Peter Pan in popular culture

Peter Pan has become part of our popular culture. Copyright law in most of the world recognizes this, putting the character in the public domain.

The character of Peter Pan (or thinly disguised versions of him) has appeared in countless tributes and parodies, and has been the subject of several later works of fiction. (See Works based on Peter Pan for notable examples.)

J. R. R. Tolkien's biographer Humphrey Carpenter has speculated that Tolkien's impressions of a production of Barrie's Peter Pan in Birmingham in 1910 (writing in his diary, "Indescribable, but I will remember it as long as I live.") "may have had a little to do with" his original conception of the Elves of Middle Earth.

Since featuring the character in their 1953 animated film, Walt Disney has continued to use him as one of their traditional characters, featuring him in the sequel film Return to Neverland and in their parks as a meetable character, and the focus of the dark ride, Peter Pan's Flight; he appears in Disney's House of Mouse, Mickey's Magical Christmas, and the Kingdom Hearts video games.

At the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the last appearance of the full crew of the original series, Kirk orders the heading "second star to the right, and straight on till morning".

Several thoroughbred racehorses have been given the name, the first born in 1904.

The name "Peter Pan" has been adopted by several businesses, including Peter Pan peanut butter, Peter Pan Bus Lines, Peter Pan Records, and Peter Pan Seafoods. It was also altered and adopted by the Indonesian band Peterpan.

An early 1960s program in which Cuban children were sent unattended to Miami to escape feared mistreatment under the then-new Castro regime was called Operation Peter Pan (or "Operación Pedro Pan").

The term Peter Pan syndrome was popularized in 1983 by a book with that name, about individuals (usually male) with underdeveloped maturity.

Peter Pan is depicted in public sculpture. There are seven statues cast from a mould by sculptor George Frampton, following an original commission by Barrie in 1912. The statues are in Kensington Gardens in London; Liverpool; Brussels; Camden, New Jersey; Perth, Australia; Toronto; and St. John's, Newfoundland. Two more statues (though not of Frampton's mould) are in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the birthplace of J.M. Barrie. A new bronze statue by Diarmuid Byron O'Connor was commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and unveiled in 2000, showing Peter blowing fairy dust, with Tinker Bell added in 2005.

Douglas Clegg's 1991 horror novel is entitled Neverland.