Peter I may refer to:
Religious hierarchs:
- Pope Peter, papal name sometimes referring to the Apostle Peter (c. 1 BC–AD 67)
- Patriarch Peter I of Alexandria (300–311)
Rulers:
- Tsar Peter I of Bulgaria (died 970)
- Count Peter I of Savoy (c. 1048–1078)
- King Peter I of Aragon and Navarre (1068/9–1104)
- Count Peter I of Barcelona=Catalonia, i.e. King Peter II the Catholic of Aragon (1178–1213)
- Latin Emperor Peter I of Constantinople (died 1219)
- Peter I, Duke of Brittany (c. 1190–1250)
- King Peter I of Valencia, i.e. King Pedro III of Aragon (1239–1285)
- Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311–1356)
- Peter I of Portugal (1320–1367)
- Peter I of Cyprus (1328–1369)
- King Pedro of Castile a.k.a. 'Pedro the Cruel' (1334–1369)
- Petru I of Moldavia (ruled 1375–1391)
- Pedro I of Kongo (ruled 1543–1545)
- Peter I, "The Great", of Russia, the first Russian czar titled emperor (1672–1725)
- Peter I of the Miskito nation (ruled 1729–1739)
- Peter I of Montenegro (1747–1830)
- Emperor Peter I of Brazil who declared independence (after, crowned as King Peter IV of Portugal) (1798–1834)
- King Peter I Karađorđević of Serbia, later Peter I King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (i.e. of Yugoslavia) (1844–1921)
Famous quotes containing the word peter:
“No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)