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Paul Walter Hauser

Paul Walter Hauser (born 1986, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American actor and professional wrestler. Known as Larry Hall in Black Bird (2023 Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics Choice), Richard Jewell, Cobra Kai's Stingray, and MLW competitor.

Paul Waner

Paul Waner (Big Poison), 1903-1965, American MLB right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates; 3,152 hits, .333 average, 1927 NL MVP, seventh 3,000-hit club member, Hall of Fame 1952.

Paul Warner Powell

Paul Warner Powell, Virginia murderer who killed Stacey Lynn Reed and raped her sister in Manassas in 1999; his taunting letter to prosecutor Paul Ebert after his first death sentence was overturned supplied evidence for a second capital conviction and his 2010 execution.

Paul Washer

Paul Washer is an American Reformed Baptist itinerant preacher and founder of the HeartCry Missionary Society, best known for his 2002 "Shocking Message" sermon that went viral on YouTube.

Paul Watson

Paul Watson, Canadian-American anti-whaling activist, Greenpeace founding member (1971), founder of Sea Shepherd (1977) and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (2022), known for confrontational direct action, Greenland detention 2024, and refuge in France.

Paul Waugh

Paul Waugh is a British politician, the Labour and Co-operative MP for Rochdale since 2024 and Minister for Early Education since 2026, after 20 years as a political journalist.

Paul Webster

Paul Webster is an Irish trance DJ and producer from Dublin working in tech trance at 138–142 BPM, whose debut "Corruption" was signed to Armada by Armin van Buuren in 2006.

Paul Weitz (filmmaker)

Paul Weitz (Paul John Weitz, born 1965, New York City) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor; with brother Chris Weitz he wrote Antz and co-directed American Pie and About a Boy, later directing In Good Company, Grandma, and Moving On.

Paul Weller

Paul Weller (John William Weller, born 1958, Woking), the "Modfather": frontman of The Jam (1977–82), the Style Council (1983–89), and a solo career from 1992 with six UK No. 1 albums including Stanley Road.

Paul Wellstone

Paul Wellstone (1944–2002), Minnesota DFL senator and Carleton professor, elected in a 1990 upset over Rudy Boschwitz; died in a King Air 100 crash near Eveleth on October 25, 2002, from an aerodynamic stall.

Paul Wender (chemist)

Paul Wender is a chemist who is the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor at Stanford University, known for over 50 total syntheses, including taxol and bryostatin analogs.

Paul Wernick

Paul Wernick (born 1972) is a Canadian screenwriter-producer, partner of Rhett Reese since 2001; co-writer of Zombieland, the Deadpool trilogy, Life, and Twisted Metal.

Paul Wernle

Paul Wernle (1872–1939) was a Swiss Protestant theologian and church historian at the University of Basel, known for his history-of-religions study of Christian origins and standard histories of Swiss Protestantism.

Paul Wesley

Paul Wesley (Paweł Tomasz Wasilewski, born 1982) is an American actor, director, and producer known for Stefan Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries (2009–17), James T. Kirk on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Citizen Media, and Brother's Bond Bourbon.

Paul Wesley filmography

Paul Wesley filmography: screen credits of Paul Thomas Wasilewski (born 1982), actor known as Stefan Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries (2009-17) and James T. Kirk in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, plus film roles and directing credits.

Paul Westerberg

Paul Westerberg (born 1959, Minneapolis) is an American rock singer-songwriter, frontman and principal songwriter of the Replacements (1979–1991), later a solo artist also recording as Grandpaboy and with the I Don't Cares.

Paul Westerhoff

Paul K. Westerhoff is an American environmental engineer at Arizona State University known for research on nanomaterials and PFAS in drinking water; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Paul Westhead

Paul Westhead, American basketball coach, only coach to win both an NBA title (Lakers 1980) and WNBA title (Mercury 2007); father of the Run and Gun offense, NBA record 183-224.

Paul Weston

Paul Weston (born Paul Wetstein, 1912–1996), American arranger, conductor, and composer; first Capitol Records musical director and pioneer of mood-music albums with Music for Dreaming; also Jonathan of the Grammy-winning comedy duo Jonathan and Darlene Edwards with Jo Stafford.

Paul Westphal

Paul Westphal (1950-2021), American NBA guard and coach; 1974 champion with Boston, five-time All-Star with Phoenix, 1976 Finals star, Hall of Fame 2019; coached Suns to 1993 Finals.

Paul Wevers

Paul Wevers (1907-1941), German flatwater canoeist of Verein für Kajaksport Köln; won K-2 10,000 m gold with Ludwig Landen at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in 41:45.0; died in a 1941 plane crash near Braunschweig.

Paul Whitehouse

Paul Whitehouse (born 1958, Rhondda, Wales) is a Welsh comedian, actor and writer, co-creator of The Fast Show with Charlie Higson, five-time BAFTA winner, star of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, and cast as Argus Filch in HBO's Harry Potter series.

Paul Whiteman

Paul Samuel Whiteman (1890–1967), American bandleader called the "King of Jazz"; led the top US dance band of the 1920s, premiered Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in 1924, and recorded over 200 hits by 1936.

Paul Wiesner

Paul Wiesner (Paul Georg Leonhard Wiesner, 1855-1930) was a German sailor and Berlin commercial-school director who won gold and silver in the ton classes at the 1900 Paris Olympics aboard his yacht Aschenbrödel.

Paul Wikstrom

Paul Wikstrom is an American engineer and 2026 Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Minnesota's 4th Congressional District, facing incumbent Betty McCollum; he has worked in medtech and aerospace.

Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel

Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel (1851–1935) was a German-born Protestant theologian, professor of New Testament exegesis at Zurich from 1893 to 1923, known for his nine "pillar passages".

Paul Wilkinson (epidemiologist)

Paul Wilkinson was a British environmental epidemiologist and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who researched climate change and air pollution.

Paul Williams (songwriter)

Paul Williams (born 1940, Omaha, Nebraska), American songwriter, composer, singer, and actor; wrote "We've Only Just Begun," "Rainbow Connection" and Oscar-winning "Evergreen"; ASCAP president and Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award (2022) honoree, distinct from the bluegrass musician of the same name.

Paul Williams (The Temptations singer)

Paul Williams (1939–1973), Birmingham-born founding member and original baritone lead singer of the Temptations, also the group's choreographer; left in 1971 on medical advice, died in Detroit.

Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson (born 1947), American pole vaulter; set a 5.38 m world record at Bakersfield in 1967 and was the first US high school vaulter over 16 feet; career ended by injury.