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Paul Stephen Drzaic
Paul Stephen Drzaic is an American display scientist and Distinguished Engineer at Apple who led commercialization of E Ink e-paper, the technology behind the Kindle screen.
Paul Stookey
Noel Paul Stookey (born 1937, Baltimore) is "Paul" of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and the songwriter of "The Wedding Song (There Is Love)"; also a solo Christian-folk artist, Neworld label founder, and Maine-based activist.
Paul Strand
Paul Strand, born Nathaniel Paul Stransky, was an American photographer and filmmaker, 1890 to 1976, whose straight, unmanipulated images made him one of the 20th century's most influential photographers.
Paul Sturgess (basketball)
Paul Sturgess (born 1987), "Tiny" Sturgess, English 7 ft 7 in–7 ft 8 in center; Guinness tallest pro basketball player 2011; Harlem Globetrotters 2011–2013, Texas Legends, Cheshire Phoenix; later tallest living actor.
Paul Sudeck
Paul Hermann Martin Sudeck was a German surgeon in Hamburg who in 1900 first described acute bone atrophy after limb trauma, known as Sudeck's atrophy.
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (born 1972, Daejeon) is a Korean-Canadian actor known as Appa in Kim's Convenience (play 2011, CBC 2016–2021), Captain Carson Teva in Star Wars, and Uncle Iroh in Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Paul Sunderland
Paul Benedict Sunderland (born 1952) is an American sportscaster and volleyball outside hitter who won gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, was USVBA MVP in 1977, 1979, and 1982, and became NBC's Olympic volleyball voice and the Lakers' second play-by-play announcer.
Paul Sweet
Paul Sweet (1901–2001) was an American quarter-mile runner who won the 1923 Big Ten title, then coached track and cross country at the University of New Hampshire for 46 years.
Paul Sykes (boxer)
Paul Sykes (23 May 1946 – 7 March 2007) was a British heavyweight boxer from Wakefield who fought John L Gardner for the British and Commonwealth titles in 1979, held a 500-lb weightlifting record, wrote the Koestler-winning memoir Sweet Agony, and spent 21 of 26 years in prison.
Paul T. Baker
Paul T. Baker (1927–2007) was an American biological anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University who pioneered human adaptation studies, notably high-altitude research on the Quechua of Nuñoa, Peru.
Paul T. Bateman
Paul T. Bateman (1919–2012) was an American analytic number theorist at the University of Illinois, known for the Bateman–Horn conjecture on prime values of polynomials.
Paul T. Englund
Paul T. Englund (1938–2019) was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins known for working out how trypanosomes replicate their kinetoplast DNA and build GPI anchors.
Paul T. Goldman
Paul T. Goldman is a 2023 Peacock docuseries directed by Jason Woliner in which Paul Finkelman reenacts his memoir Duplicity, claiming his ex-wife ran an international crime ring, while the show investigates his story.
Paul T. Schumacker
Paul T. Schumacker, also known as Paul Schumacker, is a scientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine known for the mitochondrial ROS hypothesis of oxygen sensing.
Paul T. Sharpe
Paul T. Sharpe, also known as Paul Sharpe, is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Craniofacial Biology at King's College London, known for tooth development research.
Paul Tackley
Paul J. Tackley is a geophysicist and professor at ETH Zurich who numerically models mantle convection on Earth and other planets; he received the 2025 Arthur Holmes Medal.
Paul Tagliabue
Paul Tagliabue (1940-2025), American lawyer and seventh NFL commissioner (1989-2006) after Pete Rozelle; oversaw expansion to 32 teams, labor peace, record TV deals, 9/11 and Katrina responses; Hall of Fame Centennial Class 2020.
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is Andrea Lawlor's 2017 debut novel (Rescue Press; reissued by Vintage 2019) about Paul Polydoris, a 1990s shapeshifter who changes body and gender at will across queer America.
Paul Talalay
Paul Talalay (1923–2019) was an American pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins who founded the field of chemoprotection and identified sulforaphane from broccoli as a potent inducer of detoxification enzymes.
Paul Tazewell
Paul Tazewell (born 1964, Akron, Ohio) is an American costume designer known for Hamilton, Wicked, and West Side Story; first Black man to win the Best Costume Design Oscar (2025), also a Tony and Emmy winner.
Paul Teal
Paul Joseph Teal (1989–2024) was an American actor from Wilmington, North Carolina, known for Josh Avery in One Tree Hill season 7 and for Wilmington theater; he died at 35 of stage 4 neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer.
Paul Tergat
Paul Tergat (Paul Kibii Tergat), Kenyan distance runner born 1969 in Kabarnet; Olympic 10,000 m silver 1996 and 2000 behind Gebrselassie, five straight world cross-country titles 1995-99, and marathon world record 2:04:55 (Berlin 2003), first sub-2:05; later IOC member and NOC Kenya president.
Paul Teutul Jr.
Paul Teutul Jr., also known as Paul Michael Teutul, is an American custom motorcycle designer and television personality best known for American Chopper and Orange County Choppers.
Paul Teutul Sr.
Paul Teutul Sr. (Paul John Teutul, born 1949) is an American motorcycle designer and television personality who founded Orange County Choppers in 1999 and starred in American Chopper.
Paul the Apostle
Paul the Apostle, also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, was a first-century Jewish Pharisee whose letters became a major part of the New Testament.
Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus, c. 720/730–799), Lombard historian and grammarian of Monte Cassino, author of the Historia Langobardorum, Historia Romana, Festus Epitome, and Charlemagne's homiliary.
Paul the Octopus
Paul the Octopus (26 January 2008 - 26 October 2010), a common octopus at Sea Life Oberhausen, Germany, predicted 8 of 8 football results at the 2010 World Cup by choosing flag-marked food boxes; statisticians attribute the streak to chance and multiple testing.
Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born 1941, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and travel writer, author of The Great Railway Bazaar and The Mosquito Coast, Peace Corps volunteer expelled from Malawi, Royal Geographical Society Royal Medal recipient, father of Louis Theroux.
Paul Thieme
Paul Thieme (1905–2001) was a German indologist and Indo-European linguist, professor at Tübingen, known for his work on the Indian grammarians and Vedic philology, and winner of the 1988 Kyoto Prize.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born 1970, Studio City, California) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, and the Oscar-winning One Battle After Another.