Peter Yarrow

Peter Yarrow was an American singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the influential 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Born in Manhattan to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, he studied psychology at Cornell University before joining the Greenwich Village folk scene. Alongside Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, Yarrow helped popularize Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and co-wrote the beloved "Puff, the Magic Dragon." He was also a social and political activist, involved in the civil rights movement and later founding Operation Respect to combat school bullying. Yarrow died of bladder cancer in 2025 at the age of 86.