Peter Taylor may refer to:

Arts

* Peter Taylor (writer) (1917–1994), American author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction * Peter Taylor (film editor) (1922–1997), English film editor, winner of an Academy Award for Film Editing

Politics and government

* Peter Taylor (paymaster) (1714–1777), British politician, MP for Wells and MP for Portsmouth *

Peter Alfred Taylor Peter Alfred Taylor (30 July 1819 – 20 December 1891) was a British politician, anti-vaccinationist and radical. Biography Taylor was born in London. He was the son of another Peter Alfred Taylor, a silk merchant, and the nephew of Samuel Co ...

(1819–1891), British politician and radical *

Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth Peter Murray Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth, (1 May 1930 – 28 April 1997) was the Lord Chief Justice of England from 1992 until 1996. Family Taylor came from a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family who had emigrated to England from Marijampol� ...

(1930–1997), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 1992–1997 * Peter Taylor alias Perce, Member of Parliament (MP) for Marlborough in 1554 *

Peter Taylor (British politician) Peter Colin Taylor is a Liberal Democrat politician. He is the second directly elected mayor of Watford Watford () is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, 15 miles northwest of Central London, on the River Colne. Initially a small ...

, Mayor of Watford

Sport

* Pete Taylor (1945–2003), American sports broadcaster * Pete Taylor (baseball) (1927–2003), American baseball pitcher *

Peter Taylor (Australian footballer) Peter Taylor (born 25 August 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as ...

(born 1954), Australian rules footballer *

Peter Taylor (Australian cricketer) Peter Laurence Taylor (born 22 August 1956) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 13 Test matches and 83 One Day Internationals between 1987 and 1992. He became a Test match selector for Australia in the late 1990s. Domestic career ...

(born 1956), Australian cricketer *

Peter Taylor (English cricketer) Peter Michael Taylor (born 11 December 1942) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman who played for Bedfordshire. He was born in Cranfield, Bedfordshire. Taylor made a single List A appearance for the team, during the 1967 Gille ...

(born 1942), former cricketer for Bedfordshire *

Peter Taylor (South African cricketer) Peter Taylor (born 2 November 1934) is a South African cricketer. He played in six first-class matches for Border from 1959/60 to 1964/65. See also * List of Border representative cricketers This is a list of all cricketers who have played f ...

(born 1934), South African cricketer *

Peter Taylor (footballer, born 1928) Peter Thomas Taylor (2 July 1928 – 4 October 1990) was an English football player and manager. A goalkeeper with a modest playing career, he went on to work in management alongside Brian Clough at Derby County and Nottingham Forest, w ...

(1928–1990), English football goalkeeper and manager, associated with Brian Clough *

Peter Taylor (footballer, born 1953) Peter John Taylor (born 3 January 1953) is an English former footballer who is manager of club Maldon & Tiptree. He was previously manager at Dartford, Enfield, Southend United, Dover Athletic, Leicester City, Brighton and Hove Albion, H ...

(born 1953), English football manager and former player *

Peter Taylor (rower) Peter Taylor (born 3 January 1984) is a New Zealand rower. Taylor was born in 1984 in Lower Hutt; he lives in Days Bay. In 2006 along with Graham Oberlin-Brown he became the Under 23 World Champion in the men's lightweight double sculls, and ...

(born 1984), New Zealand Olympic rower *

Pete Taylor (boxing coach) Pete Taylor is a boxing coach, former boxer and father and former trainer of Katie Taylor. Early life Taylor is originally from Leeds, England, but he moved with his parents to Bray, County Wicklow to work in the amusement arcades in the town. H ...

, former boxer turned boxing coach

Other fields

Peter Taylor (botanist) Peter Geoffrey Taylor (1926–2011) was a British botanist who worked at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew throughout his career in botany. Taylor was born in 1926 and joined the staff of the herbarium at Kew in 1948. He published his first new specie ...

(1926–2011), British botanist at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew *

Peter Taylor (journalist) Peter Taylor, is a British journalist and documentary-maker. He is best known for his coverage of the political and armed conflict in Northern Ireland, widely known as the Troubles, and for his investigation of Al Qaeda and Islamist extrem ...

(born 1942), British journalist and author of non-fiction books, especially about Northern Ireland and Al-Qaeda *

Peter J. Taylor Peter James Taylor (born 21 November 1944) is an English geographer. Born in Calverton in Nottinghamshire, he was Professor of Political Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne between 1970 and 1996, before joining Loughborough Unive ...

(born 1944), British geographer *

Peter Taylor (environmentalist) Peter Taylor (born 24 January 1948) is a UK environmentalist, public activist on issues ranging from nuclear safety, ocean pollution, biodiversity strategies, renewable energy and climate change. He is the author of five books: ''Beyond Cons ...

(born 1948), British environmentalist *

Peter Taylor (priest) Peter Flint Taylor (born 7 March 1944) was Archdeacon of Harlow in the Diocese of Chelmsford, serving from 1996 until 2009."Taylor, Ven. Peter Flint", ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxf ...

(born 1944), Archdeacon of Harlow

Characters

* Peter Taylor (''General Hospital''), a character from the soap opera ''General Hospital'' {{hndis, Taylor, Peter