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• Pamela T. M. LeungLead author of the 2017 New England Journal of Medicine analysis of citations of the 1980 letter.
• Patrick DennisCo-author of a 2022 study of common ownership and airline ticket prices in The Journal of Finance.
• Patrick Soon-ShiongOwner of the Los Angeles Times.
• Paul Allen 21 Jan 1953 – 15 Oct 2018Co-founder of Microsoft; investor and philanthropist.
• Paul Baran 29 Apr 1926 – 26 Mar 2011American engineer who worked at the RAND Corporation from 1959 to 1968 and developed an early form of packet switching.
• Paul GoldenheimFormer medical director of Purdue.
• Paul GrahamProgrammer, essayist and investor; co-founder of Viaweb (1995) and Y Combinator (2005), which he ran until 2014.
• Paul KagameCommander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994; President of Rwanda since 2000.
• Paul M. HahnPresident of the American Tobacco Company in 1953; temporary chairman of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee.
• Paul Marcinkus until 20 Feb 2006Archbishop; president of the Institute for the Works of Religion; died 2006.
• Paul NjorogeLost his wife, three young children and mother-in-law on Ethiopian Airlines flight 302; testified to the House committee.
• Paul OtelliniIntel executive; Google director from 2004.
• Paul PelosiHusband of Nancy Pelosi; stock trades made in his name appear in her House disclosures, marked “SP” for spouse.
• Paul ReutershanVietnam veteran whose 1978 lawsuit began the Agent Orange litigation; he is described as deceased in 1987.
• Paul von Hindenburg 2 Oct 1847 – 2 Aug 1934German field marshal; Chief of the General Staff of the German army (1916–1919) and President of Germany (1925–1934).
• Paul WarburgPartner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and adviser on banking reform; member of the first Federal Reserve Board.
• Pedro Cieza de LeónSpanish soldier and chronicler who travelled Peru and saw Potosí in 1549.
• Pedro de AlvaradoSpanish captain left in command in Tenochtitlan in spring 1520 while Cortés went to the coast.
• Pedro PizarroCousin and page of Francisco Pizarro, at Cajamarca; he finished a long account in 1571 at Arequipa, and in it the blame for Atahualpa's death falls on others.
• Peng DehuaiMarshal and defence minister who wrote to Mao Zedong during the Lushan meeting of July 1959.
• Pete HegsethU.S. Secretary of Defense from 2025.
• Peter BurnettFirst governor of California, 1849 to 1851.
• Peter BuxtunPublic Health Service employee in San Francisco who protested the Tuskegee study from 1966 and gave documents to the press in 1972.
• Peter DeFazioU.S. representative from Oregon; chaired the House Transportation Committee during its 737 MAX inquiry.
• Peter EnnsPolitical scientist; author of “Relative Policy Support and Coincidental Representation” (2015).
• Peter G. Peterson 5 Jun 1926 – 20 Mar 2018Co-founder of Blackstone; US Secretary of Commerce in 1972–73.
• Peter HayesHistorian of IG Farben and of German business under the Nazis; emeritus professor at Northwestern University.
• Peter J. WallisonU.S. lawyer, a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission who filed his own dissent.
• Peter MacDonaldChairman of the Navajo Nation in 1971 to 1983 and 1987 to 1989; convicted in tribal court in 1990 and in federal court in 1992; a sentence of his was commuted in 2001.
• Peter SchweizerAuthor of Throw Them All Out; a fellow at the Hoover Institution when 60 Minutes aired its 2011 report.
• Peter Thiel 11 Oct 1967 –Investor; co-founder of PayPal and Palantir; Facebook's first outside investor.
• Peter-John CollinsTax partner at PwC Australia during the period examined by a 2023 Senate inquiry. The Tax Practitioners Board ended his registration as a tax agent in 2022 and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission banned him from financial services for eight years in 2023.
• Phil AngelidesChairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
• Phil BuchananPresident of the Center for Effective Philanthropy (2019).
• Philip GravesReporter for The Times of London whose 1921 articles showed the Protocols were copied.
• Philip II of France 1165–1223King of France from 1179, called Philip Augustus.
• Philip II of SpainKing of Castile from 1556; three times halted payments on his loans from bankers.
• Philip IV of France 1268–1314King of France from 1285 to 1314, called Philip the Fair.
• Philip MelanchthonWittenberg scholar who worked with Luther on the German Bible and whose preface of 1546 first reports the posting of the theses.
• Philip ReidEnslaved foundry worker freed by the 1862 act while casting the Statue of Freedom for the Capitol dome; his owner valued him at $500 in the compensation petition.
• Philippe of Belgium 1960 –King of the Belgians since 2013.
• Pope FrancisPope from 2013; asked forgiveness for crimes against native peoples during the conquest in Bolivia in 2015.
• Pope John XXIII 25 Nov 1881 – 3 Jun 1963Pope of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963.
• Pope Leo XPope of the Catholic Church from 1513 to 1521; he granted the indulgence of 1515 and issued the bull Exsurge Domine against Luther.
• Prescott BushAmerican investment banker and, from the 1950s, U.S. senator from Connecticut.
• Priscilla ChanPediatrician; co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; wife of Mark Zuckerberg.
• Puna BaiMother of three who lived in Jai Prakash Nagar, across the road from the Bhopal plant, in December 1984.