# List of people by name, P

Subset of List of people by name

## P
### Paa–Pan

* Paar, Jack
* Paasikivi, Juho Kusti
* Pace, Peter
* Pacino, Al
* Pacioli, Luca
* Packer, Kerry
* Packer, ZZ
* Pacquiao, Manny
* Padgett, Lewis
* Pearson, John (author)
* Page, Ellen
* Page, Kirby
* Page, Larry
* Pagels, Heinz
* Paglia, Camille
* Pahlavi, Farah
* Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza
* Pahlavi, Reza
* Paige, Elaine
* Paige, Satchel
* Paine, Thomas
* Painter, Nell Irvin
* Pais, Abraham
* Paisley, Brad
* Paisley, Ian
* Pak, Bo Hi
* Palacio, R.J.
* Palahniuk, Chuck
* Palau, Francisco
* Paley, Grace
* Paley, Nina
* Paley, William
* Palgrave, Francis Turner
* Palin, Michael
* Palin, Sarah
* Pallasmaa, Juhani
* Pallenberg, Anita
* Palme, Olof
* Palmer, Amanda
* Palmer, Parker
* Palmer, Samuel
* Paltrow, Gwyneth
* Palumbo, Daryl
* Pamuk, Orhan
* Panagoulis, Alexandros
* Panchen, Alec
* Pancke, Günther
* Pandikattu, Kuruvilla
* Panio, RoseMarie
* Pannenberg, Wolfhart
* Panshin, Alexei
* Pantycelyn, William Williams
* Panzram, Carl
* Patil, Pratibha
* Paton, Alan
* Patten, Chris
* Patwardhan, Anand
* Paulsen, Pat
* Pausini, Laura
* Pawlikowski, Łukasz
* Payot, Jules

### Pao–Pas

* Paolini, Christopher
* Papadopoulos, Georgios
* Papen, Franz von
* Papert, Seymour
* Pappas, Ted
* Paquin, Anna
* Paracelsus
* Paramaditha, Intan
* Parcells, Duane Charles "Bill"
* Pardlo, Gregory
* Parent, Bernie
* Parenti, Michael
* Pareto, Vilfredo
* Parizeau, Jacques
* Park, Chung-hee
* Park, Linda Sue
* Park, Randall
* Parker, Charlie
* Parker, Cornelia
* Parker, Dorothy
* Parker, Edward Hazen
* Parker, Gilbert
* Parker, Isaac
* Parker, Kathleen
* Parker, Martyn (or "Martin")
* Parker, Morgan (writer)
* Parker, Sarah Jessica
* Parker, Sean
* Parker, Theodore
* Parkinson, C. Northcote
* Parkinson, (Sir) Michael
* Parkman, Francis
* Parks, Gordon
* Parks, Rosa
* Parks, Suzan-Lori
* Parks, Tim
* Parmenides
* Parnell, Charles Stewart
* Parnell, Thomas
* Parris, Matthew
* Parrish, Carolyn
* Parrish, Maxfield
* Parry, Bruce
* Parsons, Alan
* Parsons, Bob
* Parsons, Lucy
* Parsons, Talcott
* Parsons, Thomas William
* Pärt, Arvo
* Parton, Dolly
* Partridge, Andy
* Pascal, Blaise
* Pask, Gordon
* Passeroni, Giancarlo
* Passmore, John
* Pasternak, Boris
* Pasteur, Louis
* Pastor, John
* Pastorius, Jaco

### Pat–Paz

* Patañjali
* Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan
* Patchen, Kenneth
* Pate, John
* Patel, A.D.
* Patel, Raj
* Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai
* Pater, Walter
* Paterson, Andrew
* Paterson, Isabel
* Paterson, Katherine
* Paterson, Samuel
* Paterson, Tim
* Patinkin, Mandy
* Patmore, Coventry
* Patrick, Anne Estelle
* Patrick, Dan
* Patrick, Danica
* Patrick, Deval
* Patrick, Robert (playwright)
* Patrick, Saint
* Patrick, Tera
* Patrol, Snow
* Patterson, William A.
* Patton, George S.
* Patton, Mike
* Paul of Tarsus
* Paul VI (Pope)
* Paul, Arin
* Paul, Celia
* Paul, Jean
* Paul, Rand
* Paul, Ron E.
* Paulson, Henry "Hank" Merritt, Jr.
* Paul, Vincent de
* Paul, Wolfgang
* Paulescu, Nicolae
* Pauli, Wolfgang
* Pauling, Linus
* Paulus, Friedrich
* Pausanias
* Pausch, Randy
* Pavarotti, Luciano
* Pavés, Ken
* Pavese, Cesare
* Pavlou, Stel
* Pavlov, Ivan
* Pavlovsky, Gleb
* Pavlyuk, Ihor
* Payne Smith, Robert
* Pavolini, Alessandro
* Pawson, Tony
* Payne, John Howard
* Payne, Pierre Stephen Robert
* Payne, Rob
* Payson, Edward
* Paz, Octavio

### Pea–Pep

* Peacock, Thomas Love
* Peake, Mervyn
* Peale, Norman Vincent
* Peano, Giuseppe
* Pearce, Jonathan
* Pearl Poet
* Pearl, Judea
* Pearse, Patrick
* Pearson, Allison
* Pearson, Kevin W.
* Pearson, Lester B.
* Peart, Neil
* Pechstein, Max
* Peck, Ralph Brazelton
* Peck, Gregory
* Peckham, John
* Pedersen, Charles J.
* Peek, Kim
* Peel, Robert
* Peele, George
* Peers, Michael
* Pegahmagabow, Francis
* Péguy, Charles
* Peikoff, Leonard
* Peiper, Joachim
* Peirce, Benjamin
* Peirce, Charles Sanders
* Pekurinen, Arndt
* Pelé
* Pelevin, Victor
* Pelley, Scott
* Pelosi, Nancy
* Pemberton, Henry
* Pen, Jean-Marie Le
* Peña, Christopher Oscar
* Peña, Yamilet
* Pendragon, Arthur Uther
* Penman, Sharon Kay
* Penn, Kal
* Penn, Mark
* Penn, Sean
* Penn, William
* Pennac, Daniel
* Penny, Laura
* Penrose, Roger
* Penzance, James Wilde, 1st Baron
* Penzias, Arno Allan
* Pepoli, Alessandro
* Pepys, Samuel

### Per–Pev

* Perahia, Murray
* Peralta, Jose
* Peralta, Luís María
* Peralta, Rafael
* Percival, Harold W.
* Percival, James Gates
* Percy, Thomas
* Percy, Walker
* Perdomo, Willie
* Perea, Francisco
* Perelman, S. J.
* Perens, Bruce
* Peres, Asher
* Peres, Shimon
* Peretz, Amir
* Peretz, Isaac Leib
* Perger, Andreas Paolo
* Pericles
* Perino, Dana
* Perkins, Frances
* Perl, Martin Lewis
* Perle, George
* Perle, Richard
* Perlis, Alan
* Perot, Ross
* Perowne, Barry
* Perrault, Charles
* Perrin, Jean Baptiste
* Perrone, Nico
* Perry, Fred
* Perry, Katy
* Perry, Matthew
* Perry, Nora
* Perry, Oliver Hazard
* Perry, Ralph Barton
* Perry, Rick
* Perry, Troy
* Perry, Tyler
* Persius
* Persson, Göran
* Perutz, Max
* Perwani, Deepak
* Pesce, Mark
* Pessoa, Fernando
* Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
* Pestel, Eduard
* Pete, Megan (rapper), goes by the name Megan Thee Stallion
* Peter I of Russia
* Peter of Blois
* Peter, Saint
* Peter, Dr. Laurence J.
* Peters, Nancy
* Peters, Ralph
* Peters, Tom
* Peters, Winston
* Petöcz, András
* Petraeus, David
* Petrarch
* Petronius
* Petrosian, Tigran
* Pettigrew, Damian
* Petty, Tom
* Peuhu, Jaani
* Pevsner, Nikolaus
* Peyre, Henri

### Pf–Pi

* Pfaff, William
* Pfeiffer, Michelle
* Pfleiderer, Otto
* Phaedrus
* Phair, Liz
* Phalke, Dadasaheb
* Phelps, Fred
* Phelps, Michael
* Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
* Philip II of Spain
* Philippe of Belgium
* Philips, Ambrose
* Philips, Emo
* Philips, John
* Phillips, Caryl
* Phillips, Howard
* Phillips, Jess
* Phillips, Lou Diamond
* Phillips, Melanie
* Phillips, Sian
* Phillips, Trevor
* Phillips, Utah
* Phillips, Wendell
* Phillipson, Bridget
* Philo
* Phipps, Simon
* Phoenix, Joaquin
* Phoenix, River
* Piailug, Mau
* Piaget, Jean
* Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan
* Picardo, Fabian
* Picasso, Pablo
* Piccard, Jeannette
* Piccolomini, Alessandro
* Pichet, Éric
* Pick, Hella
* Pickering, Chip
* Pickford, Mary
* Pico, Pío
* Picoult, Jodi
* Pielke, Roger A.
* Pieper, Josef
* Pierce, Franklin
* Pierce, William Luther
* Pierce, Tamora
* Piercy, Marge
* Piero, Alessandro Del
* Piéron, Henri
* Pierpont, James (musician)
* Pierpont, John
* Pierre, Georges St.
* Pierrepoint, Albert
* Pietri, Pedro
* Pietrman, Dmitry
* Pietro, Antonio Di
* Pigliucci, Massimo
* Pigou, Arthur Cecil
* Pike, Albert
* Pike, Bob
* Pike, Rob
* Piketty, Thomas
* Pilate, Pontius
* Pilates, Joseph
* Pilecki, Witold
* Pilger, John
* Pilgrim, Mark
* Pilgrim, Peace
* Pilkey, Orrin H.
* Pilkington, Karl
* Pilla, Anthony
* Pillai, Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana
* Piłsudski, Józef
* Pimp C
* Pindar
* Pineda, Jon
* Piñero, Miguel
* Ping, Jean
* Pink (singer)
* Pinkard, Terry
* Pinker, Steven
* Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
* Pinkney, Edward Coote
* Pinochet, Augusto
* Pinsky, Robert
* Pinter, Harold
* Piper, Billie
* Piper, H. Beam
* Piper, John (artist)
* Piper, John (theologian)
* Pipes, Daniel
* Pirandello, Luigi
* Pirlo, Andrea
* Pirsig, Robert M.
* Pisani, Joseph
* Pisani, Vittore
* Pissarro, Camille
* Pitbull (rapper)
* Pitt, Brad
* Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham
* Pitt, William, the Younger
* Pitt, William
* Pittacus of Mytilene
* Pittman, Frank
* Pittman, Sean
* Pius XII, Pope
* Pius X, Pope
* Pivovarova, Sasha

### Pl

* Plait, Phil
* Plame, Valerie
* Planck, Max
* Plante, Jacques
* Plantinga, Alvin
* Plat, Hugh
* Plath, Sylvia
* Plato
* Platt, John R.
* Plautus
* Player, Gary
* Playfair, William
* Plekhanov, Georgi
* Plimer, Ian
* Plimpton, George
* Plimpton, Martha
* Pliny the Elder
* Pliny the Younger
* Plomer, William
* Plotinus
* Plott, Charles
* Plutarch

### Po

* Po-hsiung, Wu
* Podolski, Lukas
* Podolsky, Boris
* Poe, Edgar Allan
* Poehler, Amy
* Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
* Pogue, David
* Pohl, Frederik
* Pohl, Oswald
* Poincaré, Henri
* Poincaré, Raymond
* Poinsot, Louis
* Poirier, Agnès
* Poisson, Siméon Denis
* Poitier, Sidney
* Pokhrel, Suman
* Poklonskaya, Natalia
* Pol Pot
* Polak, Fred
* Polański, Roman
* Polanyi, John
* Polanyi, Karl
* Polanyi, Michael
* Polinière, Pierre
* Polis, Jared
* Politkovskaya, Anna
* Polk, James K.
* Polkinghorne, John
* Pollan, Michael
* Pollard, John Garland
* Pollard, Stephen
* Pollock, Frederick, 1st Baronet
* Pollock, Jackson
* Pollock, Karen
* Pollok, Robert
* Polo, Marco
* Polonsky, Abraham
* Pólya, George
* Polybius
* Pomfret, John
* Pompadour, Madame de
* Pompey the Great
* Ponsonby, Arthur
* Ponticus, Evagrius
* Pontius, Chris
* Poole, John
* Poole, William
* Pop, Iggy
* Pope, Alexander
* Pople, John
* Popova, Lyubov
* Popper, Frank
* Popper, Karl
* Porchia, Antonio
* P-Orridge, Genesis
* Porson, Richard
* Porter, Cole
* Porter, David Dixon
* Porter, Eleanor H.
* Porter, George
* Porter, Katherine Anne
* Porter, Noah
* Porter, Peter
* Porter, Roy
* Porteus, Beilby
* Portillo, Michael
* Portillo-Trambley, Estela
* Portman, Natalie
* Posner, Richard
* Postel, Jon
* Postman, Neil
* Poświatowska, Halina
* Potok, Chaim
* Potter, Beatrix
* Potter, Dennis
* Potter, Henry Codman
* Potter, Stephen
* Potts, Robert
* Pound, Ezra
* Poundstone, Paula
* Poundstone, William
* Pour-Mohammadi, Mostafa
* Pournelle, Jerry
* Powe, B. W.
* Powell, Anthony
* Powell, Bud
* Powell, Colin
* Powell, Enoch
* Powell, Frederick York
* Powell, George Henry
* Powell, John
* Powell, Lewis F., Jr.
* Powell, Michael
* Powell, William (author)
* Power, Cat
* Power, Samantha
* Powers, Harold
* Powers, Richard
* Powers, Tim
* Powys, John Cowper
* Pozdniakov, Stanislav

### Pr–Pz

* Prabhat, Ravindra
* Prabhupada, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
* Pradhan, Tapan Kumar
* Praed, Winthrop Mackworth
* Prager, Dennis Mark
* Pran, Dith
* Prasad, Rajendra
* Pratchett, Terry
* Prato, Maurizio
* Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden
* Pratt, John
* Pratt, Orson
* Prazina, Jusuf
* Prebble, John
* Precht, Richard David
* Prefontaine, Steve
* Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson
* Prescott, John
* Prescott, William H.
* Prescott, William
* Presley, Elvis
* Presley, Priscilla
* Press, Karen
* Pressel, Wilhelm von
* Pressfield, Steven
* Pressly, Jaime
* Preston, Margaret Junkin
* Préval, René
* Prévert, Jacques
* Prévost, Antoine François
* Price, Hiram
* Price, Richard H.
* Price, Robert M.
* Prida, Dolores
* Priest, Cherie
* Priestley, J. B.
* Priestley, Joseph
* Prigogine, Ilya
* Primarolo, Dawn
* Prime, Samuel I.
* Primo de Rivera, José Antonio
* Prince (musician)
* Princip, Gavrilo
* Prior, Matthew
* Pritchett, Henry Smith
* Pritchett, V. S
* Procter, Adelaide Anne
* Procter, Bryan
* Proctor, Richard Anthony
* Proenneke, Richard
* Profumo, Valerie
* Prokofiev, Sergei
* Prompan, Jatuporn
* Proper, Erik
* Prose, Francine
* Protagoras
* Proudfit, David Law
* Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph ("P. J.")
* Proust, Marcel
* Province, Charles
* Prudentius
* Prus, Bolesław
* Prutkov, Kozma
* Pryor, Mark
* Pryor, Richard
* Przeworski, Adam
* Przhevalsky, Nikolay
* Psy
* Ptahhotep
* Ptolemy
* Puccini, Giacomo
* Pudney, John
* Puente, Tito
* Pugh, Lewis
* Pujols, Albert
* Pulevski, Georgi
* Pulitzer, Joseph
* Puller, Chesty
* Pulliainen, Erkki
* Pullman, Philip
* Pulteney, William, 1st Earl of Bath
* Punch, Sean
* Punja, Hari
* Punshon, William Morley
* Purcell, Edward Mills
* Purcell, Steve
* Purkayastha, Ian
* Pusey, Edward Bouverie
* Pushkin, Aleksandr (Alexander Pushkin)
* Puskás, Ferenc
* Putin, Vladimir
* Putnam, Hilary
* Puttnam, David
* Pyatakov, Georgy
* Pyle, Howard
* Pynchon, Thomas
* Pyne, Christopher
* Pythagoras