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Paul Robinson (wrestler)

Paul Robinson (born 1988), English professional wrestler, "Mr. Wrestling", Swords of Essex with Will Ospreay; inaugural PROGRESS Proteus Champion (2019) and PROGRESS tag team champion (2018).

Paul Rodgers

Paul Rodgers (born 1949, Middlesbrough) is the English rock singer of Free, Bad Company, The Firm, The Law, and Queen + Paul Rodgers; known for "All Right Now" and the 1974 Bad Company debut.

Paul Rodriguez (actor)

Paul Rodriguez is a Mexican American comedian, actor, and director. He is known for his 1984 sitcom a.k.a. Pablo and his over four decades of bilingual work.

Paul Rodriguez (skateboarder)

Paul "P-Rod" Rodriguez (born 1984), American professional street skateboarder from Tarzana, California, son of comedian Paul Rodriguez; four X Games street golds, Nike SB's first signature skate shoe (P-Rod 1, 2005), founder of Primitive Skateboarding.

Paul Roma

Paul Roma is the ring name of Paul Centopani, an American professional wrestler known for tag team work in the WWF and WCW, including the Four Horsemen.

Paul Romer

Paul Romer (born 1955), American economist, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize with Nordhaus, developer of endogenous growth theory via the 1990 paper Endogenous Technological Change, former World Bank Chief Economist, and originator of the charter cities concept.

Paul Ross

Paul Ross (John Paul Ross, born 1956, Romford) is an English TV and radio presenter, elder brother of Jonathan Ross; edited The Word, hosted The Big Breakfast, talkRADIO's Full Set Breakfast, and talkSPORT's overnight Extra Time.

Paul Rudd

Paul Rudd (born 1969, Passaic, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Clueless, Anchorman, Knocked Up, Role Models, and as Marvel's Ant-Man, plus TV roles on Friends, Living with Yourself, and Only Murders in the Building.

Paul Ruddock

Sir Paul Ruddock, born 1958, is a British financier who co-founded the London hedge fund Lansdowne Partners in 1998, led it until 2013, and chaired the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Paul Rudolf

Paul Rudolf (1892–1956), Swiss rower of Grasshopper Club Zürich, not the Zeiss lens designer Paul Rudolph or the Stanford water polo player. Won Olympic gold in the men's coxed four at Antwerp 1920 in 6:54.0 and four European rowing titles, 1920–1921, rowing with his brother Max.

Paul Rufus Burkholder

Paul Rufus Burkholder (1903–1972) was an American microbiologist and botanist, born in Orrstown, Pennsylvania, who discovered the antibiotic chloramphenicol in 1947 and later studied marine antibiotics at Yale and in Puerto Rico.

Paul Ruiz and Earl Van Denton

Paul Ruiz and Earl Van Denton were Oklahoma prison escapees whose 1977 crime spree killed several people across Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas; both were executed in Arkansas on January 8, 1997.

Paul Rusesabagina

Paul Rusesabagina, Hutu former manager of Kigali's Hotel des Mille Collines, credited with sheltering over 1,200 people in the 1994 genocide and inspiring Hotel Rwanda; later MRCD opposition founder, convicted of terrorism in 2021, released 2023.

Paul Russell (molecular biologist)

Paul Russell (born 1956) is a molecular biologist at The Scripps Research Institute known for work on cell-cycle control and DNA repair in fission yeast.

Paul Rust

Paul Rust (born 1981, Le Mars, Iowa) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, co-creator and star of Netflix's Love as Gus Cruikshank, lead of I Love You, Beth Cooper, co-writer of Pee-wee's Big Holiday, and frequent Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast guest.

Paul Rutgeerts

Paul Rutgeerts (1948–2020) was a Belgian gastroenterologist and professor at KU Leuven whose infliximab trials reshaped IBD treatment, and whose Rutgeerts score and SES-CD remain standard in Crohn's disease trials.

Paul Rutherford (singer)

Paul Rutherford (singer), born 1959 in Liverpool, is the flamboyant backing vocalist, dancer and keyboardist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, later a solo acid house artist (Get Real, Oh World) living in New Zealand; not the free-improvisation trombonist of the same name.

Paul Ryan

Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, 2012 GOP vice-presidential nominee and House Budget Committee chair 2011-2015, became Speaker of the House on Oct. 29, 2015 at age 45, steered the 2017 tax cuts, set records for closed rules, and retired January 2019.

Paul S. Anderson

Paul S. Anderson, born 1938 in Vermont, is an American medicinal chemist who led discovery of the HIV drugs Crixivan and Sustiva at Merck and DuPont.

Paul S. Appelbaum

Paul S. Appelbaum is an American psychiatrist at Columbia University who works at the intersection of law, ethics, and psychiatry, known for the MacCAT-T capacity assessment tool.

Paul S. Burgoyne

Paul S. Burgoyne (1946–2020) was a British mouse geneticist at the UK Medical Research Council who made fundamental discoveries about sex determination and Y-chromosome genes required for sperm production.

Paul S. Chan

Paul S. Chan is an American cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City who studies cardiac arrest outcomes and care quality.

Paul S. Cremer

Paul S. Cremer is an American chemist who holds the J. Lloyd Huck Chair at Penn State since 2013, known for Hofmeister ion effects and supported lipid bilayers.

Paul S. Diamond

Paul Steven Diamond is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2004, appointed by President George W. Bush.

Paul S. Frame

Paul S. Frame is an American family medicine physician and clinical prevention researcher at the University of Rochester, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1988.

Paul S. Frenette

Paul S. Frenette (1965–2021) was a Canadian hematologist and stem cell biologist who founded and led the Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Paul S. Julienne

Paul S. Julienne is an American theoretical atomic physicist who helped establish the field of ultracold matter and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Paul S. Lietman

Paul S. Lietman (1934–2013) was a clinical pharmacologist who directed the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins and studied aminoglycoside antibiotics, acyclovir, and HIV drugs.

Paul S. Meltzer

Paul S. Meltzer is an American cancer geneticist who applies genome-wide profiling to cancer classification and treatment, and is Chief of the Genetics Branch at the National Cancer Institute.

Paul S. Myles

Paul S. Myles is an Australian anaesthesiologist and clinical trialist who heads anaesthesiology at Alfred Health and Monash University, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2019.