Peter Busch Orthwein (born October 28, 1945) is an American heir, businessman and polo player.
[2][4][5] He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1968, where he was the captain on the polo team and a member of Quill and Dagger.
[7] In 1980, together with Wade F. B. Thompson, he co-founded Thor Industries, an American manufacturer of recreational vehicles and mid-sized commercial buses.
[13] He has endowed the Peter B. Orthwein '69 Head Coach of Polo, the Class of 1969 Scholarship (in honor of Professor Jerry Hass) and the Peter B. Orthwein 1968 Sesquicentennial Fellowship in Accounting at his alma mater, Cornell University.
[4] On May 9, 1987, he married Beverly Miller, a paintings appraiser at Sotheby's, at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side in New York City.