Peter Coffey (9 April 1876 – 7 January 1943) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and neo-scholastic philosopher.

In his time, Coffey was considered one of the foremost Catholic intellectuals in Ireland.

[3] He authored a number of books, including manuals of Thomistic philosophy: His manuals were widely used in the education of Roman Catholic priests and theologians in the English-speaking world,[4] up until roughly the 1960s, but have since been largely ignored.

He was a contributor of articles on philosophical subjects to the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, and to the Catholic Encyclopedia.

[12] Some of Coffey's ideas on labour issues, however, incurred the displeasure of his superiors at Maynooth.