Peer
Peer may refer to:
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Sociology
- Peer, an equal in age, education or social class; see Peer group
- Peer, a member of the peerage
Computing
- Peer, one of several functional units in the same layer of a network; See Peer group (computer networking)
- Peer (networking), a computer system connected to others on a network
- Peer, a computer network in a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks in peering
Organizations
- Partnership for European Environmental Research, a network of seven European environmental research centres
- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an organization of anonymous public employees promoting environmental responsibility
People
Given name
- Peer Åström (born 1972), Swedish composer, lyricist, musician and record producer
- Peer Hultberg (1935–2007), Danish author and psychoanalyst
- Peer Joechel (born 1967), German bobsledder
- Peer Mascini (1941–2019), Dutch actor
- Peer Raben (1940–2007), German composer born Wilhelm Rabenbauer
Surname
- Elizabeth Peer (1936–1984), American pioneering woman journalist
- Ralph Peer (1892–1960), American talent scout, recording engineer, record producer and music publisher
Other uses
- A member of the UK House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament
- Peer, the title character of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen
- Peer, Belgium, a municipality
- Twelve Peers, in legend, the twelve foremost knights of Charlemagne's court
See also
- Pe'er, a list of people with the given name or surname
- Peers (disambiguation), a surname and place name
- Pir (Sufism) (also spelled Peer)
- Pier (disambiguation)
- Pir (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Peer
- All pages with titles containing Peer
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