Sir Anthony Peter Woodhead, KCB DL (born 30 July 1939) is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic from 1991 to 1993.

[2] Woodhead was recalled from leave and appointed as Chief of staff to the Flag Officer to support the force commander, Rear Admiral Woodward, during the Falklands War.

[5] He was appointed Director of Naval Operations and Trade in 1985, Commander of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in 1986 and Flag Officer, Second Flotilla in 1988.

Avenger's commanding officer, Woodhead, was returning from a visit ashore in the ships Westland Lynx, (registration XZ249) when it suffered a tail rotor failure and, nose down, plunged into the sea off Muscat, Oman.

[14] In 2003, Alan Travis noted in UK newspaper The Guardian, "Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Woodhead, had his powers so clipped by the former Conservative home secretary, Michael Howard, that the small and little-known club that is the British and Irish Ombudsmen Association refused him membership on the grounds that he was not independent enough".