Pieter

Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch form of Peter, and may refer to:

  • Sint Pieter, a village now incorporated in Maastricht;
  • Sint-Pieters, a suburb of Bruges;
  • Pieterburen, a village in the north of Groningen;
  • Pieter de Coninck (?-1332), Flemish revolutionary;
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c 1525-1569), Netherlandish painter;
  • Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1633), Netherlandish painter;
  • Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch historian;
  • Peter Stuyvesant (originally Pieter) (c. 1612–1672), Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (New York);
  • Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), Dutch painter;
  • Pieter Burmann the Elder (1668–1741), Dutch classical scholar;
  • Pieter Burmann the Younger (1714–1778), Dutch philologist;
  • Pieter van Maldere (1729–1768), South-Netherlandish composer;
  • Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), Dutch physicist;
  • Pieter Willem Botha (1916–2006), President of South Africa;
  • Pieter van Vollenhoven (1939), the husband of princess Margriet of The Netherlands;
  • Pieter van den Hoogenband (1978), Dutch Olympic swimmer;
  • Pieter Gruijters (1967), Dutch Paralympic athleet;
  • Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (1755–1801), Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies.