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P. Jayachandran (പി. ജയചന്ദ്രൻ)

P. Jayachandran (പി. ജയചന്ദ്രൻ), the Bhava Gayakan, was a Malayalam playback singer (1944–2025) who sang over 16,000 songs in five languages, won the National Film Award and the 2020 J. C. Daniel Award.

P. Jeffrey Conn

P. Jeffrey (Jeff) Conn is an American neuropharmacologist, emeritus professor at Vanderbilt University, who founded its Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery and pioneered allosteric modulators for brain disorders.

P. Jeffrey Hay

P. Jeffrey Hay is a theoretical chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory whose 1985 effective core potentials and basis sets became standard tools for quantum-chemical calculations on heavy elements.

P. Jonathan Patchett

P. Jonathan Patchett, also published as P. J. Patchett, is an isotope geochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Arizona known for establishing the Lu–Hf dating system.

P. K. Balakrishnan

P. K. Balakrishnan (പി. കെ. ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ; 1926–1991) was a Malayalam writer and journalist known for the epic novel Ini Njan Urangatte and studies of Kerala's caste history.

Sep 27, 2026

P. K. Basheer

P. K. Basheer is an Indian politician of the Indian Union Muslim League who serves as a Kerala minister holding the Public Works Department portfolio.

Sep 27, 2026

P. K. Castel

P. Kevin Castel is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of New York, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.

Sep 27, 2026

P. K. Kunhalikutty

P. K. Kunhalikutty, born 1951, is an Indian Union Muslim League politician who serves as a minister in the Government of Kerala, holding the Industries and Commerce portfolios.

P. K. Page

P. K. Page, born Patricia Kathleen Page, was a Canadian poet and visual artist who won the 1954 Governor General's Award for poetry for The Metal and the Flower.

P. K. Parameswaran Nair

P. K. Parameswaran Nair (1903–1988) was a Malayalam literary historian, critic, and biographer whose Malayala Sahitya Charitram, written for the Sahitya Akademi, became the standard one-volume history of Malayalam literature.

P. K. Rosy

P. K. Rosy (പി കെ റോസി), born Rajamma in 1903, was a Dalit Pulaya actress and the first female lead of Malayalam cinema, starring in Vigathakumaran (1928); caste backlash burned her home and exiled her to Nagercoil.

P. K. Subban

P.K. Subban (Pernell Karl Subban, born 1989, Toronto) is a Canadian former NHL defenseman; Norris Trophy 2013, 2017 Stanley Cup Final with Nashville, Sochi 2014 Olympic gold, retired 2022 after 834 games and 467 points.

P. Kesavadev

P. Kesavadev, born Kesava Pillai (1904–1983), was a Malayalam novelist, short-story writer, and social reformer who pioneered social realism in Kerala fiction, best known for Odayil Ninnu (1942) and winner of the 1964 Sahitya Akademi Award.

P. Kunhiraman Nair

P. Kunhiraman Nair, known to Malayalam readers as Mahakavi P, was an Indian poet writing in Malayalam whose romantic verse celebrated Kerala's natural beauty; his long poem Kaliyachan won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1959.

P. L. Santoshi (प्यारे लाल श्रीवास्तव)

P. L. Santoshi (Pyare Lal Srivastav, प्यारे लाल श्रीवास्तव), 1916–1978, Hindi film director, lyricist, and screenwriter; directed Sargam and Barsaat Ki Raat, founded Santoshi Productions, father of Rajkumar Santoshi.

P. L. Travers

P. L. Travers (Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, 1899–1996), Australian-born British author of Mary Poppins (1934) and seven sequels; resisted Disney's 1964 film adaptation, which made her wealthy but dissatisfied.

Sep 19, 2026

P. Leela (music)

P. Leela (പി. ലീല; Porayathu Leela, 1934–2005) was an Indian playback singer from Kerala who recorded over 5,000 songs and received the Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2006.

P. Leif Bergsagel

P. Leif Bergsagel (Peter Leif Bergsagel) is a Canadian-trained hematologist-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, who identified recurrent chromosome translocations and NF-κB mutations in multiple myeloma.

P. Leslie Dutton

P. Leslie Dutton, also known as P. L. Dutton, is a British-born American biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania known for biological electron transfer research.

P. M. Narendraswamy

P. M. Narendraswamy (ಪಿ.ಎಂ.ನರೇಂದ್ರಸ್ವಾಮಿ), born 1963, is an Indian National Congress MLA from Malavalli (SC), Mandya, Karnataka, first elected as an Independent in 2008, and Karnataka's Agriculture Minister in the D. K. Shivakumar-led government after chairing the State Pollution Control Board.