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Paula Marosi
Paula Marosi (Marosi Paula, 1936–2022), Hungarian foil fencer; Olympic gold in women's foil team at Tokyo 1964, silver at Mexico City 1968; world team champion 1962, silver 1966; sister of fencer József Marosi.
Paula Marshall
Paula Marshall (born 1964, Rockville, Maryland) is an American actress known for Cupid, Gary Unmarried, Californication, Euphoria, and 9-1-1; distinct from the 1926–1956 British actress Paula Marshall and novelist Paule Marshall.
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), German pioneer of Expressionism; worked in Worpswede and Paris; first woman to paint nude self-portraits; over 700 paintings; Bremen museum opened 1927.
Paula Nelson
Paula Carlene Nelson (born 1969, Houston, Texas) is an American country singer-songwriter and SiriusXM host, daughter of Willie Nelson; leads the Paula Nelson Band and released father-daughter duets in 2023.
Paula Newsome
Paula Newsome (born 1961) is an American actress from Chicago; Broadway's 1994 Carousel revival, lead roles as Dr. Claire Washburn in Women's Murder Club and Maxine Roby in CSI: Vegas, plus film credits including Little Miss Sunshine.
Paula Pareto
Paula Belén Pareto ("La Peque"), born 1986, Argentine judoka and physician; Olympic gold Rio 2016 and bronze Beijing 2008 at -48 kg, world champion 2015, IOC member since 2024.
Paula Patton
Paula Patton (born 1975) is an American actress known for Déjà Vu, Precious, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol as Jane Carter, and Warcraft as Garona; former documentary producer and ex-wife of Robin Thicke.
Paula Pell
Paula Pell (born 1963) is an American comedy writer and actress, a two-time Emmy-winning SNL writer who created Debbie Downer and stars as Gloria in Girls5eva.
Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone (born 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, NPR Wait Wait panelist, Nobody Listens podcast host, and Inside Out voice actor; first woman to host the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Paula Prentiss
Paula Prentiss (Paula Ragusa, born March 4, 1938, San Antonio) is an American actress discovered at Northwestern by MGM, paired with Jim Hutton in 1960s comedies, Emmy-nominated for He & She, known for The Stepford Wives and Catch-22.
Paula Radcliffe
Paula Radcliffe (born 1973, Northwich, England) is a British retired marathon runner whose 2:15:25 world record (London 2003) stood until 2019; six-time world champion, four-time Olympian.
Paula Rego
Paula Rego (1935–2022) was a Portuguese-British visual artist, one of Europe's leading figurative artists, whose narrative paintings and pastels drew on Portuguese folklore and fairy tales.
Paula Scher
Paula Scher, born 1948, is an American graphic designer and Pentagram partner known for The Public Theater identity, her typographic maps, and the Citibank logo.
Paula Sheppard
Paula E. Sheppard (born 1957, West Orange, New Jersey) is an American former actress known only for two cult films: Alice Spages in Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) and Adrian in Liquid Sky (1982).
Paula Stark
Paula Stark is an American Republican politician who represented Florida House District 47 from 2022, and was removed from the 2026 ballot over a missing financial disclosure form.
Paula T. Hammond
Paula T. Hammond is an American chemical engineer at MIT, an Institute Professor and dean of its School of Engineering, known for layer-by-layer drug-delivery nanoparticles.
Paula Vennells
Paula Vennells, British businesswoman and ordained priest, was Post Office Limited chief executive 2012-2019 during the Horizon IT scandal; she returned her CBE in 2024 and gave evidence at the Horizon IT Inquiry.
Paula Wagner
Paula Wagner, American film producer and studio executive; co-founder of Cruise/Wagner Productions with Tom Cruise and CEO of United Artists 2006-2008; later Chestnut Ridge Productions and Broadway producer.
Paula White
Paula White, also known as Paula White-Cain, is an American Pentecostal televangelist and prosperity-gospel pastor who led Florida megachurches and joined Donald Trump's White House staff in 2019.
Paula Wilcox
Paula Wilcox (Mary Paula Wilcox, born 1949) is an English actress, star of 1970s sitcoms The Lovers and Man About the House, later Hilary Potts in Emmerdale and Elaine Jones in Coronation Street.
Paula Xinis
Paula Xinis, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Maryland since 2016, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Paula Yates
Paula Yates (1959–2000), British TV presenter of The Tube and The Big Breakfast, wife of Bob Geldof, partner of Michael Hutchence; died of accidental overdose at 41 after tabloid hounding; subject of 2023 documentary Paula.
Paula Zahn
Paula Zahn (born 1956, Omaha) is an American TV journalist who anchored CBS This Morning, Fox's The Edge, and CNN's American Morning and Paula Zahn Now, and hosts Investigation Discovery's On the Case with Paula Zahn.
Paulao
Paulao (Paulão), Portuguese augmentative of Paulo, is shared by several Brazilian athletes: defenders Paulo Marcos de Jesus Ribeiro (born 1986, Cruzeiro, Inter) and Paulo Afonso Santos Júnior (born 1982, Braga, Betis), and volleyball Olympic champion Paulo André Jukoski da Silva (born 1963).
Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall, born Valenza Pauline Burke (1929–2019), was an American novelist whose fiction portrays Black women across the African diaspora; her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), is considered a foundational Black feminist work.
Pauleen Luna
Pauleen Luna (Pauleen Marie Javier Luna), also Pauleen Luna-Sotto, is a Filipina actress and TV host born 1988 in Manila. A Little Miss Philippines 1995 contestant, she hosted Eat Bulaga! from 2005 to 2023, acted in GMA teleseryes, and married Vic Sotto in 2016.
Paulelson
Paulelson, stage name of Paulo Fernando Capitão and nicknamed Novo Messi, is an Angolan rapper and singer from Benguela whose music fuses trap, R&B, and Afrobeat.
Paulet Island
Paulet Island (Isla Paulet) is a small circular volcanic island in the northwestern Weddell Sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, known for its large Adélie penguin colony.
Pauleta
Pauleta (Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes, born 1973, Ponta Delgada, Azores), Portuguese striker; PSG's then-record scorer with 109 goals, Bordeaux star, Portugal's 47-goal record international scorer until Ronaldo passed him.
Pauletta Foppa
Pauletta Foppa (born 2000, Amilly) is a French handball line player (pivot) for Brest Bretagne Handball and France. Olympic gold Tokyo 2020, world champion 2023, European champion 2018, Paris 2024 silver.