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{{short description|British chess player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox chess biography
| name        = Peter Lee
| image       = File:Lee aan het schaakbord, Bestanddeelnr 919-5572.jpg
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| caption     = Peter Lee (1966)
| full_name   = 
| country     = [[England]]
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1943|11|21}}
| birth_place = [[London]], England
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| death_place = 
| title       = [[FIDE Master]] (2021)
| peakrating  = 2390 (July 1971)
}}

'''Peter Nicholas Lee''' (born 21 November 1943)<ref>{{citation
 | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
 | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
 | publisher=McFarland
 | isbn=0-7864-2353-6
 | page=243}}</ref> is an [[England|English]] chess player who won the [[British Chess Championship]] in 1965. Born in London and educated at [[Exeter College, Oxford]], he represented [[Oxford University]] in the [[Oxford University Chess Club|Varsity chess matches]] of 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1966, and represented England in the [[Chess Olympiad]]s of 1966, 1968, and 1970.

He has also played competitively in [[contract bridge]]. He has won the English Bridge Union's National Pairs title six times, the first time in 2003, and has also been a member of the team that won the [[Gold Cup (bridge)|Gold Cup]], the premier teams event in Britain, in 2003 and 2011.  This makes him the only person who has won British championships in both chess and bridge.

As a consultant in medical statistics and epidemiology, he has also published over 300 papers, many on the effects of tobacco on health.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tobaccoharmreduction.org/thr2010authors.htm | title=Tobacco Harm Reduction 2010  a yearbook of recent research and analysis | work=Tobaccoharmreduction.org | accessdate=16 March 2016}}</ref>

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==External links==
* {{FIDE|name=Peter N. Lee}}
* {{chessgames player|id=48189}}

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