Daniel William Peiffer (born March 29, 1951 in Sigourney, Iowa) is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Ellsworth Community College and Southeast Missouri State University and was drafted in the fourteenth round of the 1973 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals. His son Blake Peiffer is an All-Conference linebacker at Southeast Missouri State.