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Paul Chaikin
Paul Chaikin is an American condensed matter physicist, the Silver Professor of Physics at New York University, known for soft matter physics, ellipsoid packing, and colloidal self-assembly.
Paul Chamberlain
Paul Edward Chamberlain is an investment banker who spent over 25 years at Morgan Stanley, co-heading its Global Technology Banking Group before retiring in 2014.
Paul Channon
Paul Channon, Baron Kelvedon (Henry Paul Guinness Channon, 1935-2007), Conservative MP for Southend West 1959-1997; minister under Heath and Thatcher, Cabinet Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1986-87 and Transport 1987-89, dropped in 1989 after King's Cross, Clapham, and Lockerbie.
Paul Chowdhry
Paul Chowdhry (Tajpaul Singh Chowdhry, born 1974) is a British Punjabi Sikh stand-up comedian from Edgware, London; first Asian-heritage comedian to sell out Wembley Arena, star of Taskmaster series 3 and the Live Innit and Family-Friendly Comedian specials.
Paul Christiano
Paul Christiano is an American AI safety researcher who pioneered reinforcement learning from human feedback at OpenAI and founded the Alignment Research Center, a Berkeley nonprofit.
Paul Christie (voice actor)
Paul Christie (born 1951, Manhattan) is an American voice actor and narrator: voice of Gold Rush's narrator, Moose A. Moose on Noggin, Stick Stickly, Ram #1 in Brother Bear, and the Godfather in Max Payne 2.
Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf
Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf was an American botanist and maize geneticist who studied the origin and improvement of corn and directed the Harvard Botanical Museum from 1945 to 1967.
Paul Christophe
Paul Christophe is a French Horizons politician who was Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy, and Equality between Women and Men in 2024, then elected CNSA president in 2026.
Paul Chryst
Paul Chryst (born 1965, Madison, Wisconsin) is a college football coach, former Wisconsin quarterback, Pittsburgh head coach 2012-14, Wisconsin head coach 2015-2022 (67-26, two-time Big Ten Coach of the Year), fired October 2, 2022.
Paul Cicarella
Paul Cicarella is an American Republican politician and small business owner who has represented Connecticut's 34th Senate district since his 2020 election, succeeding Len Fasano.
Paul Citron
Paul Citron is an American medical device engineer who spent 32 years at Medtronic, retiring in 2003, and designed a pacemaker lead received by an estimated 10 million patients.
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel was a French poet, playwright, and diplomat who spent forty-five years in the foreign service, serving as ambassador to Japan, the United States, and Belgium.
Paul Clemens von Baumgarten
Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848–1928) was a German pathologist who held the pathology chair at Tübingen from 1889 to 1919 and independently described the tubercle bacillus in 1882, alongside Robert Koch.
Paul Clement (football manager)
Paul Clement (born 1972), English football coach; long-time assistant to Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid, and Bayern; managed Derby, Swansea, Reading, Cercle Brugge; Brazil assistant coach since May 2025.
Paul Coffey
Paul Coffey, born 1961 in Weston, Ontario, is a Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman (Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, seven other NHL teams) who won four Stanley Cups, three Norris Trophies, and set the defenseman single-season goal record (48).
Paul Cohen
Paul Joseph Cohen (1934–2007) was an American mathematician at Stanford University who proved in 1963 that the continuum hypothesis is independent of set theory, inventing forcing.
Paul Colas
Paul René Colas (1880–1956), French sports shooter, four-time Olympian 1908–1924; won 2 gold (1912 free rifle, military rifle), 1 silver, 1 bronze; most decorated French Olympic shooter.
Paul Collingwood
Paul Collingwood (born 1976, Shotley Bridge), English all-rounder; 68 Tests, 197 ODIs for England; captained England to 2010 ICC World T20 title and Durham to the 2013 County Championship.
Paul Cook
Paul Cook (born 1956, London) is the English drummer and founding member of the Sex Pistols, later of The Professionals, Chiefs of Relief, and Man Raze; known for steady mid-tempo punk drumming and touring since 2024 with Frank Carter fronting the Pistols.
Paul Cook (footballer)
Paul Cook (born 1967, Liverpool) is an English football manager, currently in a second spell at Chesterfield, and former midfielder for Wigan, Wolves, and Coventry; four promotions including the 2024 National League title.
Paul Corderman
Paul Corderman is an American Republican politician representing District 2 in the Maryland State Senate since 2020, after serving in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Hagerstown City Council.
Paul Costello
Paul Costello (Paul Vincent Costello, 1894-1986), Philadelphia rower, first Olympic rower to win three consecutive golds in one event: men's double sculls, 1920, 1924, 1928, with cousin Jack Kelly Sr. and Charles McIlvaine.
Paul Craig
Paul Craig, "BearJew" (born 1987, Airdrie, Scotland), retired Scottish UFC light heavyweight and middleweight; 17-10-1, all wins finished, 13 by submission; record late-fight triangle of Ankalaev; retired September 2025.
Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts (born 1939) is an American economist who served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during 1981–1982 and helped draft the 1981 supply-side tax cut.
Paul Crouch
Paul Crouch (Paul Franklin Crouch, 1934–2013) was an American televangelist who, with his wife Jan, co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1973, building it into one of the world's largest religious broadcasters.
Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland
Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland is a Scottish judge, Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General since 3 February 2025; former Solicitor-General for Scotland (1995–1997) and Scottish Law Commission chairman (2014–2018).
Paul Cummings
Paul Richard Cummings (1953–2001), American distance runner; 1974 NCAA mile champion for BYU, American indoor 1500m record holder (3:37.6), 1983 half-marathon world best (61:32), 1984 Olympic 10,000m competitor; drowned at Strawberry Reservoir, Utah.
Paul Cusenza
Paul Cusenza is a business executive who co-founded 23andMe in 2006 with Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey, and since 2008 has led Nodal Exchange, a commodities exchange holding the majority of U.S. power futures open interest.
Paul Cushing Child
Paul Cushing Child (1902-1994), American artist, photographer, poet, and US Information Service cultural attache in Paris; OSS veteran, husband of Julia Child, designer of her Cambridge kitchen.
Paul D. Beer
Paul D. Beer, born 1958 in Totnes, Devon, is a British supramolecular chemist and professor at Oxford known for anion recognition and sensing and for using anions as templates to build rotaxanes and catenanes.