Peter Taylor may refer to:
- Peter Alfred Taylor (1819–1891), British politician and radical
- Peter J. Taylor (born 1944), British geographer
- Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth (1930–1997), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 1992–1997
- Peter Taylor (botanist) (1926–2011), British botanist at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Peter Taylor (journalist), British journalist and author of non-fiction books, especially about Northern Ireland and Al-Qaeda
- Peter Taylor alias Perce, MP for Marlborough (UK Parliament constituency) in 1554
Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or taylor:
“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)
“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man’s enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”
—Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)