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Paul Mauser
Paul Mauser, also known as Peter Paul von Mauser, was a German gunsmith and rifle designer whose Model 71 and Gewehr 98 became standard infantry rifles worldwide.
Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky (Irwin Mazursky, 1930-2014), American writer-director-actor of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman, and Enemies, A Love Story; five Oscar nominations, two WGA Awards, Brooklyn College graduate.
Paul McBeth
Paul McBeth, PDGA #27523, American professional disc golfer from Huntington Beach, California; multi-time world champion, holder of the 1132-rated record round, $10M Discraft contract, and founder of the Paul McBeth Foundation.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney (Sir James Paul McCartney), born 1942 in Liverpool, is the Beatles' bassist and Lennon-McCartney co-songwriter, founder of Wings, and a 19-time Grammy winner who continues to release albums and tour.
Paul McCartney and Wings
Paul McCartney and Wings (Wings), British rock band formed 1971 by Paul and Linda McCartney and Denny Laine; seven studio albums, hits Band on the Run, Live and Let Die, Mull of Kintyre; dissolved 1981.
Paul McDonald (musician)
Paul McDonald (William Paul McDonald), Alabama-born, East Nashville singer-songwriter; American Idol season 10 eighth-place finalist (2011), frontman of The Grand Magnolias and The Mourning Doves; albums Modern Hearts (2018) and So Long to the Dark Side (2025).
Paul McEuen
Paul L. McEuen is an American condensed matter physicist at Cornell University, known for carbon nanotube and graphene device physics and for building the smallest walking robots.
Paul McGann
Paul McGann (born 1959), English actor of film, TV, stage and audio; the 'I' of Withnail and I and the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, later 70+ Big Finish audio dramas.
Paul McGrath (footballer)
Paul McGrath, Irish central defender for Manchester United, Aston Villa, and the Republic of Ireland; 83 caps, 1990 and 1994 World Cups, famed for marking Baggio in 1994; autobiographies Back from the Brink and Ooh Aah Paul McGrath.
Paul McGuigan (musician)
Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan (born 1971, Manchester) is an English bassist and founding member of Oasis, playing bass 1991–1999 on Definitely Maybe, Morning Glory, and Be Here Now; he quit by fax in 1999 and was later confirmed for Rock Hall induction with Oasis.
Paul McKeigue
Paul McKeigue is a physician-scientist and professor of genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics at the University of Edinburgh since 2007, known for his 1991 Lancet study of insulin resistance in South Asians.
Paul McKercher
Paul McKercher, Australian music recordist, producer and mixer; five-time ARIA Award winner (Engineer of the Year 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004; Producer of the Year 2004) known for Augie March, You Am I, Eskimo Joe and over 50 albums.
Paul McShane (footballer)
Paul McShane (born 1986, Wicklow) is an Irish former centre-back; Manchester United youth, West Brom, Sunderland, Hull City, Reading; 33 Republic of Ireland caps; retired 2022, now a United academy and Ireland U21 coach.
Paul McStay
Paul McStay (born 1964, Hamilton, Scotland), nicknamed The Maestro, one-club Celtic midfielder 1981-1997, 677 appearances, 72 goals, captain from 1990, 76 Scotland caps, World Cups 1986 and 1990.
Paul McWilliams
Paul McWilliams is a Northern Irish engineer who co-founded the Belfast social media analytics start-up Yedup and is now Chief Data & Digital Officer at the Public Health Agency.
Paul Meakin
Paul Meakin is an English-born physicist known for simulations and experiments on fractal aggregation, multifractals, and avalanche dynamics in rice piles and other granular materials.
Paul Meier (statistician)
Paul Meier (1924–2011) was an American statistician who co-developed the Kaplan–Meier estimator, the standard method for estimating survival from incomplete medical data, and championed randomized clinical trials.
Paul Mendy
Paul Mendy (born 2007, Rufisque, Senegal) is a Senegalese left-footed striker for Cagliari in Serie A; debuted March 20, 2026 vs Napoli, 15 goals in 29 Primavera 1 games in 2025/26, Cagliari starter in 2026/27.
Paul Merage
Paul Merage is an Iranian-American businessman who co-founded the frozen-food company Chef America with his brother David and sold it to Nestlé for $2.6 billion in 2002.
Paul Mercurio
Paul Mercurio (Paul Joseph Mercurio, born 1963) is an Australian dancer, actor, TV presenter, and politician, star of Strictly Ballroom (1992) and since 2022 the Labor member for Hastings in the Victorian Parliament.
Paul Meredith
Paul Meredith is a materials physicist who has been Professor of Materials Physics at Swansea University since 2017, working on perovskite solar cells and bioelectronics.
Paul Merson
Paul Merson (born 1968, Northolt) is an English former footballer and Sky Sports pundit. Arsenal legend with two league titles, 21 England caps; later known for gambling addiction advocacy and books including Hooked.
Paul Merton
Paul Merton (born Paul Martin, 1957) is an English improvisational comedian and comedy historian, Comedy Store Players member since 1985, team captain on Have I Got News For You since 1990, regular on Just a Minute since 1989, and host of TV's Room 101.
Paul Mescal
Paul Mescal (born 1996) is an Irish actor from Maynooth, known for Connell in Normal People, his Oscar-nominated lead in Aftersun, the Olivier-winning Streetcar, Gladiator II, Hamnet, and playing Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes' Beatles films.
Paul Michael Glaser
Paul Michael Glaser (born 1943) is an American actor and director, Detective Dave Starsky on Starsky & Hutch (1975–79), later director of The Running Man and Kazaam, and chairman of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Paul Michael Stephani
Paul Michael Stephani (September 8, 1944 – June 12, 1998), the "Weepy Voiced Killer," was a Minnesota serial killer who murdered three women and attacked two others in the Twin Cities, 1980–1982, tearfully reporting his crimes to 911 until his voice was recognized after his final attack.
Paul Millsap
Paul Millsap, NBA forward (2006-2022), four-time All-Star with the Atlanta Hawks; 47th pick in 2006 from Louisiana Tech; also played for Utah, Denver, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia; retired 2024.
Paul Milly
Paul Milly is an American hydrologist who showed that climate change is already altering streamflow and flood risk, and declared in 2008 that "stationarity is dead".
Paul Mischel
Paul Mischel is an American physician-scientist in cancer genetics who co-founded the oncology company Boundless Bio, is Professor of Pathology at Stanford, and studies extrachromosomal DNA in cancer.
Paul Mitchell (hairdresser)
Paul Mitchell, born Cyril Thomson Mitchell (1936–1989), was a Scottish-born hairdresser, one of London's best-known stylists in the 1960s, who co-founded John Paul Mitchell Systems in 1980.