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Paul Perquer
Paul Perquer (Paul Eugène Célestin Perquer, 1859-1914), French sailor; won 1900 Paris Olympic gold in the 10-20 Tons class aboard Estérel with Émile Billard, winning two of three aggregate races.
Paul Peschisolido
Paul Peschisolido (Paolo Pasquale Peschisolido, born 1971, Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian former forward, 53 caps and 10 goals for Canada, 2000 Gold Cup winner, Fulham's £1.1m signing, later Burton Albion manager.
Paul Peter Ewald
Paul Peter Ewald (1888–1985) was a German physicist and crystallographer who gave the first rigorous explanation of X-ray diffraction and founded the International Union of Crystallography.
Paul Petersen
Paul Petersen (William Paul Petersen, born 1945, Glendale, California) is an American actor, singer, novelist, and child-actor advocate, known as Jeff Stone on The Donna Reed Show and founder of A Minor Consideration.
Paul Pholeros
Paul Pholeros (1953–2016) was an Australian architect who co-founded Healthabitat and developed Housing for Health, repairing health hardware in Indigenous houses and cutting infectious-disease hospitalizations 40%.
Paul Pierce
Paul Pierce, "The Truth," is a Hall of Fame small forward born 1977 in Oakland; drafted 10th in 1998, he starred 15 seasons with the Boston Celtics, won the 2008 title and Finals MVP, and scored 26,397 points.
Paul Pierre Lévy
Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971) was a French mathematician who became a major contributor to modern probability theory, working on stable laws, martingales, and Brownian motion.
Paul Piff
Paul K. Piff is an American social psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, best known for a 2012 study linking higher social class to more unethical behavior.
Paul Pilgrim
Paul Pilgrim (Paul Harry Pilgrim, 1883-1958), American NYAC runner; won the 400m and 800m double at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens and 1904 four-mile team race gold, repeated only by Juantorena in 1976.
Paul Pogba
Paul Pogba (born 1993) is a French midfielder, 2018 World Cup winner, four-time Serie A champion with Juventus, and Manchester United's record £89m signing; banned 18 months for DHEA, briefly returned with Monaco before contract termination in August 2026.
Paul Poiret
Paul Poiret (1879–1944), French couturier called the King of Fashion and Le Magnifique, freed women's dress from the corset around 1906, pioneered draping-based modern silhouettes, and built a lifestyle empire of perfume and decorative arts.
Paul Pope
Paul Pope (born 1970) is an American cartoonist and designer in New York City, creator of THB, Heavy Liquid, 100%, Batman: Year 100, and Battling Boy; Reuben and Eisner Award winner, distinct from the British photographer Paul Pope of Birmingham.
Paul Porter (video game developer)
Paul Reginald Porter is a British video game developer who co-founded Sumo Digital in Sheffield in 2003 and later became Chief Operating Officer of Sumo Group.
Paul Portier (French physiologist)
Paul Portier (1866–1962) was a French physiologist who co-discovered anaphylaxis with Charles Richet in 1902, first applied the endosymbiotic idea to mitochondria in his 1918 book Les Symbiotes, and taught comparative physiology at the Sorbonne.
Paul Posluszny
Paul Posluszny, born 1984, Penn State linebacker, two-time Bednarik and 2005 Butkus winner, 2024 College Football Hall of Fame; 11 NFL seasons with Bills and Jaguars, 2013 Pro Bowl.
Paul Potts
Paul Potts (born 1970, Kingswood, Bristol) is a British tenor, winner of the first Britain's Got Talent in 2007 with Nessun Dorma; debut album One Chance topped charts in 13 countries and inspired the 2013 film One Chance.
Paul Poulet
Paul Poulet (died 1946) was a self-taught Belgian number theorist whose name attaches to Poulet numbers, base-2 pseudoprimes, and the first sociable numbers, published in 1918.
Paul Prenter
Paul Prenter (1946-1991), Belfast radio DJ and Freddie Mercury's personal manager 1977-1986, sold Mercury's private story to The Sun in 1987 for £32,000; later the villain of the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody.
Paul Probst
Paul Probst: name of two Swiss Olympians, a sport shooter (1869-1945) who won 1900 Paris Olympic gold in the 50 m free pistol team event, and an ice hockey player (born 1950) at the 1972 Winter Olympics.
Paul Prudhomme
Paul Prudhomme (1940-2015), Louisiana chef and founder of K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans, popularized Cajun and Creole cuisine, invented blackened redfish, wrote bestselling cookbooks, and founded Magic Seasoning Blends.
Paul Purcell
Paul E. Purcell was an American investment banker who led Robert W. Baird & Co. as chairman, president, and chief executive officer until his death in 2020.
Paul Quinton
Paul M. Quinton is an American physiologist at the University of California who defined the basic electrolyte defect in cystic fibrosis through experiments on single human sweat ducts.
Paul R. Adams
Paul R. Adams is an American aerospace engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for his leadership on Pratt & Whitney's Geared Turbofan engines.
Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul Ralph Ehrlich (1932–2026), Stanford population biologist, co-developed coevolution theory with Peter Raven and wrote The Population Bomb (1968), the bestselling overpopulation warning that founded Zero Population Growth but whose famine predictions failed.
Paul R. Gray
Paul R. Gray is an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley known for analog integrated circuit design and the standard textbook with Robert G. Meyer.
Paul R. Milgrom
Paul R. Milgrom, also known as Paul Milgrom, is an American economist at Stanford who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for auction theory.
Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano
Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano is Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, known for cytochrome P450 mechanisms, heme oxygenase, and tuberculosis drug targets.
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne is an American geochronologist who founded the Berkeley Geochronology Center and teaches at UC Berkeley, known for argon dating of the Siberian Traps and the dinosaur-killing extinction.
Paul R. Riley
Paul R. Riley is a British developmental and cardiovascular biologist, BHF Professor of Regenerative Medicine at Oxford, known for work on reactivating the adult heart's epicardium after heart attack.
Paul R. Rosenbaum
Paul R. Rosenbaum is a statistician and emeritus professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, who co-invented the propensity score with Donald B. Rubin and developed methods for observational studies.