Peto

Peto may refer to:

People with the surname

• András Pető (1893–1967), Hungarian practitioner of physical rehabilitation, inspired conductive education
• Basil Peto (1862–1945), English politician
• Christopher Peto (1897–1971), English politician
• Dorothy Peto (1886–1974) British women's police pioneer
• Geoffrey Peto (1878–1956), English politician
• Gladys Emma Peto (1890–1977), English artist, fashion designer, illustrator and writer of children's books
• Harold Peto (1854–1933), English architect and garden designer
• Henry Peto (1780–1830), English building contractor
• John F. Peto (1854–1907), American painter
• John Peto (cricketer) (died 1874), English cricketer
• John Peto (politician) (1900–1954), British Conservative Party politician
• Judit Pető (born 1921), birth name of Hungarian designer Judith Leiber
• Julian Peto, English statistician and cancer epidemiologist
• László Pető (born 1948), Hungarian fencer
• László Pető (sport shooter) (born 1969), Hungarian sports shooter
• Len Peto (1892–1985), ice hockey executive
• Michael Peto, also known as Mihály Petö (1908–1970), Hungarian-British photojournalist
• Morton Peto (1809–1889), English entrepreneur, civil engineer and railway developer
• Richard Peto (born 1943), English professor of medical statistics and Epidemiology in the University of Oxford
• Rosemary Peto (1916–1998), English artist
• Samuel Petto (c.1624-1711), English Puritan clergyman
• Samuel Morton Peto (1809–1889), English construction entrepreneur
• Tibor Peto (born 1980), Hungarian rower
• Tim Peto (born 1950), English professor of medicine of the University of Oxford
• William Peto, English cricketer
• Zoltán Pető (born 1974), Hungarian footballer

Middle name

• Kawu Peto Dukku (1958–2010), Nigerian politician, Senator for the Gombe North constituency of Gombe State, Nigeria

Other uses

• PETO, a German party
• Peto (food), a Colombian dessert
• USS Peto (SS-265), a US submarine
• Parnall Peto, a British seaplane
• Peto baronets, two baronetcies created for members of the Peto family, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Peto Municipality in Yucatán state, Mexico
• A minor character who appears in the Henriad plays by Shakespeare as a criminal associate of Falstaff
• Grissell and Peto, a civil engineering partnership between Thomas Grissell and his cousin Morton Peto
• Peto, Brassey and Betts, a civil engineering partnership between Samuel Morton Peto, Thomas Brassey and Edward Betts
• Peto and Betts, a civil engineering partnership formed in 1848 between Morton Peto and Edward Ladd Betts

See also

• All pages with titles containing Peto