All articles starting with P

Philipp Lenard

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (1862–1947) was a German experimental physicist who won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on cathode rays.

Sep 19, 2026

Philipp Lesjak

Philipp Lesjak, known professionally as Phil Lesjak, is a private equity investor who founded Sigla, a London firm focused on healthcare and business services, in 2025.

Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon, born Philipp Schwartzerd, was a German humanist and Lutheran reformer, professor of Greek at Wittenberg from 1518 and author of the Augsburg Confession.

Philipp Navratil

Philipp Navratil is a Swiss and Austrian business executive who became chief executive officer of Nestlé in September 2025, after the board dismissed Laurent Freixe.

Philipp Plein, German designer born 1978 in Munich, founded his namesake maximalist luxury brand in 1998 (furnishings first, clothing from 2004). Headquartered in Lugano, self-financed, sole-owned, with Plein Sport and Billionaire labels, rhinestone skull motifs, and theatrical shows.

Sep 21, 2026

Philipp Podsiadlowski

Philipp Podsiadlowski is a theoretical astrophysicist, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, known for binary star evolution and the supernova 1987A merger model.

Philipp Raimund

Philipp Raimund (born 2000, Göppingen) is a German ski jumper for SC Oberstdorf; Olympic normal hill gold medalist at Milano Cortina 2026 with 274.1 points, with 13 World Cup podiums and the 2025 Summer Grand Prix title.

Philipp Schoch

Philipp Schoch, Swiss alpine snowboarder (born 1979, Fischenthal), first snowboarder with two Olympic golds, winning parallel giant slalom at Salt Lake City 2002 and Torino 2006, the latter against brother Simon.

Sep 19, 2026

Philipp Schröder

Philipp Schröder, born 1983 in Hamburg, is a German entrepreneur and co-founder and chief executive of 1komma5°, one of Europe's largest residential solar installers, after leading Tesla Germany and Sonnen.

Philipp Schwartz

Philipp Schwartz (1894–1977) was a neuropathologist dismissed under Nazi law in 1933 who founded the Notgemeinschaft deutscher Wissenschaftler im Ausland, placing over 2,600 dismissed scholars worldwide.

Philipp Spener

Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705) was a Lutheran theologian, senior pastor in Frankfurt and later provost in Berlin, whose 1675 Pia Desideria and small Bible-study gatherings gave the impulse that became German Pietism.

Philipp Strack

Philipp Strack is a German economic theorist at Yale and winner of the 2024 John Bates Clark Medal, known for behavioral economics, information economics, and mechanism design.

Sep 21, 2026

Philipp Strittmatter

Philipp Strittmatter was an American biochemist who founded and chaired the biochemistry department at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and defined the mechanisms of fatty acid desaturation.

Philipp van Limborch

Philipp van Limborch (Philippus van Limborch, 1633–1712) was a leading Dutch Remonstrant theologian, professor in Amsterdam, and close friend of John Locke, who dedicated his Epistola de Tolerantia to him.

Philipp Wackernagel

Philipp Wackernagel (1800–1877) was a German Protestant educator and hymnologist whose source-based five-volume collection of 6,783 German hymns made him the scientific founder of German hymnology.

Philipp Wende

Philipp Wende (born 1985, Wurzen, Germany) is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's quadruple sculls at London 2012 and Rio 2016, plus 2015 world and 2014 European bronze medals.

Sep 21, 2026

Philipp Werner

Philipp Werner is a condensed-matter physicist and professor of computational physics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, known for nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory and winner of the 2020 Charpak-Ritz Prize.

Philipp Zeller

Philipp Zeller, born 1983 in Munich, German field hockey defender and lawyer; two-time Olympic champion (2008, 2012), 2006 World Cup winner, European champion 2003 and 2011; older brother of Christopher Zeller; later labor-law attorney and Magenta Sport hockey expert.

Philipp Zorn

Philipp Zorn (1850–1928) was a German jurist and one of the leading constitutional law teachers of the German Empire, holding chairs at Bern, Königsberg, and Bonn.

Philippa Foot

Philippa Foot (1920–2010), British moral philosopher of Somerville College, Oxford and UCLA, central figure in the revival of virtue ethics, author of Natural Goodness, and creator of the Trolley Problem in her 1967 doctrine-of-double-effect paper.

Philippa Georgiou

Philippa Georgiou, also Emperor Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centaurius, is a Star Trek character played by Michelle Yeoh: Prime Universe USS Shenzhou captain, Mirror Universe Terran Emperor, and Section 31 operative.

Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory (born 1954, Nairobi) is a British historical novelist, author of Wideacre, The Other Boleyn Girl, and The White Queen, CBE 2021, founder of Gardens for The Gambia, and author of Normal Women.

Philippa Langley

Philippa Langley, British screenwriter and amateur historian of the Richard III Society, led the 2012 Looking For Richard Project that found the king's grave under a Leicester car park, and later founded the Missing Princes Project on the Princes in the Tower.