Pete Explained

Pete or Petes or variation, may refer to:

People

• Pete (given name)
• Pete (nickname)
• Pete (surname)

Fictional characters

• Pete (Disney), a cartoon character in the Mickey Mouse universe
• Pete the Pup (a.k.a. 'Petey'), a character (played by several dogs) in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies

Places

• Pete, Zanzibar, a village in Tanzania
• Pete, the Hungarian name for Petea village, Dorolț Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania
• Petes, Gotland, Visby, Gotland, Sweden
• Petes Hill, a summit in the Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA
• Petes Creek, a tributary of the Sacandaga River, located in New York State, USA

Sports and athletics

• The Pete, Petersen Events Center, athletics complex and basketball arena on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh
• Pete the Penguin, one of the two mascots of Youngstown State University
• Purdue Pete, bookstore logo turned unofficial mascot of Purdue University
• A member of the Peterborough Petes junior ice hockey team

In the military

• Pete, Allied reporting name for the Japanese World War II Mitsubishi F1M seaplane
• , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918

Other uses

• "Pete" (Red Dwarf), a two-part episode of the television series Red Dwarf
• Pete, nickname for Peterbilt trucks in the trucking industry
• Pete, a common name in Indonesia for Parkia speciosa, the stink bean
• PETE, an abbreviation of polyethylene terephthalate, a polymer
• Pete (Theodore Roosevelt's dog)
• Pete (band), an American post-grunge and alternative metal band

See also

• , including many people with the forename Pete
  • • • St. Pete, St. Pete Co., Fla., USA
• St. Pete Beach, St. Pete Co., Fla., USA
• Peat, an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter
• Peat (disambiguation)
• Peet (disambiguation)
• Peter (disambiguation)
• Peters (disambiguation)
• Peterborough (disambiguation)
• Petersberg (disambiguation)
• Petersburg (disambiguation)
• Saint Petersburg (disambiguation)
• Pit (disambiguation)