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Paul R. Shearing

Paul R. Shearing, also published as Paul Shearing, is a chemical engineer known for X-ray imaging of batteries and thermal runaway, and since 2025 has been a professor at Oxford.

Paul Rabaut

Paul Rabaut (1718–1794) was a French Reformed minister who led the illegal Protestant Church of the Desert for nearly half a century, serving as pastor of Nîmes.

Paul Rabe

Paul Rabe (1869–1952) was a German alkaloid chemist and professor in Hamburg, known for the 1918 partial synthesis of quinine from quinotoxine with Karl Kindler.

Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil, American lacrosse midfielder and executive; Johns Hopkins four-time All-American and two-time NCAA champion; pro field lacrosse all-time scoring leader (657 points); co-founder, president, and chief creative officer of the Premier Lacrosse League.

Paul Rabinowitz

Paul Rabinowitz (born 1939) is an American mathematician who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for nonlinear analysis, variational methods, and the 1973 global bifurcation theorem.

Paul Radmilovic

Paul (Paolo Francesco) Radmilovic, 1886-1968, Welsh swimmer and water polo player; won four Olympic golds (water polo 1908, 1912, 1920; 4x200m relay 1908) across six Games, 1906-1928.

Paul Rand

Paul Rand (Peretz Rosenbaum, 1914-1996), American Modernist graphic designer; created the IBM, UPS, ABC, Westinghouse, and NeXT logos; author of Thoughts on Design; Yale professor of graphic design.

Paul Raymond Publications

Paul Raymond Publications (PRP) was a British soft-core magazine publisher founded via Paul Raymond's 1971 purchase of Men Only; titles included Club International, Mayfair, Escort, Men's World, and Razzle, peaking at 400,000 copies a month before its 2009–2012 sale.

Paul Raynal

Paul Raynal (1885–1971) was a French dramatist from Narbonne who wrote seven plays premiered between 1920 and 1948, chiefly remembered for Le Tombeau sous l'Arc de Triomphe (1924).

Paul Ready

Paul Ready (born 1977, Birmingham) is a British actor, LAMDA-trained, known for Lee in Utopia, Kevin Brady in Motherland, Henry Goodsir in The Terror, and Rob MacDonald in Bodyguard; married to Michelle Terry.

Paul Reiche III

Paul Reiche III is an American video game designer who co-founded the studio Toys for Bob in 1989, created the Star Control series, and led the design of Skylanders.

Paul Reiser

Paul Reiser, American comedian, actor, and author born in New York (sources differ, 1956 or 1957), co-creator and star of Mad About You, Burke in Aliens, 11 Emmy nominations, later roles in Stranger Things and The Kominsky Method.

Paul Reubens

Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld, 1952-2023) was an American actor and comedian who created Pee-wee Herman with the Groundlings, starred in Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Pee-wee's Playhouse, and came out as gay in the 2025 documentary Pee-wee as Himself.

Paul Reuter

Paul Reuter (1911–1990) was a French professor of public international law who helped design the European Coal and Steel Community's High Authority and won the 1981 Balzan Prize.

Paul Revere

Paul Revere (1734-1818), Boston silversmith, engraver, and Patriot messenger of the American Revolution, famed for the April 18, 1775 midnight ride to warn of British troops, later exonerated after the Penobscot Expedition and founder of America's first copper rolling mill.

Paul Revere & the Raiders

Paul Revere & the Raiders, American garage-rock band formed in Idaho around 1958 as the Downbeats by Paul Revere Dick and Mark Lindsay; first rock act signed to Columbia Records, 1960s hits "Kicks" and "Hungry," and the 1971 number-one "Indian Reservation."

Paul Revere's Ride

Paul Revere's Ride is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1860 narrative poem, first printed in the Boston Evening Transcript and the January 1861 Atlantic Monthly, recounting Revere's April 18, 1775 midnight ride; it made Revere a national hero but took major poetic license with the facts.

Paul Reynaud

Paul Reynaud (1878–1966), French lawyer and statesman, Third Republic finance minister 1938–1940 and President of the Council 21 March–16 June 1940 during the fall of France; opposed armistice, deported; later Nord deputy and 1962 de Gaulle opponent.

Paul Rhys

Paul Rhys (born 1963, Neath, Wales) is a Welsh actor trained at RADA, known for Theo van Gogh in Vincent & Theo, Talleyrand in Napoleon (2023), Duncan in Saltburn, and roles in Victoria, Borgia, and A Discovery of Witches.

Paul Ricca

Paul Ricca (Felice DeLucia, 1897-1972), 'the Waiter,' Chicago Outfit leader and Commission liaison; convicted in the 1943 Hollywood extortion case, paroled 1947, later consigliere under Tony Accardo.

Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius

Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius (1883–1970) was a German applied physicist and Ludwig Prandtl's first doctoral student, known for the Blasius boundary-layer solution and the 1/4-power pipe friction law.

Paul Ricœur

Paul Ricœur, full name Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur, was a French philosopher (1913–2005) who joined phenomenology and hermeneutics, best known for Time and Narrative and the concept of narrative identity.

Paul Rijlant

Paul Rijlant, also known as Pierre Rijlant, was a Belgian physiologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who pioneered cathode-ray oscillography of the human heart.

Paul Ritch

Paul Ritch is a French techno producer and DJ based in Paris who gained international attention in 2007, releases on Drumcode, and runs the label Quartz Rec.

Paul Ritter

Paul Ritter, stage name of Simon Paul Adams (1966-2021), English character actor; Martin Goodman in Friday Night Dinner, Anatoly Dyatlov in HBO's Chernobyl, Tony-nominated for The Norman Conquests; died of a brain tumour aged 54.

Paul Robert Bing

Paul Robert Bing (1878–1956) was a German-Swiss neurologist who founded modern neurology in Basel, wrote influential neurology textbooks, and gave his name to Bing's reflex and the Bing-Horton syndrome.

Paul Roberts Cannon

Paul Roberts Cannon (1892–1986) was an American pathologist and immunologist at the University of Chicago who showed that dietary protein is required to maintain resistance to infection.

Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson (1898–1976), American bass-baritone singer, actor, All-American athlete, lawyer, and civil rights activist; star of Show Boat and Othello, blacklisted and passport-denied during the Cold War.

Paul Robinson (footballer, born 1979)

Paul Robinson (born 1979, Beverley) is an English retired goalkeeper who played for Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackburn Rovers, and Burnley, winning 41 England caps and starting at the 2006 World Cup.

Paul Robinson (Neighbours)

Paul Robinson (Paul Stewart Robinson) is the villainous Lassiters-owning businessman of Australian soap Neighbours, played by Stefan Dennis from episode 1 (18 March 1985) to the 2025 finale, with six wives, many children, and storylines from money laundering to a leg amputation.