Peter Matthews or Mathews may refer to:
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Peter Matthews (rebel)
Captain Peter Matthews (1789 - April 12, 1838) was a farmer and soldier who participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837.
He was born in the Bay of Quinte region of Upper Canada around 1789, the son of Captain Thomas Elmes Matthews and ...
(1789–1838), hanged for treason in 1838 after the Upper Canada Rebellion
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Peter Matthews (sprinter)
Peter Matthews (born 13 November 1989) is a Jamaican sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He is an Olympic silver medalist as a member of the Jamaican 4 × 400 m relay team in Rio. He competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing r ...
(born 1989), Jamaican sprinter
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Peter H. Matthews
Peter H. Matthews (1873 – July 21, 1916) was an operator of policy games in New York City.
In 1915, agents of Charles Henry Parkhurst's Society for the Prevention of Crime and 45 police officers raided his gambling operations and rounded up ...
(1873–1916), American operator of policy gambling
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Peter Matthews (police officer)
Sir Peter Jack Matthews (25 December 1917 – 6 January 2003) was a British police officer who rose to become Chief Constable of Suffolk Constabulary and the Surrey Police.
He was born at Blackridge, West Lothian, Scotland and educated at Blackr ...
(1917–2003), British Chief Constable
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Peter Hugoe Matthews
Peter Hugoe Matthews, FBA (born 1934) is a British linguist and historian of linguistics. He is a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (1980� ...
(1934–2023), British linguist
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Peter Matthews (printmaker)
Peter Jeffrey Matthews (born 29 July 1942) is a British printmaker, former teacher at Royal College of Art (RCA) and senior lecturer at Wimbledon School of Art. Educated at Ealing School of Art, Matthews went on to assist at Editions Alecto and ...
(born 1942), British printmaker
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Peter Mathews (archaeologist)
Peter Mathews (born 12 June 1951 in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist.
He was a professor at the University of Calgary, and is Co Director of the Naachtun Archaeology Project. Between 1979 and 1986 ...
(born 1951), Australian Mayanist
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Peter Matthews (physiologist)
Peter Bryan Conrad Matthews (23 December 1928 – 2 March 2020) was a British physiologist who made particular contributions to the study of muscle spindles. He was elected as fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. He was the Professor of Sensorimo ...
(1928–2020), British physiologist
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Peter Mathews (politician)
Peter Mathews (August 1951 – 27 February 2017) was an Irish economist and politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency from 2011 to 2016.
Initially elected as a Fine Gael TD for the Dublin South constituen ...
(1951–2017), Irish politician
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Peter Mathews (Left Behind)
This a list of characters in the '' Left Behind'' novel series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
Suhail Akbar
Suhail Akbar is a supporting antagonist in the '' Left Behind'' series. A native of Pakistan, he was a prominent member of the ...
, fictional character in ''Left Behind''
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Peter Matthews (artist)
Peter Matthews (born October, 1978) is an English artist who has developed a practice of creating drawings while immersed in the ocean and paintings created over days or weeks of being in solitude along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. He works ...
(born 1978), English artist
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Peter Mathews Memorial Skate Garden
Peter Mathews Memorial Skate Garden is St. Louis' first legal outdoor public skate park.
History
The Peter Mathews Memorial Skate Garden is built on a Brownfield site of a Bevo Mill former gas station, auto repair, and radiator service station ...
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skatepark
A skatepark, or skate park, is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, scootering, wheelchairs, and aggressive inline skating. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, handrails, funboxes, vert ramps, stairsets, qua ...
named in honor of a local skater who died tragically
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