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Paul K. Whelton
Paul K. Whelton (Paul Whelton) is an Irish-born American physician-scientist at Tulane University who led NIH trials including SPRINT and chaired the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline redefining high blood pressure.
Paul K. Wright
Paul K. Wright is a British-born mechanical engineer and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for the first open-architecture control of manufacturing systems, the CyberCut CAD/CAM project, and energy-scavenging research for the Internet of Things.
Paul Kaesberg
Paul Kaesberg (1923–2010) was a German-born American biophysicist and virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked out the structure of small RNA viruses, especially brome mosaic virus.
Paul Kafeero
Paul Kafeero, also known as Paul Job Kafeero, was a Ugandan kadongo kamu singer-songwriter and guitarist whose narrative Luganda songs like Walumbe Zzaaya (1994) defined the genre.
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame, Rwandan president since 2000 and former RPF commander who ended the 1994 genocide; re-elected 2024 with 99.1%, term limits scrapped to 2034, disputed M23 role in DR Congo.
Paul Kalanithi
Paul Kalanithi (1977-2015), American neurosurgeon at Stanford, author of the posthumous memoir When Breath Becomes Air, written after his stage IV EGFR-positive lung cancer diagnosis; Pulitzer finalist and No. 1 NYT bestseller.
Paul Kalkbrenner
Paul Kalkbrenner is a German techno producer and live performer, born in Leipzig in 1977 and raised in Berlin, who performs his melodic music entirely live rather than DJing.
Paul Kallós
Paul Kallós (1902–1988) was a Hungarian-born Swedish physician and allergist who pioneered the concept of pseudo-allergic reactions and founded the International Archives of Allergy and Applied Immunology.
Paul Kanitra
Paul Kanitra is an American Republican politician serving in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 10th district, after serving as Mayor of Point Pleasant Beach from 2020 to 2023.
Paul Kantner
Paul Kantner (1941–2016), American rhythm guitarist, singer, and songwriter; co-founder of Jefferson Airplane (1965) and founder of Jefferson Starship; wrote "Volunteers" and "Wooden Ships"; Rock Hall 1996.
Paul Karason
Paul Karason, the American "Blue Man," developed permanent argyria from drinking homemade colloidal silver daily and died in 2013 at 62; his case publicized FDA warnings about colloidal silver.
Paul Kariya
Paul Kariya (Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya), Canadian left wing born 1974 in Vancouver; 989 points in 989 NHL games with Anaheim, Colorado, Nashville, St. Louis; Hobey Baker 1993; Olympic gold 2002; Hockey Hall of Fame 2017.
Paul Karrer
Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist who established the first known structures of a vitamin and a provitamin, winning the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Kay
Paul Kay, born in 1934, is an American linguist at UC Berkeley known for the 1969 book Basic Color Terms and for Sign-Based Construction Grammar; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Paul Kaye
Paul Kaye, English actor and comedian (born 1965, Clapham, London; some sources say 1964), famous as spoof interviewer Dennis Pennis, Mike Strutter, Thoros of Myr in Game of Thrones, and Olivier-nominated Mr Wormwood in Matilda the Musical.
Paul Keating
Paul Keating (born 1944) is an Australian Labor politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia 1991-1996 and Treasurer 1983-1991; known for economic deregulation, the Native Title Act 1993, the Redfern speech, superannuation reform, and APEC.
Paul Kellerman
Paul Kellerman is a Prison Break character played by Paul Adelstein: a Secret Service agent for Vice President Reynolds, alias Owen Kravecki, who turns against the conspiracy, becomes a congressman, and dies in the 2017 revival.
Paul Kelly (American mathematician)
Paul Joseph Kelly (1915–1995) was an American mathematician at UC Santa Barbara who posed the graph reconstruction conjecture in his 1942 thesis, proved it for trees in 1957, and named Kelly's lemma.
Paul Kelly (Australian musician)
Paul Kelly (born 1955, Adelaide) is an Australian singer-songwriter of about 30 albums, frontman of the Dots, Coloured Girls, and Messengers, writer of "How to Make Gravy" and "From Little Things Big Things Grow", and 2017 Order of Australia recipient.
Paul Kelly (criminal)
Paul Kelly, born Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli (1876-1936), was an Italian-American ex-boxer who led New York's Five Points Gang, allied with Tammany Hall's Big Tim Sullivan, and rivaled Monk Eastman in the 1903 Rivington Street gunfight.
Paul Kemsley
Paul Kemsley (PK), British property developer; Tottenham Hotspur non-executive vice-chairman 2006-2007; £500m Rock empire collapsed 2009; revived New York Cosmos with Pele and Cantona; The Apprentice panelist.
Paul Khairy
Paul Khairy is a Canadian cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, known for establishing arrhythmias in adult congenital heart disease as a subspecialty.
Paul King (director)
Paul King (born 1978) is a British film director and screenwriter best known for Paddington, Paddington 2, and Wonka, and for directing The Mighty Boosh.
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (1879–1940) was a Swiss-German painter and Bauhaus teacher whose color-centered, small-scale work, shaped by his 1914 Tunisia journey, made him a founding figure of classical modernism.
Paul Klein (musician)
Paul Jason Klein, American musician and former model, lead singer and guitarist of indie-pop band LANY (Los Angeles New York), formed 2014 in Nashville; debut album LANY (2017), later Malibu Nights, Mama's Boy, and Soft (2025).
Paul Klemperer
Paul Klemperer is an economist and Oxford's Edgeworth Professor of Economics since 1995, best known for auction theory, the UK 3G auction, and the Product-Mix Auction.
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman is a physician-scientist who holds the Sidney Truelove Professorship of Gastroenterology at Oxford, known for work on T-cell failure in chronic infection and hepatitis C vaccine trials.
Paul Knochel
Paul Knochel (born 1955 in Strasbourg, France) is a French organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at LMU Munich from 1999, known for the Knochel metallizations.
Paul Knoepfler
Paul Knoepfler is an American biologist, a professor of cell biology at the UC Davis School of Medicine, known for research on stem cell epigenetics and his blog The Niche.
Paul Kocher (cryptographer)
Paul Kocher is an American cryptographer who discovered timing attacks and differential power analysis, contributed to SSL 3.0, and founded Cryptography Research, Inc., sold to Rambus in 2011.