| Paalen, Wolfgang Robert (Austrian-born Mex. painter, theorist) |
1905-1959 |
| Paap, Willem Anthony (Dutch writer, playwright) |
1856-1923 |
| Paar, Jack Harold (American television host) |
1918-2004 |
| Paasche, Hermann (German economist) |
1851-1925 |
| Paasikivi, Juho Kusti (Finnish businessman, politician) |
1870-1956 |
| Pabst, George Wilhelm (German film director) |
1885-1967 |
| Paca, William (American Revolutionary leader) |
1740-1799 |
| Pacatus Drepanius, Latinis (Gallo-Roman orator, poet) |
fl. 390 |
| Pacca, Bartolommeo (Italian prelate, diplomat) |
1756-1844 |
| Paccanari, Niccolo (Italian monk; founded Paccanarist order) |
b.1773 |
| Paccard, Michel-Gabriel (French physician) |
1757-1827 |
| Pacchierotti, Gasparo (Italian mezzo-soprano castrato) |
1740-1821 |
| Pacchioni, Antonio (Italian anatomist) |
1665-1726 |
| Pace, Richard (English diplomat) |
1482?-1536 |
| Pachacuti (or Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui; Inca emperor 1438-71) |
d.1471 |
| Pacheco, Francisco (Spanish painter) |
1564-1654 |
| Pacheco, Jose Emilio (Mexican writer, critic, translator, poet) |
b.1939 |
| Pacheco, Juan Manuel Fernandez (Spanish scholar) |
1650-1725 |
| Pacheco Pereira, Duarte "Aquilles Lusitano" (Port. explorer) |
15th-16th cent. |
| Pachelbel, Charles Theodore (German composer, organist) |
1690-1750 |
| Pachelbel, Johann (German organist, composer, teacher) |
1653-1706 |
| Pachelbel, William Hieronymous (German composer; son of Johan) |
c.1685-1764 |
| Pacher, Michael (German painter, woodcarver) |
c.1435-1498 |
| Pachmann, Vladimir von (aka Vladimir de Pachman; Rus. pianist) |
1848-1933 |
| Pachomius, Saint (Christian monk) |
c.290-346 |
| Pacifico, David (Portuguese Jewish merchant) |
1784-1854 |
| Pacini, Emilio (Italian librettist; brother of Giovanni) |
1810-1898 |
| Pacini, Filippo (Italian anatomist) |
1812-1883 |
| Pacini, Giovanni (Italian composer) |
1796-1867 |
| Pacinotti, Antonio (Italian physicist) |
1841-1912 |
| Pacioli, Luca (Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar) |
1445?-1514? |
| Pacius, Fredrik (Finnish violinist, composer) |
1809-1891 |
| Pack, Otto von (German politician) |
1480?-1537 |
| Packard, Alpheus Spring (American entomologist) |
1839-1905 |
| Packard, David (American businessman, engineer) |
1912-1996 |
| Packard, Frank Lucius (Canadian writer) |
1877-1942 |
| Packard, James Ward (American engineer, inventor) |
1863-1928 |
| Packard, William Doud (American engineer, inventor; bro. of JW) |
1861-1923 |
| Pacorus (Pkwr; Pacorus I; Parthian warrior-prince) |
d.38 BC |
| Pacorus II (Pkwr II; King of Parthia 78-c.116) |
1st-2nd cent. |
| Pacuvius, Marcus (Roman playwright, poet, painter) |
220-c.130 BC |
| Padeloup, Antoine-Michel (French bookbinder) |
1685-1758 |
| Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (Polish pianist, composer, diplomat) |
1860-1941 |
| Padgett, Ron (American poet, essayist, writer, translator) |
b.1942 |
| Padilla, Heberto (Cuban poet, journalist) |
b.1932 |
| Padilla, Juan (Spanish Franciscan missionary) |
1500?-1542 |
| Padilla, Juan de (Spanish revolutionist) |
1490?-1521 |
| Padilla, Juan Gutierrez de (Spanish composer in Mexico) |
c.1590-1664 |
| Padilla, Maria Pacheco (Spanish revolutionist; wife of Juan) |
d.1531 |
| Padmasambhava (aka Guru Rimpoche; Indian Buddhist scholar) |
8th cent. |
| Paeonius (or Paionios; Greek sculptor) |
fl. 450-400 BC |
| Paer, Ferdinando (Italian composer, Hofkapellmeister) |
1771-1839 |
| Paes, Sidonio Bernardino Cardosa da Silva (Port. politician) |
1872-1918 |
| Paez, Jose Antonio (Venezuelan soldier, political leader) |
1790-1873 |
| Paez Xaramillo, Pedro (Spanish Jesuit missionary) |
1564-1622 |
| Paganini, Niccolo (Italian composer, violinist, violist) |
1782-1840 |
| Pagan Min (King of Burma 1846-1853) |
d.1880 |
| Page, Betty Mae "Bettie" (American model) |
1923-2008 |
| Page, Sir Earle Christmas Grafton (Australian politician) |
1880-1961 |
| Page, Frederick Handley (English airplane manufacturer) |
1885-1962 |
| Page, George Henson (American journalist, broadcaster, writer) |
1935-2006 |
| Page, Irvine Heinly (Am. physiologist; co-disc. serotonin,1948) |
1901-1991 |
| Page, James Patrick (English musician) |
b.1944 |
| Page, Lawrence Edward "Larry" (Am. entrepreneur; co-fd. Google) |
b.1973 |
| Page, Patricia Kathleen (English-born Canadian poet, painter) |
1916-2010 |
| Page, Robin (English painter, early Fluxus artist) |
b.1932 |
| Page, Thomas Jefferson (American naval officer) |
1808-1899 |
| Page, Thomas Nelson (American writer, diplomat) |
1853-1922 |
| Page, Walter Hines (American journalist, diplomat) |
1855-1918 |
| Page, William (American portrait painter) |
1811-1885 |
| Pagels, Elaine née Hiesey (American religious historian) |
b.1943 |
| Pagels, Heintz Rudolph (American physicist, writer) |
1939-1988 |
| Paget, Sir Henry William (English military commander) |
1768-1854 |
| Paget, Sir James (English surgeon, pathologist) |
1814-1899 |
| Paget, Violet (pseud. Vernon Lee; English essayist, art critic) |
1856-1935 |
| Paget, William (1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert; Eng. statesman) |
1505-1563 |
| Paglia, Camille (American writer, critic, educator) |
b.1947 |
| Pagninus (or Pagnini, Pagnino), Santes (Italian scholar) |
1470-1536 |
| Pagnol, Marcel (French playwright, film director) |
1895-1974 |
| Pahnke, Walter N. (American minister, physician, psychiatrist) |
1931-1971 |
| Paige, Leroy Robert "Satchel" (American baseball player) |
1906-1982 |
| Paik, Nam June (Korean-born American artist, teacher) |
1932-2006 |
| Pailleron, Edouard (French playwright, poet) |
1834-1899 |
| Paine, Albert Bigelow (American writer, editor) |
1861-1937 |
| Paine, John Knowles (Am. organist, music teacher, composer) |
1839-1906 |
| Paine, Robert Treat (American jurist) |
1731-1814 |
| Paine, Robert Treat (American poet, satirist; son of R.T.) |
1773-1811 |
| Paine, Thomas (English-born Am. political philosopher, writer) |
1737-1809 |
| Painleve, Paul (French mathematician, politician) |
1863-1933 |
| Painter, William (English translator, writer) |
1540?-1594 |
| Pais, Ettore (Italian historian) |
1856-1939 |
| Paisiello (or Paesiello), Giovanni (Italian composer) |
1740-1816 |
| Paixhans, Henri-Joseph (French artillery officer) |
1783-1854 |
| Pajol, Claude-Pierre (French general) |
1772-1844 |
| Pajou, Augustin (French sculptor) |
1730-1809 |
| Pakenham, Sir Edward Michael (Irish-born British soldier) |
1778-1815 |
| Pal, Bipin Chandra (Indian journalist) |
1858-1932 |
| Palacio Valdes, Armando (Spanish writer, editor) |
1853-1938 |
| Palacky, Frantisek (Czech historian, politician) |
1798-1876 |
| Palade, George Emil (Romanian-born American biologist) |
1912-2008 |
| Palafox y Mendoza, Juan de (Spanish prelate) |
1600-1659 |
| Palafox y Melzi, Jose Rebolledo de (Spanish soldier) |
1775-1847 |
| Palamas, Saint Gregory (Greek Orthodox monk, theologian) |
1296-1359 |
| Palamas, Kostis (Greek poet; wrote words to Olympic Hymn) |
1859-1943 |
| Palander, Louis (Swedish naval officer, explorer) |
1842-1920 |
| Palaprat, Jean (Fr. playwright with David-Augustin de Brueys) |
1650-1721 |
| Palazzeschi, Aldo (pseudonym of Aldo Giurlani; Italian writer) |
1885-1974 |
| Paleario, Aonio (aka Antonio della Paglia; Italian Humanist) |
1503?-1570 |
| Paleologue, Maurice (French diplomat) |
1859-1944 |
| Pales Matos, Luis (Puerto Rican lyric poet) |
1898-1959 |
| Palestine, Charlemagne (born Charles Martin; American composer) |
b.1945/47 |
| Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (Italian composer) |
c.1525-1594 |
| Paley, Grace née Goodside (American writer, poet, activist) |
b.1922 |
| Paley, Vivian Gussin (American? educator, writer) |
b.1929 |
| Paley, William (English theologian, utilitarian philosopher) |
1743-1805 |
| Paley, William Samuel (American broadcasting industrialist) |
1901-1989 |
| Palfrey, John Gorham (American Unitarian clergyman, historian) |
1796-1881 |
| Palgrave, Sir Francis (English historian) |
1788-1861 |
| Palgrave, Francis Turner (English poet, critic; son of Sir F.) |
1824-1897 |
| Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis (English banker, economist) |
1827-1919 |
| Palgrave, William Gifford (English traveler, diplomat) |
1826-1888 |
| Palin, Michael Edward (British actor, comedian, script-writer) |
b.1943 |
| Palisa, Johann (Austrian astronomer; asteroid) |
1848-1925 |
| Palissot de Montenoy, Charles (French writer) |
1730-1814 |
| Palissy, Bernard (French potter) |
1510-1589 |
| Palitzsch, Johann Georg (German farmer, amateur astronomer) |
1723-1788 |
| Palizzi, Filippo (Italian painter) |
1818-1899 |
| Palladio, Andrea (Italian architect) |
1508-1580 |
| Palladius (Greek prelate, writer) |
c.363-431? |
| Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus (Roman writer) |
4th-5th cent. |
| Pallas, Peter Simon (German naturalist) |
1741-1811 |
| Pallavicino, Pietro Sforza (Italian prelate, writer) |
1607-1667 |
| Pallen, Conde Benoist (American editor) |
1858-1929 |
| Palliser, John (Irish-born Canadian geographer, explorer) |
1807-1887 |
| Palliser, Sir William (Irish-born British cavalry officer) |
1830-1882 |
| Palm, Johann Philipp (German book dealer) |
1768-1806 |
| Palma, Jacopo (born Jacopo Negreti; Italian painter) |
c.1480-1528 |
| Palma, Jacopo (Italian painter; grand-nephew of Jacopo) |
1544-1628 |
| Palma, Ricardo (Peruvian writer, curator of National Library) |
1833-1919 |
| Palmer, Alexander Mitchell (American politician) |
1872-1936 |
| Palmer, Alice Elvira née Freeman (American educator) |
1855-1902 |
| Palmer, Austin Norman (American penman, educator) |
1859-1927 |
| Palmer, Charles Skeele (American chemist) |
1858-1939 |
| Palmer, Daniel David (Can.-born Am. founder of chiropractic) |
1845-1913 |
| Palmer, Edward Henry (English Orientalist) |
1840-1882 |
| Palmer, Edward Vance (Australian writer, playwright) |
1885-1959 |
| Palmer, Erastus Dow (American sculptor) |
1817-1904 |
| Palmer, George Herbert (American scholar, educator) |
1842-1933 |
| Palmer, Horatio Richmond (American composer, music director) |
1834-1907 |
| Palmer, James Shedden (American naval officer) |
1810-1867 |
| Palmer, John McCauley (American politician) |
1817-1900 |
| Palmer, Potter (American merchant) |
1826-1902 |
| Palmer, Roger (English Royalist, Roman Catholic pamphleteer) |
1634-1705 |
| Palmer, Roundell (1st Earl of Selborne; English jurist) |
1812-1895 |
| Palmer, Samuel (English landscape painter, etcher) |
1805-1881 |
| Palmer, Timothy (American bridge builder) |
1751-1821 |
| Palmer, William Waldegrave (English government official) |
1859-1942 |
| Palmerston, Henry John Temple (3rd Viscount; English statesman) |
1784-1865 |
| Palmgren, Selim (Finnish pianist, composer) |
1878-1951 |
| Palmieri, Luigi (Italian physicist) |
1807-1896 |
| Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Antonio (Spanish painter) |
1655-1726 |
| Palou, Francisco (Spanish missionary) |
1722-1789 |
| Palsgrave, John (English grammarian) |
1480?-1554 |
| Paltock, Robert (English attorney) |
1697-1767 |
| Paludan, Stig Henning Jacob Puggaard (Danish writer, critic) |
1896-1975 |
| Paludan-Muller, Frederik (Danish poet) |
1809-1876 |
| Pamela, Lucia (American musician, bandleader, eccentric) |
1904-2002 |
| Pampa (aka Adipampa, Nadoja, Jha, Oja, etc.; Indian poet) |
fl. 940 |
| Pamphilus (Greek painter) |
fl. c.390-350 BC |
| Pamphilus (Greek grammarian, lexicographer) |
1st cent. |
| Pamphilus od Caesarea (Christian writer, teacher) |
d.310 |
| Pamuk, Ferit Orhan (Turkish writer, academic) |
b.1952 |
| Panaetius (Rhodian Greek Stoic philosopher) |
c.180-109 BC |
| Pan Ch'ao (Chinese general; twin brother of Pan Ku) |
31-101 |
| Pan Chao (Chinese historian, writer; sister of Pan Ku) |
c.45-c.115 |
| Panckoucke, Andre-Joseph (French book-seller, writer) |
1700-1753 |
| Panckoucke, Charles-Joseph (French book-seller; son of Andre) |
1736-1798 |
| Pancras, Saint (aka Pancratius; Christian martyr) |
c.290-304 |
| Pander, Christian Heinrich (German anatomist) |
1794-1865 |
| Pandit, Korla (born John Roland Redd; Am. musician, composer) |
1921-1998 |
| Pando, Jose Manuel (Bolivian soldier, political leader) |
1848-1917 |
| Pando Fernandez de Pineda, Manuel (Spanish statesman) |
1792-1872 |
| Pandulph (or Pandulf, Pandolpho; Roman papal envoy to England) |
d.1226 |
| Panduranga, Ramchandra (aka Tantia Topi; Indian rebel) |
c.1819-1859 |
| Panduro, Leif (Danish writer, dramatist, social critic) |
1923-1977 |
| Paneth, Friedrich Adolf (Austrian chemist) |
1887-1958 |
| Pangalos, Theodoros (Greek soldier, politician) |
1878-1952 |
| Panhard, Rene (French automotive engineer) |
1841-1908 |
| Panhuysen, Paul (Dutch composer, visual & sound artist) |
1934-2015 |
| Panikkar, Kavalam Madhava (Indian statesman, writer) |
1895-1963 |
| Panin, Nikita Ivanovich (Russian diplomat) |
1718-1783 |
| Panin, Nikita Petrovich (Russian diplomat; son of Pyotr) |
1770-1837 |
| Panin, Pyotr Ivanovich (Russian general; brother of Nikita) |
1721-1789 |
| Panini (Indian grammarian of Sanskrit) |
fl. c.400 BC |
| Panizzi, Sir Anthony (Italian-born British librarian) |
1797-1879 |
| Pankhurst, Christabel Harriette (English suffragist) |
1880-1958 |
| Pankhurst, Emmeline née Goulden (English suffragist) |
1858-1928 |
| Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia (English suffragist) |
1882-1960 |
| Pan Ku (Chinese historian; son of Pan Piao) |
31-92 |
| Pannartz, Arnold (German printer) |
d.c.1476 |
| Panneton, Philippe (pseudonym Ringuet; French-Canadian writer) |
1895-1960 |
| Pannini (or Panini), Giovanni Paolo (Italian painter) |
1691-1765 |
| Pannwitz, Rudolf (German philosopher) |
1881-1969 |
| Panofsky, Erwin (German-born American art historian) |
1892-1968 |
| Pan Piao (Chinese official) |
3-54 |
| Pansaers, Clement (Belgian Egyptologist, poet) |
1885-1922 |
| Pantaenus (Greek Christian philosopher) |
d.c.190 |
| Pantaleon, Saint (Roman physician) |
d.303 |
| Pantaleone di Mauro (Italian merchant, statesman) |
c.1030-c.1071 |
| Pantaleoni, Maffeo (Italian economist) |
1857-1924 |
| Pantoja de la Cruz, Juan (Spanish painter) |
1553-1608 |
| Panufnik, Sir Andrzej (Polish-born British composer, pianist) |
1914-1991 |
| Panyassis (Greek epic poet) |
5th cent. BC |
| Panzini, Alfredo (Italian writer) |
1863-1939 |
| Paoli, Pasquale (Corsican patriot, nationalist) |
1725-1807 |
| Paolozzi, Eduardo Luigi (Scottish sculptor, artist) |
1924-2005 |
| Papadiamadis, Alexandros (Greek writer) |
1851-1911 |
| Papadiamantopoulos, Yannis (pseudonym Jean Moreas; Greek poet) |
1856-1910 |
| Papagos, Alexandros (Greek soldier, politician) |
1883-1955 |
| Papandreou, Georgios (Greek politician) |
1888-1968 |
| Papazian, Charles N. "Charlie" (Am. nuclear engineer, brewer) |
b.1949 |
| Papen, Franz von (German diplomat, soldier, politician) |
1879-1969 |
| Papert, Seymour Aubrey (South African born Am. mathematician) |
b.1928 |
| Paphnutius, Saint (Greek prelate) |
4th cent. |
| Papias (Greek Christian prelate, writer) |
2nd cent. |
| Papin, Denis (French physicist, inventor) |
1647-1712? |
| Papineau, Louis Joseph (Canadian politician) |
1786-1871 |
| Papini, Giovanni (Italian journalist, philosopher, writer) |
1881-1956 |
| Papinian (aka Aemilius Papinianus; Roman jurist) |
c.140-212 |
| Papirius, Lucius (surnamed Cursor; Roman general, politician) |
4th cent. BC |
| Papon, Maurice (French politician, Nazi collaborator) |
1910-2007 |
| Papp, Joseph née Pipirofski (Am. theatrical producer, director) |
1921-1991 |
| Pappenheim, Gottfried Heinrich zu (German imperial general) |
1594-1632 |
| Pappus of Alexandria (Greek geometer, encyclopedist) |
c.290 BC-c.350 |
| Paracelsus (Swiss-born German alchemist, physician) |
1493-1541 |
| Paradis, Maria Theresa von (Austrian composer, singer) |
1759-1824 |
| Paradisi, Pietro Domenico (Italian composer, music teacher) |
1707-1791 |
| Parakramabahu I (Sinhalese king of Ceylon 1153-1186) |
c.1123-1186 |
| Paramanuchit (or Paramanujita Jinorasa; Siamese prelate) |
1791-1852 |
| Paramesvara (Founder & ruler of Malacca 1403-1424) |
d.1424 |
| Parandowski, Jan (Polish writer, essayist, translator) |
1895-1978 |
| Paraskhos, Akhillefs (Greek poet) |
1838-1895 |
| Pardo, Dominick George "Don" (American radio & TV announcer) |
1918-2014 |
| Pardo, Jose (Peruvian politician; president 1904-08, 1915-19) |
1864-1947 |
| Pardo, Manuel (Peruvian politician; president 1872-1876) |
1834-1878 |
| Pardo Bazan, Emilia de (Spanish writer, critic) |
1852-1921 |
| Pare, Ambroise (French surgeon; father of modern surgery) |
1510-1590 |
| Paredes y Arrillaga, Mariano (Mexican general) |
1797-1849 |
| Pareja, Juan de "el Esclavo" (Spanish painter) |
c.1605-c.1670 |
| Parent, Antoine (French mathematician) |
1666-1716 |
| Pareto, Vilfredo (Italian economist, sociologist) |
1848-1923 |
| Paretsky, Sara (American writer) |
b.1947 |
| Parfaict, Claude (French historian; brother of Francois) |
1705-1777 |
| Parfaict, Francois (French historian) |
1698-1753 |
| Parfrey, Adam (American journalist, editor, publisher) |
b.1957 |
| Pargeter, Edith Mary (pseudonym Ellis Peters; English writer) |
1913-1995 |
| Pari, Claudio (Burgundian-born Sicilian composer) |
1574-c.1619 |
| Parini, Giuseppe (Italian poet, writer) |
1729-1799 |
| Paris, Alexis-Paulin (French scholar; father of Gaston) |
1800-1881 |
| Paris, Bruno-Paulin-Gaston (French philologist, medievalist) |
1839-1903 |
| Paris, Matthew (English monk, historian) |
c.1200-1259 |
| Parish-Alvars, Elias (English harpist) |
1808-1849 |
| Park Chung Hee (South Korean soldier; president 1963-1979) |
1917-1979 |
| Park, Maria Hester (British composer, pianist, singer) |
1760-1813 |
| Park, Maud née Wood (American reformer) |
1871-1955 |
| Park, Mungo (Scottish explorer in Africa) |
1771-1806 |
| Park, Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" (English director, animator) |
b.1958 |
| Park, Robert Ezra (American sociologist) |
1864-1944 |
| Parker, Alton Brooks (American jurist) |
1852-1926 |
| Parker, Brant (American cartoonist: The Wizard of Id) |
1920-2007 |
| Parker, Charles Christopher Jr. "Bird" (American jazz musician) |
1920-1955 |
| Parker, Dorothy née Rothschild (American writer; Algonquin wit) |
1893-1967 |
| Parker, Evan Shaw (English musician) |
b.1944 |
| Parker, Francis Wayland (American educator) |
1837-1902 |
| Parker, Sir Horatio Gilbert (Canadian writer) |
1862-1932 |
| Parker, Horatio William (American composer) |
1863-1919 |
| Parker, Sir Hyde (English admiral) |
1739-1807 |
| Parker, James Stewart (Irish playwright, teacher) |
1941-1988 |
| Parker, John (American Revolutionary patriot) |
1729-1775 |
| Parker, Martin (English ballad writer) |
c.1600-1652 |
| Parker, Matthew (English prelate, theologian, reformer) |
1504-1575 |
| Parker, Sir Peter (British naval officer) |
1721-1811 |
| Parker, Randolph Severn III "Trey" (Am. animator, director) |
b.1969 |
| Parker, Theodore (American Unitarian clergyman) |
1810-1860 |
| Parker, Sir Thomas (1st Earl of Macclesfield; English judge) |
1666?-1732 |
| Parker, William (4th Baron Monteagle; English nobleman) |
1575-1622 |
| Parker, Sir William (English naval commander) |
1781-1866 |
| Parker, William (American musician, writer) |
b.1952 |
| Parkes, Alexander (English chemist, inventor) |
1813-1890 |
| Parkes, Francis Ernest Kobina "Frank" (Ghanian journalist,poet) |
b.1932 |
| Parkes, Sir Harry Smith (English diplomat) |
1828-1885 |
| Parkes, Sir Henry (English-born Australian politician) |
1815-1896 |
| Parkhurst, Charles Henry (American clergyman) |
1842-1933 |
| Parkinson, Cyril Northcote (British political scientist) |
1909-1993 |
| Parkinson, James (English surgeon, paleontologist) |
1755-1824 |
| Parkman, Francis (American historian) |
1823-1893 |
| Parks, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan (Am. writer, photogr.) |
1912-2006 |
| Parks, Rosa Lee (American civil rights activist) |
1913-2005 |
| Parks, Suzan-Lori née Susan-Lori (Am. playwright, screenwriter) |
b.1964 |
| Parks, Van Dyke (Am. composer, arranger, producer, musician) |
b.1943 |
| Parler, Petr (born Peter Parler; German mason) |
1330-1399 |
| Parmegiani, Bernard (French composer, sound engineer) |
b.1927 |
| Parmenides of Elea (Greek philosopher) |
b.c.515 BC |
| Parmenio (Macedonian general under Alexander the Great) |
c.400-330 BC |
| Parmentier, Andre (Belgian-born American horticulturist) |
1780-1830 |
| Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola; It. painter) |
1503-1540 |
| Parn, Priit (Estonian animated film director, graphic artist) |
b.1946 |
| Parnell, Charles Stewart (Irish nationalist leader) |
1846-1891 |
| Parnell, John Russell "Jack" (English bandleader, musician) |
1923-2010 |
| Parnell, Thomas (Irish poet, clergyman; Scriblerus Club member) |
1679-1718 |
| Parnicki, Teodor (German-born Polish writer) |
1908-1988 |
| Parodi, Dominique-Alexandre (Greek-born Fr. poet, playwright) |
1842-1901 |
| Parr, Catherine (English scholar; last wife of Henry VIII) |
1512-1548 |
| Parr, Thomas "Old Parr" (English centenarian) |
1483?-1635 |
| Parra, Nicanor (Chilean physicist, mathematician, poet) |
b.1914 |
| Parra, Teresa de la (Venezuelan writer) |
1895-1936 |
| Parran, Thomas Jr. (American physician) |
1892-1968 |
| Parra Sandova, Nicanor (Chilean physicist, mathematician, poet) |
b.1914 |
| Parratt, Sir Walter (English organist, composer) |
1841-1924 |
| Parrhasius (Greek painter) |
5th cent. BC |
| Parri, Ferruccio (Italian politician) |
1890-1981 |
| Parrington, Vernon Louis (American educator, literary hist.) |
1871-1929 |
| Parris, Samuel (English-born American Congregational clergyman) |
1653-1720 |
| Parrish, Anne (American philanthropist) |
1760-1800 |
| Parrish, Anne (American writer) |
1888-1957 |
| Parrish, Maxfield Frederick (American painter, illustrator) |
1870-1966 |
| Parrott, Robert Parker (American army officer, inventor) |
1804-1877 |
| Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings (Eng. composer, historian) |
1848-1918 |
| Parry, Joseph (Welsh composer) |
1841-1903 |
| Parry, Sir William Edward (English explorer) |
1790-1855 |
| Parseval, August von (German aeronautical engineer) |
1861-1942 |
| Parsons, Elizabeth (English impostor; "the Cock Lane Ghost") |
1749-1807 |
| Parsons, Elsie Worthington née Clews (American anthropologist) |
1875-1941 |
| Parsons, Sir Charles Algernon (Irish engineer; son of William) |
1854-1931 |
| Parsons, John (nee Marvel) Whiteside "Jack" (Am. rocket eng.) |
1914-1952 |
| Parsons, Laurence (Irish astrophysicist; son of William) |
1840-1908 |
| Parsons, Louella née Oettinger (American newspaper columnist) |
1893-1972 |
| Parsons, Lucy (American labor organizer, anarchist, orator) |
1853-1942 |
| Parsons, Robert (English Jesuit missionary, plotter) |
1546-1610 |
| Parsons, Talcott (American sociologist) |
1902-1979 |
| Parsons, Theophilus (American jurist) |
1750-1813 |
| Parsons, Theophilus (American lawyer; son of Theophilus) |
1797-1882 |
| Parsons, William (3rd Earl of Rosse; Irish astronomer) |
1800-1867 |
| Parsons, William Barclay (American civil engineer) |
1859-1932 |
| Parsons, William Sterling "Deak" (American military engineer) |
1901-1953 |
| Parsvanatha (aka Parsva; Indian Jainist saint) |
c.8th cent. BC |
| Part, Arvo (Estonian-born Austrian composer) |
b.1935 |
| Partch, Harry (American composer, instrument inventor) |
1901-1974 |
| Parteciaco, Agnello (aka Angelo Partecipazio; Doge of Venice) |
d.827 |
| Parthenis of Nicaea (Greek grammarian, poet) |
1st cent. BC |
| Parton, James (English-born American writer) |
1822-1891 |
| Parton, Sara Payson née Willis (American writer; wife of James) |
1811-1872 |
| Partridge, Alden (American educator) |
1785-1854 |
| Partridge, Sir Bernard (English caricaturist, illustrator) |
1861-1945 |
| Partridge, Eric Honeywood (New Zealand-born British linguist) |
1894-1979 |
| Partridge, John (English astrologer, almanac maker) |
1644-1715 |
| Partridge, William Ordway (French-born American sculptor) |
1861-1930 |
| Parysatis (Persian queen; daughter of Artaxerxes I) |
d.395? BC |
| Pascal, Blaise (French mathematician, philosopher) |
1623-1662 |
| Pascarella, Cesare (Italian poet) |
1858-1940 |
| Pasch, Moritz (German mathematician) |
1843-1930 |
| Paschasius Radbertus, Saint (Fr. Benedictine abbot, theologian) |
c.785-c.860 |
| Paschen, Louis (German physicist) |
1865-1947 |
| Pascin, Jules (born Julius Pincas; Bulgaria-born Fr. painter) |
1885-1930 |
| Pascoli, Giovanni (Italian poet, classical scholar) |
1855-1912 |
| Pascual, Jordan (German physicist; co-dev. Quantum Mechanics) |
1902-1980 |
| Pasdeloup, Jules-Etienne (French conductor) |
1819-1887 |
| Pasek, Jan Chryzostom (Polish soldier, memoirist) |
1636-1701 |
| Pasic, Nicola (Serbian and Yugoslavian statesman) |
1845-1926 |
| Pasiteles (Greek sculptor) |
1st cent. BC |
| Paskevich, Ivan Fyodorovich (Count of Erivan; Russian soldier) |
1782-1856 |
| Pasley, Sir Charles William (Scottish-born Brit. army officer) |
1780-1861 |
| Paso, Fernando del (Mexican writer, artist) |
b.1935 |
| Pasolini, Pier Paolo (Italian writer, film director) |
1922-1975 |
| Pasquier, Etienne (French jurist, humanist, poet, historian) |
1529-1615 |
| Pasquier, Etienne-Denis de (French politician) |
1767-1862 |
| Pasquini, Bernardo (Italian composer) |
1637-1710 |
| Passaglia, Carlo (Italian theologian) |
1812-1887 |
| Passarge, Siegfried (German geographer) |
1866-1958 |
| Passavant, Johann David (German painter, art scholar) |
1787-1861 |
| Passerat, Jean (French Humanist, poet) |
1534-1602 |
| Passy, Frederic (French economist, politician) |
1822-1912 |
| Passy, Paul-Edouard (French phonetician; son of Frederic Passy) |
1859-1940 |
| Pasta, Giuditta née Negri (Italian operatic soprano) |
1798-1865 |
| Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich (Russian poet, writer) |
1890-1960 |
| Pastorius, John Francis "Jaco" (American musician, composer) |
1951-1987 |
| Pasteur, Louis (French chemist, microbiologist, zymologist) |
1822-1895 |
| Pastor, Antonio "Tony" (American actor, theater manager) |
1837-1908 |
| Pastor, Ludwig von (Baron von Campersfelden; German historian) |
1854-1928 |
| Pastorius, Francis Daniel (German-born Am. lawyer, colonizer) |
1651-1720? |
| Patanjali (aka Gonardiya; Indian scholar, grammarian) |
2nd cent. BC |
| Patch, Alexander McCarrell (American soldier) |
1889-1945 |
| Patch, Sam (American daredevil) |
1807?-1829 |
| Patchen, Kenneth (Am. poet, writer, painter, graphic designer) |
1911-1972 |
| Patel, Ishu (Indian animator, teacher) |
b.1942 |
| Patel, Viththalbhai Jahverbhai (Indian nationalist leader) |
1873?-1933 |
| Patenotre, Jules (French diplomat) |
1845-1925 |
| Pater, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph (French painter) |
1695-1736 |
| Pater, Walter Horatio (English essayist, critic, humanist) |
1839-1894 |
| Paterson, Sir Alexander Henry (English penologist) |
1884-1947 |
| Paterson, Andrew Barton "Banjo" (Australian journalist, poet) |
1864-1941 |
| Paterson, Robert (Scottish stonecutter) |
1715-1801 |
| Paterson, William (Scottish-born British financier) |
1658-1719 |
| Paterson, William (Irish-born Am. Supr. Ct. justice 1793-1806) |
1745-1806 |
| Pathe, Charles (French motion-picture executive: Pathe Freres) |
1863-1957 |
| Pathe, Emile (French motion-picture executive; bro. of Charles) |
1860-1937 |
| Patinir (or Patinier, Patenier), Joachim de (Dutch painter) |
c.1485-1524 |
| Patino, Jose (Spanish politician) |
1666-1736 |
| Patino, Simon Ituri (Bolivian tin industrialist, diplomat) |
1862-1947 |
| Patissier, Charles-Joseph (French diplomat) |
1720-1785 |
| Patkin, Max (American baseball player, clown) |
1920-1999 |
| Patkul, Johann Reinhold von (Livonian nobleman, adventurer) |
1660-1707 |
| Patman, (John William) Wright (American politician) |
1893-1976 |
| Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton (English poet, essayist) |
1823-1896 |
| Paton, Alan Stewart (South African writer, educator) |
1903-1988 |
| Patrick, Saint (Scottish-born Irish bishop) |
385?-461? |
| Patrick, Mary Mills (American educator) |
1850-1940 |
| Patrick, Paul (English teacher, gay rights activist) |
1950-2008 |
| Pats, Konstantin (Estonian politician) |
1874-1956 |
| Patten, Gilbert (pseudonym Burt L. Standish; American writer) |
1866-1945 |
| Patterson, Clair Cameron (American geochemist) |
1922-1995 |
| Patterson, Eleanor (Am. newspaper editor; sister of Joseph) |
1884-1948 |
| Patterson, Francine "Penny" (American research psychologist) |
b.1947 |
| Patterson, Horace Orlando (Jamaican writer, hist. sociologist) |
b.1940 |
| Patterson, John Henry (American manufacturer) |
1844-1922 |
| Patterson, Joseph Medill (American journalist) |
1879-1946 |
| Patti, Adelina (Spanish-born American operatic soprano) |
1843-1919 |
| Pattie, James Ohio (American frontiersman) |
1804-1850? |
| Pattison, Dorothy Wyndlow "Sister Dora" (Eng. philanthropist) |
1832-1878 |
| Pattison, Mark (English scholar, writer; brother of Dorothy) |
1813-1884 |
| Patton, George Smith (American army officer) |
1885-1945 |
| Patton, Michael Allan "Mike" (American singer, songwriter) |
b.1968 |
| Paul of Aegina (aka Paulus Aegineta; Greek surgeon) |
c.625-c.690 |
| Paul of Samosata (Christian ecclesiastic) |
3rd cent. |
| Paul of Thebes, Saint (St. Paul the Hermit; Christian hermit) |
c.230-c.343 |
| Paul of the Cross, Saint (Paolo Francesco Danei; It. priest) |
1694-1775 |
| Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconis; Lombard historian, poet) |
c.720-c.799 |
| Paul, Alice (American social reformer) |
1885-1977 |
| Paul, Charles Kegan (English publisher, writer) |
1828-1902 |
| Paul, Elliot Harold (American writer) |
1891-1958 |
| Paul, Herbert Woodfield (English biographer, historian) |
1853-1935 |
| Paul, Hermann (German philologist) |
1846-1921 |
| Paul, Les (b. Lester William Polsfuss; Am. musician, inventor) |
1915-2009 |
| Paul, Robert William (English engineer, instrument maker) |
1869-1943 |
| Paul, Wolfgang (German physicist) |
1913-1993 |
| Paul-Boncour, Joseph (French lawyer, politician) |
1873-1972 |
| Paulding, Hiram (American naval officer) |
1797-1878 |
| Paulding, James Kirke (American writer; Secy. of Navy 1838-41) |
1778-1860 |
| Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst (Austrian-born American physicist) |
1900-1958 |
| Paulinus of Nola, Saint (French-born Christian prelate) |
353-431 |
| Paulinus, Saint (Roman missionary to England) |
584?-644 |
| Pauline, Mark (American businessman, SRL founder, director) |
b.1954 |
| Paul Karageorgevic, Prince (Regent of Yugoslavia) |
1893-1976 |
| Pauling, Linus Carl (American chemist, pacifist) |
1901-1994 |
| Paulsen, Friedrich (German philosopher, educator) |
1846-1908 |
| Paulus, Friedrich (German field marshal) |
1890-1957 |
| Paulus, Julius (Roman jurist) |
2nd-3rd cent. |
| Paulus (or Paullus), Lucius Aemilius (Roman soldier) |
d.216 BC |
| Pauly, August (German classical philologist) |
1796-1845 |
| Pauncefote, Julian (1st Baron Pauncefote; English diplomat) |
1828-1902 |
| Pausanius (Spartan general; son of King Cleombrotus) |
d.c.470/465 BC |
| Pausanias (Greek traveler, geographer) |
fl. 143-176 |
| Pausias (Greek painter) |
4th cent. BC |
| Paustovsky, Konstantin Georgiyevich (Soviet writer) |
1892-1968 |
| Pavarotti, Luciano (Italian singer) |
1935-2007 |
| Pavelic, Ante (Croatian politician) |
1889-1959 |
| Pavese, Cesare (Italian writer, poet, editor, translator) |
1908-1950 |
| Pavia, Philip (American sculptor) |
1911-2005 |
| Pavia y Lacy, Manuel (Spanish general) |
1814-1896 |
| Pavia y Rodriguez de Alburquerque, Manuel (Spanish general) |
1827-1895 |
| Pavic, Milorad (Serbian poet, writer) |
b.1929 |
| Pavie, Auguste-Jean-Marie (French diplomat, explorer) |
1847-1925 |
| Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (Russian physiologist, psychologist) |
1849-1936 |
| Pavlova, Anna Pavlovna (Russian ballerina) |
1882-1931 |
| Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Maria (Polish poet, playwright) |
1893-1945 |
| Pawsey, Joseph Lade (Australia-born English antenna engineer) |
1908-1962 |
| Pawson, Anthony James (English-born Canadian microbiologist) |
b.1952 |
| Paxton, Sir Joseph (English architect, horticulturist) |
1801-1865 |
| Payen, Anselme (French industrial chemist) |
1795-1871 |
| Payer, Julius von (Austrian explorer, painter) |
1842-1915 |
| Payn, James (English writer) |
1830-1898 |
| Payne, John (English poet, translator) |
1842-1916 |
| Payne, John Howard (American actor, playwright) |
1791-1852 |
| Payne, Peter (English Hussite theologian, diplomat) |
c.1380-1455 |
| Payne, Roger S. (Am. zoologist, conservationist) |
b.1935 |
| Payne Smith, Robert (English theologian, Orientalist) |
1819-1895 |
| Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecelia (b.Cecilia Payne; English astronomer) |
1900-1978 |
| Paz, Octavio (Mexican poet, writer, diplomat) |
1914-1998 |
| Paxmany, Peter (Hungarian prelate, writer) |
1570-1637 |
| Paz Soldan, Mariano Felipe (Peruvian politician, historian) |
1821-1886 |
| p'Bitek, Okot (Ugandan poet, writer, social anthropologist) |
1931-1982 |
| Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (Am. educator, Transcendentalist) |
1804-1894 |
| Peabody, Endicott (American educator) |
1857-1944 |
| Peabody, George (American merchant, philanthropist) |
1795-1869 |
| Peabody, Josephine Preston (American poet, playwright) |
1874-1922 |
| Peach, Charles William (English naturalist, geologist) |
1800-1886 |
| Peacham, Henry (Eng. writer, painter, engraver, comp., math.) |
1576?-1643? |
| Peacock, George (English mathematician, reformer) |
1791-1858 |
| Peacock, Henry Bates (Am. geophysicist; co-fd. Texas Instr.) |
1894-1985 |
| Peacock, Thomas Love (English writer, poet) |
1785-1866 |
| Peacocke, Arthur Robert (English theologian, biochemist) |
1924-2006 |
| Peake, Mervyn Laurence (China-born English writer, illustrator) |
1911-1968 |
| Peale, Anna Claypoole (American painter; daughter of James) |
1791-1878 |
| Peale, Charles Willson (Am. painter, Revolutionary officer) |
1741-1827 |
| Peale, James (American painter; brother of C.W. Peale) |
1749-1831 |
| Peale, Raphaelle (American painter; son of C.W. Peale) |
1774-1825 |
| Peale, Rembrandt (American painter; son of C.W. Peale) |
1778-1860 |
| Peale, Sarah Miriam (American painter; daughter of James) |
1800-1885 |
| Peale, Titian Ramsay (Am. painter, naturalist; son of C.W.) |
1799-1885 |
| Pean, Jules-Emile (French surgeon) |
1830-1898 |
| Peano, Giuseppe (Italian mathematician, linguist) |
1858-1932 |
| Pearl, Raymond (American biologist) |
1879-1940 |
| Pearse, Patrick Henry (Irish educationist, writer, nationalist) |
1879-1916 |
| Pearson, Andrew Russell "Drew" (American newspaper columnist) |
1897-1969 |
| Pearson, Sir Cyril Arthur (English publisher) |
1866-1921 |
| Pearson, Hesketh (English biographer, actor, director) |
1887-1964 |
| Pearson, John (English prelate, theologian) |
1613-1686 |
| Pearson, Karl (English mathematician, statistician) |
1857-1936 |
| Pearson, Lester Bowles "Mike" (Canadian prime minister 1963-68) |
1897-1972 |
| Pearson, Weetman Dickinson (English contractor) |
1856-1927 |
| Peary, Robert Edwin (American polar explorer) |
1856-1920 |
| Pease, Edward Reynolds (English Socialist) |
1857-1955 |
| Pease, Francis Galdheim (American astronomer) |
1881-1938 |
| Peattie, Donald Culross (American naturalist) |
1898-1964 |
| Pechstein, Max (German painter, printmaker) |
1881-1955 |
| Peck, Annie Smith (American mountain climber) |
1850-1935 |
| Peck, Eldred Gregory (American actor) |
1916-2003 |
| Peck, George Wilbur (American journalist, humorist, politician) |
1840-1916 |
| Peck, Morgan Scott (American psychiatrist, writer) |
1936-2005 |
| Peckham, Rufus Wheeler (American jurist, Supreme Court justice) |
1838-1909 |
| Peckinpah, David Samuel "Sam" (American film director) |
1925-1984 |
| Pecock, Reginald (Welsh-born British theologian) |
1395?-1460? |
| Pecquet, Jean (French physician, anatomist) |
1622-1674 |
| Pedersen, Carl-Henning (Danish painter; co-founded COBRA) |
1913-2007 |
| Pedersen, Charles John (Korean-born American chemist) |
1904-1989 |
| Pedersen, Christiern (Danish theologian, historian) |
1480?-1554 |
| Pedersen, Holger (Danish philologist, Celtic scholar) |
1867-1953 |
| Pedersen, Johannes Peder Ejler (Danish scholar, philologist) |
1883-1951 |
| Pedersen, Knut (pseudonym Knut Hamsun; Norwegian writer) |
1859-1952 |
| Pedlar, Arthur "Vercoe" (English clown) |
b.1932 |
| Pedrell, Carlos (Uruguayan composer; nephew of Felipe) |
1878-1941 |
| Pedrell, Felipe (Spanish composer, musicologist) |
1841-1922 |
| Peel, Arthur Wellesley (English politician; son of Robert) |
1829-1912 |
| Peel, John (born John Robert Parker Ravenscroft; English DJ) |
1939-2004 |
| Peel, Sir Robert (English politician; source of word "bobby") |
1788-1850 |
| Peel, William Robert Wellesley (English polit.; son of Arthur) |
1867-1937 |
| Peele, George (English dramatist, poet) |
1556-1596 |
| Peet, Alfred H. (Dutch-born American entrepreneur) |
1920-2007 |
| Peet, William Bartlett (American cartoonist, Disney animator) |
1915-2002 |
| Pegler, James Westbrook (American journalist) |
1894-1969 |
| Pegolotti, Francesco Balducci (Florentine merchant) |
fl. 1315-1340 |
| Pegoud, Adolphe (French aviator) |
1889-1915 |
| Pegram, George Braxton (American physicist, educator) |
1876-1958 |
| Peguy, Charles-Pierre (French poet, philosopher) |
1873-1914 |
| Pei, Mario Andrew (Italian-born American linguist, polyglot) |
1901-1978 |
| Peierls, Rudolph Ernst (German-born British physicist) |
1907-1995 |
| Peirce, Benjamin (Am. math., astronomer; father of Charles) |
1809-1880 |
| Peirce, Benjamin Osgood (American mathematician, physicist) |
1854-1914 |
| Peirce, Charles Sanders (American physicist, math., logician) |
1839-1914 |
| Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de (French antiquarian) |
1580-1637 |
| Peirse, Sir Richard Edmund Charles (British air chief marshal) |
1892-1970 |
| Peisistratus (or Pisistratus; Athenian tyrant) |
d.527 BC |
| Peixoto, Floriano (Brazilian general) |
1842-1895 |
| Pekar, Harvey Lawrence (American cartoonist) |
1939-2010 |
| Pekkanen, Toivo (Finnish writer) |
1902-1957 |
| Peladan, Joseph "Josephin" (French writer, mystic) |
1859-1918 |
| Pelagia of Antioch, Saint (Christian martyr) |
d.c.311 |
| Pelagius (born Morgan; British monk, theologian) |
c.354-418? |
| Pelavicino (or Pallavicino), Oberto (Italian politician) |
1197-1269 |
| Pelerin de Maricourt, Pierre Le (French crusader, scholar) |
13th cent. |
| Peletier (or Peletier du Mans), Jacques (French, poet, math.) |
1517-1582 |
| Pelham, Henry (English politician) |
1696-1754 |
| Pelham, Sir William (English soldier) |
d.1587 |
| Pelham-Holles, Thomas (1st Duke of Newcastle; Eng. politician) |
1693-1768 |
| Pelissier, Aimable-Jean-Jacques (Duc de Malakoff; Fr. soldier) |
1794-1864 |
| Pell, John (English mathematician) |
1611-1685 |
| Pellegrini, Carlo (pseudonym Ape; Italian caricaturist) |
1839-1889 |
| Pelletier, Pierre-Joseph (French chemist) |
1788-1842 |
| Pellew, Edward (1st Viscount Exmouth; English naval officer) |
1757-1833 |
| Pelley, William Dudley (Am. journalist, screenwriter, writer) |
1890-1965 |
| Pellicanus, Konrad (orig. surname Kurschner; Swiss scholar) |
1478-1556 |
| Pellico, Silvio (Italian writer, dramatist, patriot) |
1789-1854 |
| Pelliot, Paul (French traveler, Orientalist) |
1878-1945 |
| Pelloutier, Fernand (French labor leader) |
1867-1901 |
| Pelloux, Luigi Girolamo (Italian soldier, politician) |
1839-1924 |
| Pelopidas (Theban general) |
d.364 BC |
| Pelouze, Theophile-Jules (French chemist) |
1807-1867 |
| Peltier, Jean-Charles-Athanase (Fr. physicist, meteorologist) |
1785-1845 |
| Pelton, Lester Allen (American engineer) |
1829-1918 |
| Peltonen, Vihtori (pseud. Johannes Linnankoski; Finn. writer) |
1869-1913 |
| Pemberton, Sir Francis (English judge) |
1625-1697 |
| Pemberton, John Clifford (American army officer) |
1814-1881 |
| Pemberton, Sir Max (English writer) |
1863-1950 |
| Pembroke, Mary Herbert née Sidney (English patron of the arts) |
1561-1621 |
| Pena, Afonso Augusto Moreira (Brazilian politician) |
1847-1909 |
| Pena, Federico Fabian (American politician) |
b.1947 |
| Penaranda Castillo, Enrique (Bolivian soldier, politician) |
1892-1969 |
| Pena y Pena, Manuel de la (Mexican jurist) |
1789-1850 |
| Penck, Albrecht (German geographer) |
1858-1945 |
| Penck, Walther (German geologist; son of Albrecht) |
1888-1923 |
| Pencz, Georg (German painter, engraver) |
1500?-1550 |
| Penda (King of Mercia) |
d.655 |
| Pendell, Dale (Am. writer, poet, botanist, computer scientist) |
b.1947 |
| Pender, Harold (American electrical engineer) |
1879-1959 |
| Penderecki, Krzysztof (Polish composer, conductor, educator) |
b.1933 |
| Pendleton, Edmund (American jurist) |
1721-1803 |
| Pendleton, George Hunt (American politician) |
1825-1889 |
| Pendleton, Ellen Fitz (American educator) |
1864-1936 |
| Penfield, Wilder Graves (American-born Canadian neurologist) |
1891-1976 |
| Pengelly, William (English educator, geologist) |
1812-1894 |
| Peng Huanwu (Chinese physicist; asteroid) |
1915-2007 |
| Penhallow, Samuel (English-born American merchant, historian) |
1665-1726 |
| Penicaud, Jean (French enameller; brother or son of Nardon) |
fl. 1510-1540 |
| Penicaud, Nardon (French enameller) |
d.1542/43 |
| Penicaud, Pierre (French enamellist, painter) |
1515-1590 |
| Penkovsky, Oleg Vladimirovich (Sov. intelligence officer, spy) |
1919-1963 |
| Penn, Arthur Hiller (American film director, producer) |
b.1922 |
| Penn, John (American Revolutionary leader) |
1741?-1788 |
| Penn, Sir William (English admiral; father of William Penn) |
1621-1670 |
| Penn, William (English Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania) |
1644-1718 |
| Penna, Sandro (Italian poet) |
1906-1977 |
| Pennant, Thomas (Welsh-born British naturalist) |
1726-1798 |
| Pennell, Joseph (American etcher) |
1857-1926 |
| Pennethorne, John (English architect) |
1808-1888 |
| Penney, James Cash (American department store industrialist) |
1875-1971 |
| Penney, William George (English mathematician, physician) |
1909-1991 |
| Penni, Gianfrancesco "Il Fattore" (Italian painter) |
1488?-1528? |
| Penniman, James Hosmer (American educator, historian) |
1860-1931 |
| Pennington, William (American politician) |
1796-1862 |
| Penraat, Jaap (born Jacob; Dutch-born Am. architect, designer) |
1918-2006 |
| Penrose, Boies (American politician) |
1860-1921 |
| Penrose, Francis Cranmer (English architect, archaeologist) |
1817-1903 |
| Penrose, Richard Alexander Fullerton Jr. (American geologist) |
1863-1931 |
| Penrose, Sir Roger (British mathematician, physicist) |
b.1931 |
| Penry, John (Welsh Puritan pamphleteer) |
1559-1593 |
| Penzias, Arno Allan (German-born American physicist) |
b.1933 |
| Pepe, Guglielmo (Neapolitan soldier) |
1783-1855 |
| Pepin III "Pepin the Short" (King of the Franks 751-768) |
714?-768 |
| Pepperrell, Sir William (American merchant, general) |
1696-1759 |
| Pepusch, Johann Christoph (German-born Eng. musician, composer) |
1667-1752 |
| Pepys, Samuel (English diarist, naval administrator) |
1633-1703 |
| Peralta, Pedro de (Spanish colonial official) |
1585?-1666 |
| Perceval, Sir John (Irish-born British political leader) |
1683-1748 |
| Percier, Charles (French architect) |
1764-1838 |
| Percival, John "Mad Jack", "Roaring Jack" (Am. naval officer) |
1779-1862 |
| Percy, Sir Henry "Hotspur" (English soldier) |
1364-1403 |
| Percy, John (English metallurgist) |
1817-1889 |
| Percy, Thomas (English antiquary, poet) |
1729-1811 |
| Percy, Walker (American writer) |
1916-1990 |
| Perdiccas I (King of Macedonia) |
fl. 700 BC |
| Perdiccas II (King of Macedonia) |
d.c.413 BC |
| Perdiccas III (King of Macedonia) |
d.359 BC |
| Perdiccas (Macedonian general under Alexander the Great) |
c.365-321 BC |
| Perec, Georges (French writer, essayist) |
1936-1982 |
| Pereda, Antonio (Spanish painter) |
c.1608-1678 |
| Pereda, Jose Maria de (Spanish writer) |
1833-1906 |
| Peregrinus Proteus (Greek Cynic philosopher) |
100-165 |
| Pereira, Nuno Alvares (Portuguese soldier) |
1360-1431 |
| Perek, Lubos (Czech astronomer, administrator; asteroid) |
b.1919 |
| Perelman, Grigori Yakovlevich "Grisha" (Russian mathematician) |
b.1966 |
| Perelman, Sidney Joseph (American writer, humorist) |
1904-1979 |
| Peres, Shimon (b.Szymon Perski; Polish-born Israeli politician) |
b.1923 |
| Peresvetov, Ivan Semyonovich (Russian writer, politician) |
16th cent. |
| Peret, Benjamin (French poet, editor) |
1899-1959 |
| Peretz, Isaac Leib (Polish poet, writer, dramatist) |
1852-1915 |
| Perey, Marguerite (French physicist) |
1909-1975 |
| Pereyra, Carlos (Mexican historian) |
1871-1942 |
| Perez, Antonio (Spanish statesman) |
1539-1611 |
| Perez, Jose Joaquin (Chilean politician; president 1861-1871) |
1800-1889 |
| Perez, Santiago (Colombian politician; president 1874-1876) |
1830-1900 |
| Perez de Ayala, Ramon (Spanish writer, critic, essayist) |
1880-1962 |
| Perez de Guzman, Alonso "el Bueno" (Spanish soldier) |
1256-1309 |
| Perez de Guzman, Alonso (Duque de Medina-Sidonia; Sp. admiral) |
c.1550-1619 |
| Perez de Guzman, Fernan (Spanish poet, historian, moralist) |
c.1378-c.1460 |
| Perez de Hita, Gines (Spanish writer, soldier) |
1544-1619 |
| Perez Galdos, Benito (Spanish writer, playwright) |
1843-1920 |
| Perez Rodriguez, Carlos Andres (Venezuelan pres. 1974-79,89-93) |
b.1922 |
| Perfall, Karl von (German theater manager, composer) |
1824-1907 |
| Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (Italian composer, violinist) |
1710-1736 |
| Peri, Jacopo (Italian composer, singer; "inventor of opera") |
1561-1633 |
| Periander (Greek statesman, tyrant of Corinth c.627-586 BC) |
d.586 BC |
| Peribsen (Egyptian king c.2675) |
27th cent. BC |
| Pericles (Athenian statesman; son of Xanthippus) |
c.495-429 BC |
| Pericoli, Niccolo "Il Tribolo" (Italian sculptor, architect) |
1500-1550 |
| Perier, Antoine-Scipion (French banker with brother Casimir) |
1776-1821 |
| Perier, Auguste-Casimir (French politician; son of Casimir) |
1811-1878 |
| Perier, Casimir-Pierre (French statesman) |
1777-1832 |
| Perignon, Dominique-Catherine de (French general) |
1754-1818 |
| Perignon, Pierre "Dom Perignon" (French Benedictine monk) |
1638-1715 |
| Peri Rossi, Cristina (Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist) |
b.1941 |
| Perkin, Sir William Henry (English chemist) |
1838-1907 |
| Perkins, Frances (American public official) |
1882-1965 |
| Perkins, George Walbridge (American financier) |
1862-1920 |
| Perkins, Jacob (American inventor) |
1766-1849 |
| Perkins, Justin (American missionary) |
1805-1869 |
| Perkins, Maxwell Evarts (American editor) |
1884-1947 |
| Perkins, Thomas Handasyd (American merchant) |
1764-1854 |
| Perkins, William (English Puritan theologian) |
1558-1602 |
| Perkins, William Maxwell Evarts (American editor) |
1884-1947 |
| Perl, Martin Lewis (American physicist; discovered tau lepton) |
b.1927 |
| Perle, George (American composer, music theorist) |
1915-2009 |
| Perle, Richard Norman (American businessman, bureaucrat) |
b.1941 |
| Perley, Sir George Halsey (Am.-born Can. businessman, polit.) |
1857-1938 |
| Perlis, Alan Jay (American mathematician, computer scientist) |
1922-1990 |
| Permoser, Balthasar (German sculptor) |
1651-1732 |
| Perochon, Ernest (French writer) |
1885-1942 |
| Peron, Juan Domingo (Argentine polit., pres. 1946-55, 1973-74) |
1895-1974 |
| Peron, Maria Eva Duarte "Evita" (Argentinian gov. official) |
1919-1952 |
| Perosi, Lorenzo (Italian secular priest, composer) |
1872-1956 |
| Perot, Henry Ross (American businessman) |
b.1930 |
| Perotin (aka Perotinus; French composer) |
d.1238? |
| Perrault, Charles (French poet, writer, Mother Goose) |
1628-1703 |
| Perrault, Claude (French physician, architect) |
1613-1688 |
| Perret, Auguste (French architect) |
1874-1954 |
| Perrier, Jean-Octave-Edmond (French zoologist) |
1844-1921 |
| Perrin, Ami (Swiss politician) |
d.1561 |
| Perrin, Claude "Victor" or "Victor-Perrin" (French general) |
1764-1841 |
| Perrin, Edwin Noel "Ned" (American scholar, essayist, critic) |
1927-2004 |
| Perrin, Jean-Baptiste (French physicist, chemist) |
1870-1942 |
| Perrin, Pierre (French poet) |
1620-1675 |
| Perrine, Charles Dillon (American astronomer) |
1867-1951 |
| Perron, Charles Edgar du (Java-born Dutch writer, critic) |
1899-1940 |
| Perrone, Giovanni (Italian Jesuit theologian) |
1794-1876 |
| Perronet, Jean-Rodolphe (French civil engineer) |
1708-1794 |
| Perrot, Georges (French archaeologist) |
1832-1914 |
| Perrot, Sir John (English governor in Ireland) |
c.1527-1592 |
| Perrot, Jules-Joseph (French dancer, choreographer) |
1810-1894 |
| Perrot, Nicolas (French explorer, fur trader in North America) |
1644-1717 |
| Perry, Bliss (American educator, critic) |
1860-1954 |
| Perry, Lee "Scratch" (Jamaican musician, composer, producer) |
b.1936 |
| Perry, Mary Antoinette (Am. actor, dir.; Tony Award eponym) |
1888-1946 |
| Perry, Matthew Calbraith (American commodore; brother of O.H.) |
1794-1858 |
| Perry, Oliver Hazard (American naval officer) |
1785-1819 |
| Perry, Ralph Barton (American philosopher, educator) |
1876-1957 |
| Perry, Roland Hinton (American painter, sculptor) |
1870-1941 |
| Perry, William James (English anthropologist) |
1868-1949 |
| Perry, William P. (American composer, television producer) |
b.1930 |
| Perse, St.-John (Alexis Saint-Leger Leger; Fr. poet, diplomat) |
1887-1975 |
| Perseus (Last king of Macedonia 179-168 BC) |
c.212-c.165 BC |
| Pershing, John Joseph "Black Jack" (American army commander) |
1860-1948 |
| Persichetti, Vincent Ludwig (Am. composer, teacher, pianist) |
1915-1987 |
| Persius (aka Aulus Persius Flaccus; Roman satirist) |
AD 34-62 |
| Perthes, Friedrich Christoph (Ger. publisher; nephew of Johann) |
1772-1843 |
| Perthes, Johann Georg Justus (German publisher) |
1749-1816 |
| Perti, Giacomo Antonio (Italian composer, teacher) |
1661-1756 |
| Pertinax, Publius Helvius (Roman emperor January-March 193) |
126-193 |
| Pertz, Georg Heinrich (German historian) |
1795-1876 |
| Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci; Italian painter) |
c.1450-1523 |
| Perutz, Max Ferdinand (Austrian-born British biochemist) |
1914-2002 |
| Peruzzi, Baldassare Tommaso (Italian architect, painter) |
1481-1536 |
| Peruzzi, Bonifazio di Tommaso (Italian financier) |
d.1341 |
| Peruzzi, Filippo di Amadeo de' (Italian financier) |
13th cent. |
| Pescetti, Giovanni Battista (Italian organist, composer) |
c.1704-1766 |
| Peshkov, Aleksey Maksimovich (pen name Maksim Gorky; Rus. wtr.) |
1868-1936 |
| Pesne, Antoine (French painter) |
1683-1757 |
| Pessanha, Camilo (Portuguese lyric poet, teacher, translator) |
1867-1926 |
| Pessoa, Epitacio da Silva (Brazilian political leader, jurist) |
1865-1942 |
| Pessoa, Fernando Antonio Nogueira (Portuguese poet) |
1888-1935 |
| Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (Swiss educational reformer) |
1746-1827 |
| Pestel, Pavel Ivanovich (Russian soldier, revolutionary) |
1793-1826 |
| Petain, Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph (French soldier) |
1856-1951 |
| Petau, Denis (aka Petavius; French theologian, scholar) |
1583-1652 |
| Peter of Alcantara, Saint (born Pedro Garavito; Span. eccl.) |
1499-1562 |
| Peter of Blois (Petrus Blesensis; French writer) |
c.1135-c.1212 |
| Peter of Bruys (Petrus Brusius; French religious reformer) |
d.1126/32/33 |
| Peter of Castelnau (Pierre de Castelnau; French martyr) |
d.1208 |
| Peter of Courtenay (Latin emperor of Contantinople 1216-17) |
d.1219? |
| Peter of Dreux "Mauclerc" (French duke of Brittany 1213-37) |
1190-1250 |
| Peter of Savoy (Savoyard diplomat in English service) |
1203/13-1268 |
| Peter the Hermit (aka Peter of Amiens; Fr. ascetic, crusader) |
c.1050-1115 |
| Peter the Venerable (aka Peter of Montboissier; French monk) |
c.1092-1156 |
| Peter (or Peters), Hugh (English clergyman) |
1598-1660 |
| Peter, Laurence Johnston (Canadian educator, psychologist) |
1919-1990 |
| Peter Chrysologus, Saint (Doctor of the Church) |
c.400-450 |
| Peter Claver, Saint (Spanish Jesuit missionary) |
1581-1654 |
| Peter des Roches (French-born English prelate) |
d.1238 |
| Peterkin, Julia née Mood (American writer) |
1880-1961 |
| Peter Lombard (Petrus Lombardus; Italian theologian) |
c.1095-1160 |
| Petermann, August (German geographer, cartographer) |
1822-1878 |
| Peter Martyr, Saint (Peter of Verona; It. preacher, inquisitor) |
c.1205-1252 |
| Peter Nolasco, Saint (Pierre Nolasque; French philanthropist) |
c.1182-c.1256 |
| Peters, Carl (German explorer) |
1856-1918 |
| Peters, Curtis Arnoux (pseud. Peter Arno; American cartoonist) |
1904-1968 |
| Peters, Lenrie Wilfred Leopold (Gambian physician, writer,poet) |
b.1932 |
| Peters, Samuel Andrew (American Anglican clergyman) |
1735-1826 |
| Peterson, Bruce A. (American test pilot) |
1933-2006 |
| Peterson, Henry (American editor: Saturday Evening Post) |
1818-1891 |
| Peterson, Oscar Emmanuel (Canadian pianist, singer, composer) |
1925-2007 |
| Peterson, Roger Tory (American naturalist, ornithologist) |
1908-1996 |
| Pete the Pup "Petey" (Am. dog actor: Our Gang) |
1929-1946 |
| Petherick, John (English trader, explorer) |
1813-1882 |
| Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William (English politician) |
1871-1961 |
| Petigru, James Louis (American lawyer, politician) |
1789-1863 |
| Petion, Alexandre Sabes (Haitian general, politician) |
1770-1818 |
| Petion de Villeneuve, Jerome (French revolutionist) |
1756-1794 |
| Petipa, Marius (French dancer, choreographer) |
1819-1910 |
| Petit, Alexis-Therese (French physicist) |
1791-1820 |
| Petitot, Jean (Swiss painter) |
1607-1691 |
| Petlyura, Symon (Ukrainian political & military leader) |
1879-1926 |
| Peto, John Frederick (American painter) |
1854-1907 |
| Petofi, Sandor (born Alexander Petrovics; Hungarian poet) |
1823-1856? |
| Petrakis, Harry Mark (American writer, biographer) |
b.1923 |
| Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca; born Petracco; Italian poet) |
1304-1374 |
| Petre, Sir Edward (English religious) |
1631-1699 |
| Petrescu, Gica (Romanian singer, actor) |
1915-2006 |
| Petri, Elio (Italian filmmaker, director, producer) |
1929-1982 |
| Petri, Laurentius (Swedish prelate; brother of Olaus) |
1499-1573 |
| Petri, Olaus (Swedish clergyman) |
1493-1552 |
| Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders (English Egyptologist) |
1853-1942 |
| Petronius (aka Titus Petronius Niger; Roman writer) |
d.66 AD |
| Petrov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich (Russian animator, director) |
b.1957 |
| Petrovsky-Sitnianovich, Samuil Yemelyanovich (Byelorus. monk) |
1629-1680 |
| Petrucci, Ottaviano dei (Italian music publisher) |
1466-1539 |
| Petrucci, Pandolfo (Sienese despot) |
c.1452-1512 |
| Petrunkevitch, Alexander (Russian-born American zoologist) |
1875-1964 |
| Petrus Aureolus (Fr. Franciscan monk, scholastic philosopher) |
c.1280-1322 |
| Petrakis, Harry Mark (American writer, biographer) |
b.1923 |
| Petrushevskaya, Liudmila Stefanovna (Russian playwright) |
b.1938 |
| Petry, Ann née Lane (American writer, journalist, biographer) |
1908-1997 |
| Pettazzoni, Raffaele (Italian religious historian) |
1883-1959 |
| Pettenkofer, Max Josef von (German hygienist) |
1818-1901 |
| Pettersen, Sverre (Norwegian meteorologist) |
1898-1974 |
| Pettersson, Gustav Allan (Swedish composer, musician) |
1911-1980 |
| Pettie, George (English writer) |
1548-1589 |
| Pettigrew, James Johnston (American Confederate general) |
1828-1863 |
| Petty, Sir William (English political economist) |
1623-1687 |
| Petty, William (British politician; son of Thomas Fitzmaurice) |
1737-1805 |
| Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry Charles Keith (British politician) |
1845-1927 |
| Petursson, Hallgrimur (Icelandic Lutheran pastor, poet) |
1614-1674 |
| Petzval, Jozeph Miksa (Hungarian mathematician) |
1807-1891 |
| Peuerbach (or Peurbach), Georg von (Austrian astronomer, math.) |
1423-1461 |
| Peutinger, Conrad (German Humanist, antiquary) |
1465-1547 |
| Pevsner, Antoine (Russian-born French sculptor, painter) |
1886-1962 |
| Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus (German-born British art historian) |
1902-1983 |
| Peyer, Johann Konrad (Swiss physician, anatomist) |
1653-1712 |
| Peyre, Joseph (French writer) |
1892-1968 |
| Peyrefitte, Roger (French diplomat, writer) |
1907-2000 |
| Peyronet (or Peyronnet), Charles-Ignace de (French politician) |
1778-1854 |
| Pezel, Johann Christoph (German violinist, composer) |
1639-1694 |
| Pezza, Michele "Fra Diavolo" (Italian brigand chief) |
1771-1806 |
| Pfaff, Johann Friedrich (German mathematician) |
1765-1825 |
| Pfaff, Judy (English-born American sculptor) |
b.1946 |
| Pfahler, Kembra (American performance artist, musician, actor) |
b.1961 |
| Pfeffer, Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (German botanist) |
1845-1920 |
| Pfefferkorn, Johannes (German controversialist) |
1469-1524 |
| Pfister, Albrecht (German printer) |
d.c.1466 |
| Pfitzner, Hans Erich (Russian-born German composer) |
1869-1949 |
| Pfleiderer, Otto (German Protestant theologian) |
1839-1908 |
| Pfluger, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm (German physiologist) |
1829-1910 |
| Pfordten, Ludwig von der (Bavarian jurist, statesman) |
1811-1880 |
| Pforr, Franz (German painter) |
1788-1812 |
| Pfyffer, Ludwig (Swiss soldier, politician) |
1524-1594 |
| Phaedo (or Phaedon; Greek philosopher of Elis) |
b.c.417 BC |
| Phaedrus (Greek philosopher) |
5th cent. BC |
| Phaedrus (Roman fabulist) |
c.15 BC-AD c.50 |
| Phaer (or Phayer), Thomas (Eng. lawyer, physician, translator) |
1510?-1560 |
| 'Phags-pa (Tibetan scholar-monk) |
1235-1280 |
| Phal, Louis "Battling Siki" (Senegalese boxer) |
1897-1925 |
| Phalaris (Greek tyrant of Agrigento in Sicily 570-554 BC) |
d.c.554 BC |
| Phan Boi Chau (born Phan Van San; Vietnamese nationalist) |
1867-1940 |
| Phan Chau Trinh (Vietnamese nationalist) |
1872-1926 |
| Phan Dinh Phung (Vietnamese nationalist) |
1847-c.1896 |
| Phanias (or Phaenias, Phainias; Greek philosopher of Eresus) |
fl. c.300 BC |
| Phan Khoi (Vietnamese scholar) |
1888?-1958 |
| Phan Thanh Gian (or Phan Thang Giang; Vietnamese diplomat) |
c.1803-1867 |
| Phao Sriyanond (Thai politician) |
1910-1960 |
| Pharnabazus (Persian commander) |
5th-4th cent. BC |
| Phaulkon, Constantine (Greek politician in Siam) |
1647-1688 |
| Phayre, Arthur Purves (English colonial administrator) |
1812-1885 |
| Pheidippides (or Phidippides; Athenian long-distance runner) |
5th cent. BC |
| Pheidon (Greek king of Argos) |
7th cent. BC |
| Phelps, Edmund Strother Jr. "Ned" (American economist) |
b.1933 |
| Phelps, John Wolcott (American soldier) |
1813-1885 |
| Phelps, William Lyon (American educator, critic) |
1865-1943 |
| Pherecrates (Greek playwright) |
fl. c.430-410 BC |
| Pherecydes of Leros (Greek chronicler) |
5th cent. BC |
| Pherecydes of Syros (Greek philosopher) |
fl. c.550 BC |
| Phidias (Greek sculptor) |
fl. c.490-430 BC |
| Philaret (born Fyodor Nikitich Romanov; Patriarch of Moscow) |
c.1553-1633 |
| Philaret (Vasily Mikhaylovich Drozdov; Metropolitan of Moscow) |
1782-1867 |
| Philastre, Paul-Louis-Felix (French colonial administrator) |
1837-1902 |
| Philby, Harry St. John Bridger (British explorer in Arabia) |
1885-1960 |
| Philemon (Greek playwright) |
c.368-c.264 BC |
| Philemon (Christian of Colassae) |
1st cent. |
| Philes, Manuel (Byzantine poet of Ephesus) |
c.1275-1345 |
| Philetaerus (Paphlagonian ruler) |
c.343-263 BC |
| Philetas of Cos (Greek poet, grammarian) |
c.330-c.270 BC |
| Philidor, Francois-Andre (French composer, chess player) |
1726-1795 |
| Philip, Saint (the Evangelist, the Deacon; Christian religious) |
1st cent. |
| Philip (Metacomet; American Wampanoag Indian chief) |
1639?-1676 |
| Philip the Tetrarch (Tetrarch of Batanaea, Trachonitis, etc.) |
20 BC-AD 34 |
| Philip, John (Scottish missionary) |
1775-1851 |
| Philipon, Charles (French journalist, caricaturist) |
1800-1862 |
| Philippe, Charles-Louis (French writer) |
1874-1909 |
| Philippe de Vitry (French composer, music theorist, poet) |
1291-1361 |
| Philippi (or Philipson), Johannes (German historian) |
1506-1555 |
| Philips, Ambrose "Namby-Pamby" (English poet, dramatist) |
1674-1749 |
| Philips, John (English poet) |
1676-1709 |
| Philips, Katherine née Fowler (pseudonym Orinda; English poet) |
1631-1664 |
| Philips, Obbe (Dutch religious leader) |
c.1500-1568 |
| Philips, Peter (English composer, organist) |
1561-1628 |
| Philips, Samuel Cornelius (Am. record producer: Sun Records) |
1923-2003 |
| Philistus (Greek historian) |
c.430-356 BC |
| Phillip, Arthur (English naval commander, fd. New South Wales) |
1738-1814 |
| Phillips, Bert Greer (American painter) |
1868-1952 |
| Phillips, Bruce Duncan "U. Utah" (American singer, activist) |
1935-2008 |
| Phillips, David Chilton (Eng. structural biologist, educator) |
1924-1999 |
| Phillips, David Graham (pseudonym of John Graham; Am. writer) |
1867-1911 |
| Phillips, Edward (English writer) |
1630-1696? |
| Phillips, George (English-born American clergyman) |
1593-1644 |
| Phillips, Horatio Frederick (English aviation inventor) |
1845-1912 |
| Phillips, John (English writer; brother of Edward) |
1631-1706 |
| Phillips, John (American merchant, philanthropist) |
1719-1795 |
| Phillips, John (English geologist; nephew of William Smith) |
1800-1874 |
| Phillips, Leslie Ann "Sam" (American singer, songwriter) |
b.1962 |
| Phillips, Peter (English painter, collagist, sculptor) |
b.1939 |
| Phillips, Philip "the Singing Pilgrim" (American gospel singer) |
1834-1895 |
| Phillips, Samuel (American industrialist, political leader) |
1752-1802 |
| Phillips, Stephen (English actor, poet, playwright) |
1864-1915 |
| Phillips, Wendell (American orator, reformer, abolitionist) |
1811-1884 |
| Phillips, William (British soldier) |
1731?-1781 |
| Phillips, William (English mineralogist, geologist) |
1775-1828 |
| Phillips, William Daniel (American physicist, academic) |
b.1948 |
| Phillpotts, Eden (India-born English writer, poet, playwright) |
1862-1960 |
| Phillpotts, Henry (English prelate) |
1778-1869 |
| Philo, Quintus Publilius (Roman politician) |
4th cent. BC |
| Philo Byblius (or Philo of Byblus; Greek scholar, teacher) |
1st-2nd cent. |
| Philochorus (Athenian politician, historian) |
d.c.260 BC |
| Philodemus (Greek poet, Epicurean philosopher) |
c.110-c.35 BC |
| Philo Judaeus (Jewish philosopher of Alexandria) |
c.13 BC-AD 45/50 |
| Philolaus (Greek Pythagorean philosopher) |
5th cent. BC |
| Philombe, Rene (Philippe-Louis Ombede; Cameroonian writer) |
b.1930 |
| Philopoemen (Greek general of Achaean League) |
253?-182 BC |
| Philostorgius (Byzantine historian) |
c.368-c.433 |
| Philostratus, Flavius the Athenian (Greek writer) |
c.170-c.245 |
| Philostratus the Lemnian (Greek writer; son-in-law of Flavius) |
b.c.190 |
| Philostratus the Younger (Greek writer; grandson of Flavius) |
3rd cent. |
| Philotas (Macedonian general; son of Parmenio) |
d.330 BC |
| Philotheus Coccinus (Byzantine prelate, theologian) |
c.1300-1379 |
| Philoxenus (Syrian Christian leader of Eastern Church) |
c.440-c.523 |
| Phipps, Constantine John (English naval officer; bro. of Henry) |
1744-1792 |
| Phipps, Sir Henry (English military commander) |
1755-1831 |
| Phips (or Phipps), Sir William (American colonial governor) |
1651-1695 |
| Phocas (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 602-610) |
d.610 |
| Phocion (Athenian general, statesman) |
c.402-318 BC |
| Phocylides (Greek poet) |
fl. c.540 BC |
| Phormion (Athenian admiral) |
d.c.428 BC |
| Photisarath (Ruler of Laotian kingdom of Lan Chang 1520-47) |
1501-1547 |
| Photius (Patriarch of Constantinople) |
c.820-891 |
| Phraortes (Fravartish; King of Media 675-653 BC) |
d.653 BC |
| Phrynichus (Athenian playwright) |
fl. c.500 BC |
| Phrynichus (Athenian playwright) |
fl. c.420 BC |
| Phrynichus (Athenian general) |
5th cent. BC |
| Phrynicus (surnamed Arabius; Greek grammarian of Bithynia) |
2nd cent. |
| Phyfe, Duncan (born Fife; Scottish-born Am. cabinetmaker) |
1768-1854 |
| Phylarchus (Egyptian-born Greek historian) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Physick, Philip Syng (American surgeon) |
1768-1837 |
| Piaf, Edith (born Edith Giovanna Gassion; French chanteuse) |
1915-1963 |
| Piaget, Jean (Swiss psychologist) |
1896-1980 |
| Piaggia, Carlo (Italian explorer) |
1827-1882 |
| Pialat, Maurice (French film director, screenwriter, actor) |
1925-2003 |
| Piankhi (or Pankhi; King of Kush c.751-716 BC) |
8th cent. BC |
| Piatigorsky, Gregor (Russian-born American cellist) |
1903-1976 |
| Piatt, Donn (American journalist) |
1819-1891 |
| Piatt, John James (American journalist, poet) |
1835-1917 |
| Piatt, Sarah Morgan née Bryan (American poet; wife of John) |
1836-1919 |
| Piazzolla, Astor Pantaleon (Argentinean composer, musician) |
1921-1992 |
| Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter) |
1682-1754 |
| Piazzi, Giuseppi (Italian Theatine monk, astronomer; asteroid) |
1746-1826 |
| Pibul Songgram, Luang (Thai soldier, politician) |
1897-1964 |
| Picabia, Francis-Marie Martinez (French painter, poet) |
1879-1953 |
| Picard, Charles-Emile (French mathematician) |
1856-1941 |
| Picard, Edmond (Belgian jurist, writer) |
1836-1924 |
| Picard, Jean (French astronomer) |
1620-1682 |
| Picard, Louis-Benoit (French playwright) |
1769-1828 |
| Picard, Louis-Joseph-Ernest (French lawyer, politician) |
1821-1877 |
| Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y (Spanish painter, sculptor) |
1881-1973 |
| Piccard, Auguste (Swiss physicist) |
1884-1962 |
| Piccard, Jacques-Ernst-Jean (Belgian-born Swiss oceanographer) |
b.1922 |
| Piccard, Jean-Felix (Swiss-born Am. chemist, aero. engineer) |
1884-1963 |
| Picchi, Giovanni (Italian composer, organist, lutenist) |
1571/1572-1643 |
| Piccinini, Alessandro (Italian lutenist, composer) |
1566-1638 |
| Piccinino, Niccolo (Italian soldier of fortune) |
1386-1444 |
| Piccinni, Niccolo (Italian opera composer) |
1728-1800 |
| Piccioni, Oreste (Italian-born American particle physicist) |
1915-2002 |
| Piccolomini, Alessandro (Italian prelate, writer) |
1508-1578 |
| Piccolomini, Francesco (Italian philosopher) |
1520-1604 |
| Piccolomini, Octavio (Italian soldier) |
1600-1656 |
| Pichegru, Jean-Charles (French general) |
1761-1804 |
| Pichl, Vsclav (aka Vaclav; Czech composer, violinist, writer) |
1741-1805 |
| Pichler, Karoline née von Greiner (Austrian writer) |
1769-1843 |
| Pichon, Stephen-Jean-Marie (Fr. journalist, polit., diplomat) |
1857-1933 |
| Pickel, Conrad (aka Conradus Celtis; German Humanist, poet) |
1459-1508 |
| Pickens, Andrew (American Revolutionary commander) |
1739-1817 |
| Pickens, Slim (Louis Burton Lindley Jr.; Am. actor, rodeo clown) |
1919-1983 |
| Pickering, Charles (American naturalist; grandson of Timothy) |
1805-1878 |
| Pickering, Edward Charles (American astronomer; bro. of W.H.) |
1846-1919 |
| Pickering, John (American lawyer, philologist; son of Timothy) |
1777-1846 |
| Pickering, Thomas Reeve "Tom" (American diplomat) |
b.1931 |
| Pickering, Timothy (American politician) |
1745-1829 |
| Pickering, William Henry (American astronomer; brother of E.C.) |
1858-1938 |
| Pickett, George Edward (American Confederate general) |
1825-1875 |
| Pickett, Joseph (American painter) |
1848-1918 |
| Pickford, Mary (born Gladys Mary Smith; Can.-born Am. actor) |
1893-1979 |
| Picking, Jonathan "Jonti", "Weebl" (English animator) |
b.1975 |
| Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (Italian Humanist) |
1463-1494 |
| Picon, Jacinto Octavio (Spanish writer, art critic) |
1852-1923 |
| Picon, Molly (born Malka Opiekun; American actor, lyricist) |
1898-1992 |
| Picot, Auguste-Henri-Marie (Marquis de Dampierre; Fr. soldier) |
1756-1793 |
| Picquart, Georges (French general) |
1854-1914 |
| Pictet, Raoul-Pierre (Swiss physicist) |
1846-1929 |
| Pictet de Rochemont, Charles (Swiss politician, writer) |
1755-1824 |
| Picton, Sir Thomas (British army officer) |
1758-1815 |
| Piddington, Henry (English meteorologist, ship captain) |
1797-1858 |
| Pierce, Franklin (14th U.S. president, 1853-1857) |
1804-1869 |
| Pierce, George Washington (American physicist) |
1872-1956 |
| Pierce, Gilbert Ashville (American politician, writer) |
1839-1901 |
| Pierce, John Robinson (Am. elec. eng.; coined "transistor") |
1910-2002 |
| Piercy, Marge (American poet, writer) |
b.1936 |
| Piermarini, Giuseppe (Italian architect) |
1734-1808 |
| Pierne, Henri-Constant-Gabriel (French conductor, composer) |
1863-1937 |
| Piero della Francesca (or de' Franceschi; Italian painter) |
c.1420-1492 |
| Piero di Lorenzo (aka Piero di Cosimo; Florentine painter) |
1462-1521 |
| Pierola, Nicolas de (Peruvian general, politician) |
1839-1913 |
| Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini; It. painter, architect) |
1596-1669 |
| Pietro della Vigna (Petrus de Vinea; It. jurist, statesman) |
1190?-1249 |
| Pigafetta, Antonio (Italian traveler) |
1491-1534? |
| Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste (French sculptor) |
1714-1785 |
| Pigault de l'Epiney, Charles-Antoine-Guillaume (French writer) |
1753-1835 |
| Piglia, Ricardo (Argentinean writer, critic) |
b.1941 |
| Pigneau de Behaine, Pierre-Joseph-Georges (French missionary) |
1741-1799 |
| Pigot, George (Baron Pigot; British merchant, colonial admin.) |
1719-1777 |
| Pigott, Richard (Irish journalist, forger) |
1828?-1889 |
| Pigou, Arthur Cecil (British economist) |
1877-1959 |
| Pike, Zebulon Montgomery (American army officer, explorer) |
1779-1813 |
| Pilate, Pontius (Roman procurator of Judaea 26-c.36) |
d.36? |
| Pilatre de Rozier, Jean-Francois (French physicist, aeronaut) |
1756-1785 |
| Pilcher, Percy Sinclair (English aeronautical engineer) |
1866-1899 |
| Pilkington, Francis (English composer) |
c.1562-1638 |
| Pillai, Thakashi Sivasankaran (Malayalan writer) |
1912-1999 |
| Pillersdorf, Franz (Austrian politician) |
1786-1862 |
| Pillsbury, Charles Alfred (American businessman) |
1842-1899 |
| Pillsbury, Harry Nelson (American chess expert) |
1872-1906 |
| Pilon, Germain (French sculptor) |
1535-1590 |
| Piloty, Karl von (German painter) |
1826-1886 |
| Pilsudski, Jozef Klemens (Polish general, statesman) |
1867-1935 |
| Pimentel, George Claude (American chemist, teacher) |
1922-1989 |
| Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart (American politician) |
1837-1921 |
| Pinchbeck, Christopher (English watchmaker, toymaker) |
1670?-1732 |
| Pinchot, Gifford (American conservationist, politician) |
1865-1946 |
| Pinckney, Charles (American politician) |
1757-1824 |
| Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (American diplomat) |
1746-1825 |
| Pinckney, Eliza Lucas (Antigua-born American agriculturist) |
1722-1793 |
| Pinckney, Thomas (American politician; brother of C.C.) |
1750-1828 |
| Pindar (Greek lyric lyric poet) |
c.522-c.438 BC |
| Pindemonte, Ippolito (Italian writer, translator, poet) |
1753-1828 |
| Pine, Robert Edge (English painter) |
1730-1788 |
| Pineau, Nicolas (French woodcarver, interior designer) |
1684-1754 |
| Pinel, Philippe (French physician, reformer) |
1745-1826 |
| Pinera, Virgilio (Cuban playwright, poet, writer) |
1912-1979 |
| Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing (English dramatist, actor, essayist) |
1855-1934 |
| Pines, Alexander (S. Rhodesia-born? American chemist, educator) |
b.1945 |
| Pinetti de Wildalle, Giuseppe "Pinetti" (Italian magician) |
1750-1800 |
| Pingre, Alexandre-Gui (French astronomer) |
1711-1796 |
| Pingree, David Edwin (American historian of science) |
1933-2005 |
| Pink, Sidney W. (Am. film producer; feature-length 3-D movie) |
1916-2002 |
| Pinkerton, Allan (Scottish-born American detective) |
1819-1884 |
| Pinkham, Lydia née Estes (Am. patent-medicine manufacturer) |
1819-1883 |
| Pinkney, William (American politician) |
1764-1822 |
| Pinkwater, Daniel Manus (American writer) |
b.1941 |
| Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto (Chilean general; president 1974-1990) |
1915-2006 |
| Pinsker, Leo (born Judah Leib; Russian Jewish physician) |
1821-1891 |
| Pinsky, David (Russian-born American dramatist, writer) |
1872-1959 |
| Pinsky, Robert (American poet, critic, essayist, translator) |
b.1940 |
| Pinter, Harold (English dramatist, screenwriter, actor) |
1930-2008 |
| Pinto, Anibal (Chilean politician; president 1876-1881) |
1825-1884 |
| Pinto, Fernao Mendes (Portuguese adventurer, writer) |
c.1510-1583 |
| Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto di Biago; Italian painter) |
c.1454-1513 |
| Pinzon, Martin Alonso (Spanish navigator) |
c.1441-1493 |
| Pinzon, Vicente Yanez (Spanish explorer; brother of Martin) |
c.1460-c.1523? |
| Piore, Michael Joseph (American economist, educator) |
b.1940 |
| Piozzi, Hester Lynch née Salusbury (Welsh-born British writer) |
1741-1821 |
| Piper, Carl (Swedish politician) |
1647-1716 |
| Pippi de' Gianuzzi, Giulio (Italian painter, architect) |
c.1499-1546 |
| Pippin, Horace (American painter) |
1888-1946 |
| Pirandello, Luigi (Italian writer, dramatist) |
1867-1936 |
| Piranesi, Giambattista (Italian architect, painter, engraver) |
1720-1778 |
| Pire, Dominique Georges (Belgian cleric, humanitarian) |
1910-1969 |
| Pirelli, Alberto (Italian industrialist; son of Giovanni) |
1882-1971 |
| Pirelli, Giovanni Battista (Italian industrialist) |
1848-1932 |
| Pirelli, Piero (Italian industrialist; son of Giovanni) |
1881-1956 |
| Pirenne, Henri (Belgian historian) |
1862-1935 |
| Pirkheimer, Willibald (German Humanist) |
1470-1530 |
| Pirmez, Octave (Belgian writer) |
1832-1883 |
| Piron, Alexis (French poet, playwright) |
1689-1773 |
| Pirrie, William James (Canadian-born British ship owner) |
1847-1924 |
| Pirsig, Robert Maynard (American writer) |
b.1928 |
| Pirsson, Louis Valentine (American geologist) |
1860-1919 |
| Pirsander (or Peisander; Greek epic poet) |
7th cent. BC |
| Pirsander (or Peisander; Athenian politician) |
5th cent. BC |
| Pisanello (or Pisano), Antonio (Veronese painter, medalist) |
c.1395-1455 |
| Pisani, Niccolo (Venetian admiral) |
14th cent. |
| Pisani, Vettore (Venetian admiral; son of Niccolo) |
1324-1380 |
| Pisano, Andrea (aka Andrea da Pontedera; Italian sculptor) |
c.1270-1348? |
| Pisano, Giovanni (It. sculptor, painter, arch.; son of Nicola) |
c.1250-1314? |
| Pisano, Nicola (Italian sculptor) |
c.1220-1278/84 |
| Pisano, Nino (It. sculptor, goldsmith, arch.; son of Andrea) |
1315?-1368? |
| Pisarev, Dmitry Ivanovich (Russian critic) |
1840-1868 |
| Piscator, Erwin (German theatrical producer, director) |
1893-1966 |
| Pisemsky, Aleksey Feofilaktovich (Russian writer, playwright) |
1821-1881 |
| Pisendel, Johann Georg (German musician, violinist, composer) |
1687-1755 |
| Pi Sheng (Chinese alchemist, blacksmith) |
11th cent. |
| Pissarro, Camille (Virgin Islands-born French painter) |
1830-1903 |
| Pisseleu, Anne de (Duchesse d'Etampes; French courtier) |
1508-c.1580 |
| Pistoletto, Michelangelo (Italian painter, art theorist) |
b.1933 |
| Piston, Walter Hamor Jr. (American composer, music theorist) |
1894-1976 |
| Pistrucci, Benedetto (It. gem engraver, medalist in England) |
1784-1855 |
| Pitcairn, John (British officer of the Royal Marines) |
1722-1775 |
| Pithou, Pierre (French jurist, historian) |
1539-1596 |
| Pitkin, Walter Boughton (American writer) |
1878-1953 |
| Pitman, Sir Isaac (English educator, phonographer) |
1813-1897 |
| Pitney, Gene Francis Alan (American singer, composer) |
1941-2006 |
| Pitney, Mahlon (Am. jurist; Supreme Court justice 1912-1922) |
1858-1924 |
| Pitoeff, Georges (Russian director, producer) |
1884-1939 |
| Pitol, Sergio (Mexican diplomat, writer) |
b.1933 |
| Pitoni, Giuseppe Ottavio (Italian composer of Roman school) |
1657-1743 |
| Pitot, Henri (French hydraulic engineer) |
1695-1771 |
| Pitra, Jean-Baptiste-Francois (French prelate) |
1812-1889 |
| Pitt, Sir John (English politician; son of William the Elder) |
1756-1835 |
| Pitt, Thomas "Diamond Pitt" (English merchant) |
1653-1726 |
| Pitt, William (the Elder Pitt; English politician) |
1708-1778 |
| Pitt, William (the Younger Pitt; English politician) |
1759-1806 |
| Pittacus (Greek ruler of Mytilene) |
c.650-c.570 BC |
| Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry (Eng. army officer, archaeologist) |
1827-1900 |
| Pius I, Saint (Pope 142-155) |
d.155 |
| Pius II (born Enea Silvio Piccolomini; Pope 1458-64) |
1405-1464 |
| Pius III (born Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini; Pope 1503) |
c.1440-1503 |
| Pius IV (born Giovanni Angelo de' Medici; Pope 1559-65) |
1499-1565 |
| Pius V, Saint (born Antonio Ghislieri; Pope 1566-72) |
1504-1572 |
| Pius VI (born Giovanni Angelo Braschi; Pope 1775-99) |
1717-1799 |
| Pius VII (born Barnaba Gregorio Chiaramonti; Pope 1800-23) |
1742-1823 |
| Pius VIII (born Francesco Saverio Castiglioni; Pope 1829-30) |
1761-1830 |
| Pius IX (born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti; Pope 1846-78) |
1792-1878 |
| Pius X, Saint (born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; Pope 1903-14) |
1835-1914 |
| Pius XI (born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti; Pope 1922-39) |
1857-1939 |
| Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli; It. ecclesiastic; Pope 1939-58) |
1876-1958 |
| Pixerecourt, Rene-Charles Guilbert de (French playwright) |
1773-1844 |
| Pi y Margall, Francisco (Spanish politician) |
1824-1901 |
| Pizarnik, Flora Alejandra (Argentinean poet) |
1936-1972 |
| Pizarro, Francisco (Spanish conquistador, explorer of Peru) |
c.1475-1541 |
| Pizarro, Gonzalo (Spanish conquistador; half-bro. of Francisco) |
1502?-1548 |
| Pizarro, Hernando (Span. conquistador; half-bro. of Francisco) |
1475?-1578 |
| Pizarro, Juan (Spanish conquistador; half-brother of Francisco) |
1505-1536 |
| Pizzetti, Ildebrando (Italian composer) |
1880-1968 |
| Plaatje, Solomon Tshekiso (South African writer, politician) |
1876-1932 |
| Place, Francis (English reformer) |
1771-1854 |
| Placide, Alexander (French dancer, impresario) |
1750-1812 |
| Placidia, Aelia Galla (Roman princess; dau. of Theodosius I) |
c.390-450 |
| Placzek, George (Czech physicist) |
1905-1955 |
| Planche, James Robinson (English playwright, antiquary) |
1796-1880 |
| Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig (German physicist; asteroid) |
1858-1947 |
| Plancus, Lucius Munatius (Roman soldier, politician) |
1st cent. BC |
| Plank, Konrad "Conny" (German musician, producer) |
1940-1987 |
| Planno, Mortimo (Jamaican Rastafarian philosopher) |
1920-2006 |
| Planquette, Jean-Robert-Julien (French composer) |
1848-1903 |
| Plant, Robert Anthony (English musician, singer) |
b.1948 |
| Plante, Gaston (French physicist) |
1834-1889 |
| Plantin, Christophe (French bookbinder, printer, publisher) |
c.1520-1589 |
| Plaskett, John Stanley (Canadian astronomer) |
1865-1941 |
| Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand (Belgian physicist) |
1801-1883 |
| Platen, August (Graf von Platen Hallermund; German writer) |
1796-1835 |
| Plath, Sylvia (pseudonym Victoria Lucas; American poet, writer) |
1932-1963 |
| Plato (orig. name Aristocles; Greek philosopher) |
c.428-348/47 BC |
| Plato (Athenian playwright) |
fl. 428-389 BC |
| Platon (born Peter Levshin; Russian prelate) |
1737-1812 |
| Platonov, Andrey Platonovich (Russian writer, poet, critic) |
1899-1951 |
| Platt, Orville Hitchcock (American politician) |
1827-1905 |
| Platt, Thomas Collier (American politician) |
1833-1910 |
| Platter, Thomas (Swiss writer, humanist) |
1499-1582 |
| Plautus, Titus Maccius (Roman playwright) |
c.254-184 BC |
| Playfair, John (Scottish mathematician, geologist) |
1748-1819 |
| Playford, Henry (English music publisher; son of John) |
1657-1709 |
| Playford, John (English music publisher) |
1623-1686 |
| Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich (Rus. government official) |
1846-1904 |
| Pleijel, Agneta (Swedish writer, poet,playwright, scriptwriter) |
b.1940 |
| Plekhanov, Georgy Valentinovich (Russian political philosopher) |
1857-1918 |
| Plessis, Armand-Emmanuel du (French soldier, politician) |
1766-1822 |
| Plessis, Armand-Jean du (French statesman, cardinal) |
1585-1642 |
| Plettenberg, Wolter von (Prince of Livonia, Kurland, & Estonia) |
1450?-1535 |
| Pleven, Rene Jean (French prime minister 1950-1951, 1951-1952) |
1901-1993 |
| Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph (Austrian composer, piano manufacturer) |
1757-1831 |
| Plieksans, Janis (pseudonym Rainis; Latvian poet, dramatist) |
1865-1929 |
| Plievier, Theodor (pseudonym Theodor Plivier; German writer) |
1892-1955 |
| Plimsoll, Samuel (English shipping reformer) |
1824-1898 |
| Pliny the Elder (aka Gaius Plinius Secundus; Roman scholar) |
AD 23-79 |
| Pliny the Younger (aka Gaius Plinius Caecilius; Roman writer) |
AD 61/62-c.113 |
| Plisnier, Charles (Belgian writer) |
1897-1952 |
| Plomer, William Charles Franklyn (South African writer) |
1903-1973 |
| Plotinus (Egyptian-born Roman Neoplatonic philosopher) |
205-270 |
| Plucker, Julius (German mathematician, physicist) |
1801-1868 |
| Plumer, Herbert Charles Onslow (English military commander) |
1857-1932 |
| Plumly, Stanley (American poet) |
b.1939 |
| Plummer, John (English composer, verger) |
c.1410-c.1483 |
| Plumpe, Friedrich Wilhelm (German motion-picture director) |
1889-1931 |
| Plunket, Saint Oliver (Irish prelate) |
1629-1681 |
| Plunket, William Conyngham (Irish lawyer, judge) |
1764-1854 |
| Plunkett, Edward John Moreton Drax (Irish writer) |
1878-1957 |
| Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon (Irish agricultural reformer, pol.) |
1854-1932 |
| Plunkett, James (James Plunkett Kelly; Irish writer, dramatist) |
b.1920 |
| Plunkitt, Roy (American inventor; inventor of Teflon) |
c.1910-1994 |
| Plutarch (Greek biographer, moralist) |
c.46-119? |
| Plutarch of Athens (Greek philosopher) |
d.431/432 |
| Plympton, Bill (American animator, illustrator, cartoonist) |
b.1946 |
| Pnueli, Amir (Israeli computer scientist, entrepreneur) |
b.1941 |
| Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich (Russian government admin.) |
1827-1907 |
| Pocahontas (Algonquin Indian princess; daughter of Powhatan) |
c.1595-1617 |
| Pocci, Franz von (German artist, musician, poet) |
1807-1876 |
| Pochinko, Richard (Can. clown trainer; dev. "Pochinko method") |
1946-1989 |
| Po Chu-i (Chinese poet) |
772-846 |
| Pocock, Reginald Innes (English zoologist) |
1863-1947 |
| Podgorny, Nikolay Viktorovich (Ukrainian Soviet politician) |
1903-1983 |
| Poe, Edgar Allen (American poet, short-story writer) |
1809-1849 |
| Poel, William née Pole (English actor, theatrical manager) |
1852-1934 |
| Poelzig, Hans (German architect) |
1869-1936 |
| Poerio, Alessandro (Italian poet, patriot) |
1802-1848 |
| Poggendorff, Johann Christian (German physicist) |
1796-1877 |
| Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco (Italian Humanist) |
1380-1459 |
| Pogson, Norman Robert (English astronomer; asteroid, crater) |
1829-1891 |
| Pohl, Frederik George Jr. (Am. writer, anthologist, editor) |
1919-2013 |
| Pohl, Richard (German writer) |
1826-1896 |
| Poincare, Jules-Henri (French mathematician; cousin of Raymond) |
1854-1912 |
| Poincare, Raymond Nicolas Landry (French politician) |
1860-1934 |
| Poinsett, Joel Roberts (American politician, diplomat) |
1779-1851 |
| Poire, Emmanuel (pseud. Caran d'Ache; Fr. illus., caricaturist) |
1858-1909 |
| Poiret, Paul (French dress designer) |
1879-1944 |
| Poise, Jean-Alexandre-Ferdinand (French composer) |
1828-1892 |
| Poiseuille, Jean-Louis-Marie (French physician, physiologist) |
1799-1869 |
| Poisson, Simeon-Denis (French mathematician) |
1781-1840 |
| Poivre, Pierre (French missionary, merchant) |
1719-1786 |
| Pojar, Bretislav (Czech puppeteer, animator, film director) |
b.1923 |
| Pokorny, Julius (German philologist, Celtic scholar) |
1887-1970 |
| Pokrovsky, Mikhail Nikolayevich (Russian historian, politician) |
1868-1932 |
| Pol, Wincenty (Polish poet) |
1807-1872 |
| Polanski, Roman Raymond (French filmmaker, actor) |
b.1933 |
| Polanyi, John Charles (Germany-born Hungarian/Canadian chemist) |
b.1929 |
| Polanyi, Michael (Hungarian-born British chemist, philosopher) |
1891-1976 |
| Poldervaart, Arie (Java-born American geologist) |
1918-1964 |
| Polding, John Bede (English prelate in Australia) |
1794-1877 |
| Pole, Reginald (English archbishop of Canterbury 1556-1558) |
1500-1558 |
| Pole, Sir William de la (English merchant) |
d.1366 |
| Polenta, Francesca (aka Francesca da Rimini; It. noblewoman) |
d.1283/84 |
| Polenta, Guido Novello da (Italian scholar, poet) |
d.1330 |
| Poliakoff, Nicolai "Coco the Clown" (Latvian clown) |
1900-1974 |
| Poliakoff, Serge (Russian-born French painter, lithographer) |
1906-1969 |
| Polidouri (or Polydoure), Maria (Greek poet) |
1905-1930 |
| Polignac, Auguste-Jules-Armand-Marie (French politician) |
1780-1847 |
| Polignac, Melchior de (French diplomat) |
1661-1742 |
| Politian (Angelo Ambrogini; Italian Humanist, poet) |
1454-1494 |
| Politis, Nikolaos Sokrates (Greek jurist, diplomat) |
1872-1942 |
| Politzer, Hugh David (American physicist, academic) |
b.1949 |
| Poliziano, Angelo (Italian humanist, poet, critic) |
1454-1494 |
| Polk, James Knox (11th U.S. president, 1845-1849) |
1795-1849 |
| Polk, Leonidas (American clergyman, Confederate army commander) |
1806-1864 |
| Polke, Sigmar (German painter, photographer, educator) |
b.1941 |
| Polkinghorne, John (English physicist, theologian, writer) |
b.1930 |
| Pollaiuolo, Antonio (Florentine painter, goldsmith, sculptor) |
c.1431-1498 |
| Pollaiuolo, Simone del "Il Cronaca" (Florentine architect) |
1457-1508 |
| Pollard, Alfred William (English bibliographer) |
1859-1944 |
| Pollio, Gaius Asinius (Roman soldier, orator, politician) |
76 BC-AD 4 |
| Pollock, Sir Frederick (English legal scholar) |
1845-1937 |
| Pollock, Paul Jackson (American painter) |
1912-1956 |
| Pollock, Oliver (Irish-born American merchant) |
1737?-1823 |
| Pollux, Julius (Sophist & lexicographer in Egypt) |
2nd cent. |
| Polo, Marco (Venetian merchant, traveler, adventurer) |
1254-1324 |
| Polunin, Vyacheslav Ivanovich "Slava" (Russian clown) |
b.1950 |
| Polus (Greek actor) |
4th cent. BC |
| Polyaenus (Greek scholar of Macedonia) |
2nd cent. |
| Polybius (Greek historian) |
c.200-c.118 BC |
| Polycarp, Saint (Greek Christian martyr, Apostolic Father) |
2nd cent. |
| Polyclitus (or Polycleitus; Greek sculptor, architect) |
5th cent. BC |
| Polycrates (Greek tyrant of Samos c.535-c.522 BC) |
d.c.522 BC |
| Polydorus (Greek sculptor of Rhodes) |
1st cent. BC |
| Polyeuctos, Saint (Christian martyr) |
3rd cent. |
| Polygnotus (Greek painter) |
c.500-c.440 BC |
| Polyperchon (or Polysperchon; Macedonian general) |
c.380-c.303 BC |
| Pomare, Sir Maui Wiremu Pita Naera (Maori physician, polit.) |
1876-1930 |
| Pomerene, James H. (American electrical engineer) |
b.1920 |
| Pomfret, John (English poet) |
1667-1702 |
| Pompadour, Marquise de (French mistress of Louis XV) |
1721-1764 |
| Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus; Roman general, statesman) |
106-48 BC |
| Pompidou, Georges-Jean-Raymond (French politician) |
1911-1974 |
| Pomponazzi, Pietro (Italian philosopher) |
1462-1525 |
| Pomponius, Lucius (surnamed Bononiensis; Latin writer) |
fl. c.90 BC |
| Ponce, Manuel Maria (Mexican composer) |
1886-1948 |
| Ponce de Leon, Juan (Spanish explorer in America) |
1460-1521 |
| Poncelet, Jean-Victor (French mathematician, engineer) |
1788-1867 |
| Poncet, Charles-Jacques (French pharmacist) |
d.1706 |
| Ponchielli, Amilcare (Italian composer) |
1834-1886 |
| Pond, James Burton (American lecture manager) |
1838-1903 |
| Pond, John (English astronomer) |
1767-1836 |
| Ponge, Francis Jean Gaston Alfred (French poet, essayist) |
1899-1988 |
| Poniatowska, Elena (France-born Mexican writer, journalist) |
b.1932 |
| Poniatowski, Andrzej (Polish general in Austrian army) |
1735-1773 |
| Poniatowski, Jozef Antoni (Polish commander in Napoleon's army) |
1763-1813 |
| Poniatowski, Jozef Michal (Polish composer) |
1816-1873 |
| Poniatowski, Stanislaw (Polish general, diplomat) |
1676-1762 |
| Pon Nya (Burmese writer) |
fl. c.1850-1866 |
| Pons, Jean-Louis (French astronomer in Italy) |
1761-1831 |
| Pons, Lily (born Alice-Josephine Pons; French-born Am. soprano) |
1904-1976 |
| Ponsard, Francois (French playwright) |
1814-1867 |
| Ponselle, Rose Melba (born Rosa Ponzillo; American soprano) |
1897-1981 |
| Ponsonby, Sir John (English cavalry officer) |
1608-1678 |
| Ponsonby, George (Irish politician; son of John) |
1755-1817 |
| Ponsonby, John (Irish pol. leader; great-grandson of Sir John) |
1713-1789 |
| Ponsonby, John William (Irish politician) |
1781-1847 |
| Ponsonby, William (English publisher) |
1546?-1604 |
| Ponson du Terrail, Pierre-Alexis (French writer) |
1829-1871 |
| Pontano, Giovanni (Italian Humanist, poet, politician) |
1426-1503 |
| Ponte, Antonio da (Italian architect, engineer) |
1512-c.1595 |
| Pontecorvo, Bruno (It.-born British physicist in Soviet Union) |
1913-1993 |
| Pontiac (American Ottawa Indian chief) |
c.1720-1769 |
| Pontian (or Pontianus), Saint (Pope 230-235) |
d.235 |
| Ponton, Mungo (Scottish inventor) |
1802-1880 |
| Pontoppidan, Erik (Danish theologian) |
1698-1764 |
| Pontoppidan, Henrik (Danish writer) |
1857-1943 |
| Pontormo, Jacopo da (aka Jacopo Carrucci; Italian painter) |
1494-1557 |
| Ponty, Jean-Luc (French violinist) |
b.1942 |
| Ponzi, Carlo A. "Charles" (Italian-born American swindler) |
1882-1949 |
| Poole, William Frederick (American librarian) |
1821-1894 |
| Poole, William H. (Irish-born Canadian teacher, preacher) |
1820-1896 |
| Poor, Charles Lane (American astronomer) |
1866-1951 |
| Poor, Henry Varnum (American economist) |
1812-1905 |
| Poorten-Schwartz, Joost Marius Willem van der (Dutch writer) |
1858-1915 |
| Poot, Hubert Korneliszoon (Dutch poet) |
1689-1733 |
| Pop, Iggy (James Newell Osterberg; American musician) |
b.1947 |
| Popa, Vasko (Serbian poet, publisher) |
1922-1991 |
| Pope (American Tewa Pueblo Indian leader, medicine man) |
d.1692 |
| Pope, Albert Augustus (American manufacturer) |
1843-1909 |
| Pope, Alexander (English poet, satirist) |
1688-1744 |
| Pope, Generoso Paul Jr. (Am. publisher; fd. National Enquirer) |
1927-1988 |
| Pope, John (American army commander) |
1822-1892 |
| Pope, John Russell (American architect) |
1874-1937 |
| Pope, Sir Thomas (English court clerk) |
1507?-1559 |
| Pope, Sir William Jackson (English chemist) |
1870-1939 |
| Popeil, Ronald "Ron" (American businessman, inventor, salesman) |
b.1935 |
| Popham, Sir John (English judge) |
1531?-1607 |
| Pople, Sir John Anthony (English theoretical chemist) |
1925-2004 |
| Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich (Rus. physicist, electrical eng.) |
1859-1905 |
| Popov, Oleg Konstantinovich (Russian clown, circus artist) |
b.1930 |
| Popovich, Pavel Romanovich (Ukrainian astronaut, politician) |
1930-2009 |
| Poppelmann, Matthaus Daniel (German architect) |
1662-1736 |
| Popper, Karl Raimund (Austrian-born philosopher of science) |
1902-1994 |
| Porphyry (Porphyrius; Greek scholar, Neoplatonic philosopher) |
c.234-c.305 |
| Porpora, Nicola Antonio Giacinto (Italian composer, teacher) |
1686-1768 |
| Porras, Belisario (Panamanian politician) |
1856-1942 |
| Porres, Saint Martin de (Peruvian Dominican friar) |
1579-1639 |
| Porsche, Ferdinand (Austrian automobile manufacturer, inventor) |
1875-1951 |
| Porson, Richard (English classical scholar) |
1759-1808 |
| Porta, Carlo (Italian poet) |
1775-1821 |
| Porta, Giacomo della (Italian architect) |
c.1537-1602 |
| Porta, Giambattista della (Italian natural philosopher) |
1535?-1615 |
| Portaas, Herman Theodor (pseud. Herman Wildenvey; Norw. poet) |
1886-1959 |
| Portal, Charles Frederick Algernon (British air chief marshal) |
1893-1971 |
| Portales, Diego Jose Victor (Chilean politician) |
1793-1837 |
| Portalis, Jean-Etienne-Marie (French jurist, politician) |
1746-1807 |
| Porteous, Beilby (English Anglican reformer, abolitionist) |
1731-1809 |
| Porteous, John (Scottish soldier) |
d.1736 |
| Porter, Cole Albert (American composer, lyricist) |
1891-1964 |
| Porter, David (American naval officer; father of David Dixon) |
1780-1843 |
| Porter, David Dixon (American naval officer) |
1813-1891 |
| Porter, Edwin Stanton (American director, photographer) |
1870-1941 |
| Porter, Eleanor née Hodgman (American writer) |
1868-1920 |
| Porter, Eliot Furness (American photographer) |
1901-1990 |
| Porter, Endymion (English courtier) |
1587-1649 |
| Porter, Gene née Stratton (American writer) |
1868-1924 |
| Porter, Sir George (British chemist, administrator) |
1920-2002 |
| Porter, George Richardson (English statistician) |
1792-1852 |
| Porter, Harold "Hal" (Australian writer, dramatist, poet) |
1911-1984 |
| Porter, Henry (English dramatist) |
fl. 1596-1599 |
| Porter, Jane (English writer) |
1776-1850 |
| Porter, Katherine Anne Maria Veronica Callista R. (Am. writer) |
1890-1980 |
| Porter, Noah (American clergyman, educator) |
1811-1892 |
| Porter, Peter Nevill Frederick (Australian-born British poet) |
b.1929 |
| Porter, Rodney Robert (English biochemist, physiologist) |
1917-1985 |
| Porter, William Quincy (American composer, teacher) |
1897-1966 |
| Porter, William Sydney "O. Henry" (American short-story writer) |
1862-1910 |
| Porteus, Beilby (English clergyman, writer; Bishop of London) |
1731-1808 |
| Porthan, Henrik Gabriel (Finnish scholar) |
1739-1804 |
| Portinari, Beatrice (Florentine noblewoman) |
1266-1290 |
| Portinari, Candido (Brazilian painter) |
1903-1962 |
| Portola, Gaspar de (Spanish soldier in America) |
c.1723-c.1784 |
| Porto-Riche, Georges de (French playwright) |
1849-1930 |
| Porus (aka Raja Puru or Parvataraja; Indian king) |
d.321/315 BC |
| Posada, Jose Guadalupe (Mexican printmaker) |
1851-1913 |
| Posey, Thomas (American Revolutionary officer, politician) |
1750-1818 |
| Posidonius (Poseidonius; Syrian-born Greek Stoic philosopher) |
c.135-c.51 BC |
| Possel, Rene de (Fr. math., comp. sci.; co-fd. Bourbaki Group) |
1905-1974 |
| Post, Charles Williams (American cereal industrialist) |
1854-1914 |
| Post, Christian Frederick Moravian missionary in America) |
1710?-1785 |
| Post, Emil Leon (Polish-born American mathematician) |
1897-1954 |
| Post, Emily née Price (American columnist, writer on etiquette) |
1872-1960 |
| Post, Melville Davisson (Am. lawyer, detective-story writer) |
1871-1930 |
| Post, Pieter (Dutch architect) |
1608-1669 |
| Post, Richard Freeman "Dick" (American physicist) |
1918-2015 |
| Post, Wiley (American aviator) |
1899-1935 |
| Postgate, Oliver (English animator, puppeteer, writer) |
1925-2008 |
| Postman, Neil (American writer, educator) |
1931-2003 |
| Postumus, Marcus Cassianius Latinius (Roman general, emperor) |
d.268 |
| Potagos, Panayotis (Greek physician, traveler) |
1839-1903 |
| Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich (Russian statesman) |
1739-1791 |
| Potgieter, Andries Hendrik (Boer colonizer) |
1792-1852 |
| Potgieter, Everhardus Johannes (Dutch writer, poet) |
1808-1875 |
| Pothier, Joseph (aka Dom Joseph; French monk, music scholar) |
1835-1923 |
| Pothier, Robert-Joseph (French jurist) |
1699-1772 |
| Potocki, Ignacy (Polish statesman) |
1750-1809 |
| Potocki, Waclaw (Polish poet, epigrammatist) |
1621-1696 |
| Potok, Chaim (born Herman Harold Potok; American rabbi, writer) |
b.1929 |
| Pott, August Friedrich (German philologist) |
1802-1887 |
| Pott, Percivall (English surgeon) |
1714-1788 |
| Potter, Alonzo (American clergyman) |
1800-1865 |
| Potter, Arnold "Potter Christ" (Am. LDS sect leader, Messiah) |
1804-1872 |
| Potter, Edward Clark (American sculptor) |
1857-1923 |
| Potter, Helen Beatrix (English writer, illustrator) |
1866-1943 |
| Potter, Henry Codman (American clergyman; son of Alonzo) |
1835-1908 |
| Potter, Paul (or Paulus; Dutch painter) |
1625-1654 |
| Pottier, Eugene Edine (French songwriter, politician) |
1816-1887 |
| Pottinger, Sir Henry (Irish-born British soldier, diplomat) |
1789-1856 |
| Pottle, Frederick Albert (American scholar, teacher) |
1897-1987 |
| Pouchet, Felix-Archimede (French naturalist) |
1800-1872 |
| Pouillet, Claude-Servais-Mathias (French physicist) |
1790-1868 |
| Poulenc, Francis-Jean-Marcel (Fr. composer; member of Les Six) |
1899-1963 |
| Poulet, Georges (Belgian scholar, teacher) |
1902-1991 |
| Poulsen, Valdemar (Danish electrical engineer) |
1869-1942 |
| Pound, Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers (British admiral) |
1877-1943 |
| Pound, Ezra Loomis (American poet, critic, editor) |
1885-1972 |
| Pound, Roscoe (American educator) |
1870-1964 |
| Poundmaker (Canadian Cree Indian chief) |
1826-1886 |
| Pounds, John (English shoemaker) |
1766-1839 |
| Poupart, Francois (French physician, naturalist) |
1661-1709 |
| Pourbus (or Porbus), Pieter (Dutch painter) |
1510-1584 |
| Pourbus (or Porbus), Frans (Dutch painter; son of Pieter) |
1545-1581 |
| Pourbus (or Porbus), Frans (Dutch painter; son of Frans) |
1569-1622 |
| Pourtales, Guy de (Swiss-born French writer) |
1884-1941 |
| Pourtales, Louis Francois de (Swiss-born American naturalist) |
1823-1880 |
| Poussin, Nicolas (French painter) |
1594-1665 |
| Powderly, Terence Vincent (American labor leader) |
1849-1924 |
| Powdermaker, Hortense (American cultural anthropologist) |
1900-1970 |
| Powell, Adam Clayton Jr. (American clergyman, politician) |
1908-1972 |
| Powell, Anthony Dymoke (English writer) |
1905-2000 |
| Powell, Aubrey "Po" (English graphic designer: Hipgnosis) |
b.1946 |
| Powell, Cecil Frank (English physicist) |
1903-1969 |
| Powell, Colin Luther (American soldier, bureaucrat) |
b.1937 |
| Powell, Dawn (American writer) |
1897-1965 |
| Powell, Earl Rudolph "Bud" (American pianist, composer) |
1924-1966 |
| Powell, John Wesley (American geologist, explorer, ethnologist) |
1834-1902 |
| Powell, Lewis Franklin Jr. (Am. Supreme Court justice 1971-87) |
1907-1998 |
| Powell, Martin (English puppet showman) |
fl. 1710-1729 |
| Powell, Michael Latham (Eng. film director, writer, producer) |
1905-1990 |
| Powell, Sandy (English comedian, ventriloquist) |
1900-1982 |
| Powell, William Henry (American painter) |
1823-1879 |
| Power, Frederick Tyrone (Eng.-born Am. actor; grandson of WGTP) |
1869-1931 |
| Power, Leonel (or Lionel or Lyonel; English composer) |
d.1445 |
| Power, Tyrone Edmond (American actor; son of Frederick Tyrone) |
1914-1958 |
| Power, William Grattan Tyrone (Irish comedian) |
1797-1841 |
| Powers, Hiram (American sculptor) |
1805-1873 |
| Powers, Richard (American writer, teacher) |
b.1957 |
| Powhatan (Algonquin Indian chief; father of Pocahontas) |
1550?-1618 |
| Pownall, Thomas (English colonial administrator) |
1722-1805 |
| Powys, John Cowper (English writer, critic; bro. of T.F., L.) |
1872-1963 |
| Powys, Llewelyn (English writer; brother of J.C., Theodore) |
1884-1939 |
| Powys, Theodore Francis (English writer; brother of J.C., L.) |
1875-1953 |
| Poynings, Sir Edward (English soldier, diplomat) |
1459-1521 |
| Poynter, Sir Edward John (English historical painter) |
1836-1919 |
| Poynting, John Henry (English physicist) |
1852-1914 |
| Pozzo, Andrea dal (Italian Jesuit, architect, painter) |
1642-1709 |
| Pozzo di Borgo, Carlo Andrea (Corsican dipl. in Rus. service) |
1764-1842 |
| Prado, Mariano Ignacio (Peruvian general, politician) |
1826-1901 |
| Prado, Pedro (Chilean writer) |
1886-1952 |
| Pradon, Jacques (French dramatist) |
1644-1698 |
| Prado Ugarteche, Manuel (Peruvian banker, politician) |
1889-1967 |
| Pradt, Dominique-Georges-Frederic (French prelate, diplomat) |
1759-1837 |
| Praecox, Ellis (Swiss-born American schizophrenic) |
b.1943 |
| Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (English poet) |
1802-1839 |
| Praetorius, Hieronymus (German composer, organist) |
1560-1629 |
| Praetorius, Michael (born Schultheiss; German composer, writer) |
1571?-1621 |
| Praga, Emilio (Italian poet) |
1839-1875 |
| Pramoedya, Ananta Toer (Indonesian writer, critic) |
1925-2006 |
| Pramudya Ananta Tur (or Pramoedya Ananta Toer; Javanese writer) |
b.1925 |
| Prandtauer, Jakob (Austrian Baroque architect) |
1660-1726 |
| Prandtl, Ludwig (German physicist; father of aerodynamics) |
1875-1953 |
| Prapanca (or Prapancha; Indonesian court poet, historian) |
14th cent. |
| Prasad, Rajendra (Indian nationalist leader) |
1884-1963 |
| Prasutagus (King of the Iceni in Britain) |
d.60 |
| Pratella, Francesco Balilla (Italian composer) |
1880-1955 |
| Prati, Giovanni (Italian poet) |
1815-1884 |
| Pratinas (Athenian tragic poet) |
6th-5th cent. BC |
| Pratolini, Vasco (Italian writer) |
1913-1991 |
| Pratt, Sir Charles (English jurist, political leader) |
1714-1794 |
| Pratt, Charles (American oil magnate) |
1830-1891 |
| Pratt, Edwin John (Canadian poet, educator) |
1883-1964 |
| Pratt, Francis Ashbury (American inventor: Pratt & Whitney) |
1827-1902 |
| Pratt, John Henry (British clergyman, geophysicist) |
1809-1871 |
| Pratt, Richard Henry (American army officer, educator) |
1840-1924 |
| Pratt, Silas Gamaliel (American composer) |
1846-1916 |
| Pratt, Thomas Willis (American civil engineer) |
1812-1875 |
| Pratt, Waldo Selden (American musician, teacher) |
1857-1939 |
| Pravec, Petr (Czech astronomer; asteroid) |
b.1967 |
| Praxagoras (Greek physician) |
4th cent. BC |
| Praxiteles (Athenian sculptor) |
fl. 370-330 BC |
| Praz, Mario (Italian literary critic, essayist, scholar) |
1896-1982 |
| Preault, Antoine-Auguste (French Romantic sculptor) |
1809-1879 |
| Preble, Edward (American naval officer) |
1761-1807 |
| Preece, Sir William Henry (British electrical engineer) |
1834-1913 |
| Pregl, Fritz Frederik (Austrian physician, chemist) |
1869-1930 |
| Prehoda, Robert W. (American chemist, futurist) |
1929-2010? |
| Preil, Gabriel Joshua (Estonian Hebrew and Yiddish poet) |
1911-1993 |
| Prelog, Vladimir (Bosnian-born Swiss chemist, teacher) |
1906-1998 |
| Premchand (pseudonym of Dhanpat Rai Srivastav; Indian writer) |
1880-1936 |
| Prence (or Prince), Thomas (Eng. colonist; Mayflower pilgrim) |
1600-1673 |
| Prendergast, Maurice Brazil (Am. painter; member of The Eight) |
1859-1924 |
| Preobrajenska, Olga (Russian ballet dancer, teacher) |
1871-1962 |
| Preradovic, Petar (Croatian poet, officer in Austrian army) |
1818-1872 |
| Prescott, Edward Christian "Ed" (American economist) |
b.1940 |
| Prescott, Samuel (American patriot) |
1751-1777? |
| Prescott, William (American Revolutionary soldier) |
1726-1795 |
| Prescott, William Hickling (American historian) |
1796-1859 |
| Preseren, France (Slovene poet, civil servant, lawyer) |
1800-1849 |
| Presley, Elvis Aaron (American entertainer) |
1935-1977 |
| Pressburger, Emeric (Hungarian-born British filmmaker) |
1902-1988 |
| Pressense, Edmond Dehaut de (French clergyman, politician) |
1824-1891 |
| Presser, Stefan (American civil-rights activist) |
1953-2005 |
| Preston, Margaret née Junkin (American writer) |
1820-1897 |
| Preston, Thomas (English dramatist) |
1537-1598 |
| Preston, Thomas (Irish scientist) |
1860-1900 |
| Preston, William Everett "Billy" (Am. musician, songwriter) |
1946-2006 |
| Prestwich, Sir Joseph (English geologist) |
1812-1896 |
| Preti, Mattia "Il Cavaliere Calabrese" (Italian painter) |
1613-1699 |
| Pretorius, Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus (S. African Du. colonizer) |
1798-1853 |
| Pretorius, Marthinus Wessels (South African Dutch soldier) |
1819-1901 |
| Preuss, Hugo (German jurist, politician) |
1860-1925 |
| Prevert, Jacques-Henri-Marie (French poet, screenwriter) |
1900-1977 |
| Previte, Bobby (American drummer, percussionist) |
b.1957 |
| Prevost, Eugene-Marcel (French writer, civil engineer) |
1862-1941 |
| Prevost, Francoise (French dancer) |
c.1680-1741 |
| Prevost, Sir George (British colonial administrator) |
1767-1816 |
| Prevost, Pierre (Swiss philosopher, physicist) |
1751-1839 |
| Prevost d'Exiles, Antoine-Francois "Abbe Prevost" (Fr. writer) |
1697-1763 |
| Prevost-Paradol, Lucien-Anatole (Fr. journalist, polit., dip.) |
1829-1870 |
| Preyer, Wilhelm Thierry (Eng.-born German physiol., psychol.) |
1841-1897 |
| Pribicevic, Svetozar (Yugoslav politician) |
1875-1936 |
| Pribram, Karl Harry (Austrian psychologist, neurosurgeon) |
b.1919 |
| Pribylov, Gavril (Russian sea captain) |
18th cent. |
| Price, Edward Reynolds (American writer, teacher) |
b.1933 |
| Price, Mary Leontyne (American soprano) |
b.1927 |
| Price, Richard (Welsh moral philosopher) |
1723-1791 |
| Price, Sterling (American politician, army commander) |
1809-1867 |
| Price, Thomas (Welsh-born Australian politician) |
1852-1909 |
| Price, Sir Uvedale (English landscape designer) |
1747-1829 |
| Price-Mars, Jean (Haitian physician, historian, diplomat) |
1876-1970 |
| Prichard, Harold Arthur (English philosopher) |
1871-1947 |
| Prichard, James Cowles (English physician, ethnologist) |
1786-1848 |
| Prichard, Katharine Susannah (Fiji-born Australian writer) |
1883-1969 |
| Prichard, Rhys (Welsh clergyman, poet) |
1579-1644 |
| Pride, Thomas (English Parliamentarian commander) |
d.1658 |
| Pridvorov, Efim Alekseyevich (pseud.Demyan Bednyi; Soviet poet) |
1883-1945 |
| Priestley, John Boynton (British writer, playwright) |
1894-1984 |
| Priestley, Joseph (English clergyman, chemist) |
1733-1804 |
| Prieto, Joaquin (Chilean soldier, politician; pres. 1831-41) |
1786-1854 |
| Prieur, Pierre-Louis "Prieur de la Marne" (Fr. lawyer, polit.) |
1756-1827 |
| Prieur-Duvernois, Claude-Antoine (French military eng., polit.) |
1763-1832 |
| Prigogine, Ilya Romanovich (Russian-born Belgian chemist) |
1917-2003 |
| Prima, Louis (American entertainer, singer, actor, songwriter) |
1910-1978 |
| Primaticcio, Francesco (Italian painter, architect) |
1504-1570 |
| Prime, William Cowper (American art historian, writer) |
1825-1905 |
| Primo de Rivera, Jose Antonio (Spanish polit.; son of Miguel) |
1903-1936 |
| Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Miguel (Spanish general, polit.) |
1870-1930 |
| Primrose, Archibald Philip (5th Earl of Rosebery; Eng. polit.) |
1847-1929 |
| Prim y Prats, Juan (Spanish soldier, politician) |
1814-1870 |
| Prin, Yves (French composer, conductor, pianist) |
b.1933 |
| Prince, Frank Templeton (South-Africa-born British poet) |
1912-2003 |
| Prince, Mary (Bermuda-born British slave) |
1788?-1833? |
| Prince, Morton (American neurologist, psychologist) |
1854-1929 |
| Princip, Gavrilo (Serbian assassin of Archduke Ferdinand) |
1894-1918 |
| Prine, John (American songwriter, musician) |
b.1946 |
| Pringle, Sir John (British physician) |
1707-1782 |
| Pringle, Thomas (Scottish-born South African poet, activist) |
1789-1834 |
| Pringsheim, Ernst (German physicist) |
1859-1917 |
| Pringsheim, Nathaniel (German botanist) |
1823-1894 |
| Prinsep, James (English antiquary, colonial admin. in India) |
1799-1840 |
| Printz, Johan Bjornsson (Swedish administrator in America) |
1592-1663 |
| Prior, Edward Schroder (British architect) |
1852-1932 |
| Prior, Matthew (English poet, diplomat) |
1664-1721 |
| Priscian (Priscianus Caesariensis; Latin grammarian) |
fl. 500 |
| Priscillian (Priscillianus; Spanish religious reformer) |
c.340-385 |
| Pritam, Amrita (Indian writer, editor, politician) |
1919-2005 |
| Pritchard, Charles (English astronomer) |
1808-1893 |
| Pritchard, Hannah née Vaughan (English actor) |
1711-1768 |
| Pritchett, Sir Victor Sawdon (English writer, biographer) |
1900-1997 |
| Prithvi Narayan Shah (Nepalese ruler) |
1730-1775 |
| Probus, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor 276-282) |
d.282 |
| Probus, Marcus Valerius (Latin grammarian, critic) |
1st cent. |
| Procaccini, Camillo (Italian painter; son of Ercole) |
1551-1629 |
| Procaccini, Carlo Antonio (Italian painter; son of Ercole) |
c.1555-1605 |
| Procaccini, Ercole (Italian painter) |
1520?-1595 |
| Procaccini, Ercole the Younger (Italian painter; son of Carlo) |
1596-1676 |
| Procaccini, Giulio Cesare (Italian painter; son of Ercole) |
c.1570-1626 |
| Proclus (Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, theologian) |
410?-485 |
| Procopius (Byzantine historian) |
6th cent. |
| Procter, Adelaide Anne (English poet; daughter of Bryan) |
1825-1864 |
| Procter, Bryan Waller (pseudonym Barry Cornwall; English poet) |
1787-1874 |
| Proctor, Richard Anthony (English astronomer, writer) |
1837-1888 |
| Prodicus of Ceos (Greek Sophist) |
5th cent. BC |
| Prodromus, Theodore (aka Ptochoprodromus; Byzantine writer) |
d.c.1166 |
| Pro Juarez, Miguel Agustin "Miguel Pro" (Mexican Jesuit martyr) |
1891-1927 |
| Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhaylovich (Austral.-b. Russ. physicist) |
1916-2002 |
| Prokofiev, Sergey Sergeyevich (Russian composer, pianist) |
1891-1953 |
| Prokop Holy (aka Prokop the Bald; Bohemian Hussite leader) |
c.1380-1434 |
| Prokopovich, Feofan (Russian prelate, statesman) |
1681-1736 |
| Prokosch, Frederic (Am. writer, poet, diplomat, translator) |
1908-1989 |
| Propertius, Sextus (Roman elegiac poet) |
c.50-c.15 BC |
| Prosper of Aquitaine, Saint (French Christian writer) |
c.390-c.463 |
| Protagoras (Greek philosopher) |
c.485-410 BC |
| Protic, Stojan (Yugoslav editor, politician) |
1857-1923 |
| Protogenes (Greek painter) |
4th cent. BC |
| Protopopov, Aleksandr Dmitriyevich (Russian politician) |
1866?-1918 |
| Proud, Joseph (English clergyman) |
1745-1826 |
| Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (French journalist, Socialist) |
1809-1865 |
| Proulx, Edna Annie (American writer) |
b.1935 |
| Proust, Joseph-Louis (French chemist) |
1754-1826 |
| Proust, Marcel (French writer) |
1871-1922 |
| Prout, Ebenezer (English musical theorist, composer) |
1835-1909 |
| Prout, Samuel (English watercolor painter) |
1783-1852 |
| Prout, William (English chemist, physician) |
1785-1850 |
| Prouty, Olive née Higgins (American writer) |
1882-1974 |
| Provoost, Samuel (American clergyman) |
1742-1815 |
| Proxmire, Edward William (American politician) |
1915-2005 |
| Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens (Span.-born Latin Christian poet) |
348-405? |
| Prudhomme, Rene-Francois-Armand "Sully" (French poet) |
1839-1907 |
| Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul (French painter) |
1758-1823 |
| Prus, Boleslaw (Aleksandr Glowacki; Polish writer, essayist) |
1847-1912 |
| Prusiner, Stanley Ben (American neurologist, biochemist) |
b.1942 |
| Prutz, Robert Eduard (German writer) |
1816-1872 |
| Prynne, William (English Puritan pamphleteer) |
1600-1669 |
| Pryor, Richard Franklin Lenox Thomas (American comedian) |
1940-2005 |
| Przesmycki, Zenon (pseudonym Miriam; Polish man of letters) |
1861-1944 |
| Przhevalsky, Nikolay Mikhaylovich (Russian explorer in Asia) |
1839-1888 |
| Przybos, Julian (Polish poet, essayist) |
1901-1970 |
| Przybyszewski, Stanislaw (Polish writer, poet, playwright) |
1868-1927 |
| Przysucha, Jacob Isaac ben Asher (Polish Jewish Hasidic leader) |
1766-1814 |
| Psaier, Pietro (Italian painter) |
1936-2004 |
| Psalmanazar, George (French literary impostor in London) |
c.1679-1763 |
| Psamtik I (King of Egypt 664-610 BC; son of Necho I) |
7th cent. BC |
| Psamtik II (King of Egypt 595-589 BC; son of Necho II) |
6th cent. BC |
| Psamtik III (King of Egypt 526-525 BC; son of Ahmose II) |
6th cent. BC |
| Psichari, Ernest (French writer, soldier; son of Jean) |
1883-1914 |
| Psichari, Jean (born Ioannis Psicharis; French philologist) |
1854-1929 |
| Ptahhotep (Sage & vizier of Egypt) |
fl. 2400 BC |
| Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; Greek astronomer, math., geog.) |
c.100-c.170 |
| Ptolemy of Mauretania (King of Mauretania 23-40) |
d.40 |
| Ptolemy Apion (King of Cyrenaica c.116-96 BC) |
d.96 BC |
| Ptolemy Ceraunus (King of Macedonia 280-279 BC) |
d.279 BC |
| Publilius, Volero (Roman tribune) |
5th cent. BC |
| Publilius Syrus (Latin writer) |
1st cent. BC |
| Puccini, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele (Italian composer) |
1858-1924 |
| Pucelle, Jean (French miniature painter, illuminator) |
1300?-1355? |
| Puchler-Muskau, Hermann von (German soldier, traveler, writer) |
1785-1871 |
| Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illarionovich (Russian film director) |
1893-1953 |
| Puente, Ernest Anthony "Tito" (Am. bandleader, percussionist) |
1923-2000 |
| Pufendorf, Samuel von (German jurist, historian) |
1632-1694 |
| Pugachov, Yemelyan Ivanovich (Russian Cossack soldier) |
1726-1775 |
| Puget, Pierre (French architect, sculptor) |
1620-1694 |
| Pugin, Augustus-Charles (Fr. architectural draftsman in London) |
1762-1932 |
| Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (English architect, designer) |
1812-1852 |
| Pugnani, Giulio Gaetano Gerolamo (Italian violinist, composer) |
1731-1798 |
| P'u-i (Henry P'u-i; Hsuan-t'ung; Chinese emperor 1908-1912) |
1906-1967 |
| Puig, Manuel (Argentinean writer, film scriptwriter) |
1932-1990 |
| Puiset (or Pudsey), Hugh de (French-born English prelate) |
1125?-1195 |
| Puiseux, Pierre-Henri (French astronomer; son of Victor) |
1855-1928 |
| Puiseux, Victor-Alexandre (French mathematician, astronomer) |
1820-1883 |
| Pujol, Joan Pau (aka Juan Pulol; Catalan composer, organist) |
c.1570-1626 |
| Pujol, Joseph "Le Petomane" (French baker, fart entertainer) |
1857-1945 |
| Pukwana, Dudu Mtutuzel (South African musician, composer) |
1938-1990 |
| Pulakesin II (Indian ruler) |
7th cent. |
| Pulaski, Kazimierz (Polish general in American Revolution) |
1747-1779 |
| Pulcheria, Saint (Aelia Pulcheria Augusta; Byzantine empress) |
399-453 |
| Pulci, Luigi (Italian poet) |
1432-1484 |
| Pulgar, Hernando del (Spanish historian) |
1436?-1499? |
| Pulitzer, Joseph (Hungarian-born Am. journalist, publisher) |
1847-1911 |
| Pulitzer, Joseph (American publisher; son of Joseph) |
1885-1955 |
| Pulitzer, Ralph (American journalist, publisher; son of Joseph) |
1879-1939 |
| Pullen, Don Gabriel (American pianist) |
1941-1995 |
| Pullman, George Mortimer (American inventor) |
1831-1897 |
| Pulteney, William (1st Earl of Bath; English politician) |
1684-1764 |
| Pumpelly, Raphael (American geologist) |
1837-1923 |
| Punnett, Reginald Crundall (English geneticist) |
1875-1967 |
| Pupienus Maximus, Marcus Clodius (Roman emperor 238) |
d.238 |
| Pupin, Michael Idvorsky (Hung.-born Am. physicist, inventor) |
1858-1935 |
| Purcell, Daniel (English organist, composer; brother of Henry) |
c.1660-1717 |
| Purcell, Edward Mills (American physicist) |
1912-1997 |
| Purcell, Henry (English composer) |
c.1659-1695 |
| Purchas, Samuel (English compiler of travel books) |
c.1577-1626 |
| Purdue, John (American merchant) |
1802-1876 |
| Purdy, Alfred Wellington "Al" (Canadian poet, writer) |
1918-2000 |
| Purdy, James Otis (American writer, poet, playwright) |
1914-2009 |
| Purim, Flora (Brazilian singer) |
b.1942 |
| Purkyne, Jan Evangelista (Bohemian physiologist) |
1787-1869 |
| Purnell, Benjamin (American religious leader) |
1861-1927 |
| Pursh, Frederick (German-born Am. botanist, horticulturist) |
1774-1820 |
| Purvits, Vilhelms Karlis (Latvian landscape painter) |
1872-1924 |
| Puryear, Martin (American sculptor) |
b.1941 |
| Pusey, Edward Bouverie (English theologian) |
1800-1882 |
| Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich (Russian poet, playwright) |
1799-1837 |
| Pushmataha (American Choctaw Indian chief) |
c.1765-1824 |
| Pushwagner, Hariton (born Terje Brofoss; Norwegian artist) |
b.1940 |
| Pu Songling (or P'u Sung-ling; Chinese writer, teacher) |
1640-1715 |
| Putnam, Anne (American woman of Salem witchcraft trials) |
1680?-1716 |
| Putnam, Frederic Ward (American anthropologist) |
1839-1915 |
| Putnam, George Haven (English-born Am. publisher; son of G.P.) |
1844-1930 |
| Putnam, George Palmer (American publisher; grandfather of G.P.) |
1814-1872 |
| Putnam, George Palmer (Am. publisher; husb. of Amelia Earhart) |
1887-1950 |
| Putnam, Herbert (American librarian; son of George Palmer) |
1861-1955 |
| Putnam, Israel (American Revolutionary commander) |
1718-1790 |
| Putnam, Rufus (Am. Revolutionary officer; cousin of Israel) |
1738-1824 |
| Putnam, Samuel Whitehall (American editor, publisher, writer) |
1892-1950 |
| Putnik, Radomir (Serbian general) |
1847-1917 |
| Putrament, Jerzy (Polish poet, writer, journalist, editor) |
1910-1986 |
| Putte, Isaac Dignus Fransen van de (Dutch politician) |
1822-1902 |
| Puttenham, George (English courtier, critic) |
c.1529-1590 |
| Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Cecile (French painter) |
1824-1898 |
| Pyat, Aime-Felix (French playwright, politician) |
1810-1889 |
| Pyatakov, Grigory Leonidovich (Soviet politician) |
1890-1937 |
| Pye, Henry James (English poet; poet laureate 1790) |
1745-1813 |
| Pyle, Charles C. "Cash and Carry Pyle" (American promoter) |
1882?-1939 |
| Pyle, Ernest Taylor "Ernie" (American journalist) |
1900-1945 |
| Pyle, Howard (American illustrator, painter, writer) |
1853-1911 |
| Pym, Barbara Mary Crampton (English writer, editor) |
1913-1980 |
| Pym, John (English politician, orator) |
1584-1643 |
| Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles Jr. (American writer) |
b.1937 |
| Pynchon, William (English colonist in America) |
1590?-1662 |
| Pynson, Richard (Norman printer in London) |
d.1530 |
| Pyrrho (or Pyrrhon; Greek philosopher) |
c.360-c.272 BC |
| Pyrrhus (King of Epirus; eponym for phrase "Pyrrhic victory") |
319-272 BC |
| Pythagoras of Samos (Greek philosopher, math.; asteroid) |
c.580-c.500 BC |
| Pythagoras of Rhegium (Greek sculptor) |
5th cent. BC |
| Pytheas (Greek navigator, geographer) |
fl. 300 BC |
| Pythius (or Pythios or Pytheos; Greek architect) |
4th cent. BC |