Peter Norton

Peter Norton is a software engineer, a graduate of Reed College. In the 1980s, he produced a popular tool to retrieve erased data from MS-DOS disks, which was followed by several other tools which were collectively known as the Norton Utilities. Along with it he produced the Norton Commander - a very popular file managing tool for MS-DOS, and Norton Guide - a TSR program which showed reference information for assembly language. He and his company, Peter Norton Computing, also produced several other programs and technical manuals.

In 1990, he sold the company to Symantec. The Norton brand name lives on in Symantec's product Norton AntiVirus.

Norton and his wife Eileen Harris-Norton later founded the Norton Family Foundation, which gives financial support to the arts.