Peary Rader (October 17, 1909 – November 24, 1991) was an American early bodybuilder, Olympic lifter, writer, and magazine publisher from Nebraska.
[citation needed] Rader founded Iron Man, a bodybuilding magazine, in 1936.
[1][2] Rader published Iron Man through the September 1986 issue, which included a number of letters from prominent people in the field to celebrate the magazine's fiftieth anniversary.
[3] He authored approximately 1,300 magazine articles; most were in Iron Man, but some were also published in Strength Athlete.
[4] In the 1950s, alongside Bob Hoffman and Joe Weider, Rader was a "pioneer" in the commercialization of protein as a bodybuilding supplement.