Peterson
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Peterson is a common name, and may refer to:
People
Fictional characters
Places
Other uses
People
- Peterson (name)Peterson (name)Peterson is a common English language patronymic surname, meaning "son of Peter". There are over 700 variant spellings of the surname. The form Peterson may also have arisen from Danish Petersen with a change of spelling commonly applied by Danish immigrants to English-speaking countries. ...
Fictional characters
- Lindsay Peterson, character in the television series Queer as Folk
- Minty PetersonMinty PetersonRichard "Rick" Peterson is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Cliff Parisi. He made his first appearance on 11 March 2002. His nickname was given to him because he was always late for work, turning up "after eight" when he was an apprentice mechanic...
, character in EastEnders - Norm PetersonNorm PetersonHillary Norman "Norm" Peterson is a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by George Wendt. Norm's real first name was revealed to be Hillary, named after his grandfather....
, character on the American TV show Cheers - Ray Peterson, character portrayed by Tom Hanks in The 'BurbsThe 'BurbsThe 'Burbs is a 1989 American black comedy thriller film directed by Joe Dante starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman and Henry Gibson. The film was written by Dana Olsen, who also has a cameo in the movie...
Places
- Peterson Air Force BasePeterson Air Force BasePeterson Air Force Base is a base of the United States Air Force located at Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States and it provides runways for the adjacent City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport under a shared joint civil-military airport arrangement...
, Colorado, USA - Peterson, IndianaPeterson, IndianaPeterson is an unincorporated town in Kirkland Township, Adams County, Indiana, United States.Peterson, Indiana was named after Robert S. Peterson an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War...
, USA - Peterson, IowaPeterson, IowaPeterson is a city in Clay County, Iowa, United States. The population was 334 in the 2010 census, a decline from 372 in the 2000 census. -History:...
, USA - Peterson, MinnesotaPeterson, MinnesotaPeterson is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 199 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....
, USA - Peterson, UtahPeterson, UtahPeterson is an unincorporated community in Morgan County, Utah, United States.-Geography:Peterson is located near Peterson Creek and Interstate 84, seven miles northwest of the town of Morgan....
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Other uses
- Peterson Electro-Musical ProductsPeterson Electro-Musical ProductsPeterson Electro-Musical Products, Inc. is a leading music-electronics manufacturer. The company was founded by Richard H. Peterson in 1948. The Peterson company introduced the first commercial handheld electronic tuner for musicians, the Model 70, in 1964, and later its models of strobe tuners...
, a manufacturer of tuners, etc. - Peterson's algorithmPeterson's algorithmPeterson's algorithm is a concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion that allows two processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication. It was formulated by Gary L. Peterson in 1981...
, computer science - Peterson Field GuidesPeterson Field GuidesThe Peterson Field Guides are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. The series was created and edited by renowned ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson...
- Peterson PipesPeterson PipesPeterson is an Irish pipe maker.-History:Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp, German immigrants to Ireland from Nürnberg, founded the famed Kapp Brothers store on Grafton Street, Dublin in 1865. Shortly thereafter, a Latvian immigrant, Charles Peterson, strolled into the Kapp workshop and declared that he...
- Peterson Quartet, music
- USS PetersonUSS PetersonUSS Peterson may refer to:, a destroyer escort that saw action during World War II and was struck in 1973, a Spruance-class destroyer that served from 1977 to 2002...
, two US Navy ships of that name