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Paul Gottfried Drews

Paul Gottfried Drews (1858–1912) was a German Protestant practical theologian who held chairs at Jena, Gießen, and Halle and pioneered the empirical study of actual religious life.

Paul Graham (programmer)

Paul Graham is a British-American computer scientist, essayist, and venture investor who co-founded Viaweb and Y Combinator, the seed accelerator behind Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit.

Paul Grant Rogers (1921–2008) was an American lawyer and Democratic U.S. Representative from Florida who shaped most major American health legislation over 24 years in Congress, earning the nickname "Mr. Health".

Paul Grawitz

Paul Albert Grawitz (1850–1932) was a German pathologist trained under Rudolf Virchow, known for the Grawitz tumour eponym and his disproven theory that kidney tumors arise from adrenal tissue.

Paul Gray (American musician)

Paul Dedrick Gray, known as "The Pig" and number 2, was an American musician and bassist for Slipknot, a founding member and main songwriter who died in 2010.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul Greengard

Paul Greengard (1925–2019) was an American neuroscientist at Rockefeller University who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for showing that dopamine acts by adding phosphate groups to proteins.

Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass (born 1955) is a British director of Bloody Sunday, United 93, the Bourne sequels, Captain Phillips, 22 July, The Lost Bus, and The Uprising, known for handheld docudrama style.

Paul Grewal

Paul Singh Grewal, American lawyer: U.S. magistrate judge, N.D. California (2010-2016), Facebook deputy general counsel, Coinbase chief legal officer from 2020; distinct from other judges named Grewal.

Paul Grice

Paul Grice (1913–1988), British philosopher of language at Oxford and UC Berkeley, introduced conversational implicature, the Cooperative Principle, and the maxims of Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner in "Logic and Conversation" (1975), founding modern Gricean pragmatics.

Paul Griffiths (virologist)

Paul Griffiths, also known as Paul David Griffiths, is a British virologist and Emeritus Professor of Virology at University College London, known for quantitative research on cytomegalovirus in transplant recipients.

Paul Grimstad

Paul Grimstad: American writer, composer, actor, and Yale Humanities senior lecturer, author of Experience and Experimental Writing (2013); scores for Frownland, Heaven Knows What, The Sweet East; acted in One Battle After Another; released SONGS and Music for Film in 2025.

Paul Gross

Paul Gross (born 1959, Calgary) is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer best known as Constable Benton Fraser in Due South and for writing, directing, and starring in Passchendaele (2008), the highest-grossing Canadian film of 2008 and a Genie winner. Distinguished from other people named Paul Gross.

Oct 22, 2026

Paul Groussac

Paul Groussac (Paul-François Groussac) was a French-born Argentine writer, critic, and historian who directed the National Library of Argentina for 44 years, from 1885 to 1929.

Paul Guichard

Paul Guichard is a cell biologist and full professor at the University of Geneva who studies centriole architecture and assembly, and co-developed the U-ExM expansion microscopy method.

Paul Guilfoyle

Paul Guilfoyle (born 1949, Boston) is an American character actor, best known as Captain Jim Brass on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2014) and CSI: Vegas (2021), with stage roots at the Theatre Company of Boston and 75+ films including L.A. Confidential and Spotlight. Not related to the 1902-1961 actor of the same name.

Oct 21, 2026

Paul Gunther

Paul Gunther (Johann Wilhelm Paul Günther, 1882-1959), German diver, 1912 Stockholm Olympic springboard gold medalist ahead of Luber, Behrens, and Zürner; distinct from the 2007-born German decathlete of the same name.

Sep 19, 2026

Paul Gurinas

Paul Gurinas is an American proprietary trader who co-founded Jump Trading in 1999 with Bill DiSomma, whom he met in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange pits.

Paul Gyorgy

Paul Gyorgy (Pál György, 1893–1976) was a Hungarian-born biochemist and pediatrician who discovered three vitamins, including vitamin B6, and received the 1975 National Medal of Science.

Paul H. Barber

Paul H. Barber is an American marine evolutionary biologist, a UCLA professor whose studies of the Coral Triangle earned him a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul H. Black

Paul H. Black is an American virologist and immunologist, an Emeritus Professor at Boston University School of Medicine known for SV40 transformation studies and research linking stress to inflammation.

Paul H. Douglas

Paul Howard Douglas was an American economist at the University of Chicago who co-created the Cobb–Douglas production function and served as a US senator from Illinois.

Paul H. Patterson

Paul H. Patterson (1943–2014) was an American neuroscientist and developmental biologist at Caltech who created the first maternal-infection mouse models of schizophrenia and autism and showed mature neurons can change neurotransmitter identity.

Paul H. Plötz

Paul H. Plotz, also published as Paul Plotz, was an American NIH rheumatologist and internationally known myositis expert who died in 2024 at age 86.

Paul H. Siegel

Paul H. Siegel, born 1953, is an American information theorist and Distinguished Professor at UCSD, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for coding techniques for digital recording.

Paul H. Taghert

Paul H. Taghert is an American neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis known for defining the neuropeptide PDF's role in the fruit fly circadian clock.

Paul Haggis

Paul Edward Haggis, Canadian screenwriter and director born 1953 in London, Ontario; creator of Due South, writer of Million Dollar Baby and Casino Royale, Oscar-winning director of Crash.

Oct 21, 2026

Paul Hait

Paul Hait (Paul William Hait, born 25 May 1940, Pasadena) is an American breaststroke swimmer, 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay with world records in heats and final, later a klystron-tube engineer with 70-plus patents.

Paul Halmos

Paul Halmos (1916–2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who worked in probability and operator theory on Hilbert space, and became a famous expositor through textbooks like Naive Set Theory.

Paul Hamm

Paul Hamm (born 1982, Ashland, Wisconsin), American artistic gymnast; first U.S. man to win Olympic all-around gold (2004 Athens, by 0.012) and 2003 world champion; 2008 team withdrawal after hand injury.