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Paul Dennett
Paul Dennett is a British politician who has served as the directly elected City Mayor of Salford since 2016, re-elected in 2021 and 2024, and serves as Deputy Mayor for Greater Manchester.
Paul DePodesta
Paul DePodesta, sports executive and Moneyball figure; Rockies president of baseball operations (Nov 2025), former Browns chief strategy officer 2016-2025, ex-Dodgers GM, A's assistant GM, Mets and Padres executive.
Paul Desjardins
Paul Desjardins (1859–1940) was a French intellectual and journalist who founded the Union pour l'action morale in 1892 and organized the Décades de Pontigny intellectual gatherings.
Paul Desmarais
Paul Desmarais Sr. (1927–2013) was a Canadian financier who took control of Power Corporation of Canada in 1968 and built it into one of Canada's major financial conglomerates.
Paul Desmarais Jr.
Paul Desmarais Jr. is a Canadian businessman, born in 1954 in Sudbury, Ontario, who chairs Power Corporation of Canada and Power Financial Corporation, the Montreal financial group.
Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond (Paul Emil Breitenfeld, 1924–1977), American cool jazz alto saxophonist with the Dave Brubeck Quartet; composer of "Take Five" in 5/4; dry-martini tone; royalties to the Red Cross.
Paul Devoe
Paul Gilbert Devoe III (born 1963), American spree killer who murdered six people in Texas and Pennsylvania in August 2007; sentenced to death in Travis County in 2009; federal habeas denied, Fifth Circuit COA denied in 2018.
Paul di Resta
Paul di Resta is a British racing driver who won the 2010 DTM championship with Mercedes, then raced in Formula One for Force India from 2011 to 2013.
Paul Di'Anno
Paul Di'Anno, born Paul Andrews (1958–2024), English heavy metal singer and original Iron Maiden vocalist 1978–1981, sang on Iron Maiden (1980) and Killers (1981) before dismissal for substance abuse; later led Battlezone and Killers.
Paul Dickov
Paul Dickov (born 1972, Livingston, Scotland), Scottish forward; scored the famous 90+5 equaliser in Manchester City's 1999 Division Two play-off final; later managed Oldham and Doncaster.
Paul Dieppe
Paul Dieppe is a British rheumatologist and health services researcher known for work on osteoarthritis and joint replacement, and Emeritus Professor of Health and Wellbeing at Exeter.
Paul Dinello
Paul Dinello (born 1962), American comedian, actor, writer, director; co-creator and Geoffrey Jellineck actor on Strangers with Candy, Wigfield co-author, and longtime writer-supervising producer on The Colbert Report and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Paul Dini
Paul McClaran Dini (b. 1957), American screenwriter and comics creator; co-creator of Harley Quinn and Terry McGinnis; producer-writer of Batman: The Animated Series, Lost, Batman Beyond, and the Arkham game storylines.
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac was a British theoretical physicist whose 1928 equation reconciled quantum mechanics with relativity, predicted antimatter, and won him a share of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley (born Paul Lee Brown, 1928, Parkersburg, West Virginia) is an American character actor of seven decades, known as the dad in Breaking Away and Sixteen Candles, Wimpy in Altman's Popeye, co-creator of The Electric Company, and the voice of Sarge in Pixar's Cars.
Paul Dorfman
Dr Paul Dorfman, nuclear policy researcher at the UCL Energy Institute and University of Sussex Bennett Scholar, founder of the Nuclear Consulting Group, Irish EPA radiation committee member, author of the 2021 UK nuclear flood-risk report.
Paul Dorian
Paul Dorian is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and University of Toronto professor known for the 2002 ALIVE trial comparing amiodarone with lidocaine in cardiac arrest.
Paul Doty (biochemist)
Paul Mead Doty (1920–2011) was an American biochemist at Harvard who used light scattering to deduce DNA and RNA structures, enabling recombinant DNA, and later led arms-control efforts.
Paul Doughty Bartlett
Paul Doughty Bartlett (1907–1997) was an American physical organic chemist at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947 and known for showing that reaction mechanisms can be determined experimentally.
Paul Douglas (actor)
Paul Douglas (Paul Douglas Fleischer, 1907-1959), American radio announcer and character actor; starred as Harry Brock in Broadway's Born Yesterday, then played gruff leads in A Letter to Three Wives, Angels in the Outfield, and The Mating Game, dying of a heart attack in 1959 before The Apartment filmed.
Paul Drayton
Paul Drayton (Otis Paul Drayton, 1939-2010), American sprinter, 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m relay (world record 39.0) and 200 m silver medalist; also ran on the 1961 record 39.1 relay.
Paul Drude
Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (1863–1906) was a German physicist who in 1900 formulated the Drude model, the first quantitative theory of metallic conduction, and edited the Annalen der Physik.
Paul Dujardin
Paul Léon Auguste Louis Joseph Dujardin (1894-1959), French water polo player, EN Tourcoing; won Olympic gold at Paris 1924, bronze at Amsterdam 1928, and 1927 Bologna European silver.
Paul Dummett
Paul Dummett is an English retired footballer, a left-back who made 213 appearances for his hometown club Newcastle United between 2013 and 2024 and won five caps for Wales.
Paul Durousseau
Paul Durousseau, the Jacksonville serial killer, a former taxi driver convicted in 2007 of the 1999 rape-murder of Tyresa Mack and indicted in five more killings; his 10–2 death sentence was vacated under Hurst and he was resentenced to life without parole in 2021.
Paul Dyer Merica
Paul Dyer Merica (1889–1957) was an American physical metallurgist who explained why aluminum alloys harden spontaneously after heat treatment, and who rose from refinery metallurgist to president of International Nickel.
Paul Dyson (chemist)
Paul J. Dyson is an inorganic and organometallic chemist, professor at EPFL in Switzerland since 2002, known for RAPTA ruthenium anticancer compounds and sustainable catalysis, and EPFL Dean of Basic Sciences since 2021.
Paul Dyson (Texas politician)
Paul Dyson is an American Republican politician and energy attorney serving in the Texas House of Representatives from District 14, based in Bryan-College Station, and general counsel for Dyson Energy Group.
Paul E. Dimotakis
Paul E. Dimotakis is an experimental fluid dynamicist at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for work on turbulence, mixing, and jet propulsion.
Paul E. Goss
Paul E. Goss (1955–2025) was a South African-born medical oncologist and Harvard professor whose MA.17 and MAP.3 trials at Massachusetts General Hospital defined breast cancer therapy and prevention.