Pyotr is a Russian given name that is equivalent to the English name, Peter.

A

• Pyotr Abrasimov (1912–2009), Soviet war hero and politician
• Pyotr Akhlyustin (1896–1941), Red Army major general
• Pyotr Albedinsky (1826–1883), Russian military officer and politician
• Pyotr Alexeyevich Alexeyev (1849–1891), Russian revolutionary
• Pyotr Anjou (1796–1869), Imperial Russian Navy admiral and Arctic explorer
• Pyotr Anokhin (1898–1974), Soviet and Russian biologist and physiologist
• Pyotr Avilov (1910–2004), Soviet sports shooter

B

• Pyotr Bagration (1765–1812), Russian general and prince of Georgian origin
• Pyotr Romanovich Bagration (1818–1876), Russian-Georgian statesman, general and scientist
• Pyotr Baluyev (1857–1923), Imperial Russian Army general
• Pyotr Baranov (1892–1933), Soviet military commander and politician
• Pyotr Baranovsky (1892–1984), Russian architect, preservationist, and building restorator
• Pyotr Bardovsky (1846–1886), Russian lawyer and a supporter of independence for Poland
• Pyotr Bark (1869–1937), Russian statesman
• Pyotr Bartenev (1829–1912), Russian historian and collector of unpublished memoirs
• Pyotr Basin (1793–1877), Russian painter
• Pyotr Bazanov (1923–2003), Soviet fighter pilot and flying ace
• Pyotr Z. Bazhbeuk-Melikov (1872–after 1939), ethnic Armenian politician and agronomist in Bessarabia
• Pyotr Beketov (c. 1600–c. 1661), Cossack explorer of Siberia
• Pyotr Berestov (1896–1961), Soviet Red Army major general
• Pyotr Berezin (born 1991), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Bessonov (1828–1898), Russian folklorist
• Pyotr Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1664–1742), Russian statesman
• Pyotr Bezobrazov (1845–1906), Imperial Russian Navy admiral
• Pyotr Ilyich Bilan (1921–1996), Soviet Russian-Ukrainian painter
• Pyotr Bletkin (1903–1988), Soviet and Georgian painter and graphic artist
• Pyotr Blinov (1913–1942), Soviet Udmurt writer and journalist
• Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921), Russian writer, playwright, and journalist
• Pyotr Bochek (1925–2018), Soviet Army soldier
• Pyotr Bochkaryov (born 1967), Russian pole vaulter
• Pyotr Bogdanov (1882–1939), Soviet statesman, engineer, and economist
• Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930–2013), Soviet track and field athlete
• Pyotr Borel (1829–1898), Russian painter and illustrator
• Pyotr Borovsky (1863–1932), Russian and Soviet surgeon and public health administrator
• Pyotr Braiko (1919–2018), Soviet soldier
• Pyotr Brayko (born 1977), Russian athlete
• Pyotr Breus (1927–2000), Russian water polo player
• Pyotr Bryanskikh (1896–1938), Soviet corps commander
• Pyotr Bulakhov (1822–1885), Russian composer
• Pyotr Bykov (1844–1930), Russian literary historian, editor, poet, and translator
• Pyotr Bystrov (born 1979), Russian footballer

C

• Pyotr Chaadayev (1794–1856), Russian philosopher
• Pyotr Chardynin (1873–1934), Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor
• Pyotr Chernyshev (1914–1979), Soviet figure skater and engineer
• Pyotr Aleksandrovich Chicherin (1778–1849), Russian general
• Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808–1890), Russian naturalist and geologist
• Pyotr Yegorovich Chistyakov (1792–1862), Russian explorer and admiral

D

• Pyotr Dementyev (multiple people)
• Pyotr Demichev (1918–2010), Soviet and Russian politician
• Pyotr Grigoryevich Demidov (1807–1862), Russian nobleman and general
• Pyotr Devyatkin (1977–2016), Kazakhstani ice hockey forward
• Pyotr Deynekin (1937–2017), Russian military general
• Pyotr Dolgorukov (multiple people)
• Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov (1866–1951), Russian liberal politician
• Pyotr Vladimirovich Dolgorukov (1816–1868), Russian historian and journalist
• Pyotr Dolgov (1920–1962), Hero of the Soviet Union
• Pyotr Dranga (born 1984), Russian musician
• Pyotr Drozhdin (1745–1805), Russian painter
• Pyotr Dubrov (born 1978), Russian engineer and cosmonaut
• Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo (1845–1915), Imperial Russian lawyer, politician, and member of Russian nobility

F

• Pyotr Fedoseev (1908–1990), Soviet philosopher, sociologist, and politician
• Pyotr Fedotov (1900–1963), Soviet security and intelligence officer
• Pyotr Filatov (1893–1941), Soviet Red Army lieutenant general
• Pyotr Filippov (1893–1965), Russian Soviet football player and coach
• Pyotr Fomenko (1932–2012), Soviet and Russian film and theater director
• Pyotr Frolov (1775–1839), Russian mining engineer and inventor
• Pyotr Fyodorov (born 1982), Russian actor

G

• Pyotr Gannushkin (1875–1933), Russian psychiatrist
• Pyotr Gassiev (born 1972), South Ossetian politician
• Pyotr Gavrilov (1900–1979), Soviet officer
• Pyotr Gayevsky (born 1888), Russian Empire sprinter
• Pyotr Gitselov (born 1983), Russian-Swedish football player and manager
• Pyotr Glebov (1915–2000), Russian film actor
• Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925), Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur, and art history scholar
• Pyotr Gnido (1919–2006), Soviet fighter pilot
• Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn (1792–1842), Russian prince
• Pyotr Grigorievich Goncharov (1888–1970), Russian and Soviet composer, conductor, and choirmaster
• Pyotr Gora (1922–2002), Soviet colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Pyotr Gorchakov (1790–1868), Imperial Russian Army general
• Pyotr Gorelikov (1931–2017), Russian sailor
• Pyotr Gorlov (1839–1915), Russian geologist and engineer
• Pyotr Gornushko (born 1953), Russian equestrian
• Pyotr Grigoryev (1899–1942), Soviet footballer
• Pyotr Grushin (1906–1993), Soviet rocket scientist
• Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky (1837–1892), Georgian royal prince
• Pyotr Gusev (1904–1987), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer

I

• Pyotr Ilyichev (born 1966), Russian diplomat
• Pyotr Isaev (1890–1919), Russian and Soviet military commander
• Pyotr Ivanovich Isakov (1886–1958), Russian classical guitarist
• Pyotr Isakov (1900–1957), Soviet football player and manager
• Pyotr Ivashutin (1909–2004), Soviet Army General

K

• Pyotr Kachura (born 1972), Belarusian footballer
• Pyotr Kakhovsky (1799–1826), Russian Empire officer
• Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984), Soviet physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate
• Pyotr Kapnist (1839–1904), Russian diplomat and ambassador
• Pyotr Karamushko (colonel) (1908–1998), Soviet Red Army colonel
• Pyotr Karatygin (1805–1879), Russian dramatist and actor
• Pyotr Karyshkovsky (1921–1988), Ukrainian Soviet historian, numismatist, scholar, and lexicographer
• Pyotr Kashchenko (1858–1920), Russian psychiatrist, social and agrarian activist, and author
• Pyotr Khanykov (1743–1813), Imperial Russian Navy admiral
• Pyotr Khrustovsky (1979–2003), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Kikin (1775–1834), Russian general and Secretary of State
• Pyotr Kireevsky (1808–1856), Russian folklorist and philologist
• Pyotr Kirillov (1895–1942), Soviet actor, film director, screenwriter
• Pyotr Pavlovich Kitkin (1877–1954), Russian military commander
• Pyotr Kleinmichel (1789–1869), Imperial Russian Minister of Transport
• Pyotr Klimuk (born 1942), former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel
• Pyotr Kobozev (1878–1941), Russian revolutionary, and Soviet statesman and professor
• Pyotr Kochetkov (born 1999), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
• Pyotr Kolbasin (born 1942), Russian actor, director, producer, screenwriter
• Pyotr Kolodin (1930–2021), Soviet cosmonaut
• Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876–1956), Russian painter
• Pyotr Kosarevsky (born 1999), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Koshel (born 1946), Russian writer, historian, and translator
• Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), Soviet military commander
• Pyotr Kotlyarevsky (1782–1852), Russian military hero
• Pyotr Kovalenko (1942–1993), Soviet ski jumper
• Pyotr Kozhevnikov (born 1927), Soviet athlete
• Pyotr Kozlov (1863–1935), Russian and Soviet traveler and explorer
• Pyotr Kozlovsky (1783–1840), Russian diplomat
• Pyotr Krasikov (1870–1939), Russian revolutionary and Communist Party functionary
• Pyotr Krasilov (born 1977), Russian film and theater actor
• Pyotr Krasnov (1869–1947), Russian historian and officer
• Pyotr Krechetnikov (1727–c. 1800), Russian major-general
• Pyotr Krenitsyn (1728–1770), Russian explorer and Imperial Russian Navy officer
• Pyotr Nikolayevich Kropotkin (1910–1996), Soviet Russian geologist, tectonician, and geophysicist
• Pyotr Kryuchkov (1889–1938), Soviet lawyer
• Pyotr Kudryavtsev (1816–1858), Russian writer and historian
• Pyotr Kuryshko (1894–1921), Soviet Russian military commander
• Pyotr Kuznetsov (born 1964), leader and founder of the True Russian Orthodox Church
• Pyotr Kuznetsov (junior sergeant) (1925–1981), Soviet Red Army junior sergeant during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union

L

• Pyotr Latyshev (1948–2008), Russian politician
• Pyotr Lavrov (1823–1900), Russian philosopher, revolutionary, and sociologist
• Pyotr Lebedev (1866–1912), Russian physicist
• Pyotr Leshchenko (1898–1954), singer in the Russian Empire, Romania and later the Soviet Union
• Pyotr Lomako (1904–1990), Soviet politician and economist
• Pyotr Lomnovsky (1871–1956), Russian military commander
• Pyotr Lopukhin (1753–1827), Russian politician
• Pyotr Lushev (1923–1997), Soviet Army general
• Pyotr Lyapin (1894–1954), Soviet Army general
• Pyotr Lyashchenko (1876–1955), Russian economist

M

• Pyotr Makarchuk (born 1972), Russian bobsledder
• Pyotr Malyshev (1898–1972), Soviet Army lieutenant general
• Pyotr Mamonov (1951–2021), Russian rock musician
• Pyotr Manteifel (1882–1960), Soviet zoologist and naturalist
• Pyotr Marchenko (born 1948), Russian politician
• Pyotr Marshinskiy (born 1986), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Marta (born 1952), Soviet freestyle wrestler
• Pyotr Masherov (1919–1980), Soviet partisan, statesman, and World War II Belarusian resistance leader
• Pyotr Melissino (c. 1726–c. 1797), Imperial Russian Army general
• Pyotr Meshchaninov (1944–2006), Russian pianist and conductor
• Pyotr Miklashevich (born 1954), Belrusian politician
• Pyotr Moskatov (1894–1969), Soviet union leader and statesman
• Pyotr Mozharov (1888–1934), Soviet engineer
• Pyotr Mstislavets (fl. 1560s–1570s), Belarusian printer

N

• Pyotr Nechayev (1842–1905), Russian religious writer, journalist, editor, and pedagogue
• Pyotr Nemov (born 1983), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Nesterov (1887–1914), Russian pilot, aircraft designer, and aerobatics pioneer
• Pyotr Nevezhin (1841–1919), Russian dramatist and short story writer
• Pyotr Nikiforov ((1882–1974), Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Pyotr Nikolayev (1924–2000), Soviet sports shooter
• Pyotr Nikolsky (1858–1940), Russian dermatologist
• Pyotr Nilus (1869–1943), Russian and Ukrainian impressionist painter and writer
• Pyotr Novikov (1901–1975), Soviet mathematician
• Pyotr Georgyevich Novikov (1907–1944), Soviet Red Army general

O-P

• Pyotr Oganovsky (1851–c. 1917), Russian general of the infantry
• Pyotr Orlov (1912–1989), Soviet figure skater and pair skating coach
• Pyotr Otsup (1883–1963), Soviet photojournalist
• Pyotr Pakhtusov (1800–1835), Russian surveyor and Arctic explorer
• Pyotr Papkov (1772–1853), Russian Generalmajor and statesman
• Pyotr Patrushev (1942–2016), Russian author
• Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), Soviet writer, screenwriter, and war correspondent
• Pyotr Pavlovich Pelehin (1789–1871), Russian physician and teacher
• Pyotr Pertsov (1868–1947), Russian poet, publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist, and memoirist
• Pyotr Petrinich (born 1957), Belarusian rowing cox
• Pyotr Mikhailovich Petrov (1910–1941), Soviet Air Force major, flying ace, and a Hero of the Soviet Union
• Pyotr Petrov (1827–1891), Russian writer, arts historian and critic
• Pyotr Petrovich (multiple people)
• Pyotr Pimashkov (1894–1921), Soviet Russian military commander
• Pyotr Pletnyov (1792–1865), Russian minor poet
• Pyotr Pochynchuk (1954–1991), Soviet athlete
• Pyotr Podgorodetsky (born 1957), Russian musician and showman
• Pyotr Pokryshev (1914–1967), Soviet fighter pilot and squadron commander
• Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika (1778–1849), second Russian ambassador to the United States
• Pyotr Polevoy (1839–1902), Russian writer, playwright, translator, critic, editor, and literary historian
• Pyotr Semyonovich Popov (1923–1960), Soviet military intelligence officer
• Pyotr Popov (born 1985), Russian luger
• Pyotr Pospelov (1898–1979), Soviet Communist Party functionary
• Pyotr Postnikov (1666–1703), Russian diplomat
• Pyotr Potemkin (1617–1700), Russian courtier and diplomat
• Pyotr Prakapovich (born 1942), Belarusian construction engineer, politician, statesman, and bank chairman
• Pyotr Prokopovich (multiple people)
• Pyotr Pshennikov (1895–1941), Soviet general
• Pyotr Pumpur (1900–1942), Latvian-born Soviet Air Forces fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, and general

R-S

• Pyotr Rachkovsky (1853–1910), Imperial Russian secret service officer
• Pyotr Ivanovich Ricord (1776–1855), Russian admiral, scientist, diplomat, writer, and shipbuilder
• Pyotr Rumyantsev (1725–1796), Russian general
• Pyotr Ryazanov (1899–1942), Russian composer, teacher, and musicologist
• Pyotr Saltykov (c. 1698–1772), Russian statesman and a military officer
• Pyotr Schmidt (1867–1906), Sevastopol Uprising leader
• Pyotr Sedunov (born 1977), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827–1914), Russian geographer and statistician
• Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork (1893–1952), Russian officer and writer active in far-right and anti-Semitic politics
• Pyotr Shafranov (1901–1972), Soviet Army general
• Pyotr Shamshin (1811–1895), Russian painter of historical and religious scenes
• Pyotr Shchebalsky (1810–1886), Russian literary critic, historian, and author
• Pyotr Shcherbakov (1929–1992), Soviet film and theater actor
• Pyotr Shchetinkin (1884–1927), leader of the Soviet partisan movement in Siberia during the Russian Civil War
• Pyotr Shchukin (1853–1912), Russian art collector
• Pyotr Shelepov (1920–1983), Soviet Red Army soldier and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Pyotr Sheremetev (1713–1788), Russian nobleman and courtier
• Pyotr Shilovsky (1872–1955), Russian count, jurist, statesman, and governor
• Pyotr Shirshov (1905–1953), Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, and academician
• Pyotr Ivanovich Sholokhov (1898−1988), Russian realist artist
• Pyotr Shubin (born 1944), Russian professional footballer and coach
• Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827–1889), Russian statesman
• Pyotr Skripchenkov (1926–2010), Russian swimmer
• Pyotr Slovtsov (1886–1934), Russian tenor
• Pyotr Smidovich (1874–1935), Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898), Russian businessman, founder of the Smirnov vodka company
• Pyotr Smirnov (1897–1939), Soviet Commissar, Deputy Minister of Defence and Commander of the Soviet Navy
• Pyotr Smorodin (1897–1939), Soviet politician
• Pyotr Sobennikov (1894–1960), Soviet general
• Pyotr Sobolevsky (1904–1977), Soviet actor
• Pyotr Sokolov (multiple people)
• Pyotr Solodukhin (1892–1920), Russian Bolshevik division commander in the Russian Civil War
• Pyotr Sorokin (1889–1942), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Starkovsky (1884–1964), Russian actor
• Pyotr Stefanovsky (1903–1976), Soviet test pilot
• Pyotr Stepanov (born 1959), Transnistrian politician
• Pyotr Stepanov (actor) (1800–1869), Russian stage actor
• Pyotr Stolyarsky (1871–1944), Soviet violinist
• Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911), Russian politician and statesman
• Pyotr Subbotin-Permyak (1886–1923), Russian avant-garde painter
• Pyotr Sumin (1946–2011), governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia
• Pyotr Suvchinsky (1892–1985), Russian artistic patron and writer on music
• Pyotr Sviatopolk-Mirsky (1857–1914), Russian general, politician, and police official

T-V

• Pyotr Tayozhny (1887–1952), Russian sculptor
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Russian composer
• Pyotr Telezhnikov (born 1863), Imperial Russian division, corps and army commander
• Pyotr Ten (born 1992), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Genrikhovich Tiedemann (1872–1941), Russian nobleman and diplomat
• Pyotr Tkachev (1844–1886), Russian writer, critic, and revolutionary theorist
• Pyotr Nikolayevich Toburokov (1917–2001), Russian poet and writer
• Pyotr Tochilin (born 1974), Russian film director and screenwriter
• Pyotr Todorovsky (1925–2013), Russian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
• Pyotr Tolstikhin (1927–2002), Russian sailor
• Pyotr Tolstoy (multiple people)
• Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy (1769–1844), Russian general and statesman
• Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy (1645–1729), Russian statesman and diplomat
• Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy (born 1969), Russian journalist, producer, presenter, and politician
• Pyotr Trusov (born 1948), Russian physicist
• Pyotr Ufimtsev (born 1931), Soviet/Russian physicist and mathematician
• Pyotr Lavrentyevich Ulyanov (1928–2006), Russian mathematician
• Pyotr Ustinov (born 1987), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Vail (1949–2009), Russian author, journalist, and essayist
• Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890), Russian statesman and writer
• Pyotr Vannovsky (1822−1904), Russian general and politician
• Pyotr Vasilevsky (1956–2012), Belarusian footballer and manager
• Pyotr Veinberg (1831–1908), Russian poet, translator, journalist, and literary historian
• Pyotr Velyaminov (1926–2009), Soviet Russian film and theater actor
• Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834/36–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter
• Pyotr Vershigora (1905–1963), leader Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, and later a writer
• Pyotr Verzilov (born 1987), Russian-Canadian artist and activist
• Pyotr Vlasov (fl. 1900s), Russian ambassador to Persia
• Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky (1776–1852), Imperial Russian military commander
• Pyotr Volodkin (born 1999), Russian footballer
• Pyotr Vologodsky (1863–1925), Russian statesman, public figure, and mason
• Pyotr Vorobyov (born 1949), Russian ice hockey player and coach
• Pyotr Voykov (1888–1927), Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet diplomat
• Pyotr Vtorov (1938–1979), Soviet scientist biogeographer, ecologist, zoologist, and nature conservation activist
• Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878), Russian Imperial poet

W-Z

• Pyotr Wrangel (1878–1928), Russian officer of Baltic German origin in the Imperial Russian Army
• Pyotr Yakir (1923–1982), Soviet historian
• Pyotr Yakubovich (1860–1911), Russian revolutionary, poet, and politician
• Pyotr Yefremov (1830–1908), Russian literary historian, publisher, editor and essayist
• Pyotr Yeropkin (c. 1698–1740), Russian architect
• Pyotr Yershov (multiple people)
• Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov (1910–1994), Soviet theater director and art theoretician
• Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (1815–1869), Russian poet
• Pyotr Yeryomin (born 1992), Russian professional ice hockey goaltender
• Pyotr Yezhov (1900–1975), Soviet footballer and manager
• Pyotr Zakharov (born 1979), Russian professional bandy player
• Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets (1816–1846), Chechen-Russian painter
• Pyotr Zalutsky (1887–1937), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist Party organiser
• Pyotr Zavadovsky (1739–1812), Russian statesman
• Pyotr Zaychenko (1943–2019), Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor
• Pyotr Zayev (1953−2014), Russian heavyweight boxer
• Pyotr Zgursky (born 2001), Belarusian professional footballer
• Pyotr Zinchenko (1903–1969), Soviet developmental psychologist
• Pyotr Zubrov (1822–1873), Russian stage actor
• Pyotr Zykov (1890–1960), Soviet Red Army major general

See also

• List of people named Piotr