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Paul Finebaum
Paul Finebaum (born 1955, Memphis) is an American sports talk radio host, the "Voice of the SEC," whose call-in show ran in Birmingham before he joined ESPN in 2013; also a former columnist and author.
Paul Finsler
Paul Finsler (1894–1970) was a German-born mathematician who worked in Switzerland, known for the 1918 dissertation that named Finsler geometry and for his Platonist set theory.
Paul Fitts
Paul Morris Fitts (1912–1965) was an American psychologist at Ohio State and Michigan who developed Fitts's law, a 1954 model of aimed movement foundational to human-factors engineering and human-computer interaction.
Paul Fix
Paul Fix, born Peter Paul Fix, was an American film and television character actor known for Westerns and for playing Marshal Micah Torrance on The Rifleman from 1958 to 1963.
Paul Flechsig
Paul Emil Flechsig (1847–1929) was a German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist who held the first psychiatry chair at Leipzig and founded the myelogenetic method of cortical mapping.
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek is a computational genomics researcher who led the Ensembl genome annotation project at EMBL-EBI from 2007 to 2022 and joined The Jackson Laboratory as chief data science officer in 2023.
Paul Foerster
Paul Foerster (Paul Jeffrey Foerster), American Olympic sailor born 1963 in Rangely, Colorado; won 470 gold at Athens 2004 with Kevin Burnham and silvers in Flying Dutchman 1992 and 470 2000 across four Games.
Paul Fourmarier
Paul Fourmarier (1877–1970) was a Belgian geologist and professor at the University of Liège whose 1905 discovery of the Theux tectonic window made the tectonics of Belgium classical.
Paul Fraisse
Paul Fraisse (1911–1996) was a French experimental psychologist known for research on time perception, director of the EPHE psychology laboratory, and author of Psychologie du temps.
Paul Frankland
Paul Frankland is a Canadian neuroscientist and University of Toronto professor at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for research on memory consolidation, engrams, and forgetting.
Paul Freeman (actor)
Paul Freeman (born 1943, Barnet, England) is an English stage and screen actor, best known as René Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark; also Ivan Ooze, Falcon Crest's Gustav Riebmann, and a Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre stage veteran.
Paul Frees
Paul Frees (Solomon Hersh Frees, 1920–1986), American voice actor called "The Man of a Thousand Voices"; Boris Badenov, Ludwig Von Drake, Disney's Haunted Mansion Ghost Host, Disney Legend 2006.
Paul Fritsch
Paul Fritsch (Paul François Nicolas Fritsch, 1901–1970), French featherweight boxer; first French Olympic boxing champion, winning gold at Antwerp 1920 by beating Jean Gachet in the final; professional from 1921 to 1929.
Paul Frosch
Paul Frosch (1860–1928) was a German bacteriologist who, with Friedrich Loeffler, proved in 1898 that foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a filter-passing virus, the first animal disease shown viral.
Paul Fusco
Paul Fusco (born 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American puppeteer and voice actor, co-creator, voice, and principal puppeteer of ALF on the NBC sitcom that ran 1986 to 1990.
Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell (1924–2012), American literary and cultural historian, author of The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), National Book Award winner; also wrote on WWII, American class, and language, distinct from other Fussells.
Paul G Shekelle
Paul G Shekelle is an American physician and health-services researcher known for evidence-based medicine, who is Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Chief of General Internal Medicine at the West Los Angeles VA.
Paul G. Byron
Paul G. Byron, also known as Paul Gregory Byron, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2014.
Paul G. Falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski, also published as Paul Falkowski, is an American biological oceanographer at Rutgers University known for measuring how much carbon the ocean's phytoplankton fix through photosynthesis.
Paul G. Gaffney II
Paul G. Gaffney II is a retired US Navy vice admiral and oceanographer who led the Naval Research Laboratory and served as president of Monmouth University.
Paul G. Gardephe
Paul G. Gardephe (born 1957) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Paul G. Hoffman
Paul G. Hoffman was an American automobile executive who led Studebaker, administered the Marshall Plan, led the Ford Foundation, and became the first administrator of the United Nations Development Program.
Paul G. Kaminski
Paul G. Kaminski is an American defense technologist and retired Air Force colonel, born in 1942, known for leading stealth aircraft development and reforming Pentagon weapons acquisition.
Paul G. Quie
Paul G. Quie, born in 1925, is an American pediatrician and physician-scientist at the University of Minnesota who pioneered the study of neutrophil function in human disease.
Paul G. Richardson
Paul G. Richardson is an American hematologist-oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School whose clinical trials established standard multiple myeloma drugs, including bortezomib and lenalidomide.
Paul G. Shewmon
Paul G. Shewmon (born 1930) is an American metallurgist and National Academy of Engineering member known for diffusion in solids and the textbook Diffusion in Solids.
Paul G. Silver
Paul G. Silver, also known as Paul Silver, was an American geophysicist and seismologist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., known for applying seismic observations to infer mantle flow.
Paul G. Thomas
Paul G. Thomas is a viral immunologist who leads the Immunology and Vaccine Development Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, studying T cells and influenza immunity.
Paul G. Yock
Paul G. Yock is an American interventional cardiologist and bioengineer at Stanford University who invented intravascular ultrasound and the Rapid Exchange stenting system, and founded Stanford Biodesign.
Paul Gabriel Antoine
Paul Gabriel Antoine was a French Jesuit theologian, born at Lunéville in 1678, who taught and served as rector at Pont-à-Mousson; his Latin theology manuals ran through dozens of European editions.