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Paul Thomas Anderson filmography
Paul Thomas Anderson filmography: ten features from Hard Eight (1996) and Boogie Nights to One Battle After Another (2025), plus Junun, Anima, and 25 music videos. His Oscar wins came with One Battle After Another.
Paul Tibbets
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (1915-2007), US Air Force brigadier general, commanded the 509th Composite Group and piloted the B-29 Enola Gay on the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima; later B-47 project officer and Ohio air taxi operator.
Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American Protestant theologian and philosopher, best known for his three-volume Systematic Theology and the idea of faith as "ultimate concern."
Paul Titscher
Paul Titscher (born 1986) is a German compound archer from Glindow, a national team member from 2003, six-time German youth champion, 2009 Porec World Cup bronze medalist, and 2011 World Cup Final qualifier.
Paul Tobias
Paul Tobias, also known as Paul Huge, is an American guitarist, Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist 1994–2002, co-writer of "Back Off Bitch" and seven Chinese Democracy songs, later of Mank Rage.
Paul Toboni
Paul Toboni (born 1990, San Francisco) is the Washington Nationals' president of baseball operations since October 2025, youngest in MLB; former Red Sox intern-to-assistant-GM scouting executive.
Paul Tonko
Paul David Tonko, born 1949, is an American Democratic politician who has represented New York's 20th District in the U.S. House since 2013, after serving the 21st District from 2009.
Paul Torgersen
Paul Torgersen (1931–2015) was an American industrial engineer who served Virginia Tech as dean of engineering from 1970 to 1990 and as its 14th president from 1994 to 2000.
Paul Touradji
Paul Touradji is an American hedge fund manager who founded Touradji Capital Management in 2005, once the largest US commodities hedge fund with about $2.7 billion at its peak.
Paul Toutain
Paul Toutain, who wrote as Jean Revel, was a French notary in Rouen and fiction writer praised by Octave Mirbeau and nominated for the 1921 Nobel Prize.
Paul Townsend
Paul Kingsley Townsend (P.K. Townsend) is a British theoretical physicist, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Cambridge DAMTP, known for supergravity, supermembranes, string duality, and M-theory.
Paul trap
The Paul trap is an ion trap that confines charged particles using an oscillating radiofrequency quadrupole electric field, invented by Wolfgang Paul and Helmut Steinwedel in 1953.
Paul Trendelenburg
Paul Trendelenburg (1884–1931) was a German pharmacologist and physician who held chairs of pharmacology at Rostock, Freiburg, and Berlin, and whose 1917 guinea-pig ileum method remains in laboratory use.
Paul Troost
Paul Ludwig Troost (1878–1934) was a German architect and interior designer, Hitler's favored architect of the early Nazi regime, designer of Munich's House of German Art, Führerbau, and Königsplatz buildings in stripped neoclassicism.
Paul Tsongas
Paul Efthemios Tsongas (1941–1997) was a Democratic U.S. representative and senator from Massachusetts, 1975–1985, who defeated Edward Brooke, left the Senate over lymphoma, won the 1992 New Hampshire primary, and co-founded the Concord Coalition.
Paul Tudor Jones
Paul Tudor Jones II is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist who founded Tudor Investment Corporation in 1980, famous for profiting from the October 1987 crash.
Paul Uhlenhuth
Paul Uhlenhuth (1870–1957) was a German bacteriologist and immunologist who developed the precipitin test for distinguishing human from animal blood, the first reliable forensic species test, and later contributed to arsenical chemotherapy for syphilis.
Paul V. Braun
Paul V. Braun, also published as Paul Braun, is an American materials scientist at the University of Illinois known for battery electrodes that charge in seconds.
Paul V. Niemeyer
Paul Victor Niemeyer is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 1990, appointed by President George H.W. Bush.
Paul Valéry
Paul Valéry (1871–1945), French poet and essayist: author of La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetière marin, and Charmes; wrote the daily Cahiers, held the Collège de France Chair of Poetics, and joined the Académie française in 1925 in Anatole France's seat.
Paul Vallas
Paul Vallas (born 1953) is an American education administrator, first CEO of Chicago Public Schools (1995–2001), later head of Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Bridgeport schools, and runner-up to Brandon Johnson in the 2023 Chicago mayoral runoff.
Paul van Asbroeck
Paul van Asbroeck (1874-1959), Belgian sport shooter, 1908 Olympic free pistol champion with 490 points and six-time 50 m free pistol world champion (1904-1914); competed at five Olympics from 1900 to 1936.
Paul van Dyk
Paul van Dyk (Matthias Paul, born 1971, Eisenhüttenstadt) is a German trance DJ and producer from East Berlin; his 1998 E-Werk remix of "For An Angel" and Vandit Records defined melodic trance.
Paul van Ostaijen
Paul van Ostaijen (1896–1928) was a Flemish modernist poet who introduced expressionism and dada into Dutch literature through his typographically experimental 1921 Antwerp collection Bezette stad.
Paul Vario
Paul Vario, Lucchese crime family capo and alleged consigliere based in Brooklyn, extorted JFK Airport labor, was convicted in 1973 tax and 1986 racketeering cases, was the model for Goodfellas' Paul Cicero, and died in prison in 1988.
Paul Vaska
Paul Vaska is an American PET physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and professor at Stony Brook University, known for the RatCAP conscious-animal scanner and simultaneous PET/MRI.
Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven (born 18 July 1938, Amsterdam) is a Dutch director and Leiden-trained physicist, not the German namesake actor-director. Known for Turkish Delight, RoboCop, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Black Book, Elle, and Benedetta.
Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), French lyric poet born at Metz, author of Poèmes saturniens, Fêtes galantes, Romances sans paroles, Sagesse, and Les Poètes maudits; the musical Symbolist precursor, elected Prince des Poètes in 1894.
Paul Vetter
Paul Vetter (1850–1906) was a German Catholic theologian, Armenologist, and professor of Old Testament introduction and exegesis at Tübingen, remembered for his progressive Catholic Pentateuch criticism.
Paul Vialar
Paul Vialar (1898–1996) was a French novelist and short-story writer, author of roughly eighty works, best known for the hunting novel La Grande Meute (1943).