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Paul Bilzerian
Paul Bilzerian (Փօլ Պիլզերեան) is an American corporate raider who led the $1.06 billion hostile takeover of Singer in 1987 and was convicted of securities fraud in 1989.
Paul Biondi
Paul Biondi is a life-sciences investor and biopharmaceutical dealmaker who serves as Managing Partner at Flagship Pioneering, the Cambridge, Massachusetts venture firm behind Moderna, after seventeen years at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Paul Bird Motorsport
Paul Bird Motorsport (PBM) is a British motorcycle racing team founded by rally driver Paul Bird, the most successful team in British Superbike history with nine titles.
Paul Bissonnette
Paul Bissonnette, "Biz" or "Biz Nasty", Canadian former NHL enforcer, 202 games with Pittsburgh Penguins and Phoenix Coyotes; now NHL on TNT studio analyst and Spittin' Chiclets podcast co-host.
Paul Biya
Paul Biya (born 13 February 1933), president of Cameroon since 6 November 1982 and former prime minister under Ahidjo; world's oldest head of state, eighth term after the disputed 2025 election, term limits abolished in 2008.
Paul Blackthorne
Paul Blackthorne (born 1969) is an English actor known as Quentin Lance in Arrow, Harry Dresden in The Dresden Files, Stephen Saunders in 24, and Captain Russell in Lagaan.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a 2009 American comedy starring Kevin James as a mall security guard who must rescue hostages when thieves seize his New Jersey mall.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) is an American action comedy sequel directed by Andy Fickman, starring Kevin James as mall guard Paul Blart at a Las Vegas security convention, filmed at Wynn Las Vegas; it scored 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $71.0 million in the US.
Paul Blobel
Paul Blobel (1894–1951), German SS-Standartenführer and SD officer, commanded Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C in Ukraine, took part in the Babi Yar massacre, directed Aktion 1005 grave erasure, and was hanged after the Einsatzgruppen Trial.
Paul Bloom (psychologist)
Paul Bloom (born 1963) is a Canadian-American psychologist who studies moral psychology and pleasure, wrote Against Empathy (2016), and taught at Yale before joining the University of Toronto in 2021.
Paul Bocuse
Paul Bocuse (1926–2018), French chef of Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon; three Michelin stars from 1965, nouvelle cuisine figure, founder of the Bocuse d'Or (1987), named Chef of the Century by Gault & Millau in 1989.
Paul Bogle
Paul Bogle (circa 1822-1865), Jamaican Baptist deacon of Stony Gut and associate of George William Gordon, led the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion; hanged October 24, 1865, and made a National Hero in 1969.
Paul Bologna
Paul Bologna is an American Republican politician representing New York's 144th Assembly district, elected in 2024 after serving as chief of staff to Mike Norris.
Paul Bomani
Paul Bomani (1925–2005) was a Tanzanian politician, cooperative leader, and diplomat who served in Julius Nyerere's cabinet from 1960 to 1972 and later as ambassador to the United States.
Paul Börnstein
Paul Börnstein, also known as Paul Bornstein (1934–2013), was a Belgian-born American biochemist at the University of Washington who defined collagen's structure and coined the term matricellular.
Paul Bostaph
Paul Bostaph is an American heavy metal drummer. He is best known for his four tenures with Slayer, and his work with Kerry King's solo band since 2019.
Paul Bourget
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) was a French novelist, critic, and journalist elected to the Académie française in 1894, a master of the psychological novel Le Disciple (1889).
Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles (1910–1999), American composer, novelist, and translator; author of The Sheltering Sky (1949); expatriate in Tangier from 1947; translator of Moroccan writers such as Mohamed Choukri.
Paul Breitner
Paul Breitner (born 1951, Kolbermoor) is a German former footballer, 1974 World Cup and 1972 Euro winner, five-time Bundesliga champion with Bayern Munich, two-time Spanish champion with Real Madrid, and scorer in two World Cup finals.
Paul Bremer
L. Paul Bremer III (born 1941, Hartford) is an American diplomat, former ambassador to the Netherlands and counterterrorism coordinator, best known as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority governing occupied Iraq from May 2003 to June 2004.
Paul Brennan (cancer epidemiologist)
Paul Brennan is a cancer genetic epidemiologist who heads the Genetics Section at IARC in Lyon, France, studying genetic and environmental causes of lung, kidney, and head and neck cancers.
Paul Brinegar
Paul Brinegar (Paul Alden Brinegar Jr., 1917-1995) was an American Western character actor, best known as chuck wagon cook Wishbone on Rawhide (1959-1965), also Jim 'Dog' Kelley on Wyatt Earp and Jelly Hoskins on Lancer.
Paul Brittain
Paul Brittain (born 1977, Naperville, Illinois) is an American actor and comedian, an SNL cast member 2010–2012 known for Lord Cecil Wyndemere and Sex Ed Vincent, nephew of Bob Newhart, later in Hotel Transylvania and Leo.
Paul Broca
Paul Broca (1824–1880), French surgeon and anthropologist, identified Broca's area in the left frontal lobe through the 1861 autopsy of patient "Tan" (Leborgne), establishing Broca's aphasia and cortical localization of speech.
Paul Brown
Paul Brown (1908-1991), Hall of Fame coach who founded the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals, won seven league titles, pioneered film study, the draw play, and the radio helmet, and integrated pro football in 1946.
Paul Brumer
Paul Brumer, born 1945, is a Canadian-based theoretical chemical physicist at the University of Toronto, known for co-founding coherent control of chemical reactions with laser light.
Paul Bryan (musician)
Paul Bryan (born 1967, Los Angeles) is an American bassist, producer, and arranger, Aimee Mann's bandleader since 1999 and producer of her Grammy-winning Mental Illness; also the 1973 pseudonym of Brazilian musician Sergio Sa.
Paul Buchner (researcher)
Paul Ernst Christof Buchner (1886–1978) was a German zoologist who founded the study of hereditary symbiosis in insects, demonstrating transovarial transmission of symbionts in aphids and other Hemiptera.
Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan, giant lumberjack of American and Canadian folklore with his blue ox Babe, originated in Great Lakes logging camps circa 1885-1886, entered print in 1904-1906, and became a national icon through Laughead's 1914 Red River Lumber advertising pamphlet.
Paul Burke (actor)
Paul Burke (1926–2009) was an American actor best known for playing Detective Adam Flint on Naked City and Colonel Joe Gallagher on Twelve O'Clock High in the 1960s.