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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“Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, “a centrifugal tendency.” In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.”
—Anatole Broyard (1910–1990)
“An aspiring genius was D. Green:
The son of a farmer, age fourteen;
His body was long and lank and lean—
Just right for flying, as will be seen;”
—John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916)