete Lambert (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
* Peter Moore (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People)
* Peter Rabbit (TV: The Creature from the Pit)
* Peter Rathbone (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
* Peter Richley (PROSE: Of the Mermaid and Jupiter)
* Peter Russell (HOMEVID: The Zero Imperative)
* Peter Sandoz (AUDIO: Winter for the Adept)
* Peter Smythe (AUDIO: The Memory Bank)
* Peter Streete (TV: The Shakespeare Code)
* Peter Summerfield (PROSE: The Glass Prison)
* Peter Tracey (TV: A Girl's Best Friend)
* Pete Tyler (The Endless Night) (AUDIO: The Endless Night)
* Pete Tyler (TV: Father's Day)
* Pete Tyler (The Flood) (AUDIO: The Flood)
* Pete Tyler (Ghost Machines) (AUDIO: Ghost Machines)
* Pete Tyler (Pete's World) (TV: Army of Ghosts, et al)
* Peter Venkman, a character from Ghostbusters, mentioned in COMIC: Revolutions of Terror
* Peter Warmsly (TV: Battlefield)
* Peter Younghusband (PROSE: The Last Duty)
=== As surname ===
* Sergeant Peters (The Invasion) (TV: The Invasion)
* Peters (The Forgotten) (COMIC: The Forgotten)
* Denis Peters (COMIC: The Celluloid Midas)
* Charles Peters (PROSE: Blue Box)
=== As place name ===
* Pete's World (TV: Army of Ghosts, Journey's End, et al)
* The Blue Peter garden (COMIC: TV Action!)
== Behind the scenes ==
=== Actors ===
==== As first name ====
===== Regular =====
* Peter Cushing, who played Dr. Who in Dr. Who and the Daleks and its sequel
* Peter Capaldi, who plays the Twelfth Doctor
* Peter Davison (born Peter Moffett), who played the Fifth Doctor
* Peter Purves, who played companion, Steven Taylor
===== Guest =====
* Peter Birrel, who played the Draconian prince in TV: Frontier in Space
* Peter Butterworth, who originated the role of The Monk (TV: The Time Meddler, The Daleks' Master Plan)
* Peter Capaldi, who played Caecilius in TV: The Fires of Pompeii, John Frobisher in TV: Children of Earth and the Twelfth Doctor
* Peter Jeffrey, who played Count Grendel in The Androids of Tara
* Peter Kay, who was the featured villain in TV: Love & Monsters
* Peter Mayock, who played Ibrahim Namin in TV: Pyramids of Mars and Solis in The Deadly Assassin
* Peter Miles, who played Nyder in Genesis of the Daleks, and several other roles in televised and audio Doctor Who
* Peter Pratt, who played (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
* Peter Stephens, who played Cyril and several other parts in TV: The Celestial Toymaker and Lolem in The Underwater Menace
* Peter Wyngarde, who played Timanov in TV: Planet of Fire
===== Featured =====
* Peter Barkworth who played Clent in TV: The Ice Warriors
* Peter Bathurst, who played Hensell in TV: The Power of the Daleks and Horatio Chinn in The Claws of Axos
* Peter Benson, who played Bor in TV: Terminus
* Peter Bourke, who played Mr. Chambers in TV: Human Nature
* Peter Brooke, who played a builder in TV: Daleks in Manhattan
* Peter Burroughs, who played the Jester in TV: The King's Demons
* Peter Cellier, who played Andrews in TV: Time-Flight
* Peter Childs, who played Jack Ward in TV: The Mark of the Rani
* Peter Copley, who played Dr. Warlock in TV: Pyramids of Mars
* Peter Craze an actor who played a number of small parts in the 1963 version of Doctor Who
* Peter Czajkowski, who played Sgt. Prozorov in TV: The Curse of Fenric
* Peter Dahlsen, who played Horton in TV: Time-Flight
* Peter Hamilton Dyer, who played Embery in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
* Peter Fraser, who played Susan Foreman's future husband, David Campbell, in TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
* Peter Gilmore, who played Brazen in TV: Frontios
* Peter Howell (actor), who played the Investigator in TV: The Mutants
* Peter Halliday, an actor who played a number of parts in the 1963 version of Doctor Who, but perhaps most famously Packer in The Invasion
* Peter Laird, who played Chang in TV:The Wheel in Space
* Peter Lawrence, who played Vizier in TV: Marco Polo
* Peter O'Brien, who played Ed Gold in TV: The Waters of Mars
* Peter Russell, who played Eldred in TV: The Time Meddler
* Peter Rutherford, who played Roth in TV: The Sontaran Experiment
* Peter Sallis, who played Elric Penley in TV: The Ice Warriors
* Peter Sanders, who played Sita in TV: The Space Museum
* Peter Straker, who played Commander Sharrel in TV: Destiny of the Daleks
* Peter Thomas, who played Captain Edal in TV: The Savages
* Peter Walker, who played Jean-Pierre in TV: The Reign of Terror
* Peter Welch, who played small roles in TV: The Highlanders and The Android Invasion
* Peter Whitaker, who played Inspector Gascoigne in TV: The Faceless Ones
===== Monster specialists =====
* Peter Badger, who played a Roboman in TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
* Peter Noel Cook, who played an alien space captain in TV: The Ambassadors of Death
* Peter Forbes-Robertson, whose biggest role in Doctor Who was that of Chief Sea Devil in The Sea Devils
* Peter Glaze, who played a Sensorite, in TV: The Sensorites
* Peter Greene, who played a Cyberman in TV: The Moonbase
* Peter Langtry, a robot in TV: The Robots of Death
* Peter Murphy, a Dalek operator during the William Hartnell era
* Peter Stenson, who played a few monsters in Doctor Who of the 1960s
* Peter Thompson, a monster actor in the late 1960s and early 1970s
* Peter Thornton, who played a Cyberman in TV: The Invasion
===== Extra =====
* Peter Baldock, who was an acolyte in TV: The Face of Evil
* Peter Ducrow, who played a guard in TV: Fury from the Deep
* Peter Hill who played the manager in TV: Day of the Daleks
* Peter Holmes, an uncredited extra in several serials during the William Hartnell era
* Peter Mantle, who played a Kaled guard in TV: Genesis of the Daleks
* Peter Pocock, an uncredited soldier in TV: The Tenth Planet
* Peter Walshe, who played Erak in TV: The Sontaran Experiment, and a Pikeman in The Masque of Mandragora
===== Vocal =====
* Peter Forbes, who has voiced many roles for many of Big Finish Productions' audios, but perhaps is most famous for Culver in the Dalek Empire series
* Peter Guinness, who voiced Mister Dread in TV: Dreamland
* Peter Hawkins, a Dalek and Cyberman vocal artist during the 1960s
* Peter Jurasik who played Peter Sandoz in AUDIO: Winter for the Adept
* Peter Sowerbutts, who has voiced many roles for Big Finish Productions' audios
* Peter Trapani, an actor in AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge and Neverland; and HOMEVID: Auton 2: Sentinel and Auton 3: Awakening
* Peter Tuddenham, a voice actor in TV: The Ark in Space, The Masque of Mandragora, and Time and the Rani
==== As surname ====
* Luan Peters, an actor who played Chicki in The Macra Terror, and Sheila in Frontier in Space
* Steve Peters, an actor who played a variety of monsters during the first seven years of the 1963 version of Doctor Who
* Clarke Peters, an actor who voiced Night Eagle in TV: Dreamland
=== Production ===
==== Television ====
===== Cameramen =====
* Peter Bartlett, a film cameraman for TV: The Abominable Snowmen
* Peter Chapman, a film cameraman mostly during Season 19 of Doctor Who
* Peter Hall, a film cameraman during the 1970s
* Peter Hamilton, a film cameraman during the 1960s and 1970s
* Peter Sargent, a film cameraman for TV: The Power of the Daleks
===== Designers =====
* Peter Brachacki, a production designer on TV: An Unearthly Child
* Peter Kindred, a production designer on TV: The Tenth Planet and Fury from the Deep
* Peter McKinstry, a concept designer for Doctor Who (2005), and Torchwood
===== Directors =====
* Peter Grimwade was a director and writer of several televised adventures in the JN-T era; from the Barry Letts to the Graham Williams eras, he was a production assistant
* Peter Moffatt, director of six stories for Doctor Who during the early 1980s, perhaps most famously The Five Doctors
===== Lighting =====
* Peter Catlett was in charge of studio lighting for TV: The Brain of Morbius and The Awakening
* Peter Murray was in charge of studio lighting for TV: The Keys of Marinus and The Sensorites
* Peter Smee was in charge of studio lighting for TV: The King's Demons and Warriors of the Deep
* Peter Winn was in charge of studio lighting for TV: The Space Pirates
===== Producers =====
* Peter Bennett, a producer during the Steven Moffat era of Doctor Who, who also had a variety of roles during the first Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who, and on Torchwood
* Peter Bryant, who was the producer and sometime script editor of Doctor Who for roughly the last year of the Patrick Troughton era
* Peter V. Ware, who produced Doctor Who (1996)
===== Sound design, effects, music =====
* Peter Howell, a sound engineer most famous for arranging the "Doctor Who theme" as used in Seasons 18-22; also composed incidental music and special sounds
* Peter Jeffreys, a BBC Wales dubbing mixer
===== Visual effects =====
* Peter Day, a visual effects designer in the 1960s and 1970s
* Peter Logan, a visual effects artist during the 1963 version of Doctor Who
* Peter Pegrum, a visual effects artist, mostly active in the 1970s
* Peter Wragg, a visual effects artist during the Peter Davison and Colin Baker eras
===== Writers =====
* Peter J. Hammond, writer of TV: Small Worlds and From Out of the Rain
* Peter Harness, writer of TV: Kill the Moon
* Peter Ling, writer of TV: The Mind Robber
* Peter R. Newman, writer of TV: The Sensorites
===== Other =====
* Peter Chester, a best boy on the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who
* Peter Cregeen, the BBC Head of Series responsible for "resting" Doctor Who in 1989
* Peter Diamond, a fight arranger during the 1960s and 1970s, who was occasionally used as an actor, as with the role of Delos in TV: The Romans
* Peter Evans, a film editor on TV: Carnival of Monsters
==== Other media ====
===== Print =====
* Peter Anghelides, a prolific prose author of Doctor Who and Torchwood fiction
* Peter Brookes, a cover illustrator for Target Books
* Peter Darvill-Evans, a key player in the creation of the Virgin New Adventures line of novels and an author himself
* Peter Griffiths, an interviewer for Doctor Who Magazine
* Peter Haining, a prolific author of Doctor Who non-fiction prior to the release of TV: Doctor Who (1996)
* Peter Ware, an assistant editor of Doctor Who Magazine