Pete is a given name. It is a diminutive form of the given name Peter. It is the given name of:

People

• Pete Accetturo, American YouTuber and voice actor
• Pete Alonso (born 1994), American baseball player
• Pete Appleton (1904–1974), American baseball player
• Pete Buttigieg (born 1982), American politician
• Pete Berezney (1923–2008), American football player
• Pete D'Alonzo (1929–2001), American football player
• Pete Davidson (born 1993), American comedian
• Pete Docter (born 1968), American animator, film director and producer
• Pete Fairbanks (born 1993), American baseball player
• Pete Fountain (1930–2016), American clarinet player
• Pete Gudauskas (1916–2003), American football player
• Pete Ham (1947–1975), Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist, member of the rock band Badfinger
• Pete Hamill (1935–2020), American journalist and author
• Pete Hamilton (1942–2017), American NASCAR driver
• Pete Loeffler, American singer-songwriter and musician, member of the rock band Chevelle
• Pete Maki, American baseball coach
• Pete Maravich (1948-1988), American basketball player
• Pete Mikolajewski (born 1943), American football player
• Pete Murray (Australian singer-songwriter) (born 1969), Australian singer-songwriter
• Pete Murray (DJ) (born 1925), British radio and television presenter and actor
• Pete Nice (born 1967), American rapper
• Pete Perini (1928–2008), American football player
• Pete Postlethwaite (1946–2011), English actor
• Pete Price (born 1946), British radio presenter
• Pete Ricketts (born 1964), American businessman
• Pete Sampras (born 1971), American tennis player
• Pete Seeger (1919–2014), American folk singer
• Pete Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
• Pete Townshend (born 1945), English guitarist, singer, songwriter (The Who)
• Pete Trgovich, American basketball player
• Pete Walker (baseball), American baseball player and coach
• Pete Wentz (born 1979), bassist of the band Fall Out Boy
• Pete Werner (born 1999), American football player
• Pete Woodworth (born 1988), American baseball coach

Fictional characters

• Pete Beale, on the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Pete Campbell, on the American television series Mad Men
• Pete Miller, on the American television series The Office
• Pete Dinglewood, protagonist of Step Closer, the first story in the book Five Nights at Freddy's Step Closer.
• Play-Doh Pete, the mascot of Play-Doh compound who was around from 1960 to 2002
• Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, in Top Gun
• Pete (Disney), an anthropomorphic cartoon character in Disney media
• Pete the Cat, a fictional cat from the "Pete the Cat" series of books
• Pete the Pup, from the Our Gang series of comedies
• Pete, in the movie Shaun of the Dead
• Pete & Pete, the title characters of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, an American children's television series
• Old Puffer Pete, in the TV series ChuggingtonChuggington
• Pete Crane, a construction vehicle in Putt-Putt Enters the Race
• Pete, the freight engine in The Little Engine That Could
• Pete Malloy, one of the two main characters in the TV series Adam-12
• Pete McGee, a character from The Ghost and Molly McGee
• Pete, the title character of Pete the Tramp, an American comic strip published from 1932 to 1963
• Pete Wisdom, from Marvel Comics
• Stinky Pete, a character of Woody's Roundup and the main antagonist of Toy Story 2
• Cactus Pete, the cameo husband of Cactus Polly on Oswald
• Cordwood Pete, younger brother of American folk legend Paul Bunyan
• Pete, a character in the Animal Crossing video game series
• Pete, the title character of Power Pete, a video game
• Pete, a character from Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race
• Pete Wheeler, the main character in the Backyard Sports game series