Famous people with the initials WP September 27, 2026

American actor and businessman

Remember the Titans

Wendell Pierce

Thunderbolts

William Petersen

American actor (1892–1984)

William #24 Manhunter

William Powell

William #30

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

William #33

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director (1941–2022)

Walter Payton

American football running back | Pro Football Hall of Famer (1954-1999)

Walter #8

William Penn

English real estate entrepreneur | philosopher | early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#10

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

#11

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#12

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #55

#13

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#14

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#15

William Luther Pierce

American white supremacist and neo-Nazi (1933–2002)

William #77 The Turner Diaries

#16

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #83

#17

William Poole

American boxer and a founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys (1821–1855)

William #84

#18

Will Peltz

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#19

Wolfgang Puck

#20

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #15

#21

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#22

Witold Pilecki

Polish underground resistance soldier | World War II concentration camp resistance leader (1901-1948)

#23

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#24

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#25

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #123

#26

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#27

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#28

Walter Parazaider

American woodwind musician (1945–2026)

Walter #23

#29

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

William #171

#30

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#31

Wally Pipp

American baseball player (1893–1965)

#32

Wally Palmar

Cinematographer | film director

#33

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#34

Wally Pfister

#35

Will Proctor

American football player

#36

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#37

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

British politician

#38

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#39

Warren Pickering

Australian politician (born 1983)

#40

Will Payne

British actor

#41

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#42

William IX, Count of Poitiers

first son of Henry | Duke of Normandy (later Henry II of England) and Eleanor of Aquitaine

#43

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#44

William David Powell

screenwriter

#45

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#46

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#47

William Prince

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#48

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

#49

William H. Pitsenbarger

#50

Wendy Phillips

American actress

#51

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#52

Wolé Parks

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#53

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#54

William H. Parker

#55

Will Putney

American record producer and guitarist

#56

William Palmer

English doctor found guilty of murder

#57

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#58

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#59

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#60

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#61

Wendi Peters

British actress

#62

William Packer

American film producer

#63

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#64

William Prince

Canadian singer

#65

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#66

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#67

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#68

Webb Pierce

American film and television actor

#69

Woodrow Parfrey

#70

Waylon Payne

American musician and actor

#71

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#72

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#73

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #86

#74

William Penn

English admiral and politician

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#75

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#76

William Proxmire

American politician

#77

Wallace Potts

American film director

#78

Wilder Penfield

#79

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#80

Willard E. Pugh

American physician and politician

#81

William Petit

#82

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#83

William Henry Perkin

British chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye (1838–1907)

#84

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#85

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#86

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#87

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#88

Warren Platner

American architect and interior designer (1919–2006)

#89

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #105

#90

Wictor Petersson

Swedish shot putter

#91

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#92

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#93

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#94

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#95

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#96

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#97

Walter Pitts

American logician and computational neuroscientist

Walter #117

#98

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #119

#99

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#100

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#101

Wayne Péré

French actor

#102

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#103

Woobens Pacius

Haitian-Canadian soccer player

#104

William Pope.L

American artist

#105

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#106

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#107

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#108

Wayne Perkins

#109

Wil Parker

Australian cricketer

#110

Wayde Preston

American sports columnist

#111

Woody Paige

#112

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#113

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#114

William Pereira

American architect

#115

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#116

Waheed Para

Indian Politician

#117

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#118

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#119

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#120

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#121

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#122

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#123

Warren Petersen

American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives

#124

William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland

British politician (1800-1879)

#125

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#126

Wolfgang Paul

German footballer

#127

Will Putnam

American football player (born 2000)

#128

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#129

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#130

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#131

William Jackson Palmer

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient | Denver and Rio Grande Railroad president

#132

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#133

Walter Perez

United States federal judge | Governor of Maryland | signatory to the US Declaration of Independence

Walter #186 The Avengers

#134

William Paca

#135

William de la Pole

British noble

#136

Willard Parker

German theologian (1928–2014)

#137

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#138

Wichayanee Pearklin

Thai female singer

#139

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#140

Wolfhart Pannenberg

#141

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#142

Wayne M. Perry

American businessman

#143

Wayne Pearce

Australian rugby league player and coach

#144

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#145

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#146

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#147

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#148

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#149

William Barclay Peat

British businessman

#150

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#151

Westbrook Pegler

American investigative journalist

#152

Woodensky Pierre

Haitian footballer (born 2004)

#153

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#154

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#155

Wayne Pinnock

Jamaican athlete

#156

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#157

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#158

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#159

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#160

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#161

Will Powers

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#162

William Post

#163

Wendy Playfair

Australian actress

#164

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#165

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#166

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#167

William Plotnikov

Canadian-Russian boxer

#168

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#169

Will Penisini

Australian rugby league footballer

#170

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#171

Walter Powers

German singer and songwriter

#172

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#173

Wolfgang Petry

#174

William Porteous

Australian land developer

#175

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#176

Wolfgang Pickert

German General and Knight's Cross recipients

#177

William Parker

musician

#178

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#179

Wendy Powell

American actress

#180

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

British politician

#181

Willie Pearse

Irish republican executed for his part in the Easter Rising (1881-1916)

#182

Will Pryce

English rugby league footballer

#183

Woody Paul

English mathematician and physicist

#184

William D. Pawley

American diplomat

#185

William Alexander Percy

American writer

#186

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

British politician

#187

William Penney, Baron Penney

Leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

#188

William Prunier

Footballer

#189

Wilson Raj Perumal

Singaporean criminal

#190

W. W. Phelps

#191

Wehib Pasha

Ottoman general

#192

Washington Phillips

Eldest surviving son of William Penn | founder of the colony of Pennsylvania

#193

William Penn