Top Celebrity Names Starting With Pete

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   Pete Doherty

   Age 33 Male
   

   Singer and Songwriter

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   Peter Doherty is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with model Kate Moss and his frequently-publicised drug addictions.… read more

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   Pete Wentz

   Age 32 Male
   

   Musician, Bassist, Lyricist

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   Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III better known as Pete Wentz, is an American musician best known for being the bassist and primary lyricist for the American rock band Fall Out Boy. Since the announcement of Fall Out Boy's indefinite hiatus, Wentz has formed the experimental electropop group Black Cards. He owns a record label, Decaydance Records, which has signed bands such as Panic! at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes.… read more

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   Pete Townshend

   Age 67 Male
   

   Musician, Composer, Musical Arranger, Author

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   Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than 40 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and 1970s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, "possibly the greatest live band ever.… read more

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   Pete Burns

   Age 52 Male
   

   Singer Songwriter

   735 Photos
   

   Pete Burns is an English singer-songwriter, author and television personality who founded the band Dead or Alive in 1980, for which he acted as the vocalist and songwriter, and which rose to mainstream success with their 1985 single "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". He later rose to further celebrity status in the British media following his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother 2006 and his own television show, Pete's PA in 2007.… read more

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   Pete Sampras

   Age 40 Male
   

   Tennis Player

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   Pete Rose

   Age 71 Male
   

   Baseball Player

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   Peter Edward "Pete" Rose, nicknamed "Charlie Hustle", is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989. Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time Major League leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053) and outs (10,328).… read more

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   Pete Seeger

   Age 93 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.… read more

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   Pete Carroll

   Age 60 Male
   

   Football Player and Coach

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   For other people named Peter Carroll, see Peter Carroll. Not to be confused with Pete Carril.

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   Pete Best

   Age 70 Male
   

   Early Drummer For the Beatles

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   Pete Best is a British musician, principally known as the original drummer in The Beatles. He was born in the city of Madras, which was then part of British India. After his mother moved to Liverpool in 1945, Best's mother, Mona Best (1924–1988), opened The Casbah Coffee Club, in the cellar of the Bests' large house in Liverpool, which became very popular, having a membership of over a thousand.… read more

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    Pete Postlethwaite

    1946 - 2011 Male
    

    Actor

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    Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, was an English stage, film and television actor. After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr. Kobayashi, in The Usual Suspects, and he appeared in Alien 3, In the Name of the Father, Amistad, Brassed Off, The Shipping News, The Constant Gardener, The Age of Stupid, Inception, The Town, Romeo + Juliet and Æon Flux.… read more

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    Pete Stark

    Age 80 Male
    

    Elder, Politician, Congressman

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    Fortney Hillman "Pete" Stark, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1973. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Currently he is the 5th most senior Representative, as well as 6th most senior member of Congress overall. He is also the dean of California's 55-member Congressional delegation. His district lies in southwestern Alameda County and includes Alameda, Union City, Hayward, Newark, San Leandro and Fremont, as well as parts of Oakland and Pleasanton.… read more

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    Pete Docter

    Age 43 Male
    

    Scriptwriter, Voice Actor, Writer

    132 Photos
    

    Peter Hans "Pete" Docter is an American film director, animator, screenwriter and producer from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing the films Monsters, Inc. and Up, and as a key figure and collaborator in Pixar Animation Studios. The A. V. Club has called him "almost universally successful".… read more

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    Pete Wilson

    Age 78 Male
    

    Politician and United States Marine Corps Officer

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    Peter Barton “Pete” Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator (1983–1991), eleven years as Mayor of San Diego (1971–1982) and four years as a California State Assemblyman (1967–1971).… read more

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    Pete Rock

    Age 41 Male
    

    Producer, Disk Jockey, Rapper

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    Peter Phillips, better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth. After the duo went their separate ways, Rock continued with a solo career that has garnered him worldwide respect, though little in the way of mainstream success.… read more

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    Pete Yorn

    Age 37 Male
    

    Musician

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    Pete Waterman

    Age 65 Male
    

    Railfan

    67 Photos
    

    Peter Alan Waterman OBE is an English record producer, occasional songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. As a member of the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting team he wrote and produced many hit singles.… read more

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    Pete Sears

    Age 64 Male
    

    Musician, Bass

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    Peter "Pete" Sears is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than four decades he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues. He usually plays bass, keyboards, or both in bands.… read more

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    Pete Olson

    Age 49 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Peter Graham "Pete" Olson is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes much of southeastern Houston, as well as most of the city's southern suburbs such as Pearland, Sugar Land, and Pasadena.… read more

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    Pete Domenici

    Age 80 Male
    

    United States Senator From New Mexico

    
    

    Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici is an American Republican politician, who served six terms as a United States Senator from New Mexico, from 1973 to 2009, the longest tenure in the state's history. During Domenici's tenure in the Senate, he advocated waterway usage fees, nuclear power, and related causes. Domenici announced on October 4, 2007 his decision not to seek re-election to the Senate in 2008 for health reasons, in particular frontotemporal lobar degeneration.… read more

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    Pete

    Male
    

    Bear

    
    

    Pete, also called Peg-Leg Pete, and Black Pete among other names, is a cartoon character created in 1925 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. He is a licensed character of The Walt Disney Company and often appears as an archnemesis and the main antagonist in Mickey Mouse universe stories. Pete was originally an anthropomorphic bear, but with the advent of Mickey Mouse in 1928, Pete became a large black cat, the persona for which he is most often associated.… read more

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    Pete Atkin

    Age 66 Male
    

    Singer, Producer, Songwriter

    
    

    Pete Atkin is a British singer-songwriter and radio producer notable for his 1970s musical collaborations with Clive James and for producing the BBC Radio 4 series This Sceptred Isle.

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    Pete Sessions

    Age 57 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Peter Anderson Sessions is a politician from the state of Texas. He is a Republican, and currently represents the 32nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the current Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee… read more

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    Pete McCloskey

    Age 84 Male
    

    Congressman, Politician, Incumbent

    
    

    Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. is a former Republican politician from the U.S. state of California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972 but was defeated by incumbent President Richard Nixon. In April 2007, McCloskey switched his affiliation to the Democratic Party.… read more

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    Pete Maravich

    1947 - 1988 Male
    

    Serb-american Basketball Player

    
    

    Peter "Pistol Pete" Press Maravich was an American professional basketball player. Born and raised in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Maravich starred in college at Louisiana State University (LSU) and played for three NBA teams until injuries induced him to retire in 1980. He is still the all-time leading NCAA Division I scorer with 3,667 points scored and an average of 44.2 points per game.… read more

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    Pete Hoekstra

    Age 58 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Peter "Pete" Hoekstra is a former Republican U.S. Representative for who served in the House from 1993 until 2011. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Michigan in 2010 and is running for the United States Senate against Debbie Stabenow in 2012.… read more