Peter Townsend may refer to:
- Peter Townsend (golfer) (born 1946), player in the 1969 and 1971 Ryder Cups
- Peter Townsend (sociologist) (1928–2009), economist, author and university professor at the London School of Economics
- Peter Townsend (RAF officer) (1914–1995), Royal Air Force pilot at one time linked romantically with Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
- Peter Townsend (drummer), American drummer
- Peter Townsend Barlow (1857–1921), American jurist
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Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or townsend:
“That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“We are two travelers, Roger and I.
Roger’s my dog.—Come here, you scamp!”
—John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916)