Peter Tripp (June 11, 1926 – January 31, 2000) was a Top 40 countdown radio personality from the mid-1950s, whose career peaked with his 1959 record-breaking 201-hour wakeathon (working on the radio non-stop without sleep to benefit the March of Dimes). For much of the stunt, he sat in a glass booth in Times Square. After a few days, he began to hallucinate, and for the last 66 hours, the observing scientists and doctors gave him drugs to help him stay awake.

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  • Biography at history-of-rock.com
  • "The Stay-Awake Men", The New York Times, recounts Peter Tripp's stay-awake stunt