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Paul Nicholls (actor)

Paul Nicholls (actor), born Gerard Paul Greenhalgh in 1979 in Bolton, England, played Joe Wicks in EastEnders 1996-1997 and 2024, later DS Sam Casey in Law & Order: UK and Steve Bell in Ackley Bridge.

Paul Niggli

Paul Niggli (1888–1953) was a Swiss crystallographer, mineralogist, and petrologist who, as professor at the ETH Zurich from 1920 until his death, founded the Zürich crystallographic school and originated space-group determination from X-ray data.

Paul Nihill

Paul Nihill (Vincent Paul Nihill, 1939-2020), British race walker; Olympic 50km silver Tokyo 1964, European 20km champion 1969, four-time Olympian, 20km world best 1:24:50 in 1972.

Paul Nizan

Paul Nizan (Paul-Yves Nizan) was a French writer and philosopher, a friend of Sartre, who broke with the Communist Party in 1939 and died at Dunkirk in 1940.

Paul Nolley

Paul Nolley is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Illinois's 16th District in 2026, facing incumbent Republican Rep. Darin LaHood.

Paul Nurse

Sir Paul Nurse, born in 1949, is a British cell biologist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering protein molecules that control cell division.

Paul Nuttall

Paul Nuttall (born 1976, Liverpool), also Paul Andrew Nuttall, is a British politician: UKIP MEP for North West England 2009–2019, UKIP leader November 2016–June 2017 who lost the 2017 Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election, and Reform UK vice chairman since July 2025.

Paul O. P. Ts’o

Paul O. P. Ts'o (曹安邦, born 1929 in Hong Kong, died 2009) was a Chinese-born American biophysical chemist at Johns Hopkins known for hamster-cell carcinogenesis studies and Matagen, an early gene-targeting concept.

Paul O. Wennberg

Paul O. Wennberg is an American atmospheric chemist, the R. Stanton Avery Professor at Caltech since 1998, known for radical measurements and greenhouse-gas tracking systems.

Paul O’Connor

Paul W. O'Connor is a Canadian neurologist and clinical epidemiologist who led pivotal multiple sclerosis trials, including the 2003 natalizumab and 2011 TEMSO teriflunomide trials.

Paul O'Donovan

Paul O'Donovan (born 1994) is an Irish rower from Skibbereen, County Cork, the only Irish athlete to medal at three Olympics, with two lightweight double sculls golds.

Paul O'Grady

Paul O'Grady (1955–2023), also known as Lily Savage, English comedian and TV presenter who rose to fame as his drag persona, hosted The Paul O'Grady Show, Blankety Blank, and Blind Date, and championed animal welfare through Battersea.

Paul O'Neill (baseball)

Paul O'Neill (baseball), 'The Warrior', born 1963, right fielder for Cincinnati Reds 1985-92 and New York Yankees 1993-2001; five World Series rings, 1994 AL batting title (.359), 281 career home runs, No. 21 retired by Yankees in 2022.

Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold (born 1963, London) is an English trance DJ and producer, co-founder of Perfecto Records (1989), creator of the 1994 Goa Mix and Tranceport, remixer for U2 and Madonna, and two-time DJ Mag #1.

Paul of Aleppo

Paul of Aleppo (Павел Алеппский) was a Syrian archdeacon of the Church of Antioch, author of a valued travel account of seventeenth-century Russia and Ukraine.

Paul of Greece

Paul of Greece (Παύλος, 1901–1964), King of the Hellenes 1947–1964, third son of Constantine I, husband of Frederica of Hanover; reigned through the civil war, NATO accession 1952, and conflict with Karamanlis, succeeded by Constantine II.

Paul of the Cross

Paul of the Cross, born Paolo Francesco Danei, was an Italian Catholic mystic who founded the Passionists and was canonized by Pius IX in 1867.

Paul Ohodnicki

Paul R. Ohodnicki Jr. is an American materials scientist and engineer known for harsh-environment optical fiber sensors and magnetic nanocrystalline materials, who received a PECASE award at NETL.

Paul Onuachu

Paul Onuachu (Ebere Paul Onuachu, born 1994), Nigerian 201 cm forward; 33-goal Belgian Golden Shoe season with Genk in 2020-21, later Southampton, then Trabzonspor's 2025-26 Süper Lig top scorer.

Paul Orndorff

Paul Orndorff, "Mr. Wonderful" (1949–2021), American pro wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer; headlined WrestleMania I with Roddy Piper, feuded with Hulk Hogan, won WCW TV and tag titles, trained at WCW Power Plant.

Paul Owren

Paul Arnor Owren (1905–1990) was a Norwegian physician and professor at the University of Oslo who discovered coagulation Factor V and developed the Thrombotest method.

Paul P. Carbone

Paul P. Carbone was an American medical oncologist who helped develop MOPP and CMF chemotherapy, led ECOG, shared the 1972 Lasker Award, and directed the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Paul P. Lee

Paul P. Lee, full name Paul Pue-Jung Lee, is an American ophthalmologist and health-services researcher at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Paul Painlevé

Paul Painlevé (1863–1933) was a French mathematician and statesman who discovered the Painlevé transcendents and served twice as prime minister of France, in 1917 and 1925.

Paul Pascal

Paul Pascal (1880–1968) was a French chemist considered the father of magnetochemistry, known for the Pascal constants, an additive scheme for diamagnetic susceptibility still in routine use.

Paul Pate

Paul Pate is an American Republican politician serving as Iowa Secretary of State, an office he previously held from 1995 to 1999, and a former Mayor of Cedar Rapids.

Paul Pelosi

Paul Francis Pelosi (born 1940) is a San Francisco investor and real estate owner, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; head of Financial Leasing Services, subject of stock-trading debate, victim of the 2022 hammer attack.

Paul Pena

Paul Pena (1950-2005), also called Paul "Earthquake" Pena, was a blind San Francisco blues singer-songwriter who wrote "Jet Airliner" and taught himself Tuvan throat singing, winning the 1995 kargyraa division in Kyzyl, subject of Genghis Blues.

Paul Penfield Jr.

Paul Penfield Jr. (1933–2021) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who led the EECS department from 1989 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Paul Penna

Paul Penna (1922–1996) was a Canadian mining executive who led Agnico Eagle Mines for 33 years, building the former Cobalt silver company into a low-cost gold producer.