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Paul Alan Gompers

Paul Alan Gompers is an American economist and the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, known for research on venture capital, private equity, and corporate governance.

Paul Alexander (polio survivor)

Paul Richard Alexander (1946–2024), 'the man in the iron lung', was a Texas lawyer paralyzed by polio in 1952 at age 6 who used an iron lung for 73 years, a Guinness World Record, practiced law, and wrote a memoir.

Paul Alfred Biefeld

Paul Alfred Biefeld (1867–1943) was an American astronomer trained in Zurich who taught physics and astronomy at Denison University, Ohio, and directed Swasey Observatory from 1911 to 1934.

Paul Allard

Paul Allard (1841–1916) was a French Catholic historian and archaeologist of early Christianity, a judge at Rouen whose Histoire des persécutions was the first systematic work on Roman persecution of Christians.

Paul Allen

Paul Gardner Allen (1953–2018) was an American businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and later founded the Allen Institutes for science and AI research in Seattle.

Paul Ami Isaac David Bost

Ami Bost, born Paul Ami Isaac David Bost, was a Swiss Protestant evangelist of the Réveil revival, born in Geneva in 1790 and active in France and Germany.

Paul Anderson (weightlifter)

Paul Edward Anderson (1932-1994), American Olympic heavyweight weightlifting gold medalist (1956 Melbourne) and strongman, famous for the 6,270 lb back lift and the Paul Anderson Youth Home.

Paul Angulo

Paul Angulo (1965–2015) was a Mexican-born hepatologist who led hepatology at the University of Kentucky and created the NAFLD fibrosis score and a landmark 2002 review of fatty liver disease.

Paul Anka

Paul Anka (Paul Albert Anka), Canadian singer-songwriter born 1941 in Ottawa, teen idol behind "Diana" (1957); wrote "My Way" for Sinatra, The Tonight Show theme, and hits for Tom Jones, Buddy Holly, and Michael Jackson across a seven-decade career.

Oct 21, 2026

Paul Anspach

Paul Anspach was a Belgian épée and foil fencer who won five Olympic medals, including individual and team épée gold at the 1912 Stockholm Games.

Paul Anthony Kelly

Paul Anthony Kelly (born 1988, Port McNicoll, Ontario) is a Canadian actor and former fashion model who made his screen debut as John F. Kennedy Jr. in Ryan Murphy's FX series Love Story (2026), after nearly two decades of modeling.

Paul Appell

Paul Appell (1855–1930) was a French mathematician from Strasbourg who introduced the Appell functions F1–F4 and Appell polynomials, and led the University of Paris as dean and rector.

Paul Arriola

Paul Arriola (Paul Joseph Arriola Hendricks), born 1995 in Chula Vista, California, is an American winger for Seattle Sounders FC; 50 USMNT caps, 10 goals, Gold Cup winner 2017 and 2021, formerly Club Tijuana, D.C. United, and FC Dallas.

Paul Arthurs

Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs (born 1965, Manchester) is an English rhythm guitarist who co-founded Oasis in 1991 as the Rain, played on its first three albums, left in 1999, and rejoined for the 2025 Live '25 reunion tour.

Paul Atreides

Paul Atreides (Usul, Muad'Dib, Lisan al-Gaib, Kwisatz Haderach) is the protagonist of Frank Herbert's Dune: son of Duke Leto, Fremen messiah, prescient emperor, later the Preacher; portrayed by MacLachlan, Newman, and Chalamet.

Oct 21, 2026

Paul Attwood

Paul Attwood (Paul Jason Attwood, born 1969, Buckingham) is a British Royal Marines officer and bobsledder; bronze medalist in the four-man event at Nagano 1998, and 14th at Salt Lake City 2002.

Paul Auster

Paul Auster (1947-2024), American novelist, memoirist, poet and screenwriter, author of The New York Trilogy, Smoke, 4 3 2 1 and Baumgartner; Brooklyn-based, France-beloved postmodernist.

Paul Avery

Paul Avery (1934-2000), San Francisco Chronicle police reporter who led coverage of the Zodiac Killer, was personally threatened by him, and later covered the Patricia Hearst kidnapping; not the All My Children actor of the same name.

Paul Azinger

Paul Azinger (born 1960) is an American golfer and TV analyst, winner of the 1993 PGA Championship, 12-time PGA Tour winner, 1987 Player of the Year, and victorious 2008 Ryder Cup captain.

Paul B. Barton

Paul B. Barton, also Paul Booth Barton, Jr., was an American experimental geochemist at the U.S. Geological Survey who showed how ore deposits record the conditions of their formation.

Paul B. Batalden

Paul B. Batalden is an American physician and healthcare quality improvement researcher, Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Paul B. Beeson

Paul B. Beeson (Paul Bruce Beeson) was an American physician and infectious-disease researcher who identified endogenous pyrogen, the fever-producing substance later identified as interleukin-1, and chaired medicine departments at Emory, Yale, and Oxford.

Paul B. Chapman

Paul B. Chapman is an American medical oncologist who led the BRIM-3 trial showing vemurafenib improves survival in metastatic melanoma, and is Chief Medical Research Officer at Weill Cornell's Meyer Cancer Center.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul B. Corkum

Paul B. Corkum, also published as Paul Corkum, is a Canadian physicist known as the father of attosecond science who shared the 2022 Wolf Prize in Physics.

Paul B. Cornia

Paul B. Cornia is an American general internal medicine physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, heading hospital medicine at VA Puget Sound in Seattle.

Paul B. Fisher

Paul B. Fisher is an American cancer biologist at Virginia Commonwealth University whose laboratory cloned IL-24, a cytokine that selectively kills cancer cells while sparing normal tissue.

Paul B. Ginsburg

Paul B. Ginsburg is an American health economist, professor at the University of Southern California, who directed the staff work behind Medicare's 1989 physician payment reform.

Paul B. Lazarow

Paul B. Lazarow is a cell biologist known for defining how peroxisomes are built and what fails in disease, trained under de Duve at Rockefeller University.

Sep 27, 2026

Paul B. Matey

Paul Brian Matey (born 1971) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 2019.