List of people named Pyotr

Pyotr is a Russian given name that is equivalent to the English name, Peter.

A

 * Pyotr Abrasimov (1912–2009), Soviet war hero and politician
 * Pyotr Akhlyustin (1896–1941), Red Army major general
 * Pyotr Albedinsky (1826–1883), Russian military officer and politician
 * Pyotr Alexeyevich Alexeyev (1849–1891), Russian revolutionary
 * Pyotr Anjou (1796–1869), Imperial Russian Navy admiral and Arctic explorer
 * Pyotr Anokhin (1898–1974), Soviet and Russian biologist and physiologist
 * Pyotr Avilov (1910–2004), Soviet sports shooter

B

 * Pyotr Bagration (1765–1812), Russian general and prince of Georgian origin
 * Pyotr Romanovich Bagration (1818–1876), Russian-Georgian statesman, general and scientist
 * Pyotr Baluyev (1857–1923), Imperial Russian Army general
 * Pyotr Baranov (1892–1933), Soviet military commander and politician
 * Pyotr Baranovsky (1892–1984), Russian architect, preservationist, and building restorator
 * Pyotr Bardovsky (1846–1886), Russian lawyer and a supporter of independence for Poland
 * Pyotr Bark (1869–1937), Russian statesman
 * Pyotr Bartenev (1829–1912), Russian historian and collector of unpublished memoirs
 * Pyotr Basin (1793–1877), Russian painter
 * Pyotr Bazanov (1923–2003), Soviet fighter pilot and flying ace
 * Pyotr Z. Bazhbeuk-Melikov (1872–after 1939), ethnic Armenian politician and agronomist in Bessarabia
 * Pyotr Beketov (c. 1600–c. 1661), Cossack explorer of Siberia
 * Pyotr Berestov (1896–1961), Soviet Red Army major general
 * Pyotr Berezin (born 1991), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Bessonov (1828–1898), Russian folklorist
 * Pyotr Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1664–1742), Russian statesman
 * Pyotr Bezobrazov (1845–1906), Imperial Russian Navy admiral
 * Pyotr Ilyich Bilan (1921–1996), Soviet Russian-Ukrainian painter
 * Pyotr Bletkin (1903–1988), Soviet and Georgian painter and graphic artist
 * Pyotr Blinov (1913–1942), Soviet Udmurt writer and journalist
 * Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921), Russian writer, playwright, and journalist
 * Pyotr Bochek (1925–2018), Soviet Army soldier
 * Pyotr Bochkaryov (born 1967), Russian pole vaulter
 * Pyotr Bogdanov (1882–1939), Soviet statesman, engineer, and economist
 * Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930–2013), Soviet track and field athlete
 * Pyotr Borel (1829–1898), Russian painter and illustrator
 * Pyotr Borovsky (1863–1932), Russian and Soviet surgeon and public health administrator
 * Pyotr Braiko (1919–2018), Soviet soldier
 * Pyotr Brayko (born 1977), Russian athlete
 * Pyotr Breus (1927–2000), Russian water polo player
 * Pyotr Bryanskikh (1896–1938), Soviet corps commander
 * Pyotr Bulakhov (1822–1885), Russian composer
 * Pyotr Bykov (1844–1930), Russian literary historian, editor, poet, and translator
 * Pyotr Bystrov (born 1979), Russian footballer

C

 * Pyotr Chaadayev (1794–1856), Russian philosopher
 * Pyotr Chardynin (1873–1934), Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor
 * Pyotr Chernyshev (1914–1979), Soviet figure skater and engineer
 * Pyotr Aleksandrovich Chicherin (1778–1849), Russian general
 * Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808–1890), Russian naturalist and geologist
 * Pyotr Yegorovich Chistyakov (1792–1862), Russian explorer and admiral

D

 * Pyotr Dementyev (multiple people)
 * Pyotr Demichev (1918–2010), Soviet and Russian politician
 * Pyotr Grigoryevich Demidov (1807–1862), Russian nobleman and general
 * Pyotr Devyatkin (1977–2016), Kazakhstani ice hockey forward
 * Pyotr Deynekin (1937–2017), Russian military general
 * Pyotr Dolgorukov (multiple people)
 * Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov (1866–1951), Russian liberal politician
 * Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov (1816–1868), Russian historian and journalist
 * Pyotr Dolgov (1920–1962), Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Pyotr Dranga (born 1984), Russian musician
 * Pyotr Drozhdin (1745–1805), Russian painter
 * Pyotr Dubrov (born 1978), Russian engineer and cosmonaut
 * Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo (1845–1915), Imperial Russian lawyer, politician, and member of Russian nobility

F

 * Pyotr Fedoseev (1908–1990), Soviet philosopher, sociologist, and politician
 * Pyotr Fedotov (1900–1963), Soviet security and intelligence officer
 * Pyotr Filatov (1893–1941), Soviet Red Army lieutenant general
 * Pyotr Filippov (1893–1965), Russian Soviet football player and coach
 * Pyotr Fomenko (1932–2012), Soviet and Russian film and theater director
 * Pyotr Frolov (1775–1839), Russian mining engineer and inventor
 * Pyotr Fyodorov (born 1982), Russian actor

G

 * Pyotr Gannushkin (1875–1933), Russian psychiatrist
 * Pyotr Gassiev (born 1972), South Ossetian politician
 * Pyotr Gavrilov (1900–1979), Soviet officer
 * Pyotr Gayevsky (born 1888), Russian Empire sprinter
 * Pyotr Gitselov (born 1983), Russian-Swedish football player and manager
 * Pyotr Glebov (1915–2000), Russian film actor
 * Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925), Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur, and art history scholar
 * Pyotr Gnido (1919–2006), Soviet fighter pilot
 * Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn (1792–1842), Russian prince
 * Pyotr Grigorievich Goncharov (1888–1970), Russian and Soviet composer, conductor, and choirmaster
 * Pyotr Gora (1922–2002), Soviet colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
 * Pyotr Gorchakov (1790–1868), Imperial Russian Army general
 * Pyotr Gorelikov (1931–2017), Russian sailor
 * Pyotr Gorlov (1839–1915), Russian geologist and engineer
 * Pyotr Gornushko (born 1953), Russian equestrian
 * Pyotr Grigoryev (1899–1942), Soviet footballer
 * Pyotr Grushin (1906–1993), Soviet rocket scientist
 * Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky (1837–1892), Georgian royal prince
 * Pyotr Gusev (1904–1987), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer

I

 * Pyotr Ilyichev (born 1966), Russian diplomat
 * Pyotr Isaev (1890–1919), Russian and Soviet military commander
 * Pyotr Ivanovich Isakov (1886–1958), Russian classical guitarist
 * Pyotr Isakov (1900–1957), Soviet football player and manager
 * Pyotr Ivashutin (1909–2004), Soviet Army General

K

 * Pyotr Kachura (born 1972), Belarusian footballer
 * Pyotr Kakhovsky (1799–1826), Russian Empire officer
 * Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Soviet physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate
 * Pyotr Kapnist (1839–1904), Russian diplomat and ambassador
 * Pyotr Karamushko (colonel) (1908–1998), Soviet Red Army colonel
 * Pyotr Karatygin (1805–1879), Russian dramatist and actor
 * Pyotr Karyshkovsky (1921–1988), Ukrainian Soviet historian, numismatist, scholar, and lexicographer
 * Pyotr Kashchenko (1858–1920), Russian psychiatrist, social and agrarian activist, and author
 * Pyotr Khanykov (1743–1813), Imperial Russian Navy admiral
 * Pyotr Khrustovsky (1979–2003), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Kikin (1775–1834), Russian general and Secretary of State
 * Pyotr Kireevsky (1808–1856), Russian folklorist and philologist
 * Pyotr Kirillov (1895–1942), Soviet actor, film director, screenwriter
 * Pyotr Pavlovich Kitkin (1877–1954), Russian military commander
 * Pyotr Kleinmichel (1789–1869), Imperial Russian Minister of Transport
 * Pyotr Klimuk (born 1942), former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel
 * Pyotr Kobozev (1878–1941), Russian revolutionary, and Soviet statesman and professor
 * Pyotr Kochetkov (born 1999), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
 * Pyotr Kolbasin (born 1942), Russian actor, director, producer, screenwriter
 * Pyotr Kolodin (1930–2021), Soviet cosmonaut
 * Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876–1956), Russian painter
 * Pyotr Koshel (born 1946), Russian writer, historian, and translator
 * Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), Soviet military commander
 * Pyotr Kotlyarevsky (1782–1852), Russian military hero
 * Pyotr Kovalenko (1942–1993), Soviet ski jumper
 * Pyotr Kozhevnikov (born 1927), Soviet athlete
 * Pyotr Kozlov (1863–1935), Russian and Soviet traveler and explorer
 * Pyotr Kozlovsky (1783–1840), Russian diplomat
 * Pyotr Krasikov (1870–1939), Russian revolutionary and Communist Party functionary
 * Pyotr Krasilov (born 1977), Russian film and theater actor
 * Pyotr Krasnov (1869–1947), Russian historian and officer
 * Pyotr Krechetnikov (1727–c. 1800), Russian major-general
 * Pyotr Krenitsyn (1728–1770), Russian explorer and Imperial Russian Navy officer
 * Pyotr Nikolayevich Kropotkin (1910–1996), Soviet Russian geologist, tectonician, and geophysicist
 * Pyotr Kryuchkov (1889–1938), Soviet lawyer
 * Pyotr Kudryavtsev (1816–1858), Russian writer and historian
 * Pyotr Kuryshko (1894–1921), Soviet Russian military commander
 * Pyotr Kuznetsov (born 1964), leader and founder of the True Russian Orthodox Church
 * Pyotr Kuznetsov (junior sergeant) (1925–1981), Soviet Red Army junior sergeant during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union

L

 * Pyotr Latyshev (1948–2008), Russian politician
 * Pyotr Lavrov (1823–1900), Russian philosopher, revolutionary, and sociologist
 * Pyotr Lebedev (1866–1912), Russian physicist
 * Pyotr Leshchenko (1898–1954), singer in the Russian Empire, Romania and later the Soviet Union
 * Pyotr Lomako (1904–1990), Soviet politician and economist
 * Pyotr Lomnovsky (1871–1956), Russian military commander
 * Pyotr Lopukhin (1753–1827), Russian politician
 * Pyotr Lushev (1923–1997), Soviet Army general
 * Pyotr Lyapin (1894–1954), Soviet Army general
 * Pyotr Lyashchenko (1876–1955), Russian economist

M

 * Pyotr Makarchuk (born 1972), Russian bobsledder
 * Pyotr Malyshev (1898–1972), Soviet Army lieutenant general
 * Pyotr Mamonov (1951–2021), Russian rock musician
 * Pyotr Manteifel (1882–1960), Soviet zoologist and naturalist
 * Pyotr Marchenko (born 1948), Russian politician
 * Pyotr Marshinskiy (born 1986), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Marta (born 1952), Soviet freestyle wrestler
 * Pyotr Masherov (1919–1980), Soviet partisan, statesman, and World War II Belarusian resistance leader
 * Pyotr Melissino (c. 1726–c. 1797), Imperial Russian Army general
 * Pyotr Meshchaninov (1944–2006), Russian pianist and conductor
 * Pyotr Miklashevich (born 1954), Belrusian politician
 * Pyotr Moskatov (1894–1969), Soviet union leader and statesman
 * Pyotr Mozharov (1888–1934), Soviet engineer
 * Pyotr Mstislavets (fl. 1560s–1570s), Belarusian printer

N

 * Pyotr Nechayev (1842–1905), Russian religious writer, journalist, editor, and pedagogue
 * Pyotr Nemov (born 1983), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Nesterov (1887–1914), Russian pilot, aircraft designer, and aerobatics pioneer
 * Pyotr Nevezhin (1841–1919), Russian dramatist and short story writer
 * Pyotr Nikiforov ((1882–1974), Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician
 * Pyotr Nikolayev (1924–2000), Soviet sports shooter
 * Pyotr Nikolsky (1858–1940), Russian dermatologist
 * Pyotr Nilus (1869–1943), Russian and Ukrainian impressionist painter and writer
 * Pyotr Novikov (1901–1975), Soviet mathematician
 * Pyotr Georgyevich Novikov (1907–1944), Soviet Red Army general

O-P

 * Pyotr Oganovsky (1851–c. 1917), Russian general of the infantry
 * Pyotr Orlov (1912–1989), Soviet figure skater and pair skating coach
 * Pyotr Otsup (1883–1963), Soviet photojournalist
 * Pyotr Pakhtusov (1800–1835), Russian surveyor and Arctic explorer
 * Pyotr Papkov (1772–1853), Russian Generalmajor and statesman
 * Pyotr Patrushev (1942–2016), Russian author
 * Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), Soviet writer, screenwriter, and war correspondent
 * Pyotr Pavlovich Pelehin (1789–1871), Russian physician and teacher
 * Pyotr Pertsov (1868–1947), Russian poet, publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist, and memoirist
 * Pyotr Petrinich (born 1957), Belarusian rowing cox
 * Pyotr Mikhailovich Petrov (1910–1941), Soviet Air Force major, flying ace, and a Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Pyotr Petrov (1827–1891), Russian writer, arts historian and critic
 * Pyotr Petrovich (multiple people)
 * Pyotr Pimashkov (1894–1921), Soviet Russian military commander
 * Pyotr Pletnyov (1792–1865), Russian minor poet
 * Pyotr Pochynchuk (1954–1991), Soviet athlete
 * Pyotr Podgorodetsky (born 1957), Russian musician and showman
 * Pyotr Pokryshev (1914–1967), Soviet fighter pilot and squadron commander
 * Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika (1778–1849), second Russian ambassador to the United States
 * Pyotr Polevoy (1839–1902), Russian writer, playwright, translator, critic, editor, and literary historian
 * Pyotr Semyonovich Popov (1923–1960), Soviet military intelligence officer
 * Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
 * Pyotr Pospelov (1898–1979), Soviet Communist Party functionary
 * Pyotr Postnikov (1666–1703), Russian diplomat
 * Pyotr Potemkin (1617–1700), Russian courtier and diplomat
 * Pyotr Prakapovich (born 1942), Belarusian construction engineer, politician, statesman, and bank chairman
 * Pyotr Prokopovich (multiple people)
 * Pyotr Pshennikov (1895–1941), Soviet general
 * Pyotr Pumpur (1900–1942), Latvian-born Soviet Air Forces fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, and general

R-S

 * Pyotr Rachkovsky (1853–1910), Imperial Russian secret service officer
 * Pyotr Ivanovich Ricord (1776–1855), Russian admiral, scientist, diplomat, writer, and shipbuilder
 * Pyotr Rumyantsev (1725–1796), Russian general
 * Pyotr Ryazanov (1899–1942), Russian composer, teacher, and musicologist
 * Pyotr Saltykov (c. 1698–1772), Russian statesman and a military officer
 * Pyotr Schmidt (1867–1906), Sevastopol Uprising leader
 * Pyotr Sedunov (born 1977), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827–1914), Russian geographer and statistician
 * Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork (1893–1952), Russian officer and writer active in far-right and anti-Semitic politics
 * Pyotr Shafranov (1901–1972), Soviet Army general
 * Pyotr Shamshin (1811–1895), Russian painter of historical and religious scenes
 * Pyotr Shchebalsky (1810–1886), Russian literary critic, historian, and author
 * Pyotr Shcherbakov (1929–1992), Soviet film and theater actor
 * Pyotr Shchetinkin (1884–1927), leader of the Soviet partisan movement in Siberia during the Russian Civil War
 * Pyotr Shchukin (1853–1912), Russian art collector
 * Pyotr Shelepov (1920–1983), Soviet Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Pyotr Sheremetev (1713–1788), Russian nobleman and courtier
 * Pyotr Shilovsky (1872–1955), Russian count, jurist, statesman, and governor
 * Pyotr Shirshov (1905–1953), Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, and academician
 * Pyotr Ivanovich Sholokhov (1898−1988), Russian realist artist
 * Pyotr Shubin (born 1944), Russian professional footballer and coach
 * Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827–1889), Russian statesman
 * Pyotr Skripchenkov (1926–2010), Russian swimmer
 * Pyotr Slovtsov (1886–1934), Russian tenor
 * Pyotr Smidovich (1874–1935), Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician
 * Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898), Russian businessman, founder of the Smirnov vodka company
 * Pyotr Smirnov (1897–1939), Soviet Commissar, Deputy Minister of Defence and Commander of the Soviet Navy
 * Pyotr Smorodin (1897–1939), Soviet politician
 * Pyotr Sobennikov (1894–1960), Soviet general
 * Pyotr Sobolevsky (1904–1977), Soviet actor
 * Pyotr Sokolov (multiple people)
 * Pyotr Solodukhin (1892–1920), Russian Bolshevik division commander in the Russian Civil War
 * Pyotr Sorokin (1889–1942), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Starkovsky (1884–1964), Russian actor
 * Pyotr Stefanovsky (1903–1976), Soviet test pilot
 * Pyotr Stepanov (born 1959), Transnistrian politician
 * Pyotr Stepanov (actor) (1800–1869), Russian stage actor
 * Pyotr Stolyarsky (1871–1944), Soviet violinist
 * Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911), Russian politician and statesman
 * Pyotr Subbotin-Permyak (1886–1923), Russian avant-garde painter
 * Pyotr Sumin (1946–2011), governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia
 * Pyotr Suvchinsky (1892–1985), Russian artistic patron and writer on music
 * Pyotr Sviatopolk-Mirsky (1857–1914), Russian general, politician, and police official

T-V

 * Pyotr Tayozhny (1887–1952), Russian sculptor
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Russian composer
 * Pyotr Telezhnikov (born 1863), Imperial Russian division, corps and army commander
 * Pyotr Ten (born 1992), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Genrikhovich Tiedemann (1872–1941), Russian nobleman and diplomat
 * Pyotr Tkachev (1844–1886), Russian writer, critic, and revolutionary theorist
 * Pyotr Nikolayevich Toburokov (1917–2001), Russian poet and writer
 * Pyotr Tochilin (born 1974), Russian film director and screenwriter
 * Pyotr Todorovsky (1925–2013), Russian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
 * Pyotr Tolstikhin (1927–2002), Russian sailor
 * Pyotr Tolstoy (multiple people)
 * Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1769–1844), Russian general and statesman
 * Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy (1645–1729), Russian statesman and diplomat
 * Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy (born 1969), Russian journalist, producer, presenter, and politician
 * Pyotr Trusov (born 1948), Russian physicist
 * Pyotr Ufimtsev (born 1931), Soviet/Russian physicist and mathematician
 * Pyotr Lavrentyevich Ulyanov (1928–2006), Russian mathematician
 * Pyotr Ustinov (born 1987), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Vail (1949–2009), Russian author, journalist, and essayist
 * Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890), Russian statesman and writer
 * Pyotr Vannovsky (1822−1904), Russian general and politician
 * Pyotr Vasilevsky (1956–2012), Belarusian footballer and manager
 * Pyotr Veinberg (1831–1908), Russian poet, translator, journalist, and literary historian
 * Pyotr Velyaminov (1926–2009), Soviet Russian film and theater actor
 * Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834/36–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter
 * Pyotr Vershigora (1905–1963), leader Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, and later a writer
 * Pyotr Verzilov (born 1987), Russian-Canadian artist and activist
 * Pyotr Vlasov (fl. 1900s), Russian ambassador to Persia
 * Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky (1776–1852), Imperial Russian military commander
 * Pyotr Volodkin (born 1999), Russian footballer
 * Pyotr Vologodsky (1863–1925), Russian statesman, public figure, and mason
 * Pyotr Vorobyov (born 1949), Russian ice hockey player and coach
 * Pyotr Voykov (1888–1927), Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet diplomat
 * Pyotr Vtorov (1938–1979), Soviet scientist biogeographer, ecologist, zoologist, and nature conservation activist
 * Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878), Russian Imperial poet

W-Z

 * Pyotr Wrangel (1878–1928), Russian officer of Baltic German origin in the Imperial Russian Army
 * Pyotr Yakir (1923–1982), Soviet historian
 * Pyotr Yakubovich (1860–1911), Russian revolutionary, poet, and politician
 * Pyotr Yefremov (1830–1908), Russian literary historian, publisher, editor and essayist
 * Pyotr Yeropkin (c. 1698–1740), Russian architect
 * Pyotr Yershov (multiple people)
 * Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov (1910–1994), Soviet theater director and art theoretician
 * Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (1815–1869), Russian poet
 * Pyotr Yeryomin (born 1992), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
 * Pyotr Yezhov (1900–1975), Soviet footballer and manager
 * Pyotr Zakharov (born 1979), Russian professional bandy player
 * Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets (1816–1846), Chechen-Russian painter
 * Pyotr Zalutsky (1887–1937), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist Party organiser
 * Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812), Russian statesman
 * Pyotr Zaychenko (1943–2019), Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor
 * Pyotr Zayev (1953−2014), Russian heavyweight boxer
 * Pyotr Zgursky (born 2001), Belarusian professional footballer
 * Pyotr Zinchenko (1903–1969), Soviet developmental psychologist
 * Pyotr Zubrov (1822–1873), Russian stage actor
 * Pyotr Zykov (1890–1960), Soviet Red Army major general