Peter Grant (footballer, Born 1879)
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Peter Grant (athlete) Peter Treacy Grant (born 5 January 1954) is an Australian sprinter. He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially brande ...
(born 1954), Australian Olympic sprinter * Peter Grant (footballer, born 1879) (1879–1937), Scottish footballer *
Peter Grant (footballer, born 1965) Peter Grant (born 30 August 1965) is a Scottish football player and coach. During his playing career, Grant played for Celtic, Norwich City, Reading and AFC Bournemouth. He was awarded a testimonial match, played against Bayern Munich, by Ce ...
, Scottish football player and coach, played for Celtic and Scotland, manager of Norwich City * Peter Grant (footballer, born 1994), Scottish football player, played for Falkirk, son of footballer born 1965 * Peter Grant (rugby union) (born 1984), South African rugby union player


Other people

* Peter Grant (1714?–1824), known as
Auld Dubrach Peter Grant (1714?–1824), known as Auld Dubrach, was the last known survivor of the Jacobite rising of 1745. According to folklore he was introduced to King George IV in 1822 during his visit to Edinburgh as "His Majesty's oldest enemy". Howev ...
, last survivor of the Jacobite rising of 1745 *
Peter Grant (abbé) Abbé Peter Grant (1708 - 1 September 1784) was a Scottish Roman Catholic priest, agent for the Scottish Catholic Mission and, later in life, an important liaison for British Catholic visitors in Rome. Life Grant was born in the diocese of Moray, ...
(died 1784), Scottish Roman Catholic priest, agent and abbé *
Peter Grant (politician) Peter Grant (born 12 October 1960) is a Scottish politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glenrothes from 2015 to 2024. He is a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Early life Peter Grant was raised in Lanarkshire an ...
(born 1960), SNP politician elected 2015 * Peter Grant (journalist), journalist for
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Peter Grant (music manager) Peter Grant (5 April 1935 – 21 November 1995) was an English music manager, best known as the manager of Led Zeppelin from their creation in 1968 to their breakup in 1980. With his intimidating size and weight, confrontational manner, knowle ...
(1935–1995), English music manager * Peter Grant (pastor) (1783–1867), Scottish pastor, poet and songwriter known as ''Pàdraig Grannd nan Oran'' *
Peter Grant (singer) Peter Grant (born 1987 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England) is an English singer of easy listening and jazz music. Life and career Peter Grant began singing at the age of six and played at working men's clubs from the age of 12. He grew up in Guiseley ...
(born 1987), English singer *
Peter and Rosemary Grant Peter Raymond Grant (born October 26, 1936) and Barbara Rosemary Grant (born October 8, 1936) are a British married couple who are evolutionary biologists at Princeton University. Each currently holds the position of emeritus professor. They ...
, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University *
Peter Grant (VC) Peter Grant VC (1824 – 10 January 1868) was a British Army soldier and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Victoria Cross ...
(1824–1868), Irish Victoria Cross recipient * Peter J. Grant (1943–1990), British ornithologist *
Peter Mitchell Grant Peter Mitchell Grant (born 20 June 1944) is Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow, former Regius Professor of Engineering and Head of School of Engineering and Electronics at the University of Edinburgh. In 2004 he was awarded the 82nd Faraday M ...
(born 1944), Scottish academic * Peter Grant (sculptor) (1915–2003), Irish sculptor *Peter Grant, Canadian businessman and complainant in ''
Grant v Torstar Corp ''Grant v Torstar Corp'', , is a 2009 Supreme Court of Canada decision on the defences to the tort of defamation. The Supreme Court ruled that the law of defamation should give way to the rights of a party to speak on matters of public interest, p ...
'', a leading Supreme Court of Canada case on defamation


Other uses

* ''Peter Grant'' (book series), a series of fantasy novels by Ben Aaronovitch {{dab, hn=Grant, Peter