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P. C. Gaddigoudar

P. C. Gaddigoudar, born 1951, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Bagalkot, Karnataka, in five Lok Sabha terms since 2004.

P. C. Jersild

P. C. Jersild, full name Per Christian Jersild, is a Swedish novelist and physician born in 1935 whose satirical fiction takes up social and ethical questions from medicine.

P. C. Mohan

P. C. Mohan, born 1963, in Bangalore, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Bangalore Central in the Lok Sabha since 2009.

P. C. Sreeram (பி. சி. ஸ்ரீராம்)

P. C. Sreeram (பி. சி. ஸ்ரீராம்), born 1956 in Chennai, is an Indian cinematographer and director, known as the Guru of Cinematography, a National Award winner for Nayakan, frequent Mani Ratnam and R. Balki collaborator, and director of Kuruthipunal, India's 1996 Oscar entry.

P. C. Vanlalruata

P. C. Vanlalruata is an Indian politician from Mizoram and a member of the Zoram People's Movement who serves as a state minister holding the Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Resources, and Cooperation portfolios.

P. C. Vishnunadh

P. C. Vishnunadh is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress who serves as Kerala's minister for Tourism, Culture, and film development, representing Kundara in the assembly.

P. Chidambaram

Palaniappan Chidambaram, Indian National Congress lawyer-politician and Rajya Sabha member; four-time Union finance minister, once home minister; architect of India's 1991 trade reforms and the 1997 dream budget.

P. D. Eastman

P. D. Eastman, born Philip Dey Eastman, was an American children's book author and illustrator whose books, including Go, Dog. Go!, have sold more than fifty million copies.

P. D. James

P. D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James White, 1920-2014), British crime novelist, creator of poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, life peer Baroness James of Holland Park, author of The Children of Men and Death Comes to Pemberley.

P. David Rogers

P. David Rogers is an American clinical pharmacist and pharmacologist who chairs the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

P. Dee Boersma

P. Dee Boersma is an American conservation biologist who has studied penguins for over five decades, directing the Penguin Project and teaching at the University of Washington.

P. F. Sloan

P.F. Sloan (Philip Gary Schlein, 1945-2015), American singer-songwriter of the 1960s West Coast pop scene; wrote "Eve of Destruction" and, with Steve Barri, hits for Rivers, the Turtles, and Grass Roots.

P. Frederick Sparling

P. Frederick Sparling, born in 1936, is an American physician-scientist at UNC Chapel Hill known for research on gonorrhea and syphilis, including pilus antigenic variation.

P. G. T. Beauregard

P. G. T. Beauregard (1818–1893), Louisiana Creole engineer and first Confederate brigadier general, commanded the Fort Sumter bombardment, won First Bull Run, defended Charleston and Petersburg, and postwar promoted railroads, the Louisiana Lottery, and Black civil rights.

P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse, born Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, was an English comic novelist (1881–1975) who created Jeeves and Bertie Wooster and wrote more than seventy novels and hundreds of short stories.

P. Helena Mäkelä

P. Helena Mäkelä, born Pirjo Helena Mäkelä (1930–2011), was a Finnish microbiologist at the National Public Health Institute whose field trials established Hib conjugate vaccines for infants.

P. Hunter Peckham

P. Hunter Peckham is a biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve University and National Academy of Engineering member, a pioneer of functional electrical stimulation neuroprostheses for tetraplegia.

P. J. Byrne

P. J. Byrne (Paul Jeffrey Byrne), born 1974, is an American actor known for The Wolf of Wall Street and voicing Bolin in The Legend of Korra.

P. J. Carlesimo

P. J. Carlesimo, or Peter John Carlesimo, is an American former basketball coach who led Seton Hall to the 1989 NCAA title game and coached four NBA teams.

P. J. Fleck

P.J. Fleck (Philip John Fleck Jr., born 1980), American college football coach, head coach of Minnesota since 2017 after a 13-1 2016 season at Western Michigan; creator of the Row the Boat mantra; 88-61 career record.

P. J. Joseph

P. J. Joseph (born 1941) is an Indian politician from Kerala who chairs the Kerala Congress and has served as a minister in six Kerala cabinets.

P. J. Kennedy

P. J. Kennedy is Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858–1929), Boston saloon keeper, liquor importer, state legislator, and East Boston ward boss, father of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.; not a mayor, he declined to run for mayor of Boston.

P. J. O'Rourke

P. J. O'Rourke (Patrick Jake O'Rourke, 1947 to 2022) was an American political satirist and journalist who wrote more than twenty books, best known for Parliament of Whores, a comic explanation of the United States government.

P. J. Sarma

P. J. Sarma (Pudipeddi Jogeswara Sarma, 1933-2014), Telugu dubbing artist and character actor, debuted in Illarikam (1957), voiced about 500 films including MGR and Sivaji Ganesan, father of Sai Kumar and Ravi Shankar.

P. J. Soles

P.J. Soles (Pamela Jayne Soles), German-born American actress born 1950, known as Norma in Carrie, Lynda in Halloween, Riff Randell in Rock 'n' Roll High School, and roles in Private Benjamin, Stripes, and The Devil's Rejects.

P. J. Tucker

P.J. Tucker (Anthony Leon Tucker Jr., born 1985) is an American NBA forward, 2006 Raptors second-round pick, 2021 Bucks champion, NBA leader in corner 3s, retired 2026.

P. J. Walker

P.J. Walker (Phillip Walker, Jr.) is a retired American football quarterback from Elizabeth, New Jersey; Temple's career passing leader (10,669 yards, 74 TDs), 2020 XFL Houston Roughnecks star, and NFL backup with the Panthers, Browns, Bears, and Seahawks.

P. J. Washington

P.J. Washington (Paul Jamaine Washington Jr., born 1998) is an NBA forward for the Dallas Mavericks, formerly the Charlotte Hornets, who drafted him 12th in 2019; traded to Dallas February 8, 2024, he started on the 2024 Finals team.

P. James B. Dyck

P. James B. Dyck is an American neurologist and Professor emeritus at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research centers on peripheral neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.

P. James Schuck

P. James Schuck is a nano-optics researcher and professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University since 2017, known for upconverting nanoparticle microlasers and photon-avalanching nanocrystals.