Peter Plowman (10 December 1902 – July 1983) was an Australia-born businessman and politician in Western Samoa.

[1] He began working at a cattle station in the Northern Territory in 1920, before becoming a plantation manager in the Solomon Islands in 1923.

[1] The following year he relocated to the New Hebrides where he did the same job until moving to Sydney in 1931 to join Airzone Ltd as a manager and director.

[2] After his marriage to Elsie Paxton ended,[1][3] he moved to Apia in Western Samoa in 1947 to work for A.G. Smyth & Co, later setting up his own import-export business.

[3][5] In 1954 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly from the European constituency, also becoming a member of the Executive Council.