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Philip Bretherton
Philip Bretherton (born 1955, Lancashire), English actor best known as Alistair Deacon in As Time Goes By with Judi Dench; extensive British TV credits, stage work including Tony Benn in Tony's Last Tape, and voiceover work.
Philip Burke King
Philip Burke King (1903–1987) was an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who compiled the standard tectonic maps of the United States and North America.
Philip Burton Moon
Philip Burton Moon (1907–1994) was a British experimental physicist who proved neutrons reach thermal energies, worked on the MAUD Committee and at Los Alamos, and held Birmingham's Poynting Chair.
Philip C. Bevilacqua
Philip C. Bevilacqua is an American RNA biochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, known for ribozyme catalysis and RNA folding research.
Philip C. Hanawalt
Philip C. Hanawalt, also cited as Philip Hanawalt, is an American molecular biologist at Stanford University who co-discovered nucleotide excision repair in 1963 and transcription-coupled repair.
Philip C. Hopewell
Philip C. Hopewell is an American physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has led tuberculosis treatment, research, and international control efforts since 1973.
Philip C. J. Donoghue
Philip C. J. Donoghue is a British paleontologist, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol, and a Fellow of the Royal Society known for molecular palaeobiology.
Philip C. Singer
Philip C. Singer (born 1942) is an American environmental engineer and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading authority on drinking-water disinfection by-products.
Philip C. Wong
Philip C. Wong is a professor of pathology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine whose laboratory studies TDP-43 in Alzheimer's disease and ALS-FTD, including a 2024 presymptomatic fluid biomarker.
Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo (1941-2026), American novelist and journalist, Marine lieutenant in early Vietnam, Chicago Tribune Pulitzer co-winner, author of the memoir A Rumor of War and Horn of Africa.
Philip Carey
Philip Carey (Eugene Joseph Carey, 1925-2009), American actor of westerns and war films, star of TV's Laredo and Philip Marlowe, best known as Asa Buchanan on One Life to Live from 1979.
Philip Citroën
Philip Citroën, Dutch-born shipping employee and former naval engineer, told the CIA in 1955 that Adolf Hitler was alive in Tunja, Colombia; source of the CIMELODY-3 report and 1954 photograph, later central to Abel Basti's Hitler-survival books.
Philip Coffino
Philip Coffino (P. Coffino) is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, known for genetic analysis of cAMP signaling and discovering ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation of ornithine decarboxylase.
Philip Cohen (biochemist)
Philip Cohen is a British biochemist at the University of Dundee, knighted in 1998, whose work established protein phosphorylation as a central mechanism of cellular regulation.
Philip Cole
Philip Cole is an American epidemiologist at Harvard whose 1971 study established smoking as a cause of bladder cancer and who later argued for tobacco harm reduction.
Philip Converse
Philip Converse (1928–2014) was an American political scientist and survey-research pioneer at the University of Michigan who showed that most voters hold weakly organized, unstable opinions.
Philip Cortez
Philip Cortez is an American Democratic politician, a south side San Antonio native who has represented Texas House District 117 since 2013 and previously served on the city council.
Philip D. Darney
Philip D. Darney, born 1943, is an American physician-scientist in contraception and reproductive health, a UCSF distinguished professor emeritus and founder of the Bixby Center.
Philip D. Gingerich
Philip D. Gingerich is an American vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Michigan known for fossil evidence of whale origins, primate origins, and the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum.
Philip D. Greenberg
Philip D. Greenberg is an American immunologist and oncologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle whose laboratory developed T cell receptor engineering for cancer therapy.
Philip D. Stahl
Philip D. Stahl is an American cell biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for discovering the macrophage mannose receptor and for work on receptor-mediated endocytosis.
Philip Davies
Sir Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley 2005-2024, elected five times, known for filibustering private members' bills, early Brexit advocacy, and 2016 'feminist zealots' remarks; lost his seat in 2024 and was knighted that year.
Philip DeFranco
Philip DeFranco (Philip Franchina, early handle sxephil) is an American YouTube news commentator hosting The Philip DeFranco Show since 2006, creator of SourceFed, rated Center by AllSides, and the most-named news influencer in a 2025 Pew survey.
Philip Doddridge
Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) was an English Nonconformist minister and hymn writer who led the Castle Hill congregation at Northampton and trained about 200 students at his dissenting academy.
Philip Don Estridge
Philip Don Estridge, also known as Don Estridge, was an American computer engineer at IBM who led the team that created the original IBM Personal Computer in 1981.
Philip Duff
Philip Duff is an American financier best known as co-founder, chairman, and chief executive of FrontPoint Partners, the hedge fund platform sold to Morgan Stanley in 2006.
Philip Dybvig
Philip H. Dybvig, born in 1955, is an American financial economist known for the Diamond–Dybvig model of bank runs and a share of the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
Philip E. Cryer
Philip E. Cryer (1940–2024) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose research on glucose counterregulation led him to discover hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure, also called Cryer Syndrome.
Philip E. Dawson
Philip E. Dawson is a protein chemist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for pioneering native chemical ligation, a key method for chemically synthesizing proteins.
Philip E. LaMoreaux Sr.
Philip E. LaMoreaux Sr. (Philip Elmer LaMoreaux, 1920–2008) was an American hydrogeologist, Alabama state geologist from 1961 to 1976, and a leading expert on karst.