Peel or Peeling may refer to:

Places

Australia

Peel (Western Australia) The Peel region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia#regional, regional regions of Western Australia, as defined by the ''Regional Development Commissions Act 1993''. It is located on the west coast of Western Australia, about south o ...

* Peel, New South Wales *

Peel River (New South Wales) Peel River, a watercourse that is part of the Namoi catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the North West Slopes and Plains district of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features The river rises on the northern slopes ...

Canada

Peel Parish, New Brunswick Peel is a geographic parish in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, situated on the eastern bank of the Saint John River. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was comprised one local service district and part ...

* Peel, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community in Peel Parish * Peel River (Canada), tributary of the Mackenzie River *

Peel Sound Peel Sound is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It separates Somerset Island on the east from Prince of Wales Island on the west. To the north it opens onto Parry Channel while its southern end merges with Franklin Str ...

, Nunavut *

Regional Municipality of Peel The Regional Municipality of Peel (informally Peel Region or Region of Peel, also formerly Peel County) is a regional municipality in the Greater Toronto Area, Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwest ...

, Ontario (Peel County until 1973) :*

Peel (federal electoral district) Peel was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act 1867. It consisted of the Townships of Chinguac ...

Peel (provincial electoral district) Peel was a provincial riding in Central Ontario, Canada. It elected one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA; ) is the legislative chamber of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its elected m ...

United Kingdom

* Peel Fell, a hill in Kielder Forest * Peels, Northumberland, in Harbottle

United States

* Peel, Arkansas * Peel, Oregon

Elsewhere

Peel, Isle of Man Peel ( 'port of the Island') is a seaside town and small fishing port in the Isle of Man, in the historic parish of German (parish), German but administered separately. Peel is the third largest town in the Island after Douglas, Isle of Man, Do ...

* Peel, Netherlands

People

Andrée Peel Andrée Peel (3 February 1905 – 5 March 2010) was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War who worked against the German occupation of France. She was known as Agent Rose, a code name shared with Eileen Nearne. Early l ...

(1905–2010), a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War * Ann Peel (born 1961), Canadian race walker * Arthur Peel (disambiguation) * Clifford Peel (1894–1918), Australian World War I pilot *

Dwayne Peel Dwayne John Peel (born 31 August 1981) is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player. He was the most capped scrum-half for the Wales national rugby union team with 76 caps, until his record was surpassed by Mike Phillips on 16 March 2013. Yo ...

(born 1981), Welsh rugby union player *

Edward Peel (big-game fisherman) Sir Edward Townley Peel, KBE, DSO, MC (31 May 1884 – 6 September 1961) was a British army officer, businessman and amateur sportsman. He fought throughout World War I in three overseas theatres of war, rising in rank from private to colone ...

(1884–1961), British army officer, businessman and amateur sportsman *

Edward Peel Edward Peel is an English television and stage actor. He was described by ''The Times'' in 2010 as a "veteran star of TV dramas" and "a familiar face on television for the past 40 years". Early life and education Peel trained as an actor at R ...

(born 1943), British actor *

Frederick Peel Sir Frederick Peel (26 October 1823 – 6 June 1906) was a British Liberal Party politician and railway commissioner. Background and education Peel was second son of Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his wife Julia, ...

(1823–1906), British politician and railway commissioner *

Harry Peel (disambiguation) Harry Peel may refer to: * Harry Peel (footballer) (1900–1976), English footballer * Harry Peel (ice hockey) (1879–1944), ice hockey player See also * Harry Piel (1892–1963), German actor, director, screenwriter, and producer {{Hndis ...

Homer Peel Homer Hefner Peel (October 10, 1902 – April 8, 1997) was an American professional baseball player and manager during the first half of the 20th century. His career lasted for a quarter century (1923–42; 1946–50), including 21 years as an ...

(1902–1997), American Major League Baseball player *

John Peel (disambiguation) John Peel (1939–2004) was a British broadcaster and radio personality. John Peel may also refer to: * John Peel (huntsman) (1776–1854), huntsman and the subject of the 19th century song "D'ye ken John Peel" * John Peel (priest) (1798–1875) ...

Jonathan Peel Jonathan Peel, PC (12 October 1799 – 13 February 1879) was a British soldier, Conservative politician and racehorse owner. Background and education Peel was the fifth son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Ellen (née Yat ...

(1799–1879), British soldier and politician *

Lawrence Peel (judge) Sir Lawrence Peel (10 August 1799 – 1884) was a judge in India, Chief Justice of Bengal. Lawrence Peel was third son of Joseph Peel of Bowes Farm, Middlesex, who died in 1821, and Anne, second daughter of Jonathan Haworth of Harcroft, Lancashi ...

(1799–1884), British judge in India *

Mark Peel (historian) Mark Andrew Peel (born 17 October 1959), historian and academic, was the Director of Educational Innovation at the University of Leicester until retiring in 2019. He also served the university as Provost (from 2015 to 2017), Pro Vice Chancellor ...

(born 1959), Australian historian and academic *

Paul Peel Paul Peel (7 November 1860 – 3 October 1892) was a Canadian figure painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime. Career and life ...

(1860–1892), Canadian painter * Peter Peel (1866–1960), United States soccer administrator *

Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–183 ...

(1788–1850), British founder of the (London) Metropolitan Police, later Prime Minister * Robert Peel (disambiguation) * Samuel W. Peel (1831–1924), U.S. Representative from Arkansas * Sir Sidney Peel, 1st Baronet (1870–1938), British soldier, financier and politician * Thomas Peel (1793–1865), early settler of Western Australia * William Peel (disambiguation)

Arts and entertainment

* Peel (California band), a US band active from 1999 to 2001 formed by Kevin Ridel from Los Angeles, California * Peel (Texas band), indie rock band from Austin, Texas * ''Peel'' (1982 film), an Australian short film directed by Jane Campion * ''Peel'' (2019 film), a British comedy-drama starring Emile Hirsch * Emma Peel, a fictional character in the television series ''The Avengers''

Brands and enterprises

* Peel Hotels, UK hotel company * Peel Engineering Company, Manx boat and car manufacturer * Peel Technologies, makers of the Peel Smart Remote, an Android and iOS app to control TV and other home devices * The Peel Group or Peel Holdings, UK property company, especially infrastructure, owner of several "Peel Centres"

Technology

* Peel (software), Mac application for listening to songs from MP3 blogs * Peel (tool), long-handled tool used in baking * PEEL, programmable electrically erasable logic, variant of the GAL (generic array logic) *

Bitrate peeling Bitrate peeling is a technique used in Ogg Vorbis audio encoded streams, wherein a stream can be encoded at one bitrate but can be served at that or any lower bitrate. The purpose is to provide access to the clip for people with slower Intern ...

, Ogg Vorbis technique for changing the bitrate of an audio stream

Titles

* Earl Peel, title in the British peerage * Peel baronets, three separate British baronetcies

Transit

* Peel Hall tram stop, Manchester, England * Peel railway station (Isle of Man), Peel, Isle of Man * Peel Road railway station, Peel, Isle of Man *

Peel station (Montreal Metro) Peel station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie (Montreal), Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Line 1 Green (Montreal Metro), Green Line. ...

, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Skin or rind

Peel (fruit) Peel, also known as rind or skin, is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which can be peeled off. The rind is usually the botanical exocarp, but the term exocarp also includes the hard cases of nuts, which are not named peel ...

, skin of fruit * Peeling of animal skin, also called

moulting In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at ...

* Peeling of human skin, also called

desquamation Desquamation, or peeling skin, is the shedding of dead cells from the outermost layer of skin. The term is . Physiologic desquamation Keratinocytes are the predominant cells of the epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin. Living keratin ...

, such as from a sunburn * Chemical peel, a treatment that uses a chemical solution to remove the outer layer of dead skin

Sports

* Peel A.F.C., an association football club from Peel, Isle of Man * Peel Thunder Football Club, an Australian rules football club * Peel, a

croquet Croquet ( or ) is a sport which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called Wicket, "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. Variations In all forms of croquet, in ...

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Other uses

* Center peel, or "Peel", infantry retreat technique * Peel Commission, Royal Commission of Inquiry into Palestine, 1936–1937 *

Peel tower Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the England, English and Scotland, Scottish Border country, borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and ab ...

, a fortified keep or watchtower * Peel Street (disambiguation)