Lista de Personas Famosas llamadas Petrus

Petrus Plancius, forma latinizada de Pieter Platevoit, fue un teólogo, cartógrafo y astrónomo flamenco. Es conocido por introducir el método de proyección de Mercator en los mapas de navegación y por desarrollar un nuevo método de medir la longitud. Publicó varias guías y diarios de navegación, siendo su obra más conocida un mapa del mundo, el Nova et exacta Terrarum Tabula geographica et hydrographica (1592).

Petrus Bertius was a Flemish philosopher, theologian, historian, geographer and cartographer. Bertius published much in mathematics, and historical and theological works, but he is now best known as cartographer with his edition of the Geographia of Ptolemy, and for its atlas.

Petrus Mosellanus Protegensis was a German humanist scholar. He is best known for the popular work on rhetoric, Tabulae de schematibus et tropis, and his Paedologia. He became professor at the University of Leipzig. He gave the opening Latin oration at the 1519 Leipzig Disputation between Johann Eck and Martin Luther.

Petrus Comestor fue un teólogo medieval francés.

Petrus Johannes van Regemorter was a Flemish landscape and genre painter, born in Antwerp. He was a pupil of the Academy of that city, but he owed much to his study of the pictures in some private collections. He became a professor in the Academy, and Dean in the Painters' Guild in 1786. Many artists of note studied under him, and he had a large practice as a picture-restorer. In 1814 he was engaged in bringing back the pictures taken by the French to Paris. He died in 1830. In the Antwerp Museum is a Shepherd and Flock by him. He excelled in painting moonlights.

Petrus Cunaeus was the pen name of the Dutch Christian scholar Peter van der Kun. His book The Hebrew Republic is considered "the most powerful statement of republican theory in the early years of the Dutch Republic."