Peter Andrew Sherwood (born 30 September 1948, Budapest) is a British Professor of Linguistics, who was born in Hungary, and left the country with his family after 1956.

He is a writer, editor, translator and lexicographer and as the Laszlo Birinyi Sr., Distinguished Professor in Hungarian Language and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Peter Sherwood is married, his wife is Julia Sherwood, née Kalinová, they have one daughter.

(later: University College London)