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Paul B. Rainey
Paul B. Rainey, also known as Paul Rainey, is a New Zealand evolutionary biologist who studies evolution in microbial populations, known for experiments with Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Paul B. Rothman
Paul B. Rothman is an American rheumatologist and molecular immunologist who served as dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine from 2012 to 2022.
Paul B. Sigler
Paul B. Sigler (1934–2000) was an American structural biologist at Yale who used X-ray crystallography to determine the structures of the trp repressor, GroEL, and G proteins.
Paul B. Weisz
Paul B. Weisz (1919–2012) was a Czechoslovakia-born American engineer at Mobil whose zeolite catalyst work founded shape-selective catalysis, earning National Academy of Engineering election in 1977.
Paul Badawi
Paul Badawi is an American medical-device entrepreneur who co-founded and leads Sight Sciences, a Menlo Park, California ophthalmic device company, and co-invented its OMNI Surgical System and TearCare System.
Paul Bailey (Tennessee politician)
Paul Bailey is an American Republican politician who represents Tennessee's 15th Senate district and previously served in the state House and chaired the White County Commission.
Paul Barber
Paul Barber (Paul Jason Barber, born 1955, Peterborough) is a British field hockey left-back who won Olympic bronze at Los Angeles 1984 and gold as vice-captain at Seoul 1988, scoring in five straight matches; not the actor or the Brighton CEO.
Paul Barber (actor)
Paul Barber (born Patrick Barber, 1951, Liverpool) is an English actor known as Denzil in Only Fools and Horses and Horse in The Full Monty (1997), distinct from actor Paul Antony-Barber.
Paul Barringer
Paul Barringer is an American attorney and health care policy leader who won the Democratic primary in March 2026 for the U.S. House in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District.
Paul Bassat
Paul Bassat is an Australian technology investor and entrepreneur who co-founded the online employment company SEEK in 1997, leading it as chief executive until 2011.
Paul Bateson
Paul Bateson, American former NYU radiology technician who appeared in The Exorcist's angiography scene, convicted in 1979 of murdering journalist Addison Verrill and suspected but never charged in the unsolved 1970s Bag Murders.
Paul Bearer
Paul Bearer (William Alvin Moody, 1954–2013), American wrestling manager and licensed mortician; WWE persona with urn and "Ohhh yes!" catchphrase who managed The Undertaker, Kane, and Mankind; 2014 Hall of Fame inductee.
Paul Beattie (Royal Navy officer)
Paul Beattie is a Royal Navy vice admiral appointed Second Sea Lord in September 2025, overseeing the Navy's future capabilities and serving as Principal Personnel Officer.
Paul Begala
Paul Begala (born 1961) is an American Democratic political consultant, CNN commentator, and author, known as senior strategist for Clinton's 1992 campaign, Counselor to President Clinton, and Priorities USA adviser.
Paul Ben-Victor
Paul Ben-Victor, born Paul Friedman in 1965 in Brooklyn, is an American character actor known as Spiros Vondas on The Wire and Alan Gray on Entourage, also in The Irishman and Nobody Wants This.
Paul Benedict
Paul Benedict (1938-2008), American character actor born in Silver City, New Mexico; played Harry Bentley on The Jeffersons and the Mad Painter on Sesame Street; also a stage director.
Paul Bennett
Paul Bennett (born 1988, Leeds) is a British rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's eight at Rio 2016 and two-time world champion (2014, 2015), appointed MBE in 2017.
Paul Bérenger
Paul Bérenger, born 1945 in Quatre Bornes, is a Mauritian politician who co-founded the MMM in 1969 and was Prime Minister from 2003 to 2005.
Paul Berg
Paul Berg (1926–2023) was an American biochemist at Stanford University who created the first DNA molecule combining parts of different organisms, opening the era of genetic engineering.
Paul Bern
Paul Bern (born Paul Levy, 1889–1932), German-born MGM producer and screenwriter, Irving Thalberg's assistant, co-producer of Grand Hotel. Married Jean Harlow in July 1932; found shot dead in September 1932, ruled suicide though murder theories persist.
Paul Bernardo
Paul Bernardo: Canadian serial rapist and killer, convicted September 1, 1995 of murdering Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, declared a dangerous offender; his case triggered Ontario's Major Case Management System, a 2023 security-level transfer controversy, and denied parole in 2018, 2021, and 2024.
Paul Bernays
Paul Bernays (1888–1977) was a Swiss mathematician and logician, David Hilbert's closest collaborator, co-author of the Grundlagen der Mathematik, and namesake of NBG set theory.
Paul Bernon
Paul Bernon (born 1977) is an American businessman and film producer, co-founder of Burn Later Productions and founder of PMB Ventures, principal of Rubicon Real Estate, co-owner of Angel City FC, and a 2014 Peabody Award winner for Best Kept Secret.
Paul Berns
Paul Berns is a Managing Director at ARCH Venture Partners who joined in 2018 and co-founded several ARCH biotech companies, including Neumora Therapeutics, HI-Bio, and Metsera Therapeutics.
Paul Berry (Missouri politician)
Paul Berry is an American Republican politician and perennial candidate who won the August 4, 2026 nomination for the U.S. House in Missouri's 1st Congressional District.
Paul Bettany
Paul Bettany (born 1971, London) is an English actor known for A Knight's Tale, Master and Commander, and as J.A.R.V.I.S./Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, now leading Disney+'s VisionQuest.
Paul Bettencourt
Paul Bettencourt is an American Republican politician who has represented Texas Senate District 7 since 2015, after serving as Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector from 1998 to 2008.
Paul Bevilaqua
Paul Bevilaqua is an American aeronautical engineer, formerly of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, who invented the shaft-driven lift fan that lets the F-35B fly supersonic and land vertically, earning the 2001 Collier Trophy.
Paul Biedermann
Paul Biedermann, German swimmer (born 1986, Halle/Saale), 2009 world champion at 200 m and 400 m freestyle; his 1:42.00 200 m freestyle world record from Rome 2009 still stands.
Paul Bieniasz
Paul D. Bieniasz is a virologist who heads the Laboratory of Retrovirology at The Rockefeller University, known for identifying tetherin and other restriction factors that block HIV-1.