Peer

Peer or peeress may refer to:

Sociology

Peer learning, an educational practice in which students interact with other students to attain educational goals
Peer education, an approach to health promotion

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

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

Peer Åström (born 1972), Swedish composer, lyricist, musician and record producer
Peer Guldbrandsen (1912–1996), Danish screenwriter, actor, film director and producer
Peer Hultberg (1935–2007), Danish author and psychoanalyst
Peer Joechel (born 1967), German bobsledder
Peer Lisdorf (born 1967), Danish footballer and coach
Peer Lorenzen (born 1944), Danish jurist and judge and section president of the European Court of Human Rights
Peer Mascini (1941–2019), Dutch actor
Peer Moberg (born 1971), Norwegian sport sailor
Peer Nielsen (born 1942), Danish sprint canoer
Peer Qvam (1911–1977), Norwegian architect
Peer Raben (1940–2007), German composer born Wilhelm Rabenbauer
Peer Smed (1878–1943), Danish-American silversmith and metalworker
Peer Steinbrück (born 1947), German politician
Peer Stromme (1856–1921), American pastor, teacher, journalist and author

Elizabeth Peer (1936–1984), American pioneering woman journalist
Ralph Peer (1892–1960), American talent scout, recording engineer, record producer and music publisher

Peer, the title character of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen, or Peer Günt Finnish rock band
Peer, Belgium, a municipality
Twelve Peers, in legend, the twelve foremost knights of Charlemagne's court