Peter Jackson (disambiguation)
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Peter Jackson
(born 1961) is a New Zealand-born filmmaker.
Peter Jackson or similar-sounding names may also refer to:
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , adapted from the novel by J. R. R...
(born 1961) is a New Zealand-born filmmaker.
Peter Jackson or similar-sounding names may also refer to:
Sports
- Peter Jackson (boxer)Peter Jackson (boxer)Peter "Black Prince" Jackson was a heavyweight boxer from Australia who had a significant international career.-Biography:...
(1861–1901), black heavyweight boxer also known as the "Black Prince" - Peter Jackson (cricketer)Peter Jackson (cricketer)Percy Frederick Jackson was a Scottish born English cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He bowled offspin and was also known to take the new ball and bowl medium-paced outswingers...
(1911–1999), an English cricketer who played for Worcestershire - Peter Jackson (footballer born 1905)Peter Jackson (footballer born 1905)Peter Jackson was a football player and manager. His twin sons Peter and David were also professional footballers. Both played under their father at Wrexham and Bradford City.-Playing career:...
(born 1905 in Halifax), English footballer and football manager - Peter Jackson (footballer born 1937)Peter Jackson (footballer born 1937)Peter Jackson was an English footballer whose career mirrored that of his twin brother David. Peter Jackson was a half back who started his career with his brother at Wrexham, where their father Peter senior was manager. The trio later teamed up at Bradford City, where the two brothers played a...
(born 1937 in Stoke-on-Trent), English footballer, and son of the Peter Jackson born in 1905 - Peter Jackson (footballer born 1961) (born 1961 in Bradford), English footballer and football manager
- Peter Jackson (rugby league)Peter Jackson (rugby league)Peter Jackson was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative back, he played club football in both Queensland and New South Wales as well as a season in England...
, (1964–1997), Australian rugby league footballer - Peter Jackson (rugby union), (1930–2004), English rugby union footballer
- Peter Jackson (table tennis)Peter Jackson (table tennis)Peter Jackson is a table tennis player representative of New Zealand. He competed in three Summer Olympics and two Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal at 2002 Commonwealth Games.-Career:...
(born 1964), New Zealand table tennis player - Peter H. JacksonPeter H. JacksonPeter Herbert "Jacko" Jackson was an English rower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics....
(born 1913), British silver medalist in rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Other
- Peter Jackson, a pseudonym for Ernest HemingwayErnest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
during his second stay in Toronto - Peter Jackson (academic)Peter Jackson (academic)An Australian writer and scholar of gender and sexual identities and Buddhism in Thailand. He is currently a Fellow in the Division of Pacific & Asian History, at the Australian National University in Canberra.-Bibliography:...
, Australian writer and scholar of sexual politics and Buddhism in Thailand - Peter Jackson (scientist)Peter Jackson (scientist)Peter Eric Jackson was a scientist granted his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Leeds University, UK. He was born c. 1949 in Bridgetown, Barbados...
Chief Scientist, Thomson Reuters Corporation - Peter Jackson (historian)Peter Jackson (historian)Peter Jackson is a scholar and historian, specializing on the Crusades, particularly the contacts between the Europeans and the Mongols as well as medieval Muslim India...
, scholar and author on the history of the Crusades, particularly regarding the Mongols - Peter Jackson (journalist), American journalist
- Peter Jackson (judge)Peter Jackson (judge)Sir Peter Arthur Brian Jackson , styled The Hon. Mr Justice Peter Jackson, is an English High Court judge, assigned to the Family Division. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1978 and became a Queen's Counsel in 2000...
(born 1955), English High Court judge - Peter Jackson (politician)Peter Jackson (politician)Peter Michael Jackson is a retired British Labour Party politician.At the 1966 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the High Peak constituency in Derbyshire. He sat in the House of Commons for only four years, losing his seat at the 1970 general election, to the...
(born 1928), British Labour Party Member of Parliament for High Peak 1966–1970 - Peter Wyse JacksonPeter Wyse JacksonDr. Peter Sherlock Wyse Jackson was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, and is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, with whose botanic gardens he is associated. In 2005 he was appointed Director of the Irish National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin. His father was Robert Wyse Jackson, Bishop of...
(born 1955), Irish botanist - Peter Jackson, a brand of cigarettes owned by Imperial TobaccoImperial TobaccoImperial Tobacco is a global tobacco company headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom. It is the world’s fourth-largest cigarette company measured by market share , and the world's largest producer of cigars, fine-cut tobacco and tobacco papers...
- Peter Jackson, a fictional character in the Stephen King novels Desperation (novel) and The RegulatorsThe RegulatorsThe Regulators is a novel by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the...
, when King wrote under the pseudonym Richard BachmanRichard BachmanRichard Bachman is a pseudonym used by horror fiction author Stephen King.-Origin:At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was such that an author was limited to a book every year, since publishing more would not be acceptable to the public... - Peter Jackson, a fictional character, the elderly Piedmont survivor, in the 1969 Michael Crichton novel The Andromeda StrainThe Andromeda StrainThe Andromeda Strain , by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while in other people inducing insanity...