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Paulo Picasso

Paulo Picasso (Paul Joseph Picasso, 1921–1975), eldest child of Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova; model for Paul en Arlequin (1924); died 1975; father of Pablito Picasso.

Paulo Pimenta

Paulo Pimenta is a Brazilian Workers' Party politician and federal deputy from Rio Grande do Sul, serving as Leader of the Government in the Chamber of Deputies since April 2026.

Paulo Rangel

Paulo Rangel is a Portuguese politician of the PSD, serving as Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs since 2024 after sitting in the European Parliament.

Paulo Roberto Falcão

Paulo Roberto Falcão, born 1953, Brazilian midfielder and manager; idol of Internacional and AS Roma (1983 Scudetto), star of Brazil's 1982 World Cup team, later coached Brazil and Japan.

Paulo Sousa

Paulo Sousa (Paulo Manuel Carvalho Sousa), Portuguese football manager and former defensive midfielder born 1970 in Viseu. Two-time Champions League winner with Juventus and Dortmund, 51 Portugal caps, later coached Fiorentina, Poland, Flamengo and Shabab Al-Ahli.

Paulo Veras

Paulo Veras is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and former chief executive of 99, the São Paulo ride-hailing company sold to DiDi in 2018 as Brazil's first unicorn.

Paulownia

Paulownia (empress tree, kiri) is a genus of fast-growing East Asian hardwood trees in Paulowniaceae with seven accepted species, very light wood (220–350 kg/m³), hybrid plantations for timber and biomass, and invasive P. tomentosa.

Paulownia tomentosa

Paulownia tomentosa, the princess or empress tree (kiri), is a fast-growing Paulowniaceae tree native to central and eastern China and South Korea, grown for fire-resistant timber and spring lilac flowers, but invasive in the US, Europe, and Colombia.

Pauls Kalniņš

Pauls Kalniņš (1872–1945) was a Latvian physician and social democratic politician who served as Speaker of the Saeima from 1925 and as acting State President of Latvia during World War II.

Paulson & Co

Paulson & Co is a New York investment firm founded by John Paulson in 1994, best known for a 2007 bet against subprime mortgages that earned over $15 billion.

Paulton

Paulton, Somerset: village on a limestone ridge in Bath and North East Somerset, shaped by Somerset coalfield mining and the Somersetshire Coal Canal; 2003 conservation area, 19 listed buildings, on the Heritage at Risk register.

Paulus Kirchhof

Paulus Kirchhof is a German cardiologist and electrophysiologist who directs cardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center in Hamburg and led the EAST-AFNET 4 trial.

Paulus Orosius

Paulus Orosius (flourished 414–417) was an Iberian Christian presbyter and historian, protégé of Augustine of Hippo, best known for the Seven Books of History against the Pagans.

Paulus Stephanus Cassel

Paulus Stephanus Cassel, born Selig Cassel (1821–1892), was a German Protestant theologian of Jewish origin who served as a missionary to Jews in Berlin and combated antisemitism.

Paulus T.V.M. de Jong

Paulus T.V.M. de Jong is a Dutch ophthalmology researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, known for age-related macular degeneration research and co-discovering the gene behind pseudoxanthoma elasticum.

Pauly D

Pauly D (Paul DelVecchio Jr.) is an American DJ and TV personality from Providence, Rhode Island, cast on MTV's Jersey Shore (2009), first cast member with his own spinoff, The Pauly D Project, a Forbes-listed highest-paid DJ engaged to Nikki Hall.

Pauly Fuemana

Pauly Fuemana (1969-2010) was the Niuean-Māori New Zealand singer fronting OMC (Ōtara Millionaires Club). His 1995 single "How Bizarre", co-written with producer Alan Jansson, topped charts in several countries, hit No.1 on US mainstream radio, and became New Zealand's biggest-selling record.

Pauly Shore

Pauly Shore (Paul Montgomery Shore), American comedian and actor of the MTV "Weasel" era, star of Encino Man and Bio-Dome, son of Mitzi Shore of the Comedy Store; later podcaster, stand-up, and Richard Simmons biopic figure.

Pauly Shore Is Dead

Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003), aka You'll Never Wize in this Town Again, is a mockumentary in which Pauly Shore, playing himself, fakes his own death on advice from Sam Kinison's ghost to revive his career; he wrote, directed, produced, and financed it, with cameos from Pamela Anderson, Eminem, and Ben Stiller.

Paurashpur

Paurashpur (पौरशपुर) is a Hindi erotic period drama web series that premiered 29 December 2020 on ALTBalaji and ZEE5, starring Annu Kapoor, Shilpa Shinde, Milind Soman, and Shaheer Sheikh across three seasons (2020, 2023, 2024).

Pauropod biology and ecology

Pauropod biology and ecology covers Pauropoda, the smallest myriapod class: eyeless, whitish soil animals 0.5–2 mm long with bifurcate antennae, found on all continents and feeding on fungi and decaying matter.

Pauropoda

Pauropoda, also called pauropods, are a class of tiny, blind, whitish myriapods with branched antennae living in soil and litter worldwide; over 900 described species, no circulatory or respiratory system, and a fossil record limited to Tertiary ambers.

Pauropodidae

Pauropodidae is a family of tiny, eyeless soil-dwelling myriapods with branched antennae and nine pairs of legs, and the largest family of the class Pauropoda.

Pausanias (Παυσανίας) (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας), Greek geographer of the second century CE (c. 115–c. 180), author of the ten-book Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece), a topographic guide to mainland Greece prized by archaeologists for its accuracy.

PAUSE 2 RCT trial

PAUSE-2 pilot randomized trial (NCT04192552): open-label RCT by Douketis et al. comparing PAUSE-based versus ASRA-based perioperative DOAC management in 159 atrial fibrillation patients needing high-bleed-risk surgery or neuraxial anesthesia; similar residual DOAC levels in both arms.

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Pause Giant AI Experiments is a 2023 open letter from the Future of Life Institute calling for a six-month pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

PauseAI

PauseAI is a grassroots advocacy movement founded in May 2023 in Utrecht, Netherlands by Joep Meindertsma, campaigning for a global pause on frontier AI development until it is safe and democratically controlled, with chapters in 15+ countries and strict nonviolence rules.

Pauson–Khand reaction

The Pauson–Khand reaction is a [2+2+1] cycloaddition combining an alkyne, an alkene, and carbon monoxide to give a cyclopentenone, first realized with cobalt in the early 1970s.

Paute Molino hydroelectric plant

The Paute Molino hydroelectric plant, also known as Cola de San Pablo, is a 1,100 MW hydroelectric station on the Paute River in Ecuador, operating since 1983.

Pautips

Pautips is the online name of Paula Galindo, a Colombian beauty YouTuber and influencer who began posting makeup tutorials in May 2012, reached 21.5 million followers, launched the Paula by Pautips makeup line in 2018, and competes on MasterChef Celebrity Colombia.