All articles starting with P

Paul Lazar

Paul Lazar (born 1955) is an American actor and director who co-founded Big Dance Theater in 1991 and has appeared in more than 30 feature films.

Paul Lazarsfeld was an Austrian-born American sociologist who taught at Columbia University from 1940 to 1969, where his classic research on mass media influence and voting behavior founded modern survey research.

Paul Le Mat

Paul Le Mat, American actor (born Rahway, New Jersey; year disputed, 1945/1946 or 1952), played John Milner in American Graffiti (1973) and Melvin Dummar in Melvin and Howard (1980); two Golden Globe Awards.

Paul Le Roux

Paul Calder Le Roux, born 1972, is a former programmer who wrote the disk-encryption software E4M, the code base for TrueCrypt, before running a global criminal drug enterprise.

Paul Lebeau

Paul Lebeau (Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau, 1868–1959) was a French inorganic chemist known for fluorine chemistry, including sulfur hexafluoride, discovered with Henri Moissan in 1900, and bromine trifluoride.

Paul Ledoux

Paul Ledoux (1914–1988) was a Belgian astrophysicist at the University of Liège whose Ledoux criterion, semi-convection concept, and rotational-splitting relation remain central to stellar astrophysics.

Sep 27, 2026

Paul Lee (Alabama politician)

Paul Lee is an American politician and Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives representing Dothan since 2010, elected House Majority Leader in February 2026.

Paul Lehner

Paul J. Lehner is a clinician scientist and Professor of Immunology at Cambridge, known for work on viral immune evasion and for discovering the HUSH epigenetic silencing complex.

Paul LePage

Paul LePage (born 1948) is a Republican businessman and former two-term governor of Maine (2011-2019), previously Marden's general manager and Waterville mayor; he lost the 2022 governor's race to Janet Mills and is the 2026 GOP nominee for Maine's 2nd Congressional District against Matt Dunlap.

Paul Leyland

Paul Leyland is a computing researcher known for integer factorization and prime-number searches, a former Cunningham Project maintainer, namesake of Leyland numbers, and co-author of the record RSA-140 factorization.

Paul Lichtenstein

Paul Lichtenstein is a Swedish genetic epidemiologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for the 2012 New England Journal of Medicine study linking ADHD medication to lower criminality.

Paul Lieberstein

Paul Bevan Lieberstein (born 1967) is an American TV writer, showrunner, director, and actor; showrunner of The Office and portrayer of Toby Flenderson, later of Lucky Hank, Song of Back and Neck, and Space Force.

Paul Lim

Paul Lim (Paul Lim Leong Hwa, born 1954), the Singapore Slinger, is a Singaporean darts player who threw the first World Championship nine-dart finish in 1990 and, at 71, became the oldest PDC World Championship match winner.

Paul Linford Richards

Paul Linford Richards (1934–2024) was an American experimental physicist at UC Berkeley who built sensitive far-infrared detectors and measured the cosmic microwave background, the Big Bang's leftover radiation.

Paul Little (physician)

Paul Little is a British general practitioner and Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Southampton, known for trials reducing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections.

Paul Lobstein

Paul Lobstein (1850–1922) was a French Protestant theologian who spent his career at Strasbourg, held its chair of Lutheran dogmatics, led the Ritschlian school in French, and reorganized the faculty after 1918.

Paul London

Paul London (born 1980, Austin, Texas) is an American high-flying professional wrestler, ROH early mainstay, and former WWE Cruiserweight and Tag Team Champion with Billy Kidman and Brian Kendrick, still active on the independent circuit.

Paul Loubeyre

Paul Loubeyre (born 1958) is a French high-pressure physicist, a senior fellow at the CEA known for his 2020 synchrotron evidence of metallic hydrogen near 425 GPa.

Sep 27, 2026

Paul Lowe

Paul A. Lowe, Jr is an American Democratic politician and Baptist pastor serving in the North Carolina State Senate from the 32nd district, based in Forsyth County, since 2015.

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881–1954), German Generalfeldmarschall, led Panzergruppe Kleist at Sedan in 1940 and 1st Panzer Army and Army Group A on the Eastern Front; dismissed by Hitler in 1944, he died in Soviet captivity.

Paul Lynde

Paul Edward Lynde (1926–1982), American comedian and actor, Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and the campy regular center square of the original Hollywood Squares from 1968 to 1981, with Emmy nominations for the show.

Paul M. Aggeler

Paul M. Aggeler (1911–1969) was an American hematologist and professor of medicine at UCSF who discovered Factor IX deficiency, now called hemophilia B, and first described hereditary warfarin resistance.

Paul M. Anderson

Paul M. Anderson (1926–2011) was an American electrical engineer, a professor at Iowa State University, and author of standard textbooks on power system analysis and stability.

Paul M. Bingham

Paul M. Bingham is a retired Associate Professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Stony Brook University, known for Drosophila transposable-element research and for developing the anti-cancer drug CPI-613, or devimistat.

Paul M. Cook

Paul M. Cook (1924–2020) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded Raychem Corporation in 1957, commercializing radiation chemistry, and won the National Medal of Technology in 1988.

Paul M. Densen

Paul M. Densen (1913–2012) was an American health services researcher and statistician who founded and led Harvard's Center for Community Health and Medical Care for 20 years.

Paul M. Hwang

Paul M. Hwang is an American physician-scientist who leads the Cardiovascular and Cancer Genetics laboratory at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, studying p53 and mitochondrial metabolism in cancer.

Paul M. Lieberman

Paul M. Lieberman is an American virologist and epigenetics researcher at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia who studies latent Epstein-Barr virus infection and EBNA1 inhibitors.

Paul M. Macdonald

Paul M. Macdonald, born in Denver in 1955, is an American molecular biologist at UT Austin known for his work on bicoid and oskar mRNA localization in fruit flies.