Petro

Petro is a masculine given name, a surname and an Ancient Roman cognomen. It may refer to:

Given name

 * Petro Balabuyev (1931–2007), Ukrainian airplane designer, engineer and professor, lead designer of many Antonov airplanes
 * Petro Doroshenko (1627–1698), Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1665–1672) and a Russian voyevoda (governor)
 * Petro Drevchenko (1863–1934), Ukrainian bandurist
 * Petro Dyachenko (1895–1965), Ukrainian military commander
 * Petro Dyminskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian politician, businessman and former footballer
 * Petro Franko (1890–1941), Ukrainian educator and author
 * Petro Georgiou (born 1947), Australian politician
 * Petro Goga, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly of Albania in 1924
 * Petro Hermanchuk (1952–2012), Ukrainian economist and politician
 * Petro Kalnyshevsky (1691?–1803), last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host (in what is now Ukraine)
 * Petro Kharchenko (born 1983), Ukrainian former pair ice skater
 * Petro Kasui Kibe (1587–1639), Japanese Christian missionary, Jesuit priest and martyr
 * Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1570-1622), political and civic leader
 * Petro Kondratyuk (born 1979), Ukrainian former footballer
 * Petro Korol (1941–2015), Ukrainian weightlifter and 1976 Olympic champion
 * Petro Nini Luarasi (1864-1911), Albanian nationalist, Christian orthodox priest, teacher and journalist
 * Petro Herkulan Malchuk (1965-2016), Ukrainian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
 * Petro Marko (1913–1991), Albanian writer
 * Petro Mirchuk (1913–1999), Ukrainian writer
 * Petro Nishchynsky (1832–1896), Ukrainian linguist and composer
 * Petro Pakhnyuk (born 1991), Ukrainian (until 2014) and Azerbaijani (since 2014) artistic gymnast
 * Petro Pereverza (born 1994), Ukrainian footballer
 * Petro Poga (1850-1944), Albanian nationalist, one of the delegates at the Albanian Declaration of Independence
 * Petro Poroshenko (born 1965), Ukrainian businessman and politician
 * Petro Prokopovych (1775–1850), the founder of commercial beekeeping
 * Petro Shelest (1908–1996), First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 * Petro Slobodyan (born 1953), Soviet retired footballer and current Ukrainian coach
 * Petro Symonenko (born 1952), Ukrainian politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
 * Petro Tkachenko (1878-1919), Ukrainian blind kobzar (musician)
 * Petro Trad (1876–1947), Lebanese lawyer, politician and briefly President of the French Mandate of Lebanon in 1943
 * Petro Trochanowski (born 1947), Polish poet
 * Petro Vlahos (1916–2013), Hollywood special effects pioneer
 * Petro Voinovsky (1913—1996), Ukrainian nationalist
 * Petro Zakhvalynsky (died 1943), Ukrainian nationalist

Surname

 * Charles Petro (born 2001), Malawian footballer
 * Gustavo Petro (born 1960), current President of Colombia, politician and economist
 * Jim Petro (born 1948), American politician and former Ohio Attorney General
 * Johan Petro (born 1986), French professional basketball player
 * Joe Petro III (born 1956), American artist
 * Joseph Petro (born 1944), former United States Secret Service agent, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Citigroup Security and Investigative Services
 * Pamela Petro, American artist


 * Nicolai N. Petro, American political science scholar
 * Steve Petro (1914–1994), American National Football League player

Cognomen

 * Titus Flavius Petro (fl. 1st century BC), paternal grandfather of the Roman Emperor Vespasian

Other

 * Petro (cryptocurrency), Venezuelan cryptocurrency
 * Petro lwa or Petwo, a family of lwa (loa) in Voudon (Voodoo)
 * Petros (disambiguation)
 * Petroleum