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Paul Howard-Flanders
Paul Howard-Flanders was a molecular biologist at Yale University who co-discovered DNA excision repair in the early 1960s and isolated the uvr mutants of E. coli.
Paul Hugh Emmett
Paul Hugh Emmett (1900–1985) was an American chemist whose gas adsorption studies laid the foundation for the BET theory and the standard method for measuring catalyst surface areas.
Paul Hughes (fighter)
Paul "Big News" Hughes is a professional MMA fighter who competes in the PFL lightweight division. Born in Australia, he is a former Cage Warriors champion.
Paul Hunter
Paul Alan Hunter was an English professional snooker player from Leeds who won three Masters titles at Wembley before dying of cancer in 2006, aged 27.
Paul Hymans
Paul Hymans (1865–1941) was a Belgian Liberal politician and diplomat who served as foreign minister and was the first president of the League of Nations Assembly.
Paul I (bishop of Constantinople)
Paul I was a fourth-century bishop of Constantinople who held the see three times between 337 and 351, repeatedly exiled by the Arian emperor Constantius II.
Paul I (pope)
Paul I, pope from 757 to 767, was the brother and immediate successor of Stephen II, the first pope to succeed his brother, and consolidated the Papal States.
Paul I of Russia
Paul I (Павел I, 1754–1801), Emperor of Russia 1796–1801, only legitimate son of Peter III and Catherine II; issued the Pauline succession Laws of 1797, limited corvée, took Malta's grand mastership, and was assassinated in 1801.
Paul I. Terasaki
Paul I. Terasaki (1929–2016) was an American transplant scientist at UCLA whose microcytotoxicity HLA test became the international standard for matching organ donors with recipients.
Paul I's Act of Succession and Coronation Manifesto (1797)
Paul I's Act of Succession and Coronation Manifesto (Учреждение об императорской фамилии) is the 1797 law establishing male-line primogeniture for the Russian throne, in force until 1917.
Paul II
Paul II (Greek Παῦλος, Paulos) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 641 to 653, a defender of the Monothelite policy condemned at the Lateran Council of 649.
Paul III (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople)
Paul III, Greek Paul the New, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 688 until his death in 693 or 694, presiding over the Quinisext Council of 691–692.
Paul Ince
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (born 1967, London), English midfielder for Manchester United, Inter, Liverpool; 52 England caps; first black British Premier League manager at Blackburn 2008; later MK Dons, Blackpool, Reading manager.
Paul Ingrassia (lawyer)
Paul Ingrassia (Paolo Joseph Ingrassia), American attorney, Cornell Law 2022, Trump White House liaison to DOJ and DHS, withdrawn 2025 Office of Special Counsel nominee over racist texts, later GSA acting general counsel.
Paul is dead
"Paul is dead" (PID) is the 1969 urban legend claiming Beatle Paul McCartney died in a November 1966 car crash and was replaced by a lookalike, William Campbell or Billy Shears, with hidden clues on Beatles album covers and reversed recordings; debunked by Life magazine in 1969.
Paul Isberg
Paul Otto Isberg (1882-1955), Swedish navy captain and sailor, won Olympic gold at Stockholm 1912 as crew of the yacht Kitty in the 10-metre class, Sweden's first sailing gold.
Paul IV
Paul IV (Greek: Παῦλος), also called Paul of Cyprus, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 780 to 784, resigning in remorse over his support for iconoclasm.
Paul Ivan Yakovlev
Paul Ivan Yakovlev (1894–1983) was a Russian-born American neuroanatomist, Clinical Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School and founder of a collection of nearly 1,000 brain specimens.
Paul J. Barbadoro
Paul J. Barbadoro (born 1955) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of New Hampshire since 2021.
Paul J. Chirik
Paul J. Chirik, also known as Paul Chirik, is an organometallic chemist at Princeton University known for building catalysts from earth-abundant metals like iron and cobalt.
Paul J. Crutzen
Paul J. Crutzen, also known as Paul Crutzen, was a Dutch atmospheric chemist who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ozone research and coined the term Anthropocene.
Paul J. Dagdigian
Paul J. Dagdigian is a chemical physicist and Emeritus Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for studying gas-phase molecular collision dynamics and laser-based trace detection.
Paul J. Dauenhauer
Paul J. Dauenhauer is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota known for converting biomass into chemicals and winning a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship.
Paul J. Finnegan
Paul J. Finnegan is an American private equity investor who co-founded the Chicago buyout firm Madison Dearborn Partners in 1992 and serves as its Chairman, after ten years at First Chicago Venture Capital.
Paul J. Flory
Paul J. Flory was an American polymer chemist who won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the physical chemistry of macromolecules.
Paul J. Hagerman
Paul J. Hagerman is an American molecular geneticist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis whose research on FMR1 disorders led to the 2001 discovery of FXTAS.
Paul J. Hergenrother
Paul J. Hergenrother is an American chemical biologist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for discovering the antibiotic lolamicin and the anticancer drug candidate PAC-1.
Paul J. Hesketh
Paul J. Hesketh is an American medical oncologist who directs the Lahey Cancer Institute in Massachusetts and shaped the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
Paul J. Hudson
Paul J. Hudson is an American investor who founded Glade Brook Capital Partners in 2011, a Greenwich, Connecticut growth equity firm backing private technology companies like SpaceX, Stripe, and Revolut.
Paul J. J. Hooykaas
Paul J. J. Hooykaas (P. J. J. Hooykaas; born 1951) is a Dutch molecular geneticist and emeritus professor at Leiden University, known for the binary vector system for plant transformation.