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Paul M. Naghdi

Paul M. Naghdi (1924–1994) was an Iranian-born engineering scientist and professor at UC Berkeley for 36 years, known for shell theory, plasticity, and the 1980 Timoshenko Medal.

Paul M. O’Byrne

Paul M. O'Byrne is an Irish-born Canadian physician-scientist at McMaster University whose research established airway inflammation as central to asthma, and who led the SYGMA trials changing mild asthma treatment.

Paul M. Ricker

Paul M. Ricker is a computational astrophysicist, professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who studies galaxy clusters, supernovae, and gravitational waves.

Paul M. Ridker

Paul M. Ridker is an American cardiovascular researcher, Eugene Braunwald Professor at Harvard Medical School, who established the role of inflammation in heart disease prevention and treatment.

Paul M. Sharp

Paul M. Sharp is a molecular evolutionary geneticist at the University of Edinburgh known for the codon adaptation index and for tracing the origins of HIV and malaria.

Paul M. Stewart

Paul M. Stewart is a British endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Leeds, known for research on corticosteroid hormones, Cushing's syndrome, and hypertension.

Paul M. Tedrow

Paul M. Tedrow is a physicist who, with Robert Meservey at MIT, discovered spin-polarized electron tunneling in 1970, work honored with the 2009 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Paul M. Thompson

Paul M. Thompson is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California who co-founded the ENIGMA Consortium, a worldwide alliance of brain-imaging scientists studying brain diseases.

Paul M. Wassarman

Paul M. Wassarman is a reproductive biologist and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for identifying the egg coat glycoproteins ZP1, ZP2, and ZP3.

Paul Madera

Paul Madera is an American venture capitalist who co-founded the late-stage firm Meritech Capital Partners in 1999, best known for early investments in Salesforce and Facebook.

Paul Magloire

Paul Eugène Magloire was a Haitian army officer and politician who served as president of Haiti from 1950 to 1956, presiding over economic modernization backed by the United States.

Paul Magnette

Paul Magnette is a Belgian politician serving as president of the Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste, PS); he previously was Minister of Climate and Energy and Minister-President of the Walloon Region.

Paul Malakwen Kosgei

Paul Malakwen Kosgei (born 1978) is a Kenyan distance runner, 2002 World Half Marathon champion, former 25 km road world record holder (1:12:45, Berlin 2004), and half marathon runner of 59:07; distinct from Sammy Kosgei and Brigid Kosgei.

Paul Malliavin

Paul Malliavin (1925–2010) was a French mathematician at Pierre and Marie Curie University who founded Malliavin calculus, giving a probabilistic proof of Hörmander's hypoellipticity theorem.

Paul Manafort

Paul Manafort, American Republican consultant and lobbyist, Trump's 2016 campaign chairman; advised Ukraine's pro-Russian Party of Regions, convicted 2018 of tax and bank fraud, later pardoned by Trump.

Paul Manning

Paul Manning (born 1974, Sutton Coldfield) is a British track cyclist and coach; Olympic team pursuit bronze 2000, silver 2004, gold 2008, three world titles, later coached GB, New Zealand, and USA Cycling women's endurance squads.

Paul Marasco

Paul Marasco is an American neuroscientist and biomedical engineer who heads the Laboratory for Bionic Integration at Cleveland Clinic and directs amputee research at the Cleveland VA, restoring touch to prosthetic limbs.

Paul Marcarelli

Paul Marcarelli (born 1970) is an American actor and screenwriter best known as the "Test Man" in Verizon Wireless commercials, later becoming a Sprint spokesman in 2016.

Paul Mariner

Paul Mariner (1953-2021), English centre-forward for Plymouth Argyle, Ipswich Town (FA Cup 1978, UEFA Cup 1981), Arsenal and England (35 caps, 13 goals, 1982 World Cup); later coached New England Revolution, Plymouth and Toronto FC.

Paul Mark

Paul Mark is an American Democratic politician who was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 2022 after twelve years in the state House representing the 2nd Berkshire district.

Paul Marshall (investor)

Sir Paul Marshall is a British investor who co-founded and leads the hedge fund Marshall Wace, started with Ian Wace in 1997, and bought The Spectator magazine in 2024.

Paul Martin

Paul Martin (born 1938, Windsor, Ontario), 21st Prime Minister of Canada (2003–2006) and finance minister 1993–2002 under Chrétien; eliminated the $42 billion deficit with the 1995 budget cuts.

Paul Martin (TV presenter)

Paul Martin (born 1959, Teddington), British antiques dealer and TV presenter, main presenter of BBC's Flog It! for 18 years; also Trust Me, I'm a Dealer and Make Me A Dealer; oak furniture specialist, distinct from the Japanese sword expert of the same name.

Paul Martin Rade

Paul Martin Rade (1857–1940) was a German Protestant systematic theologian who taught at Marburg and edited Die Christliche Welt, a main organ of culture Protestantism.

Paul Mashatile

Paul Shipokosa Mashatile, born in 1961, is a South African ANC politician who has served as Deputy President of South Africa since 2024, after a first term from 2023.

Paul Mason (journalist)

Paul Mason (born 1960, Leigh, Greater Manchester) is a British journalist and author, former economics editor of BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News, best known for Postcapitalism (2015) and #ThisIsACoup; freelance since 2016, now a defence-policy writer.

Paul Masson

Paul Masson (Paul Michel Pierre Adrien Masson, later Paul Nossam), French track cyclist born 1876 in Mostaganem, won three golds at the 1896 Athens Olympics in the sprint, one-lap time trial, and 10,000 metres, then placed third in the 1897 world professional sprint championship.

Paul Matsudaira

Paul Matsudaira is an American cell biologist known for work on the actin cytoskeleton, 23 years at MIT and Whitehead, and cofounding Singapore's Mechanobiology Institute in 2009.

Paul Mattick

Paul Mattick (1904–1981), German-born American machinist and council communist theorist; author of Marx and Keynes (1969); critiqued the USSR as state capitalism and applied Grossman's crisis theory.

Paul Maurice

Paul Maurice, Canadian NHL head coach from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, coaching Florida Panthers since 2022; won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2024 and 2025 after earlier stints with Hartford/Carolina, Toronto, and Winnipeg.