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Paul Ereng

Paul Ereng, Kenyan runner (born 1967, Kitale), 1988 Seoul Olympic 800m gold medalist in 1:43.45 and two-time World Indoor champion (1989, 1991); later UTEP coach.

Paul Ernst (German writer)

Paul Ernst (1866–1933) was a German writer of novels, novellas, and dramas, a chief representative of German Neuklassik who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Paul Eston Lacy

Paul Eston Lacy (1924–2005) was an American pathologist who led pathology at Washington University and pioneered islet transplantation, curing diabetic rats in 1972 and enabling the first insulin-independent patient in 1989.

Paul et Virginie

Paul et Virginie is a 1788 French pastoral novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre about the tragic love of two childhood friends raised on the island of Mauritius.

Paul Evans

Paul William Evans (born 1961, Glasgow) is a British long-distance runner, not the footballer or basketball coach of the same name, who ran the Olympic 10,000 m in 1992 and 1996 and won the 1996 Chicago Marathon in 2:08:52.

Paul F. Agris

Paul F. Agris is an American RNA biochemist, a research professor at Duke University School of Medicine, known for the modified wobble hypothesis and the RNA Modification Database.

Paul F. Barbara

Paul F. Barbara (1953–2010) was an American physical chemist known for ultrafast spectroscopy of electron and proton transfer reactions and single-molecule spectroscopy of conjugated polymers, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Paul F. Chenea

Paul F. Chenea (1918–1996) was an American mechanical engineer and Purdue University vice president who led General Motors research from 1969 to 1982, specializing in continuum mechanics.

Paul F. Griner

Paul F. Griner (1933–2024) was an American internist and medical educator at the University of Rochester who led Strong Memorial Hospital and served as president of the American College of Physicians.

Paul F. Hessburg

Paul F. Hessburg is an American research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service in Wenatchee, Washington, known for documenting how fire suppression transformed Inland Northwest forests.

Paul F. Hoffman

Paul F. Hoffman (born 1941, Toronto) is a Canadian geologist, emeritus professor at Harvard and leading advocate of the Snowball Earth hypothesis, awarded the 2024 Kyoto Prize.

Paul F. McKenzie

Paul F. McKenzie is a chemical engineer and biopharmaceutical manufacturing executive, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020, who became CEO of CSL Limited in March 2023.

Paul F. McMillan

Paul F. McMillan (1956–2022) was a Scottish-born British materials chemist who studied matter at high pressures, working at Arizona State University and later University College London.

Paul F. Nealey

Paul F. Nealey is an American chemical engineer, the Brady W. Dougan Professor at the University of Chicago, known for directed self-assembly of block copolymers for nanolithography.

Paul F. Pilch

Paul F. Pilch is an American biochemist and Emeritus Professor at Boston University School of Medicine, known for identifying the glucose transporter GLUT4 in 1988.

Paul F. Tompkins

Paul F. Tompkins (Paul Francis Tompkins, born 1968, Philadelphia) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster: Mr. Show writer, Mr. Peanutbutter on BoJack Horseman, host of Spontaneanation and Threedom, and the most frequent Comedy Bang! Bang! guest.

Paul F. Worley

Paul F. Worley is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins known for identifying neuronal immediate early genes, including Homer, and studying the molecular basis of memory.

Paul Fares Boulos

Paul Fares Boulos, also known as Paul F. Boulos, is a civil engineer born in Beirut who founded Innovyze and now chairs Aquanuity, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

Paul Farmer

Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022), American physician and medical anthropologist, co-founder of Partners In Health (Zanmi Lasante) in Haiti, pioneer of structural violence analysis, MDR-TB and HIV treatment equity, and chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

Paul Fauchille

Paul Auguste Joseph Fauchille (1858–1926) was a French advocate, journal editor, and international lawyer, remembered as a pioneer of air law through his 1901 article on the aerial domain.

Paul Feeney

Paul Feeney is an American Democratic politician representing the Bristol and Norfolk district in the Massachusetts Senate, where he was sworn in after winning a 2017 special election.

Paul Feig

Paul Feig (born 1962, Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American director, producer, and writer, creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids, Spy, A Simple Favor, and The Housemaid.

Paul Feine

Paul Feine (1859–1933) was a German Lutheran theologian and New Testament scholar who held chairs at Vienna, Breslau, and Halle and wrote influential textbooks, including Theologie des Neuen Testaments.

Paul Feinman

Paul G. Feinman (1960-2021), American jurist, Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 2017-2021 and its first openly gay judge; previously Civil Court, Supreme Court, and Appellate Division First Department.

Paul Felder

Paul "The Irish Dragon" Felder (born 1985, Philadelphia) is a retired UFC lightweight, 17-6 professionally, later a longtime UFC color commentator and desk analyst who re-signed with the promotion in 2026.

Paul Fenter

Paul Fenter is a physicist and Argonne Distinguished Fellow who leads the Interfacial Processes Group at Argonne National Laboratory, pioneering synchrotron X-ray studies of mineral-water interfaces.

Paul Fernando

Paul Fernando (පෝල් ප්‍රනාන්දු), born Madawela Hewage Paul Fernando, was a Sri Lankan baila and pop singer titled the Prince of Baila, recording over a hundred songs from 1970.

Paul Ferris (Scottish writer)

Paul Ferris (born 1964, died 6 October 2026), nicknamed "The Wee Man", was a Glasgow gangland enforcer for Arthur Thompson turned best-selling author of The Ferris Conspiracy; distinct from footballer Paul Ferris and the Dylan Thomas biographer.

Paul Feyerabend

Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924–1994), Austrian-born philosopher of science and critic of scientific method; author of Against Method (1975), advocate of epistemological anarchism and the slogan 'anything goes'; longtime Berkeley and ETH Zurich professor.

Paul Fildes

Paul Fildes was a British microbiologist who founded the study of bacterial nutrition and led Britain's biological warfare research at Porton Down during World War II.