Engineers and computer scientists

Patrick Winston

Patrick Henry Winston (1943–2019) was an American computer scientist who directed the MIT AI Laboratory for 25 years and wrote a widely used textbook on artificial intelligence.

Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes is a computer scientist at the MIT Media Lab who pioneered software agents, co-founded the personalization company Firefly, and leads the Fluid Interfaces group.

Paul A. Beck (1908–1997) was a Hungarian-born American physical metallurgist and professor of metallurgy at the University of Illinois, known for research on recrystallization textures and transition-metal alloy phases.

Paul A. Libby

Paul A. Libby (1921–2021) was an American aerospace engineer and founding faculty member at UC San Diego, known for the Bray–Moss–Libby model of premixed turbulent flames.

Paul Allen

Paul Gardner Allen (1953–2018) was an American businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and later founded the Allen Institutes for science and AI research in Seattle.

Paul B. Weisz

Paul B. Weisz (1919–2012) was a Czechoslovakia-born American engineer at Mobil whose zeolite catalyst work founded shape-selective catalysis, earning National Academy of Engineering election in 1977.

Paul Bevilaqua

Paul Bevilaqua is an American aeronautical engineer, formerly of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, who invented the shaft-driven lift fan that lets the F-35B fly supersonic and land vertically, earning the 2001 Collier Trophy.

Paul C. Jennings

Paul C. Jennings is an American earthquake engineer, Caltech professor emeritus, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977, Caltech's provost twice, and a recipient of ASCE's Newmark Medal.

Paul C. Paris

Paul C. Paris (1930–2017) was an American engineer who formulated the Paris law, the power-law equation used to predict fatigue crack growth in aircraft and vehicles.

Paul D. Clayton

Paul D. Clayton is an American medical informatics researcher who built computerized decision support into hospital care at Utah and Columbia, and served as AMIA president.

Paul Daniel Dapkus

Paul Daniel Dapkus is an American electrical engineer and USC professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for making MOCVD the dominant process for laser diodes and LEDs.

Paul de Casteljau

Paul de Faget de Casteljau (1930–2022) was a French mathematician who, working at Citroën from 1958, discovered the de Casteljau algorithm used to evaluate Bézier curves.

Paul Debevec

Paul Debevec is an American computer graphics researcher who developed image-based lighting and the Light Stage face-capture devices, winning a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award in 2010.

Paul Dyer Merica

Paul Dyer Merica (1889–1957) was an American physical metallurgist who explained why aluminum alloys harden spontaneously after heat treatment, and who rose from refinery metallurgist to president of International Nickel.

Paul E. Dimotakis

Paul E. Dimotakis is an experimental fluid dynamicist at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for work on turbulence, mixing, and jet propulsion.

Paul E. Gray

Paul E. Gray (1932–2017) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at MIT, serving as its fourteenth president from 1980 to 1990 and later chairing the MIT Corporation.

Paul E. Krajewski

Paul E. Krajewski is an American materials scientist at General Motors who developed lightweight automotive materials and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Paul E. Queneau

Paul E. Queneau was an American extractive metallurgist who pioneered oxygen smelting to cut pollution, helped invent the QSL lead process, and spent 35 years at International Nickel.

Paul E. Rubbert

Paul E. Rubbert is a retired Boeing aerospace engineer and pioneer of computational fluid dynamics, who led Boeing's Aerodynamics Research Unit and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Paul E. Waggoner

Paul E. Waggoner was an American plant pathologist and climatologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, known for EPIDEM, the first computer simulation of plant diseases.

Paul Edward Waggoner

Paul Edward Waggoner (1923–2022) was an American plant pathologist and climatologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, known for EPIDEM, the first computer simulation of plant diseases.

Paul England (computer scientist)

Paul England is a computer scientist and hardware-security engineer who spent 27 years at Microsoft and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Paul F. Chenea

Paul F. Chenea (1918–1996) was an American mechanical engineer and Purdue University vice president who led General Motors research from 1969 to 1982, specializing in continuum mechanics.

Paul G. Gaffney II

Paul G. Gaffney II is a retired US Navy vice admiral and oceanographer who led the Naval Research Laboratory and served as president of Monmouth University.

Paul G. Kaminski

Paul G. Kaminski is an American defense technologist and retired Air Force colonel, born in 1942, known for leading stealth aircraft development and reforming Pentagon weapons acquisition.

Paul G. Shewmon

Paul G. Shewmon (born 1930) is an American metallurgist and National Academy of Engineering member known for diffusion in solids and the textbook Diffusion in Solids.

Paul H. Siegel

Paul H. Siegel, born 1953, is an American information theorist and Distinguished Professor at UCSD, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for coding techniques for digital recording.

Paul Heremans

Paul Heremans (Paul L. Heremans) is an electrical engineer who became corporate chief technology officer at imec in Leuven in 2025 and is a full professor at KU Leuven.

Paul J. Kern

Paul J. Kern is a retired US Army four-star general who commanded the Army Materiel Command from 2001 to 2004 and led the Army's battlefield digitization.