Peter Albert Iles (born 23 December 1926) is an American engineer and a former New Zealand cricketer and association football player.

Iles began his cricket career as a leg-spin bowler, but later concentrated on his batting.^[1] He played two first-class matches for Auckland, in 1946 and 1952.^[2] In 1948 he represented New Zealand Universities at association football as a goalkeeper,^[3] and in 1950 he played for the North Island team against the South Island team.^[4]

Iles studied at Auckland University College, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1948, and Master of Science with second-class honours in 1952.^[5] In the mid-1950s he spent some time in England before moving to Canada.^[6]

Iles later moved to the United States, settling in California and becoming an American citizen,^[7] where he worked as an engineer developing solar cells, including those used on early American satellites.^[8] In 1991, Iles received the William R. Cherry Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society for his prolonged and sustained contribution to the field of photovoltaic conversion.^[9] He continued to publish on the subject until at least 2004, contributing a chapter, "Photovoltaic conversion: space applications", to the Encyclopedia of Energy published by Elsevier that year.^[10]

• Peter Iles at ESPNcricinfo