Petro

For other uses, see Petro (disambiguation).

Petro is a masculine given name, a surname and an Ancient Roman cognomen. It may refer to:

Given name

• Petro Balabuyev (1931–2007), Ukrainian airplane designer, engineer and professor, lead designer of many Antonov airplanes
• Petro Doroshenko (1627–1698), Cossack political and military leader, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine (1665–1672) and a Russian voyevoda (governor)
• Petro Drevchenko (1863–1934), Ukrainian bandurist
• Petro Dyachenko (1895–1965), Ukrainian military commander
• Petro Dyminskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian politician, businessman and former footballer
• Petro Franko (1890–1941), Ukrainian educator and author
• Petro Georgiou (born 1947), Australian politician
• Petro Goga, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly of Albania in 1924
• Petro Hermanchuk (1952–2012), Ukrainian economist and politician
• Petro Kalnyshevsky (1691?–1803), last Koshovyi Otaman of the Zaporozhian Host (in what is now Ukraine)
• Petro Kharchenko (born 1983), Ukrainian former pair ice skater
• Petro Kasui Kibe (1587–1639), Japanese Christian missionary, Jesuit priest and martyr
• Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1570-1622), political and civic leader
• Petro Kondratyuk (born 1979), Ukrainian former footballer
• Petro Korol (1941–2015), Ukrainian weightlifter and 1976 Olympic champion
• Petro Nini Luarasi (1864-1911), Albanian nationalist, Christian orthodox priest, teacher and journalist
• Petro Herkulan Malchuk (1965-2016), Ukrainian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr
• Petro Marko (1913–1991), Albanian writer
• Petro Mirchuk (1913–1999), Ukrainian writer
• Petro Nishchynsky (1832–1896), Ukrainian linguist and composer
• Petro Pakhnyuk (born 1991), Ukrainian (until 2014) and Azerbaijani (since 2014) artistic gymnast
• Petro Pereverza (born 1994), Ukrainian footballer
• Petro Poga (1850-1944), Albanian nationalist, one of the delegates at the Albanian Declaration of Independence
• Petro Poroshenko (born 1965), Ukrainian businessman and politician
• Petro Prokopovych (1775–1850), the founder of commercial beekeeping
• Petro Shelest (1908–1996), First Secretary of the Communist party in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Petro Slobodyan (born 1953), Soviet retired footballer and current Ukrainian coach
• Petro Symonenko (born 1952), Ukrainian politician and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
• Petro Tkachenko (1878-1919), Ukrainian blind kobzar (musician)
• Petro Trad (1876–1947), Lebanese lawyer, politician and briefly President of the French Mandate of Lebanon in 1943
• Petro Trochanowski (born 1947), Polish poet
• Petro Vlahos (1916–2013), Hollywood special effects pioneer
• Petro Voinovsky (1913—1996), Ukrainian nationalist
• Petro Zakhvalynsky (died 1943), Ukrainian nationalist

Surname

• Charles Petro (born 2001), Malawian footballer
• Gustavo Petro (born 1960), current President of Colombia, politician and economist
• Jim Petro (born 1948), American politician and former Ohio Attorney General
• Johan Petro (born 1986), French professional basketball player
• Joe Petro III (born 1956), American artist
• Joseph Petro (born 1944), former United States Secret Service agent, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Citigroup Security and Investigative Services
• Pamela Petro, American artist
• Nicolai N. Petro, American political science scholar
• Steve Petro (1914–1994), American National Football League player

Cognomen

• Titus Flavius Petro (fl. 1st century BC), paternal grandfather of the Roman Emperor Vespasian

Other

• Petro (cryptocurrency), Venezuelan cryptocurrency
• Petro lwa or Petwo, a family of lwa (loa) in Voudon (Voodoo)
• Petros (disambiguation)
• Petroleum