Every famous Peter Green

The internet's only complete index of people named Peter Green

There is no such thing as the Peter Green. There are at least seventeen — a blues genius, a Hollywood villain, a translator of Homer, an Olympic rower, a Westminster dog handler, a Bayesian statistician, and more. This is the only place on the internet that keeps track of all of them.

Name	Field	Years	Status	Known for
Peter Green	Musician	1946–2020	Died 2020	Founder of Fleetwood Mac; wrote “Albatross” and “Black Magic Woman”
Peter Greene	Actor	1965–2025	Died 2025	Played Zed in Pulp Fiction and Dorian in The Mask
Peter Green	Historian	1924–2024	Died 2024	Classicist who translated Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Dr. Peter Green	Physician	b. 1940s	Living	Columbia gastroenterologist; world-leading celiac-disease expert
Peter Green	Statistician	b. 1950	Living	Bayesian statistician; invented reversible-jump MCMC; FRS
Peter Shaw Green	Botanist	1920–2009	Died 2009	Keeper of the Herbarium at Kew; authority on the olive family
Petey Greene	Broadcaster	1931–1984	Died 1984	Washington DC radio legend; subject of the film Talk to Me
Daniel Boone	Pop singer	1942–2023	Died 2023	Born Peter Green; sang the 1972 hit “Beautiful Sunday”
Peter Green	Footballer	b. 1974	Living	Australian rules footballer; one AFL game for Carlton
Peter Green	Olympian	1920–2011	Died 2011	Canadian Olympic rower, 1948 London Games
Peter Green	Dog handler	b. 1930s	Living	Most decorated handler in Westminster history; four Best in Show wins
Peter Greene	Politician	1895–1963	Died 1963	Old IRA volunteer and Fianna Fáil Mayor of Galway, 1954–1960
Pete Green	Ballplayer	1891–1961	Died 1961	Negro leagues outfielder for the Cuban Giants and Lincoln Stars
Pete Green	Hockey coach	1868–1934	Died 1934	Ottawa Senators coach; won ten Stanley Cups
Peter Green	Businessman	1916–1980	Died 1980	Founded Peter Green Furnishers of Hampshire in 1956
Peter Green	Adult performer	b. 1993	Living	American adult-film performer from Miami
Peter Green	Startup founder	b. 1985	Living	Fintech unicorn co-founder, product designer, entrepreneur and investor

Can't tell two of them apart?

The two most-confused are the guitarist and the actor — one is Green, one is Greene. Here is the difference between Peter Green and Peter Greene.

Which Peter Greens have died?

Several, and some very recently. See is Peter Green still alive? for the living-or-dead status of every one.

Deep dives

Going beyond the who's-who — the story of Greeny, his 1959 Les Paul, the out-of-phase “Peter Green mod”, what “Albatross” means, and his best songs, ranked.

And with Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in cinemas: why the other Peter Green — the classicist — wrote the Odyssey translation to read after the film.

Famous Peter Greens by decade

They span more than a century: here is the decade each of the seventeen was born in — the name has been producing notable figures since the 1860s.

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And the real one?

Seventeen Peter Greens — but only one actually owns peter.green. Meet him.