Werner Peter (born 25 May 1950) is a German former footballer who played as a forward.

He won the silver medal with the East Germany national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union.

He played 255 DDR-Oberliga matches (66 goals) for Hallescher FC Chemie.

[1] Peter obtained a total number of nine caps for his native country, scoring one goal.

This biographical article related to association football in Germany, about a forward born in the 1950s, is a stub.