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Paula Badosa
Paula Badosa (Paula Badosa Gibert), Spanish tennis player born 1997 in New York City; former world No. 2, 2021 Indian Wells WTA 1000 champion, four WTA titles, 2025 Australian Open semifinalist, chronic back injury and 2024 Comeback Player of the Year.
Paula Ben-Gurion (פולה בן-גוריון)
Paula Ben-Gurion (Paulina Monbesz, 1892–1968), wife of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion and Israel's first "First Lady"; met him in New York in 1915, a trained nurse who managed his health, household, and Sde Boker home.
Paula Braveman
Paula A. Braveman is an American physician and social epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for defining and measuring health disparities and health equity.
Paula Broadwell
Paula Broadwell (née Kranz, born 1972), American writer, West Point graduate, and former Army intelligence officer; co-author of the 2012 Petraeus biography All In, whose affair with CIA director David Petraeus, exposed in November 2012, ended his career; she was not prosecuted.
Paula Camus
Paula Camus (Paula Camús Amorós) is a Spanish water polo player, born in Madrid in 2002, who won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics and played for CN Sabadell.
Paula Cole
Paula Cole is an American singer-songwriter from Rockport, Massachusetts, also known as the Dawson's Creek theme voice. Her 1996 album This Fire went double platinum, won her the Best New Artist Grammy, and made her the first woman solely nominated for Producer of the Year.
Paula Creamer
Paula Creamer, the "Pink Panther," American LPGA golfer born 1986; 10 LPGA wins, 2010 U.S. Women's Open champion, seven Solheim Cup teams with five wins, now a U.S. assistant captain.
Paula Crespi
Paula Crespí Barriga (born 1998, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) is a Spanish water polo player, Olympic gold medalist at Paris 2024, with 9 AQUA and Olympic medals including three world silvers.
Paula D. Ryan
Paula D. Ryan is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, known for the HOXB13:IL17BR two-gene ratio predicting tamoxifen outcomes; she has practiced at Massachusetts General, Fox Chase, and Texas Oncology.
Paula Deen
Paula Deen, born 1947 in Albany, Georgia, is a Southern restaurateur, cookbook author, and Food Network star of Paula's Home Cooking. Her 2013 deposition admitting use of the N-word ended her Food Network show and major sponsorships; her Savannah restaurant The Lady & Sons closed in 2025.
Paula Faris
Paula Faris is an American Emmy Award-winning journalist who co-anchored the weekend edition of Good Morning America and co-hosted The View from 2014 to 2018, then founded CARRY Media.
Paula Fox
Paula Fox (1923–2017), American author of 20 children's books and six adult novels; Newbery Medal 1974 for The Slave Dancer, Hans Christian Andersen Award 1978, memoirist of Borrowed Finery.
Paula Franzese
Paula A. Franzese, American legal scholar; Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law; property and housing law, government ethics reform; ten-time Professor of the Year.
Paula Garcés
Paula Garcés (born 1974, Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian-American actress, director, and producer known as Tina Hanlon on The Shield, Maria in Harold & Kumar, Geny Martinez on On My Block and Freeridge, and creator of the Aluna superhero franchise.
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen, born Paula Marie Francis (1939–2008), was an American poet and scholar of Native American literature whose 1986 study The Sacred Hoop founded Indigenous feminist criticism.
Paula Hawkins (author)
Paula Hawkins, Zimbabwe-born British novelist, author of The Girl on the Train (23 million copies), plus Into the Water, A Slow Fire Burning, and The Blue Hour; wrote four earlier novels as Amy Silver.
Paula Hawkins (politician)
Paula Hawkins (Paula Fickes, 1927–2009), Republican US senator from Florida 1981–1987, first woman elected to a full Senate term without political family ties; sponsor of the Missing Children's Act of 1982.
Paula Hicks-Hudson
Paula Hicks-Hudson is an American Democratic politician who represents Ohio's 11th Senate district and previously served as mayor of Toledo and in the Ohio House.
Paula Hitler
Paula Hitler, who lived under the name Paula Wolff, was Adolf Hitler's younger sister and the only full sibling to survive into adulthood; she died near Berchtesgaden in 1960.
Paula Holden
Paula Holden: name shared by several unrelated people, including a 1966 London Olympiades relay squad sprinter, a Kentucky corrections deputy commissioner, an Australian C&K chief people officer, and a British dressage rider.
Paula Ivan
Paula Ivan (born 1963, Herăști, Giurgiu) is a Romanian runner, 1988 Seoul Olympic 1500 m champion in 3:53.96 and 3000 m silver medallist; 1989 world mile record holder (4:15.61).
Paula J. Grabowski
Paula J. Grabowski is a molecular biologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh who helped identify the spliceosome and studied how RNA splicing is regulated in neurons.
Paula Jai Parker
Paula Jai Parker (Paula Jai Parker-Martin), American actress and comedian from Cleveland, Ohio, known for Friday, Phone Booth, Hustle & Flow, the CableACE-winning Cosmic Slop, and voicing Trudy Proud in Disney's The Proud Family and its revival.
Paula Jean Swearengin
Paula Jean Swearengin, West Virginia progressive activist and coal miner's daughter, ran for U.S. Senate against Joe Manchin in 2018 and won the 2020 Democratic primary before losing to Shelley Moore Capito.
Paula Johnson
Paula A. Johnson is an American cardiologist who founded the Connors Center for Women's Health and has served as the 14th president of Wellesley College since 2016.
Paula Jones
Paula Jones, Arkansas state employee whose 1994 lawsuit against Bill Clinton over a 1991 Excelsior Hotel incident produced Clinton v. Jones (1997), the unanimous Supreme Court ruling rejecting temporary presidential immunity, and ended in an $850,000 settlement.
Paula Kay
Paula Elaine Kay is an American Democratic politician and attorney representing the 100th district in the New York State Assembly, first elected in 2024 after practicing law in Sullivan County.
Paula Kelly (actress)
Paula Kelly (Paula Alma Kelly, 1942–2020), American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer; Juilliard-trained, danced with Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey, starred as Helene in Sweet Charity on stage and film, Emmy-nominated for Night Court and The Women of Brewster Place.
Paula Lemons
Paula Lemons is an American biochemistry education researcher and professor at the University of Georgia, a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Paula M. Pitha
Paula M. Pitha, also published as Paula Pitha-Rowe (1937–2015), was a Czech-born virologist who led interferon research at Johns Hopkins, showing how herpesvirus infection can reactivate latent HIV.