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Philip Noel-Baker

Philip Noel-Baker was a British athlete, diplomat, and Labour politician, the only person to win both an Olympic medal and a Nobel Peace Prize, taking silver in the 1500 m at Antwerp 1920.

Philip North

Philip North (Philip John North) is a traditionalist Anglo-Catholic Church of England bishop, suffragan Bishop of Burnley from 2015 to 2023 and tenth Bishop of Blackburn since 2023.

Philip Oakey

Philip Oakey (born 1955) is the English lead singer, songwriter, and sole constant member of Sheffield synth-pop band the Human League, fronting Dare (1981), Don't You Want Me, and the 1985 Giorgio Moroder collaboration Together in Electric Dreams.

Philip P. Cohen

Philip P. Cohen (1908–1993) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a pioneer in the study of transamination reactions and urea production who chaired physiological chemistry for 27 years.

Philip P. Green

Philip P. Green is an American computational biologist at the University of Washington, author of the phred, phrap, and consed software used in the Human Genome Project.

Philip P. Power

Philip P. Power (Philip Patrick Power) is a retired inorganic chemist at UC Davis known for low-valent main-group compounds and the quintuple-bonded dichromium species ArCrCrAr.

Philip P. Simon

Philip P. Simon, born in 1962, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Indiana since 2003.

Philip Pearlstein

Philip Pearlstein (1924–2022) was an American painter known for large studio paintings of nude models, which helped revive figure painting in the United States from the 1960s.

Philip Perry

Philip J. Perry (born 1964, San Diego) is an American lawyer, husband of Liz Cheney, who was DHS General Counsel 2005-2007, OMB General Counsel, acting Associate Attorney General, and a Latham & Watkins litigation partner.

Philip Pettit

Philip Noel Pettit (b. 1945), Irish philosopher at Princeton and ANU, developed republican freedom as non-domination in Republicanism (1997) and On the People's Terms (2012), unlike Berlin's negative liberty.

Philip Phillips (physicist)

Philip W. Phillips is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who works on high-temperature superconductivity and strange metals, and coined the term Mottness.

Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman (born 1946, Norwich) is the English author of His Dark Materials (Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) and The Book of Dust trilogy, winner of the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Book of the Year, knighted in 2019.

Philip Quirke

Philip Quirke is a British pathologist at the University of Leeds whose work on rectal cancer surgery margins changed practice and improved bowel cancer survival.

Philip R. Clark

Philip R. Clark was an American nuclear power engineer who directed the Three Mile Island Unit 2 cleanup as president and CEO of GPU Nuclear Corporation.

Philip R. Dodge

Philip R. Dodge (1923–2009) was an American pediatric neurologist, remembered as a founder of pediatric neurology, who established Mass General's pediatric neurology department in 1956.

Philip R. Krause

Philip R. Krause is an American physician-scientist in vaccinology and virology who served at the FDA from 1991 to 2021, helping supervise COVID-19 vaccine review.

Philip R. Schauer

Philip R. Schauer is an American bariatric and metabolic surgeon known for leading the STAMPEDE trial comparing surgery with drug therapy for type 2 diabetes.

Philip Raskin

Philip Raskin (1940–2026) was an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher who spent 53 years at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, leading NIH trials including DCCT/EDIC, GRADE, and D2d.

Philip Rastelli

Philip "Rusty" Rastelli (c. 1918-1991) led New York's Bonanno crime family from the early 1970s until his death, surviving the 1979 Galante murder and an internal war, before a 1986 RICO labor racketeering conviction over Teamsters Local 814.

Philip Rivers

Philip Rivers, NFL quarterback (born 1981, Decatur, Alabama): Chargers 2004-2019 via the Eli Manning draft-day trade, Colts 2020, retired 2021, returned at 44 in December 2025 for three Colts games; 63,440 career passing yards, eight Pro Bowls, now coaches St. Michael Catholic High School.

Philip Rosenthal

Philip Rosenthal, also called Phil Rosenthal, born 1960 in Queens, New York, is the American creator and showrunner of the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and host of Netflix's food-travel series Somebody Feed Phil.

Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933-2018), American novelist of Newark, New Jersey; author of Goodbye, Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint, and the American trilogy; National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and two National Medals winner.

Philip Rubin

Philip Rubin (1927–2014) was an American radiation oncologist who built the University of Rochester's radiation oncology department and became an international authority on late radiation effects on normal tissue.

Philip S. Hench

Philip S. Hench was an American rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic who led the 1948 cortisone trials for rheumatoid arthritis, winning the 1950 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Philip S. Klebanoff

Philip S. Klebanoff (1918–1992) was an American fluid mechanician at the National Bureau of Standards whose boundary-layer measurements gave turbulence research the Klebanoff intermittency function.

Philip S. Low

Philip S. Low (1947–2026) was an American chemist and Purdue University professor credited with establishing ligand-targeted drug delivery, best known for folate receptor-targeted cancer therapies; his company Endocyte sold to Novartis for $2.1 billion in 2018.

Philip S. Perlman

Philip S. Perlman is an American molecular geneticist known for research on yeast mitochondrial genetics and group II intron splicing, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientific officer.

Philip S. Rudland

Philip S. Rudland is a molecular biologist who co-discovered fibroblast growth factors and metastasis-inducing proteins, and has been Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Liverpool since 1986.

Philip S. Schein

Philip S. Schein is a medical oncologist and pharmacologist who held senior posts at the National Cancer Institute and Georgetown, founded U.S. Bioscience, and served as president of ASCO.

Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport

Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport (BZE) is Belize's only international airport, serving Belize City from Ladyville and named for the nationalist leader Philip Goldson.