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Paul Fares Boulos

Paul Fares Boulos, also known as Paul F. Boulos, is a civil engineer born in Beirut who founded Innovyze and now chairs Aquanuity, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

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 Graham (programmer)

Paul Graham is a British-American computer scientist, essayist, and venture investor who co-founded Viaweb and Y Combinator, the seed accelerator behind Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit.

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.

Paul J. Turinsky

Paul J. Turinsky is an American nuclear engineer at NC State known for computational reactor physics and nuclear fuel management, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Paul John Carter

Paul John Carter is an antibody engineer and Genentech Fellow whose humanization and knobs-into-holes technologies underlie approved antibody drugs; he joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Paul Josef Turinsky

Paul Josef Turinsky is an American nuclear engineer at NC State known for computational reactor physics and nuclear fuel management, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Paul Jr. Designs

Paul Jr. Designs is an American custom motorcycle firm founded by Paul Teutul Jr. in 2009 after leaving Orange County Choppers, known from the series American Chopper.

Paul K. Wright

Paul K. Wright is a British-born mechanical engineer and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for the first open-architecture control of manufacturing systems, the CyberCut CAD/CAM project, and energy-scavenging research for the Internet of Things.

Paul Kocher (cryptographer)

Paul Kocher is an American cryptographer who discovered timing attacks and differential power analysis, contributed to SSL 3.0, and founded Cryptography Research, Inc., sold to Rambus in 2011.

Paul Kolbach

Paul Kolbach (1894–1974) was a Luxembourg-born brewing scientist and chemist who spent his career at the VLB in Berlin, introduced pH measurement into brewing chemistry, and gave his name to the Kolbachzahl and the Grad Windisch-Kolbach.

Paul Laibinis

Paul Laibinis is an American chemical engineer who specializes in surface chemistry, developing coatings that protect metals from corrosion and resist protein adsorption. He received a PECASE award in 1996.

Paul Le Roux

Paul Calder Le Roux, born 1972, is a former programmer who wrote the disk-encryption software E4M, the code base for TrueCrypt, before running a global criminal drug enterprise.

Paul M. Anderson

Paul M. Anderson (1926–2011) was an American electrical engineer, a professor at Iowa State University, and author of standard textbooks on power system analysis and stability.

Paul M. Cook

Paul M. Cook (1924–2020) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded Raychem Corporation in 1957, commercializing radiation chemistry, and won the National Medal of Technology in 1988.

Paul M. Naghdi

Paul M. Naghdi (1924–1994) was an Iranian-born engineering scientist and professor at UC Berkeley for 36 years, known for shell theory, plasticity, and the 1980 Timoshenko Medal.

Paul Marasco

Paul Marasco is an American neuroscientist and biomedical engineer who heads the Laboratory for Bionic Integration at Cleveland Clinic and directs amputee research at the Cleveland VA, restoring touch to prosthetic limbs.

Paul Mauser

Paul Mauser, also known as Peter Paul von Mauser, was a German gunsmith and rifle designer whose Model 71 and Gewehr 98 became standard infantry rifles worldwide.

Paul Mockapetris

Paul Mockapetris is an American computer scientist who invented the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1983 at USC's Information Sciences Institute and operated its first root servers.

Paul N. Blumberg

Paul N. Blumberg is an American engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for automotive-system modeling that improved emissions control and fuel economy.

Paul Ohodnicki

Paul R. Ohodnicki Jr. is an American materials scientist and engineer known for harsh-environment optical fiber sensors and magnetic nanocrystalline materials, who received a PECASE award at NETL.

Paul Penfield Jr.

Paul Penfield Jr. (1933–2021) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who led the EECS department from 1989 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Paul Pholeros

Paul Pholeros (1953–2016) was an Australian architect who co-founded Healthabitat and developed Housing for Health, repairing health hardware in Indigenous houses and cutting infectious-disease hospitalizations 40%.

Paul R. Adams

Paul R. Adams is an American aerospace engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for his leadership on Pratt & Whitney's Geared Turbofan engines.

Paul R. Gray

Paul R. Gray is an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley known for analog integrated circuit design and the standard textbook with Robert G. Meyer.

Paul R. Shearing

Paul R. Shearing, also published as Paul Shearing, is a chemical engineer known for X-ray imaging of batteries and thermal runaway, and since 2025 has been a professor at Oxford.