What is "pieter"

Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch form of Peter, and may refer to:

• Sint Pieter, a village now incorporated in Maastricht
• Sint-Pieters, a suburb of Bruges
• Pieterburen, a village in the north of Groningen
• Pieter de Coninck (?-1332), Flemish revolutionary
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c 1525-1569), Netherlandish painter
• Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1633), Netherlandish painter
• Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch historian
• Peter Stuyvesant (originally Pieter) (c. 1612–1672), Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (New York)
• Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), Dutch painter
• Pieter Pauw (1564–1617), Dutch botanist
• Pieter Burmann the Elder (1668–1741), Dutch classical scholar
• Pieter Burmann the Younger (1714–1778), Dutch philologist
• Pieter van Maldere (1729–1768), South-Netherlandish composer
• Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), Dutch physicist
• Pieter Willem Botha (1916–2006), President of South Africa
• Pieter van Vollenhoven (1939), the husband of princess Margriet of The Netherlands
• Pieter van den Hoogenband (1978), Dutch Olympic swimmer
• Pieter Gruijters (1967), Dutch Paralympic athlete
• Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (1755–1801), Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies
• Pieter Vanden Bos (born 1961), Canadian football player