Peter Hunter (bioengineer)

{{Short description|New Zealand bioengineer}}

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| name = Sir Peter Hunter

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| caption = Hunter in 2025

| birth_name = Peter John Hunter

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| fields = Bioengineering

| workplaces = University of Auckland

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| website = {{URL|https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/p-hunter|University of Auckland profile}}

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Sir Peter John Hunter {{post-nominals|country=NZL|KNZM|FRS|FRSNZ|size=85%}} is a New Zealand bioengineer, whose work includes the computer modelling of human organs.{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/peter-hunter-11664/ |title=Professor Peter Hunter FRS |website=The Royal Society |access-date=3 June 2024}}

In 1994, Hunter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand,{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/all-fellows/g-i/ |title=List of all Fellows with surnames G–I |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi |access-date=3 June 2024}} and in 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2009, he received the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand's highest science award.

In the 2010 New Year Honours, Hunter was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.{{cite web |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2010 |title=New Year honours list 2010 |date=31 December 2009 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=3 June 2024}} In the 2024 King's Birthday Honours, he was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to medical science.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kings-birthday-honours-2024-the-full-list-of-all-recipients/P4L54KE5MVCIHIMAJN3LOR335E/ |title=King's Birthday Honours 2024: The full list of all recipients |date=3 June 2024 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=3 June 2024}}