Peer or peeress may refer to:

Sociology

* Peer, an equal in age, education or social class; see

Peer group In sociology, a peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests ( homophily), age, background, or social status. Members of peer groups are likely to influence each others' beliefs and behaviour. Durin ...

* Peer, a member of the

peerage A peerage is a legal system historically comprising various hereditary titles (and sometimes Life peer, non-hereditary titles) in a number of countries, and composed of assorted Imperial, royal and noble ranks, noble ranks. Peerages include: A ...

Computing

* Peer, one of several functional units in the same layer of a network; See

Peer group (computer networking) In computer networking, a peer group is a group of functional units in the same layer (see e.g. OSI model) of a network, by analogy with peer group. See also *Peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed applicati ...

** Peer (networking), a computer system connected to others on a network ** Peer, a computer network in a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks in

peering In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the "down-stream" users of each network. Peering is settlement-free, also known as "bill-a ...

Organizations

* Partnership for European Environmental Research, a network of seven European environmental research centres *

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, environmental protection organization of local, state, and national government natural resource and environmental professionals. PEER serves as a resource to poten ...

, an organization of anonymous public employees promoting environmental responsibility

People

Given name

Peer Åström Peer Åström (born in Ljusdal, Sweden) is a Swedish composer, lyricist, musician, and record producer and partner. He has collaborated with artists such as Madonna, Celine Dion, Enrique Iglesias, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez, contributing to a st ...

(born 1972), Swedish composer, lyricist, musician and record producer *

Peer Guldbrandsen Peer Guldbrandsen (22 October 1912 – 13 March 1996) was a Danish screenwriter, actor, film director and producer. He wrote for 42 films between 1940 and 1976. He also appeared in 23 films between 1939 and 1978. Selected filmography * '' ...

(1912–1996), Danish screenwriter, actor, film director and producer * Peer Hultberg (1935–2007), Danish author and psychoanalyst * Peer Joechel (born 1967), German bobsledder * Peer Kluge (born 1980), German former footballer * Peer Koopmeiners (born 2000), Dutch footballer * Peer Lisdorf (born 1967), Danish footballer and coach * Peer Lorenzen (born 1944), Danish jurist and judge and section president of the European Court of Human Rights * Peer Mascini (1941–2019), Dutch actor * Peer Moberg (born 1971), Norwegian sport sailor * Peer Nielsen (born 1942), Danish sprint canoer *

Peer Qvam Peer Hafslo Qvam (24 December 1911 – 27 July 1977) was a Norwegian architect. He was born at Holmestrand in Vestfold, Norway. He was a son of chemical engineer Olaf Hafslo Qvam (1873–1960) and his wife Sigrid Sørby (1875–1929). He enrolled ...

(1911–1977), Norwegian architect * Peer Posipal (born 1962), German former footballer *

Peer Raben Peer Raben (born Wilhelm Rabenbauer; 3 July 1940 – 21 January 2007) was a German composer who worked with German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Early and personal ife Raben was born in Viechtafell, Bavaria, and attended Musische Gymnasium ...

(1940–2007), German composer born Wilhelm Rabenbauer *

Peer Schmidt Peer Eugen Georg Schmidt (11 March 1926; Erfurt, Weimar Germany – 8 May 2010; Berlin) was a German actor who specialized in film actor, films, television and dubbing. He is best known as the German voice of Gérard Philipe, Marlon Brando and Jean ...

(1926–2010), German actor *

Peer Smed Peer Smed (1878 – November 17, 1943) was a Danish-American silversmith and metalworker, active in New York City. Smed was born as Peer Schmidt in Copenhagen, where he trained with the royal silversmiths as a peer to Georg Jensen. In 1903 he i ...

(1878–1943), Danish-American silversmith and metalworker * Peer Steinbrück (born 1947), German politician * Peer Stromme (1856–1921), American pastor, teacher, journalist and author

Surname

* Basharat Peer (born 1977), Kashmiri journalist, script writer and author * Elizabeth Peer (1936–1984), American pioneering woman journalist *

Ralph Peer Ralph Sylvester Peer (May 22, 1892 – January 19, 1960) was an American talent scout, recording engineer, record producer and music publisher in the 1920s and 1930s. Peer pioneered field recording of music when in June 1923 he took remote re ...

(1892–1960), American talent scout, recording engineer, record producer and music publisher *

Stephen Peer Stephen Peer (1840-1887) was a tightrope walker who, though he completed the feat successfully many times, fell to his death while walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Biography Peer had decided to become a tight rope walker when he was 19 year ...

(1840–1887), tightrope walker who fell to his death at Niagara Falls

Other uses

* the title character of ''

Peer Gynt ''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five-Act (drama), act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays. ''Peer Gynt'' chronicles the journey of its title character fr ...

'', a play by Henrik Ibsen *

Peer, Belgium Peer () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality and City status in Belgium, city located in the province of Limburg (Belgium), Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Peer had a total population of 15,810. The total area is 86.95 ...

, a municipality and city