Paul


Gender:
Origin: Latin
16245 famous people named Paul found on Wikipedia.
1388425 male, 5846 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 234-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 12-th in year 1931
Used in: Biblical, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish

Meanings

A male given name: from a Latin word meaning “little”.

Paul is a common masculine given name in countries and ethnicities with a Christian heritage (Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism) and, beyond Europe, in Christian religious communities throughout the world. Paul – or its variations – can be a given name or surname.

Masc. proper name, Biblical name of the apostle to the Gentiles, from Latin Paulum (nominative Paulus), Roman surname of the Aemilian gens, literally "small," from PIE *pau-ro-lo-, from suffixed form of root *pau- (1) "few, little." Other forms include Old French Pol, Italian Paolo, Spanish Pablo, Russian Pavel.

In Latin Paul: small, little, humble.

Famous People: 16245 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Paul Walker 1973 American actor
2 Paul McCartney 1942 English singer-songwriter and composer
3 Paul Pogba 1993 French footballer
4 Paul Rudd 1969 Actor
5 Paul Newman 1925 American actor and film director
6 Paul Ryan 1970 American politician
7 Paul Simon 1941 American musician, songwriter and producer
8 Aaron Paul 1979 American actor
9 Paul Bettany 1971 British actor
10 Paul Giamatti 1967 American actor
11 Paul 0005 Early Christian apostle and missionary
12 Paul Wesley 1982 American actor
13 Paul Reubens 1952 American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian
14 Paul Dano 1984 American actor
15 Chris Paul 1985 American professional basketball player
16 Rand Paul 1963 American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky
17 Sean Paul 1973 Jamaican musician
18 Paul Hogan 1939 Australian comedian and actor
19 Paul Thomas Anderson 1970 American film director, screenwriter, and producer
20 Paul George 1990 American professional basketball player
21 Paul Pierce 1977 American basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets
22 Paul Allen 1953 American inventor, investor and philanthropist
23 Ron Paul 1935 American politician and physician
24 Paul Hollywood 1966 English baker and chef
25 Amala Paul 1991 Indian actress
26 Paul Revere 1735 American silversmith
27 Logan Paul 1996 Actor
28 Paul Bernardo 1964 Canadian murderer
29 Paul Anka 1941 Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actor
30 Paul von Hindenburg 1847 Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and president of Germany
31 Jake Paul 1997 Internet Personality
32 Paul Gascoigne 1967 Former England international footballer and football manager
33 Paul Scholes 1974 English footballer
34 Paul Gauguin 1848 French Post-Impressionist artist
35 Paul Heyman 1965 American entertainment producer
36 Paul Adelstein 1969 American actor
37 Paul Stanley 1952 American hard rock guitarist, musician, singer-songwriter and painter
38 Paul W. S. Anderson 1965 British film director, producer and screenwriter
39 Paul J. Manafort 1949 American political consultant
40 Paul Bilzerian 1950 Businessperson
41 Paul Lynde 1926 Actor
42 Paul Feig 1962 American actor, writer, film director
43 Paul Rust 1981 American actor, comedian, writer, and musician
44 Paul Sorvino 1939 Actor
45 Paul Cézanne 1839 French painter
46 Paul Bearer 1954 Professional wrestling manager
47 Paul McGann 1959 Character actor
48 Paul Krugman 1953 American economist
49 Paul Weller 1958 English singer-songwriter, Guitarist
50 Paul Potts 1970 English tenor
51 Paul Robeson 1898 American singer and actor
52 Paul Reiser 1957 American actor and comedian
53 Paul Erdős 1913 Hungarian mathematician and freelancer
54 Paul Nassif
55 Paul O'Grady 1955 British comedian, actor and television presenter
56 Les Paul 1915 American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor
57 Alice Paul 1885 American suffragette
58 Paul Verhoeven 1938 Dutch film director, screenwriter and film producer
59 Paul Vario 1914 American mobster
60 Paul DePodesta 1972 The chief strategy officer for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL).
61 Paul Scheer 1976 American actor, comedian, writer, and producer
62 Paul Schneider 1976 American film actor
63 Paul Gray 1972 American nu metal bass guitarist (Slipknot)
64 Paul Daniels 1938 British magician and television performer
65 Paul Castellano 1915 American mobster
66 Paul Nicholas 1945 British actor and singer
67 Paul Rodgers 1949 English singer-songwriter
68 Paul Young 1956 English pop musician
69 Paul Kantner 1941 American musician
70 Paul Lieberstein 1967 American actor and screenwriter
71 Paul F. Tompkins 1968 American actor
72 Paul Shaffer 1949 Canadian musician
73 Paul Kagame 1957 Rwandan politician
74 Paul Haggis 1953 Canadian screenwriter, producer, and director
75 Paul Klee 1879 German Swiss painter
76 Paul I of Russia 1754 Emperor of Russia
77 Paul Blackthorne 1969 British actor
78 Paul McDonald 1984 American musician
79 Paul Wall 1981 American rapper
80 Paul Williams 1939 Singer, Choreographer of The Temptations
81 Paul Michael Glaser 1943 American actor and director
82 Paul Sinha 1970 British stand-up comedian
83 Paul Theroux 1941 American travel writer and novelist
84 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck 1870 German army officer
85 Paul Gleason 1939 American actor
86 Paul Tibbets 1915 United States Air Force pilot
87 Paul Millsap 1985 American basketball player
88 Paul Schäfer 1921 German founder of a sect and agricultural commune in Chile
89 Paul Ince 1967 English footballer
90 Paul Dirac 1902 Theoretical physicist
91 Paul Sparks 1971 American actor
92 Paul Nuttall 1976 British politician
93 Paul Daley 1983 British marital artist
94 Paul Carrack 1951 British musician
95 Manish Paul 1981 Indian actor
96 Paul LePage 1948 American businessman, Republican Party politician, and the 74th Governor of Maine
97 Paul Greengrass 1955 Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning English writer and film director
98 Paul Winfield 1939 Actor
99 Paul Marcarelli 1970 American actor
100 Paul Harvey 1918 American broadcaster
101 Paul Johansson 1964 American actor
102 Paul Winchell 1922 American ventriloquist, voice actor, comedian, inventor, and humanitarian
103 Paul Kaye 1964 English actor, comedian
104 Paul Monroe
105 Paul Hunter 1978 Snooker player
106 Paul Gilbert 1966 American musician
107 Alexandra Paul 1963 American actress
108 Paul Merson 1968 English footballer and manager
109 Paul Greene 1974 Canadian actor
110 Paul Lambert 1969 Scottish footballer and manager
111 Paul Volcker 1927 American economist
112 Paul Zerdin 1972 British ventriloquist
113 DJ Paul 1977 American rapper and record producer
114 Paul Orndorff 1949 Professional wrestler
115 Paul Ekman 1934 Evolutionary and social psychologist
116 Paul Mooney 1941 American comedian, writer, social critic, television and film actor
117 Paul Ellering 1953 American professional wrestler and musher
118 Paul Merton 1957 British comedian
119 Paul Clement 1972 Football coach
120 Paul Petersen 1945 Actor, writer, activist
121 Paul Nicholls 1979 British actor
122 Paul Guilfoyle 1949 American actor born in 1949
123 Paul Watson 1950 Canadian environmental activist
124 Henri Paul 1956 Driver of car in which Princess Diana died
125 Paul Fix 1901 American film and television character actor, best known for his work in Westerns
126 Paul Auster 1947 Novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
127 Paul Brown 1907 American football coach
128 Paul Singer 1944 American businessman
129 Paul Rusesabagina 1954 Rwandan-Belgian humanitarian
130 Paul Kellerman Fictional character
131 Vinnie Paul 1964 American musician
132 Paul London 1980 Professional wrestler from the United States
133 Paul Schrader 1946 American film director
134 Adrian Paul 1959 Actor
135 Paul Freeman 1943 British actor
136 Paul Heaton 1962 British musician
137 Paul Benedict 1938 American actor
138 Paul Wolfowitz 1943 American politician, diplomat, and technocrat
139 Paul Teutul, Sr. 1949 Motorcycle builder
140 Paul Kruger 1825 President of the South African Republic
141 Paul Molitor 1956 Retired Major League Baseball player
142 Paul Di'Anno 1958 English singer
143 Paul Prudhomme 1940 American chef
144 Paul Tillich 1886 German-American theologian and philosopher
145 Paul Gross 1959 Film actor, Film Producer, Film writer, music composer, film director
146 Paul Keating 1944 24th Prime Minister of Australia
147 Paul Shenar 1936 American actor
148 Paul Kemsley 1967 British businessman
149 Paul Simonon 1955 English musician (Bass guitarist, vocalist, songwriter) and visual artist
150 Billy Paul 1934 American singer
151 Paul Rodriguez 1984 American skateboarder
152 Rich Paul 1981 American sports agent
153 Paul Kalanithi 1977 Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer
154 Paul Dooley 1928 American actor, writer, and comedian
155 Paul Butterfield 1942 American blues singer and harmonica player
156 Paul Konchesky 1981 English footballer
157 Paul Kariya 1974 Ice hockey player
158 Dieter Tappert 1972 German actor
159 Paul Graham 1964 English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
160 Paul Oakenfold 1963 British record producer and a trance music DJ
161 Paul Rand 1914 American graphic designer
162 Paul Felder 1984 American mixed martial artist
163 Paul Bocuse 1926 French chef from Lyon
164 Paul Frees 1920 US voice actor
165 Paul Burrell 1958 Former domestic servant of the British Royal Household
166 Paul of Greece 1901 King of Greece
167 Paul Samuelson 1915 American economist
168 Paul Henreid 1908 Austrian-American actor and film director
169 Paul Verlaine 1844 French poet
170 Vincent de Paul 1581 French priest, founder and saint
171 Paul Ehrlich 1854 German biologist
172 Paul Mason 1960 British journalist
173 Paul Wellstone 1944 American politician
174 Paul Biya 1933 Cameroonian politician
175 Paul Muni 1895 Austrian-born American stage and film actor
176 Paul Goldschmidt 1987 Arizona Diamondbacks baseball player
177 Paul Tudor Jones 1954 American hedge fund manager and investor
178 Paul Anderson 1932 Weightlifter
179 Paul Cushing Child 1902 Civil servant, diplomat, husband of Julia Child
180 Paul Schrier 1970 American actor
181 Paul Eddington 1927 British actor
182 Paul Hornung 1935 American football player, quarterback
183 Paul Rosenberg 1971 American music manager
184 Paul Stookey 1937 American singer-songwriter
185 Paul Avery 1934 American journalist
186 Paul Le Mat 1945 American actor
187 Paul Ben-Victor 1965 American actor
188 Paul Martin 1959 Presenter of BBC antiques programme Flog It!
189 Paul Scofield 1922 English actor
190 Paul Butcher 1994 American actor
191 Paul Hellyer 1923 Engineer, politician, writer
192 Paul Epworth 1974 British music producer, musician, and songwriter
193 Paul Arthurs 1965 English rhythm guitarist
194 Paul Coffey 1961 Canadian ice hockey defenceman
195 Paul Michael Stephani 1944 American serial killer
196 Paul Kossoff 1950 English musician
197 Paul Dini 1957 Writer
198 Paul Fusco 1953 American actor
199 Paul Bremer 1941 American diplomat
200 Paul Casey 1977 Professional golfer