Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 - 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. Cook is widely regarded as the leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been described by Stephen Fry as 'the funniest man who ever drew breath'. He is closely associated with an anti-establishment style of comedy that first emerged in the late 1950s.
Peter Francis Salmon Cook (8 November 1943 - 3 December 2005), Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Senate from 1983 to 2005, representing the state of Western Australia. Cook was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was an active trade unionist before entering politics. He was Secretary of the Western Australian Trades and Labour Council 1975-83 and Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions 1981-83. He was also a member of the Labor Party's National Executive.
In the Hawke and Keating Labor government he was Minister for Resources 1988-90, Minister for Industrial Relations 1990-93, Minister for Shipping and Aviation Support 1992-93, Minister for Trade 1993-94 and Minister for Industry, Science and Technology 1994-96.
After the defeat of the Keating government in 1996, Cook was a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry 1996-2001 and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. In 1999-2000, he chaired a Senate Committee inquiry into the proposed Goods and Services Tax.
He was defeated by union organiser Glenn Sterle in an ALP preselection ballot before the 2004 election, and subsequently did not contest the election. His term expired on 30 June 2005.
Cook died on 3 December 2005 after being diagnosed with melanoma cancer in July 2004. The last Senate report that he contributed to was The cancer journey: Informing choice, handed down on 23 June 2005.
Sir Peter Cook (born in 1936 in Southend, Essex) is a notable English architect, teacher and writer about architecture.
From 1953 to 1958, he studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art, and then moved to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1960. He later returned to the AA as a teacher. While working in the office of James Cubitt & Partners, Cook was one of the founder members of the influential Archigram group in the 1960s. In 1969 he received a grant from the Graham Foundation for work done with Archigram.
He was Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, from 1970 to 1972.
He was appointed Life Professor at the Staedelschule (Art Academy) of Frankfurt in 1984, helping establish its reputation as one of the leading German architecture schools.
He later (1990) became Professor of Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, a position from which he retired in 2005.
One of four stars of the London and New York revues Beyond the Fringe and Beyond the Fringe (with Jonathan Miller (I), Alan Bennett (I), and Dudley Moore). Later created scatological comedy routine "Derek & Clive" with Moore.
