Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (born 22 November, 1930) is an English theatre and film director.

He was born in Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, England and attended The Perse School, Cambridge. Hall learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service. He produced and acted in several productions while at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1953 from St Catharine's College. During the same year, he staged his first professional play at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.

From 1954 to 1955 he was at the Oxford Playhouse where he directed the young Ronnie Barker. In August 1955, he directed the English-language premiere of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett at the Arts Theatre, London. During 1956-1959, he then ran that theatre . He was at Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon for the 1957 to 1959 seasons . There, his productions included: Cymbeline with Peggy Ashcroft; Coriolanus with Laurence Olivier and Edith Evans; and A Midsummer Night's Dream with Charles Laughton.

Hall is best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company which he founded in 1960, at the age of only 29. He served as its artistic director from that time until 1968. He was director of the Royal National Theatre from 1973 to 1988 and was also a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain resigning in protest from both roles in protest over cuts in public funding. After leaving the National Theatre he founded his own company directing a series of productions at the Old Vic.

In 1990, at the Chichester Festival Theatre he directed blank">Born Again a musical version of _Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros (play). For this Hall also wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the libretto with Julian Barry, for the music they hired British composer Jason Carr (it was Carr's first professional musical). Many years later one of the show's song's When I Was Out This Morning (with lyrics by Hall) was included on Carr's composer compilation album.

His latest project is as director of The Rose Theatre at Kingston upon Thames which due to open in 2007 and which draws design inspiration from The Rose theatre. In its basic shell prior to fit out, it has seen a sell out run of his production of As You Like It.

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963 and in 1977 was knighted for his services to the theatre. In 1999, he was presented with a Laurence Olivier Award. He was appointed Chancellor of Kingston University in 2000.

Hall has been married four times, including marriages to the actress Leslie Caron, and the opera singer Maria Ewing. His diaries were published in 1983. One of his children is the actress Rebecca Hall and another is the director, Edward Hall.

Peter Ronald Hall (born May 27, 1952) is an Australian politician. He has been a National member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 1988, representing Gippsland Province. He is the current leader of the National Party in the Legislative Council, as well as their spokesperson for the portfolios of Education, Training, Resources, Environment and Energy Industries. Due to the reforms of the Legislative Council introduced by the Bracks Labor Government, Hall is now one of five MLCs for the new Eastern Region.

Sir Peter Hall is the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and President of the Town and Country Planning Association. He is an internationally renowned authority on the economic, demographic, cultural and management issues that face cities around the globe. Sir Peter has also been for many years a key planning and regeneration adviser to successive governments. He was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the British government (1991-94) and a member of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Urban Task Force (1998-1999). Sir Peter is also considered by many to be the father of the industrial enterprise zone concept, adopted by countries worldwide to develop industry in disadvantaged areas.

Sir Peter Hall (I) directed his first play while he was still a student. He soon achieved prominence as a stage Director and costume designer. He started his occasional film work in 1968 with 'Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1967)'. He was the Artistic Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon from 1960 - 1968. Took over direction of the National Theatre from Lord Olivier in 1973, shortly after leaving the RSC.