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Paul Winchell
Paul Winchell (1922-2005), American ventriloquist of Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, voice of Tigger in Winnie the Pooh (1968-1999), and inventor of a patented early artificial heart. Not the gossip columnist Walter Winchell.
Paul Winfield
Paul Winfield (1941-2004), American actor, Oscar-nominated for Sounder (1972) as sharecropper Nathan Lee Morgan, played MLK in King (1978), won a 1995 Emmy for Picket Fences.
Paul Wojno
Paul Wojno is an American politician and Democratic member of the Michigan Senate from the 10th district, elected in 2022 and not on the ballot in 2026.
Paul Wolf
Paul Wolf (Paul Gilbert Wolf, 1915-1972), American freestyle swimmer; won silver in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at Berlin 1936 and set a 1938 world record in the 4x100 m relay; USC swim captain, not the German 1928 art competitor or racer Paul Wolff.
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born 1943) is an American foreign policy official, Deputy Secretary of Defense 2001–2005 and 10th World Bank president 2005–2007, known for the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance and his role in the Iraq War.
Paul Woolford
Paul Woolford is a British DJ and producer from Leeds, born in 1976, who records as Special Request and Bobby Peru across house, techno, and early-1990s rave sounds.
Paul Workman (cancer pharmacologist)
Paul Workman is a cancer pharmacologist and chemical biologist at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, known for kinase and Hsp90 inhibitors and the Pharmacological Audit Trail.
Paul Wurth
Paul Wurth is a Luxembourg-based engineering company that supplies ironmaking and cokemaking technology, known for the Bell Less Top charging system invented in 1969 and owned by SMS group.
Paul Wythes
Paul Wythes (1933–2012) was an American venture capitalist in Palo Alto, California, the founding general partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, which he led for 48 years.
Paul Y. Kwo
Paul Y. Kwo is an American transplant hepatologist and Professor of Medicine at Stanford, known as principal investigator for trials establishing direct-acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C.
Paul Young
Paul Young (born 1956, Luton, England) is the English blue-eyed soul singer behind No Parlez, "Everytime You Go Away", Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas", and Live Aid; distinct from the Australian singer John Paul Young and the Mike + The Mechanics member Paul Young.
Paul Young (singer, born 1947)
Paul Young (1947-2000) was the Manchester-born English singer of Sad Café and Mike + the Mechanics, Mike Rutherford's post-Genesis band, distinct from the Luton-born solo singer born 1956.
Paul Young (Tennessee politician)
Paul Young is an American Democrat and lifelong Memphian who was sworn in as the 65th mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, on New Year's Day 2024, after leading the Downtown Memphis Commission.
Paul Zaloom
Paul Zaloom (born 1951, Brooklyn) is an American puppeteer, political satirist, and performance artist, best known as Beakman on Beakman's World (1992–1997) and as a pioneer of object theater.
Paul Zerdin
Paul Zerdin (born 1972, London) is a British comedy ventriloquist, winner of America's Got Talent season 10 in 2015 and its $1 million prize, known for puppets Sam, Albert, and Baby, the 1996 Big Big Talent Show win, and Las Vegas residency Mouthing Off.
Paul Zia
Paul Zia (1926–2023) was a Chinese-born American structural engineer at North Carolina State University and a founding figure of prestressed concrete in the United States.
Paul Zimmet
Paul Zimmet is an Australian physician and epidemiologist, Professor of Diabetes at Monash University, credited with predicting the global type 2 diabetes epidemic and coining "diabesity".
Paul Zoll
Paul Maurice Zoll was an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School who showed in 1952 that the heart could be paced through the closed chest.
Paul-Émile Victor
Paul-Émile Victor was a French explorer and ethnologist who founded the Expéditions Polaires Françaises in 1947, organizing French scientific research in Greenland and Adélie Land for nearly thirty years.
Paul-Henri Nargeolet
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, "Mr. Titanic" (1946–2023), French Navy officer and deep-sea explorer who led Nautile dives to the Titanic, directed underwater research at RMS Titanic Inc., made 37 dives to the wreck, and died in the OceanGate Titan implosion on 18 June 2023.
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is a Burkinabè lieutenant-colonel who led the January 24, 2022 coup against Roch Kaboré, ruled Burkina Faso as interim president for eight months, and was ousted by Ibrahim Traoré in September 2022, later extradited from Togo in 2026.
Paul-Henri Spaak
Paul-Henri Spaak was a Belgian socialist statesman, repeatedly foreign minister and prime minister from 1936 to 1966, and the first President of the UN General Assembly.
Paul-Pierre Henry
Paul-Pierre Henry (1848–1905) was a French astronomer and optician who, with his younger brother Prosper-Mathieu, discovered fourteen asteroids and built the refractors adopted for the Carte du Ciel.
Paul‐Henri Lambert
Paul-Henri Lambert is a Belgian-born physician-scientist and immunologist at the University of Geneva who led WHO vaccine research and founded the Advanced Course of Vaccinology (ADVAC).
Paul, Apostle of Christ
Paul, Apostle of Christ is a 2018 American biblical drama film directed by Andrew Hyatt, depicting Paul's final days in a Roman prison under Emperor Nero.
Paul's Boutique
Paul's Boutique is a 1989 album by the Beastie Boys, produced with the Dust Brothers and known for its dense sampling of more than 100 songs.
Paula
Paula (Paula Renata Marques Pequeno, born 1982, Brasília) is a Brazilian volleyball player who won Olympic gold in women's volleyball at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, plus 2006 world silver.
Paula A. Rochon
Paula A. Rochon is a Canadian geriatrician and health-services researcher at the University of Toronto, known for the prescribing cascade concept and for founding Women's Age Lab in 2021.
Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul (born 1962, San Fernando, California) is an American dancer, choreographer, singer, and television personality. Known as a Laker Girls choreographer, Janet Jackson's video choreographer, the Forever Your Girl pop star with four debut-album No. 1 singles, and an original American Idol judge.
Paula Andrea Placido
Paula Andrea Placido (born 1994, San Francisco de Macorís) is an American actress and visual artist known for recurring roles as Calista on Shameless, Roxy on The L Word: Generation Q, Charlie on Sugar, and Gina Solis on Apples Never Fall.