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Paul S. Peercy

Paul S. Peercy was an American materials scientist and semiconductor researcher who directed microelectronics research at Sandia National Laboratories and was dean of engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1999 to 2013.

Paul S. Russell

Paul S. Russell (1925–2026) was an American transplant surgeon and immunologist who spent seven decades at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, helping establish organ transplantation as a clinical treatment.

Paul S. Weiss

Paul S. Weiss (born 1959) is an American nanoscientist, a distinguished professor at UCLA who studies the ultimate limits of miniaturization and founded ACS Nano.

Paul Sabatier (chemist)

Paul Sabatier was a French chemist at the University of Toulouse who won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for hydrogenating organic compounds over finely divided metals.

Paul Saladino

Paul Saladino, "Carnivore MD," is an American psychiatrist-turned-influencer, author of The Carnivore Code, promoter of the animal-based diet (meat, organs, fruit, honey, raw dairy), and co-founder of Heart & Soil and Lineage Provisions.

Paul Samson

Paul Curkeet Samson (Buck), 1905-1982, American swimmer and water polo player at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; 1927 NCAA freestyle champion, later a thoracic surgeon in World War II.

Paul Samuelson

Paul Samuelson, also known as Paul Anthony Samuelson, was an American economist at MIT who won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the first American to receive it.

Paul Sandifer

Paul Harmer Sandifer (1908–1964) was a British neurologist remembered as the pioneer of British pediatric neurology and for Sandifer syndrome, a reflux-related dystonia of childhood.

Paul Sarlo

Paul Sarlo is an American Democratic politician, a New Jersey state senator for the 36th district since 2003 who chairs the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee.

Paul Schäfer

Paul Schäfer, also known as Paul Schafer Schneider, was a German lay preacher who founded and led Colonia Dignidad, a German settlement near Parral in southern Chile.

Paul Schedl

Paul Schedl is an American molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, known for work on the Drosophila sex-determination switch gene Sex-lethal and on chromatin boundary elements.

Paul Scheer

Paul Scheer (born 1976, Long Island, NY) is an American comedian, actor, and podcaster known for The League, Black Monday, Human Giant, NTSF:SD:SUV::, and co-hosting How Did This Get Made?; his 2024 memoir became a New York Times bestseller.

Paul Scherrer

Paul Scherrer (1890–1969) was a Swiss experimental physicist who co-invented the Debye–Scherrer powder method of X-ray crystallography and built ETH Zurich's physics institute over 40 years.

Paul Scherrer Institute

The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is Switzerland's largest research institute for the natural and engineering sciences, created in 1988 in Villigen PSI, canton of Aargau.

Paul Schimmel

Paul Reinhard Schimmel is an American biochemist at Scripps Research and MIT known for his work on aminoacyl tRNA synthetases, the genetic code, and cofounding several biotechnology companies.

Paul Schmit

Paul Schmit is an American plasma physicist at Sandia National Laboratories known for his work on magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) on the Z Pulsed Power Facility.

Paul Schneider (actor)

Paul Andrew Schneider is an American actor from Asheville, North Carolina, known for All the Real Girls, Bright Star, and playing Mark Brendanawicz on Parks and Recreation.

Paul Scholes

Paul Scholes, born 1974 in Salford, English midfielder who spent 1993-2013 at Manchester United, winning 11 Premier League titles and two Champions Leagues; 66 England caps; later Salford City co-owner, Oldham manager, and pundit.

Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader (born 1946, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American screenwriter, director, and critic, author of Transcendental Style in Film (1972) and the Taxi Driver screenplay, and director of Blue Collar, Mishima, Affliction, and First Reformed.

Paul Schrier

Paul Schrier (Paul L. Schrier II, born 1970, Las Vegas) is an American actor, director, and comic artist best known as Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier in Power Rangers, 1993–1999 and 2011, and as HyperForce Yellow.

Paul Schulze-Lefert

Paul Schulze-Lefert (born 1958 in Münster) is a German plant geneticist known for work on how plants detect pathogens and for the plant root microbiota.

Paul Schwarzkopf

Paul Schwarzkopf, born in Prague in 1886, was a doctor of technical science and pioneer of tungsten powder metallurgy who founded Metallwerk Plansee in Reutte, Tyrol, in 1921; his 1947 book remained a standard work.

Paul Scofield

Paul Scofield (David Paul Scofield, 1922-2008), English stage and film actor; Oscar winner as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons (1966); his 1962 King Lear was voted the greatest Shakespearean performance.

Paul Segall

Paul Segall is an American geophysicist, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor at Stanford University, known for measuring crustal deformation to reveal fault slip and magma movement.

Paul Seidel

Paul Seidel is a symplectic topologist and professor of mathematics at MIT known for work on Lagrangian Floer homology, Fukaya categories, and homological mirror symmetry.

Paul Seixas

Paul Seixas (born 2006, Lyon) is a French road cyclist for Decathlon CMA CGM; junior world time trial champion 2024, youngest Il Lombardia winner (2026) and youngest Monument winner since 1945, fourth in his 2026 Tour de France debut.

Paul Severino

Paul Severino is an American technology entrepreneur who founded Interlan and Wellfleet Communications and co-founded Bay Networks; as Wellfleet's CEO he built it into Fortune's fastest-growing US company.

Paul Seymour (mathematician)

Paul Seymour, born in England in 1950, is a British mathematician at Princeton University known for the Graph Minors project with Neil Robertson and the 2002 strong perfect graph theorem.

Paul Shaffer

Paul Shaffer (born 1949, Thunder Bay, Ontario) is the Canadian keyboardist and bandleader who served as David Letterman's musical director and sidekick from 1982 to 2015, led the World's Most Dangerous Band and CBS Orchestra, co-wrote "It's Raining Men," and won a 2002 Grammy for "Foggy Mountain Breakdown."

Paul Shane

Paul Shane (George Frederick Speight, 1940–2013), English actor and comedian, star of Ted Bovis in Hi-de-Hi!, later Alf Stokes in You Rang, M'Lord? and Jack Skinner in Oh, Doctor Beeching!; former Silverwood Colliery miner turned club entertainer.