Peter Burke (n. 1937) este profesor de istorie la Emmanuel College, Universitatea din Cambridge.

In lucrarile sale a abordat in special istoria culturala a Europei (1450-1750) si evolutia gandirii istorice.

Carti: "Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy" (1972), "Venice and Amsterdam: a Study of Seventeenth-Century Elites" (1974), "Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe" (1978), "Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication" (1987), "The French Historical Revolution: the Annales School. 1929-89" (1990), "The Art of Conversation" (1990), "The Fabrication of Louis XIV" (1992), "The Fortunes of the Courtier" (1995), "Varieties of Cultural History" (1997), "The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries" (1998), "A Social History of Knowledge from Gutenberg to Diderot" (2000), "New perspectives on historical writing" (2001).