Peter Francis Dailey (January 5, 1868 – May 23, 1908) was an American burlesque comedian and singer who became popular during the era remembered as the Gay Nineties.

[2] As a young boy Dailey enjoyed hanging about the docks and piers that populated the banks of the East River at that time, often bantering with the odd assortment of stevedores, sailors, and steamship passengers that would cross his path.

[9] He later joined Whitney's Circus as an acrobat and clown before finding success with a vaudeville troupe called "The American Four", with James F. Hoey, Pete Gale, and Joe Pettingill.

After the troupe disbanded, Dailey performed for three years at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston, where for a season he played Le Blanc in the extravaganza Evangeline.

[9][11] Over the following seasons Bailey would find success in such farce comedies as A Country Sport by John J. McNally at the Hollis Street Theatre[12] and The Night Clerk with Jennie Yeamans and Raymond Hitchcock.

In 1900 he starred with Christie MacDonald in the musical comedy Hodge, Podge and Co, based on Im Himmelhof, a German farce adapted by George V. Hobart and in 1902 with Ada Lewis in Augustus Thomas' Champaign Charley.