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Peter Michael Tuchman (born 1957 or 1958) is a stock trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). He has been called the "most photographed trader on Wall Street".

Tuchman grew up on the Upper West Side of New York City with his older brother Jeffrey Tuchman. He was born in 1957 or 1958 to a Jewish family. His mother, Shoshana Itzkovich, was born in Hungary. His father, Marcel Tuchman, was born in Poland in 1921. Tuchman's parents were Holocaust survivors who met in a displaced persons camp after World War II. They immigrated to the United States in 1949.

Tuchman's father was a doctor who practiced medicine from 1950 until 2018. After the war, he and thirty survivors applied to Heidelberg University medical school. He was part of the first group of Jewish students allowed into a German medical school in post-Nazi Germany. He stayed in Germany until 1949 to finish his degree then moved to the United States for residency and an internship at Bellevue Hospital.