Pete (given name)

Pete is a given name. It is a diminutive form of the given name Peter. It is the given name of:

People

 * Pete Accetturo, American YouTuber and voice actor
 * Pete Alonso (born 1994), American baseball player
 * Pete Appleton (1904–1974), American baseball player
 * Pete Buttigieg (born 1982), American politician
 * Pete Berezney (1923–2008), American football player
 * Pete D'Alonzo (1929–2001), American football player
 * Pete Davidson (born 1993), American comedian
 * Pete Docter (born 1968), American animator, film director and producer
 * Pete Fairbanks (born 1993), American baseball player
 * Pete Fountain (1930–2016), American clarinet player
 * Pete Gudauskas (1916–2003), American football player
 * Pete Ham (1947–1975), Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist, member of the rock band Badfinger
 * Pete Hamill (1935–2020), American journalist and author
 * Pete Hamilton (1942–2017), American NASCAR driver
 * Pete Loeffler, American singer-songwriter and musician, member of the rock band Chevelle
 * Pete Maki, American baseball coach
 * Pete Maravich (1948-1988), American basketball player
 * Pete Mikolajewski (born 1943), American football player
 * Pete Murray (Australian singer-songwriter) (born 1969), Australian singer-songwriter
 * Pete Murray (DJ) (born 1925), British radio and television presenter and actor
 * Pete Nice (born 1967), American rapper
 * Pete Perini (1928–2008), American football player
 * Pete Postlethwaite (1946–2011), English actor
 * Pete Price (born 1946), British radio presenter
 * Pete Ricketts (born 1964), American businessman
 * Pete Sampras (born 1971), American tennis player
 * Pete Seeger (1919–2014), American folk singer
 * Pete Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Pete Townshend (born 1945), English guitarist, singer, songwriter (The Who)
 * Pete Trgovich, American basketball player
 * Pete Walker (baseball), American baseball player and coach
 * Pete Wentz (born 1979), bassist of the band Fall Out Boy
 * Pete Werner (born 1999), American football player
 * Pete Woodworth (born 1988), American baseball coach

Fictional characters

 * Pete Beale, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders
 * Pete Campbell, on the American television series Mad Men
 * Pete Miller, on the American television series The Office
 * Pete Dinglewood, protagonist of Step Closer, the first story in the book Five Nights at Freddy's Step Closer.
 * Play-Doh Pete, the mascot of Play-Doh compound who was around from 1960 to 2002
 * Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, in Top Gun
 * Pete (Disney), an anthropomorphic cartoon character in Disney media
 * Pete the Cat, a fictional cat from the "Pete the Cat" series of books
 * Pete the Pup, from the Our Gang series of comedies
 * Pete, in the movie Shaun of the Dead
 * Pete & Pete, the title characters of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, an American children's television series
 * Old Puffer Pete, in the TV series Chuggington
 * Pete Crane, a construction vehicle in Putt-Putt Enters the Race
 * Pete, the freight engine in The Little Engine That Could
 * Pete Malloy, one of the two main characters in the TV series Adam-12
 * Pete McGee, a character from The Ghost and Molly McGee
 * Pete, the title character of Pete the Tramp, an American comic strip published from 1932 to 1963
 * Pete Wisdom, from Marvel Comics
 * Stinky Pete, a character of Woody's Roundup and the main antagonist of Toy Story 2
 * Cactus Pete, the cameo husband of Cactus Polly on Oswald
 * Cordwood Pete, younger brother of American folk legend Paul Bunyan
 * Pete, a character in the Animal Crossing video game series
 * Pete, the title character of Power Pete, a video game
 * Pete, a character from Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race
 * Pete Wheeler, the main character in the Backyard Sports game series