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Paul Tibbets
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (1915-2007), US Air Force brigadier general, commanded the 509th Composite Group and piloted the B-29 Enola Gay on the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima; later B-47 project officer and Ohio air taxi operator.
Paul von Schoenaich
Paul von Schoenaich (1866–1954) was a Prussian cavalry general who became a pacifist, leading the German Peace Society from 1929 to 1933 and again from 1946 to 1951.
Paul W. Tibbets IV
Paul W. Tibbets IV, retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, B-1 and B-2 pilot, grandson of the Enola Gay pilot, commanded the 393rd Bomb Squadron and 509th Bomb Wing and served as Deputy Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command until retiring December 1, 2018.
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is a Burkinabè lieutenant-colonel who led the January 24, 2022 coup against Roch Kaboré, ruled Burkina Faso as interim president for eight months, and was ousted by Ibrahim Traoré in September 2022, later extradited from Togo in 2026.
Paula Broadwell
Paula Broadwell (née Kranz, born 1972), American writer, West Point graduate, and former Army intelligence officer; co-author of the 2012 Petraeus biography All In, whose affair with CIA director David Petraeus, exposed in November 2012, ended his career; she was not prosecuted.
Pavel Batitsky (Павел Фёдорович Батицкий)
Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky (Павел Фёдорович Батицкий), Soviet Marshal (1968) and Hero of the Soviet Union (1965); WWII rifle corps commander, Commander-in-Chief of Air Defence Forces 1966–1978, and the officer who personally executed Lavrentiy Beria in December 1953.
Pavle Jurišić Šturm
Pavle Jurišić Šturm (Павле Јуришић Штурм), born Paul Šturm, was a Serbian army general of Sorbian origin who fought in seven wars, from 1876 to 1918.
Pavlos Kountouriotis
Pavlos Kountouriotis (Παύλος Κουντουριώτης) was a Greek admiral who defeated the Ottoman navy at Elli and Lemnos in 1912–13 and later served as the first President of the Second Hellenic Republic.
Pavlos Melas
Pavlos Melas (Παύλος Μελάς) was a Greek artillery officer who led guerrilla bands in Ottoman Macedonia and became the symbol of the Macedonian Struggle after his 1904 death.
Pazhassi Raja
Pazhassi Raja (Kerala Varma), the Lion of Kerala, was a Kottayam prince of North Malabar who fought Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan, and then the East India Company through guerrilla warfare in Wayanad until killed 30 November 1805.
Pedro Camejo
Pedro Camejo, known as Negro Primero, was a Venezuelan cavalry officer who rose from slavery to fight for independence and died at the Battle of Carabobo in 1821.
Pedro de Candía
Pedro de Candía was a Greek-born conquistador and artilleryman who served Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of the Inca Empire, one of the Thirteen of Fame of 1527.
Pedro Vilca Apaza
Pedro Vilca Apaza, also written Pedro Vilcapaza, was an Indigenous rebel leader who led the Túpac Amaru II rebellion in Azángaro, Peru, and was executed in 1782.
Peggy Shippen
Peggy Shippen Arnold (1760-1804), Philadelphia Loyalist and second wife of Benedict Arnold, passed coded letters between Arnold and British spymaster John André, was complicit in the West Point treason plot, and feigned hysteria to escape arrest after its exposure.
Pelantaro
Pelantaro, also known as Pelantaru, was a Mapuche military leader from Purén, Chile, who led the great 1598 uprising, killing the Spanish governor at Curalaba.
Peng Daxun (彭德顺)
Peng Daxun, also known as Peng Deren, was a Taiping general from Hunan who broke with Shi Dakai in 1860 and led an army back to the Taiping capital.
Peng Dehuai (彭德怀)
Peng Dehuai (彭德怀, 1898–1974), Chinese Communist marshal and defense minister, commanded the Chinese People's Volunteers throughout the Korean War (1950–53), was purged in 1959 for criticizing the Great Leap Forward at Lushan, died imprisoned in 1974, and was rehabilitated in 1978.
Peregrine Maitland
Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854), British general and colonial governor. Commander of the 1st Brigade of Guards at Waterloo; lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada 1818–1828 and Nova Scotia 1828–1834; Cape governor 1844–1847.
Perseus (spy)
Perseus (Персей, Persey): supposed Soviet atomic spy allegedly at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, claimed by KGB officers Vladimir Chikov and Anatoly Yatskov in 1991-92. Venona decrypts (1995) and Chikov's 1996 admission show it was a KGB disinformation composite of the real spies Mlad (Theodore Hall) and PERS.
Peta Nocona
Peta Nocona was a Comanche chief of the Noconi band who led raids on the Texas frontier from the 1830s until his reported death at Pease River in 1860.
Petar Bojović
Petar Bojović (Петар Бојовић; 1858–1945) was a Serbian field marshal, or vojvoda, who commanded the First Army in the breakthrough of the Salonika front and the liberation of Serbia in 1918.
Petar Nikolajević Moler
Petar Nikolajević Moler (Петар Николајевић Молер), born about 1775, was a Serbian revolutionary and church painter who served as president of the People's Chancellery from 1815 to 1816.
Petar Zrinski
Petar Zrinski (Zrínyi Péter) was a Croatian ban, military commander, and poet who led the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy against Habsburg absolutism and was beheaded in 1671.
Peter Blunt
Major-General Peter John Blunt (1923–2003) was a British Army officer and businessman who served as Transport Officer-in-Chief and won the George Medal for a 1959 tanker rescue in Germany.
Peter Cosgrove
Sir Peter Cosgrove (born 1947, Sydney) is a retired Australian Army general, Military Cross recipient from Vietnam, INTERFET commander in East Timor 1999–2000, Chief of the Defence Force 2002–2005, Australian of the Year 2001, and Australia's 26th Governor-General 2014–2019.
Peter D. Huntley
Peter D. Huntley is a U.S. Marine Corps major general commanding Marine Forces Special Operations Command as of 2025; former Marine Raider Regiment commander, 2d Marine Special Operations Battalion commander, and Special Operations Command South commander.
Peter Francisco
Peter Francisco (Pedro Francisco, 1760-1831), the "Virginia Giant," a Portuguese-born orphan raised in Virginia who became a celebrated Revolutionary War soldier; his documented service is real, but famous feats like the Camden cannon are largely legend.
Peter Inge, Baron Inge
Peter Inge, Baron Inge (1935-2022), British Army field marshal; last Chief of the Defence Staff appointed at five-star rank, Chief of the General Staff 1992, life peer 2001, Butler Inquiry member.
Peter Malkin (פיטר צבי מלכין)
Peter Malkin (פיטר צבי מלכין), 1927–2005, Israeli Shin Bet and Mossad operative who seized Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires on May 11, 1960, and later wrote Eichmann in My Hands, an account partly disputed by documentary evidence.
Peter McAleese
Peter McAleese (1942–2024), Scottish soldier and mercenary of the Parachute Regiment, 22 SAS, Rhodesian SAS and 44 Parachute Brigade; led the 1989 Cali Cartel-funded Operation Phoenix plot against Pablo Escobar and wrote No Mean Soldier.