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Paul Hardcastle

Paul Hardcastle (born 1957, London) is a British keyboardist and producer behind the 1985 sampling hit "19" and the Jazzmasters smooth-jazz series; also composer of the Top of the Pops theme "The Wizard".

Paul Harnik

Paul Harnik is an American paleobiologist and Associate Professor at Colgate University who studies what makes marine organisms vulnerable to extinction, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.

Paul Harris (Rotary)

Paul Harris (1868 to 1947) was an American lawyer in Chicago who founded Rotary at a four-man meeting in 1905 and served as its president from 1910 to 1912.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul Harrison (psychiatrist)

Paul J. Harrison (born 1960) is a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford since 2000, known for research on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and COVID-19.

Paul Harteck

Paul Harteck (1902–1985) was an Austrian-German physical chemist who co-produced tritium in the first fusion reaction and pioneered uranium centrifuge enrichment in Germany's nuclear project.

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey (born Paul Harvey Aurandt, 1918-2009) was an American radio broadcaster for ABC whose News and Comment and The Rest of the Story reached about 24 million weekly listeners on 1,200-plus stations, winning the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Paul Hausser

Paul Hausser (1880–1972), German Reichswehr generalleutnant turned SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, built Waffen-SS officer training, led Das Reich and II SS Panzer Corps, and later championed Waffen-SS rehabilitation through HIAG.

Paul Heaton

Paul Heaton (Paul David Heaton), born 1962 in Bromborough, England, is the English songwriter who fronted the Housemartins ("Happy Hour") and the Beautiful South, then went solo and teamed with Jacqui Abbott for No. 1 albums Manchester Calling and N.K-Pop; his 23rd album Jenius is due August 2026.

Paul Heckingbottom

Paul Heckingbottom (born 1977, Barnsley) is an English football manager and former player who managed Barnsley, Leeds, Hibernian, Sheffield United, and Preston, winning promotion with Barnsley in 2016 and Sheffield United in 2023.

Paul Heinrich von Groth

Paul Heinrich von Groth (1843–1927) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer who founded Zeitschrift für Kristallographie in 1877 and explained how chemical composition relates to crystal structure.

Paul Heller

Paul Heller (1914–2001) was a Czech-born American hematologist, Auschwitz survivor, and University of Illinois professor whose 1979 New England Journal study established the clinical benignity of sickle-cell trait.

Paul Hellyer

Paul Hellyer (Paul Theodore Hellyer) was a Canadian politician and engineer who as defence minister from 1963 unified the Canadian Armed Forces, and later advocated UFO theories.

Paul Henreid

Paul Henreid (1908–1992), Austrian-American actor and director, born Paul Georg Julius von Hernreid in Trieste; famous as Victor Laszlo in Casablanca and Bette Davis's two-cigarette partner in Now, Voyager; blacklisted in 1947, he became a prolific TV director.

Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant

Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant was a French diplomat and parliamentarian who won the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize for his leading role in the international peace and arbitration movement.

Paul Henry (actor)

Paul Henry is an English actor and presenter known for New Zealand breakfast television and various hosting duties, who launched a political career as an Act Party candidate in 2026.

Paul Heremans

Paul Heremans (Paul L. Heremans) is an electrical engineer who became corporate chief technology officer at imec in Leuven in 2025 and is a full professor at KU Leuven.

Paul Herget

Paul Herget (1908–1981) was an American astronomer at the University of Cincinnati who founded and directed the IAU's Minor Planet Center from 1947 to 1978, rebuilding worldwide asteroid tracking after World War II.

Paul Hess

Paul Hess is a French chemist credited, alongside Georges Claude, with the 1896 discovery that acetone dissolves large quantities of acetylene and that the solution is not explosive.

Paul Hester

Paul Hester, born Paul Newell Hester, was an Australian drummer who played with Split Enz and co-founded Crowded House in 1985 before becoming a television personality.

Paul Heyman

Paul Heyman, wrestling manager, promoter, and WWE Hall of Famer (Class of 2024); built ECW from Eastern Championship Wrestling from 1993, later Brock Lesnar's advocate and Roman Reigns's Wiseman, now Oracle to Seth Rollins.

Paul Heyse

Paul Heyse (1830–1914) was a German poet, novelist, and translator based in Munich who received the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote the novella L'Arrabbiata.

Oct 21, 2026

Paul Hildgartner

Paul-Peter Hildgartner (born 1952, Chienes, Italy), Italian luger; Olympic doubles gold 1972 with Walter Plaikner, singles silver 1980, singles gold 1984; 1978 world champion; FIL Hall of Fame 2004.

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), German composer, violist, and theorist of Neue Sachlichkeit and Gebrauchsmusik; wrote Mathis der Maler, Ludus Tonalis, and The Craft of Musical Composition; taught at Yale and Zurich after Nazi-era exile.

Paul Ho

Paul Ho, also known as Paul T. P. Ho (賀曾樸), is a Taiwanese-American radio and submillimeter astronomer known for interferometry, star formation, and the Event Horizon Telescope.

Paul Hogan

Paul Hogan (born 8 October 1939), nicknamed Hoges, is an Australian comedian and actor known as Mick Dundee in Crocodile Dundee (1986), after The Paul Hogan Show and the 'shrimp on the barbie' tourism ads.

Paul Hollywood

Paul Hollywood, also known as Paul John Hollywood, is an English artisan baker and television personality, judge on The Great British Bake Off since 2010 and originator of the Hollywood handshake.

Sep 27, 2026

Paul Honig

Paul Honig is an American Democratic politician and Connecticut state senator for the 8th district, first elected in 2024 as the district's first Democrat since 1967.

Paul Horn (physicist)

Paul Horn is an American condensed matter physicist who directed IBM Research from 1996 to 2007 and later served as Senior Vice Provost for Research at NYU.

Paul Hornung

Paul Hornung, "The Golden Boy" (1935–2020), Notre Dame halfback and 1956 Heisman winner from a losing team; Green Bay Packers first overall pick, 1961 NFL MVP, 1963 gambling suspension, Hall of Fame 1986.