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Paul D. Borman
Paul D. Borman, born 1939 in Detroit, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Eastern District of Michigan.
Paul D. Boyer
Paul D. Boyer (Paul Delos Boyer, 1918–2018) was an American biochemist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the mechanism by which ATP synthase makes ATP.
Paul D. Clayton
Paul D. Clayton is an American medical informatics researcher who built computerized decision support into hospital care at Utah and Columbia, and served as AMIA president.
Paul D. Cleary
Paul D. Cleary is an American health services researcher at Yale who developed the CAHPS patient-experience surveys used in Medicare payment and led national HIV care quality research.
Paul D. Foote
Paul D. Foote was an American physicist known for experimental work on alkali metal vapor spectra and for directing research at Gulf Oil's Gulf Research & Development Company in Pittsburgh.
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and entomologist at the University of Guelph who originated DNA barcoding, the identification of species from standardized DNA sequences.
Paul D. Stolley
Paul D. Stolley (died 2017) was an American physician-epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Paul D. Thomas
Paul D. Thomas is an American computational biologist at USC known for founding the PANTHER database, directing the Gene Ontology Consortium, and co-directing Swiss-Prot at SIB from 2025.
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul Pharoah is a British cancer genetic epidemiologist who studies inherited susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer and led the PREDICT breast cancer prognosis tools.
Paul D'Amour
Paul D'Amour, born 1967 in Spokane, Washington, is the American bassist who was Tool's original bassist (1990–1995) on Opiate and Undertow, later played in Replicants, Lusk, and Feersum Ennjin, and has been Ministry's bassist since 2019; distinct from the French singer-songwriter of the same name.
Paul Dabrowski
Paul Dabrowski is an engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Synthego, a Redwood City supplier of CRISPR genome-engineering tools, and led it as chief executive from 2012 to 2024.
Paul Dakeyo
Paul Dakeyo is a Cameroonian poet and publisher, born in 1948 in Bafoussam, who settled in France in 1969, wrote committed poetry denouncing oppression, and founded Éditions Silex.
Paul Daley
Paul "Semtex" Daley (born 1983, Nottingham) is a retired English welterweight MMA fighter, 44-18-2 with 33 knockouts, who fought for the UFC, Strikeforce, Cage Rage, and Bellator over a 19-year career ending in 2022.
Paul Dalglish
Paul Kenneth Dalglish (born 1977, Glasgow), Scottish forward, son of Kenny Dalglish; played for Newcastle, Norwich, Wigan, Blackpool, Hibernian, and Houston Dynamo, winning the 2006 and 2007 MLS Cup, then coached FC Tampa Bay, Austin Aztex, and Miami FC.
Paul Danan
Paul Danan (2 July 1978 – 15 January 2025) was an English actor and reality TV personality, born in Waltham Forest, London. Known as Sol Patrick in Hollyoaks (1997–2001) and for Celebrity Love Island and Celebrity Big Brother; death ruled misadventure in 2025.
Paul Daniel Dapkus
Paul Daniel Dapkus is an American electrical engineer and USC professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for making MOCVD the dominant process for laser diodes and LEDs.
Paul Daniels
Paul Daniels (1938–2016) was an English magician and TV presenter, host of The Paul Daniels Magic Show on BBC1 (1979–1994), famous for the catchphrase "You'll like this – not a lot, but you'll like it!" and for performing with his wife and assistant Debbie McGee.
Paul Dano
Paul Dano (born 1984) is an American actor and director known for L.I.E., Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood's Eli Sunday, Love and Mercy, The Batman, and his directorial debut Wildlife (2018).
Paul Dans
Paul Dans, American lawyer and Republican operative; Trump-era HUD senior adviser and OPM chief of staff; director of Heritage's Project 2025 with its 10,000-candidate database; 2025 Senate primary challenger to Lindsey Graham.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow (Paul Valentine Birkby, 1941-2019) was an English actor best known as Kerr Avon in all four series of BBC sci-fi show Blake's 7 (1978-81), with over 200 TV credits, Big Finish audio work, and books including Avon: A Terrible Aspect.
Paul David Bates
Paul David Bates is a British hydrologist and Professor of Hydrology at the University of Bristol whose global flood models reshaped flood risk estimation; he co-founded Fathom and is a Royal Society Fellow.
Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp, born 1950, is an American pastor, speaker, and author of more than 30 books, and a leading figure in biblical counseling after Jay Adams.
Paul Davis (singer)
Paul Lavon Davis (1948-2008), Meridian, Mississippi soft-rock singer-songwriter behind "I Go Crazy" (40 weeks on the Hot 100), "Cool Night," and "'65 Love Affair"; later a Nashville country songwriter inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.
Paul de Casteljau
Paul de Faget de Casteljau (1930–2022) was a French mathematician who, working at Citroën from 1958, discovered the de Casteljau algorithm used to evaluate Bézier curves.
Paul de Jersey
Paul de Jersey AC CVO KC, Australian jurist; 17th Chief Justice of Queensland 1998–2014 and 26th Governor of Queensland 2014–2021; later Tonga Judge of Appeal and Legal Aid Queensland Board chair.
Paul de Smet de Naeyer
Paul de Smet de Naeyer was a Belgian industrialist and Catholic politician who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 1896 to 1907 and introduced proportional representation in 1899.
Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec is an American computer graphics researcher who developed image-based lighting and the Light Stage face-capture devices, winning a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award in 2010.
Paul DeCaen
Paul DeCaen is an American ion-channel biopharmacologist and professor of pharmacology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who studies polycystin channels implicated in polycystic kidney disease.
Paul Delorme
Paul Delorme was a French businessman and financier who co-founded Air Liquide, the industrial gas group, and led it as first president from 1902 to 1945.
Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), Belgian painter of dreamlike nocturnal scenes with nude women, skeletons, and railway stations; associated with Belgian Surrealism alongside Magritte but never a formal member of any Surrealist group.