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Paul Shenar

Paul Shenar (Albert Paul Shenar, 1936-1989), American character actor and ACT co-founder; played Alejandro Sosa in Scarface, voiced Jenner in The Secret of NIMH, and portrayed Orson Welles and Flo Ziegfeld on television.

Paul Sievert

Paul Sievert (1895-1988), German race walker, sixth in the 50 km walk at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; German 50 km champion 1924, 1925, 1933; set a 50 km world record of 4:34:03 in 1924.

Paul Signac

Paul Signac (1863–1935) was a French painter who, with Georges Seurat, founded Neo-Impressionism, applying small dots of pure color that blend in the viewer's eye.

Paul Silas

Paul Silas (1943-2022), NBA forward and head coach; Creighton 20.5 ppg/21.6 rpg; three championships (Boston 1974, 1976; Seattle 1979); coached Hornets, Cavaliers, Bobcats.

Paul Simon

Paul Simon (Paul Frederic Simon, born 1941, Newark, NJ), also recorded as Jerry Landis; singer-songwriter of Simon & Garfunkel fame, three Album of the Year Grammys, Graceland (1986), Seven Psalms (2023), Children's Health Fund co-founder.

Paul Simon discography

Paul Simon discography: solo catalog of the American singer-songwriter (born 1941), from The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) through Graceland (1986) to Seven Psalms (2023) and The Quiet Celebration Concert (2026), with 16 Grammy wins.

Paul Simonon

Paul Gustave Simonon (born 1955, London), Clash bassist 1976-1986, smashed bass on the London Calling cover, wrote "The Guns of Brixton"; later painter, member of The Good, the Bad and the Queen and Gorillaz, and Galen & Paul collaborator.

Paul Singer (businessman)

Paul Elliott Singer is an American hedge fund manager who founded Elliott Management in 1977 with $1.3 million, known for a 15-year Argentina bond fight and activist campaigns.

Paul Sinha

Paul Sinha, born Supriya Kumar Sinha in 1970, is a British stand-up comedian, quizzer, and former GP known as The Sinnerman on The Chase, and a Parkinson's disease advocate.

Paul Skenes

Paul David Skenes is an American professional baseball starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He won the 2024 NL Rookie of the Year and 2025 NL Cy Young.

Paul Slovic

Paul Slovic (born 1938) is an American psychologist known for research on risk perception, judgment, and decision making, and for founding Decision Research in Eugene, Oregon.

Paul Smart

Paul Hurlburt Smart (1892-1979), American Star-class yachtsman; won 1948 London Olympic gold crewing for his son Hilary Smart, five world championships, Herreshoff Trophy 1969, and led US Olympic yachting administration.

Paul Smith (fashion designer)

Sir Paul Smith (born 1946, Nottingham) is the British fashion designer behind the 'classics with a twist' label Paul Smith, founded with a 1970 Nottingham shop; about 130 stores worldwide, independent, knighted 2000, Companion of Honour 2020.

Paul Smolensky

Paul Smolensky is a cognitive scientist who created Optimality Theory, harmony theory, and tensor product representations, and is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and researcher at Microsoft.

Paul Snelgrove

Paul Snelgrove is a Canadian marine biologist and benthic community ecologist at Memorial University of Newfoundland who chaired the Synthesis Group of the Census of Marine Life (2000–2010).

Paul Snider

Paul Snider, also known as Paul Leslie Snider, was a Canadian promoter and pimp who married and murdered Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten in Los Angeles in 1980.

Paul Sollner

Paul Söllner (5 June 1911, Davos – 8 April 1994, Murnau am Staffelsee), German rower, Olympic gold medalist in the men's coxed fours at Berlin 1936 with MRV Amicitia; later Bundeswehr Sports School commander and Munich 1972 organizing committee member.

Paul Sophus Epstein

Paul Sophus Epstein (1883–1966) was a mathematical physicist and Caltech professor known for his 1916 quantum theory of the Stark effect and for Epstein drag.

Paul Soros

Paul Soros (1926–2013) was a Hungarian-American engineer who founded Soros Associates, pioneering buoy-based offshore bulk-handling ports in 90 countries, and, with his wife Daisy, created the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

Paul Sorvino

Paul Sorvino (Paul Anthony Sorvino, 1939-2022) was an American character actor known for Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas, Sgt. Cerretta on Law & Order, a 1973 Tony nomination, and an operatic tenor side career.

Paul Sparks

Paul Sparks (born 1971, Lawton, Oklahoma) is an American character actor, Mickey Doyle on Boardwalk Empire, Emmy-nominated as Thomas Yates on House of Cards, also The Night Of, Physical, and a Drama Desk-nominated stage actor.

Paul Speratus

Paul Speratus, born Paul Hoffer, was a German Lutheran reformer and hymn-writer who wrote 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her' and helped produce the first Lutheran hymnal of 1524.

Paul Spiegel

Paul B. Spiegel is a Canadian physician and medical epidemiologist who directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and is known for research on refugee and displacement health.

Paul Srivorakul

Paul Srivorakul is a Thai American internet entrepreneur, co-founder and Group CEO of aCommerce, an e-commerce enablement company founded in 2013 in Bangkok, and co-founder of Ardent Capital.

Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets, American mycologist, author, and founder of Fungi Perfecti (1980) and Host Defense Mushrooms; wrote The Mushroom Cultivator and Mycelium Running, won NAMA and AAAS honors, and has a Star Trek character named for him.

Paul Stănescu

Paul Stănescu is a Romanian politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been Senator for Olt County and a Vice President of the Senate of Romania since 2024.

Paul Stanley

Paul Stanley (Stanley Bert Eisen, born 1952) is KISS's co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and Starchild; songwriter of "Rock and Roll All Nite" and "Detroit Rock City," with 100 million+ records sold and 2014 Rock Hall induction.

Paul Stastny

Paul Stastny, born 1985 in Quebec City, retired NHL center; son of Hall of Famer Peter Stastny. Drafted 44th overall by Colorado in 2005; 822 points in 1,145 games over 17 seasons with five teams.

Paul Staub

Paul Staub, Swiss rowing coxswain of Grasshopper Club Zürich; coxed four gold medalist at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics (final 29 August 1920, 6:54.0) and European champion; also raced the eights; later life unknown.

Paul Steele

Paul Steele (born 1957, New Westminster, BC) is a Canadian rower, Olympic gold medallist in the men's coxed eight at Los Angeles 1984 and sixth at Seoul 1988; distinct from squash player Paul Steel.