Peete

Last updated May 01, 2019

Peete is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Calvin Peete (1943–2015), American professional golfer
Charlie Peete (1929–1956), American professional baseball player
Louise Peete (1880–1947), American serial killer; executed in the gas chamber
Holly Robinson Peete (born 1964), American actress and singer; wife of Rodney Peete
Rodney Peete (born 1966), American professional football player; brother of Skip Peete
Skip Peete (born 1963), American professional football coach; brother of Rodney Peete

Calvin Peete was an American professional golfer. He was the most successful African-American to have played on the PGA Tour, with 12 wins, prior to the emergence of Tiger Woods. Peete won the 1985 Tournament Players Championship and finished the season top-5 on the PGA Tour money list three times; 1982, 1983 and 1985.

Charles Peete was an American professional baseball player. The reigning 1956 batting champion of the Triple-A American Association, who received a one-month, 23-game trial with the 1956 St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, Peete was projected by some as the leading candidate to be the Cardinals' 1957 starting center fielder. But he was killed in a commercial airplane crash near the Caracas, Venezuela, airport while flying to his winter-league baseball team in late November 1956; his wife, Nettie, and their three young children were also among the 25 victims of the crash.

Louise Peete was a convicted American serial killer. Peete was first convicted of murdering wealthy mining engineer Jacob C. Denton in 1920 and was sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled in April 1939. In May 1945, Peete was convicted a second time for murdering her employer, Margaret Logan, and was sentenced to death. She was executed in April 1947 making her the second, and one of only four women, to be executed in the California gas chamber.

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