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Paul Burrell

Paul Burrell (born 1958) is a former royal servant, footman to Queen Elizabeth II and butler to Diana, Princess of Wales until her 1997 death; his 2002 theft trial collapsed and his 2003 memoir A Royal Duty sold over 3 million copies.

Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield (1942-1987), Chicago blues harmonica player and singer, led the racially integrated Paul Butterfield Blues Band; debut album 1965, East-West 1966, backed Dylan's electric Newport debut.

Paul C. Blainey

Paul C. Blainey is a biological engineer and MIT professor, a core member of the Broad Institute, who develops microfluidic and molecular methods for single-cell sequencing and screening.

Paul C. Boutros

Paul C. Boutros is a Canadian-trained computational cancer biologist known for prostate cancer genomics, who directs the NCI-designated cancer center at Sanford Burnham Prebys in San Diego.

Paul C. Brucker

Paul C. Brucker (circa 1931 to 2017) was an American family physician and academic who founded Jefferson's Department of Family Medicine in 1973 and led Thomas Jefferson University from 1990 to 2004.

Paul C. Huck

Paul C. Huck, born 1940 in Covington, Kentucky, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 2000.

Paul C. Jennings

Paul C. Jennings is an American earthquake engineer, Caltech professor emeritus, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977, Caltech's provost twice, and a recipient of ASCE's Newmark Medal.

Paul C. Lauterbur

Paul C. Lauterbur, also known as Paul Lauterbur, was an American chemist who produced the first NMR image, founding MRI, and shared the 2003 Nobel Prize.

Paul C. MacDonald

Paul C. MacDonald (1930–1997) was an American physician-scientist at UT Southwestern who showed estrogen is synthesized in the brain and fat tissue of both sexes.

Paul C. Martin

Paul C. Martin (1931–2016) was an American theoretical physicist at Harvard, the first Van Vleck Professor, known for the 1959 many-particle theory and the Martin–Siggia–Rose formalism.

Paul C. Paris

Paul C. Paris (1930–2017) was an American engineer who formulated the Paris law, the power-law equation used to predict fatigue crack growth in aircraft and vehicles.

Paul C. Sereno

Paul C. Sereno, also known as Paul Sereno, is an American paleontologist and University of Chicago professor whose Sahara expeditions have yielded roughly 100 tons of dinosaur fossils.

Paul C. Stern

Paul C. Stern, born 1944, is an American social scientist studying environmentally significant behavior and climate mitigation, and president of the Social and Environmental Research Institute in Massachusetts.

Paul C. Sternweis

Paul C. Sternweis is an American biochemist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for discovering the G protein Go and defining Gq regulation of phospholipase C.

Paul C. Tang

Paul C. Tang is an American physician and health-informatics researcher, an adjunct professor at Stanford and National Academy of Medicine member who co-developed MyChart with Epic.

Paul C. Zamecnik

Paul C. Zamecnik (1912–2009) was an American molecular biologist who co-discovered transfer RNA and founded the field of antisense therapeutics at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Paul Calabresi

Paul Calabresi (1930–2003) was an Italian-born American physician-scientist and pioneer of medical oncology who served as Brown University's first Chairman of Medicine and advised national cancer policy.

Paul Calderón

Paul Calderón (also credited Paul Calderone), Puerto Rican-born American character actor in New York theater, film, and TV; Obie winner for Blade to the Heat, known for Pulp Fiction, Out of Sight, Girlfight, and Bosch's Jimmy Robertson.

Paul Calès

Paul Calès (born 1954) is a French hepato-gastroenterologist and professor at the Université d'Angers, known for the FibroMeter liver fibrosis blood tests and variceal bleeding trials in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Paul Campbell (Canadian actor)

Paul Campbell (born 1979, Vancouver) is a Canadian actor and writer, distinct from the Jamaican actor of the same name. Known for Billy Keikeya in Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Spun Out, and Hallmark movies and screenplays.

Paul Cannon

Paul J. Cannon (1933–2018) was an American physician-scientist at Columbia University who studied how the kidney regulates salt and blood pressure in heart failure and introduced xenon-133 measurement of heart-muscle blood flow.

Paul Capsis

Paul Capsis (born 1964) is an Australian cabaret, theatre, film, and television performer of Maltese/Greek descent, a five-time Helpmann Award winner known for Head On, Boulevard Delirium, and Angela's Kitchen.

Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack (born 1951, Sheffield) is the English blue-eyed soul singer-keyboardist behind Ace's 'How Long', Squeeze's 'Tempted', and Mike + the Mechanics' US #1 'The Living Years', also a prolific solo artist on his Carrack-UK label.

Paul Casey

Paul Casey (born 1977, Cheltenham) is an English golfer, former world No. 3, with 15 DP World Tour wins, three PGA Tour titles, five Ryder Cups, and a LIV Golf Crushers GC player since 2022.

Paul Castellano

Paul "Big Paul" Castellano (Paul Constantine Castellano), boss of New York's Gambino crime family after Carlo Gambino's death, assassinated outside Sparks Steak House December 16, 1985, on John Gotti's orders.

Paul Castro Jr.

Paul Castro Jr. is an American voice actor and filmmaker from Brooklyn, known as Rindo Kanade in NEO: The World Ends with You, Freminet in Genshin Impact, Vegeta (mini) in Dragon Ball DAIMA, and the male Toads in Mario Kart World.

Paul Cattermole

Paul Gerald Cattermole (7 March 1977 – 6 April 2023), English singer and founding member of S Club 7, 1998–2002; 11 UK Top 5 singles; died of natural causes in Dorset aged 46.

Paul Celan

Paul Celan, born Paul Antschel (1920–1970), was a Romanian-born German-language Jewish poet and translator who survived the Holocaust, settled in Paris in 1948, and became known for "Todesfuge."

Paul Celan Prize

The Paul Celan Prize (German: Paul-Celan-Preis) is an annual German award honoring a translator's complete body of work, endowed by the Deutscher Literaturfonds in 1988.

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), French Post-Impressionist painter of Aix-en-Provence; Mont Sainte-Victoire, Card Players, apples, bathers; constructive brushstrokes and color-built form influenced Cubism, Fauvism, Picasso, and Matisse.