Peter Adolph Gad

{{Short description|Danish ophthalmologist}}

Peter Adolph Rostgaard Bruun Gad (25 November 1846 – 26 February 1907) was a Danish-Brazilian ophthalmologist who founded the first eye infirmary of São Paulo city, Brazil, at the "Santa Casa de Sao Paulo" hospital, in 1885. This eye infirmary became the first ophthalmology school of São Paulo.{{cite web |title=Oftalmologia |url=https://www.santacasasp.org.br/portal/site/pub/11915/novo-website---departamento-de-oftalmologia---inicial |website=santacasasp.org.br |publisher=Departamento de Oftalmologia da Santa Casa de São Paulo |accessdate=24 April 2019}} Gad also worked in Rio de Janeiro and Copenhagen.

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