Peter Gerard Torkildsen (born January 28, 1958) is an American Republican Party politician from Massachusetts.

Torkildsen was born into a Roman Catholic family with ten children in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 28, 1958.

He had a conservative record on fiscal and social issues during his terms in the Massachusetts House and challenged State Senator Paul Cellucci for the Republican nomination for Lt.

Since Torkildsen and Peter I. Blute left Congress in 1997, there have been no Republicans elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

On January 17, 2007, Torkildsen defeated five opponents in his first ballot election to be chair of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee.

After the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Torkildsen was one of 23 former Republican members of Congress to call for the President Donald Trump to be impeached.