Famous people with the initials WP March 12, 2026

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

In Time

#12

William Penn

William #70

#13

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#14

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#15

William Luther Pierce

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

William #95 The Turner Diaries

#16

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#17

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#18

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #101

#19

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#20

Witold Pilecki

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

#21

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #21

#22

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#23

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#24

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #135

#25

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#26

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#27

Will Proctor

American football player

#28

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#29

Warren Platner

American architect (1919–2006)

#30

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#31

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#32

Will Payne

British actor

#33

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

#34

Walter Parazaider

Walter #42

#35

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#36

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#37

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#38

Wolé Parks

Southern philosophical novelist

#39

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#40

Walker Percy

#41

Wally Pipp

American baseball player

#42

Will Pryce

English rugby league footballer

#43

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#44

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

Papillon

#45

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#46

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#47

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

#48

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#49

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#50

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#51

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#52

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#53

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#54

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #81

#55

William Prince

Canadian singer

#56

William Poromaa

Swedish cross-country skier

#57

William Packer

American film producer

#58

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#59

William David Powell

screenwriter

#60

William Prince

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

Network

#61

Wilder Penfield

#62

Wendy Phillips

American actress

I Am Sam

#63

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#64

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#65

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#66

Wolfgang Pichler

German biathlon trainer

#67

Webb Pierce

American fashion designer

#68

William Proxmire

American politician

#69

Wallace Potts

American film director

#70

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#71

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #102

#72

Wendy Pepper

#73

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#74

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#75

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#76

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#77

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#78

William Penn

English admiral and politician

William #70

#79

Willard E. Pugh

American physician and politician

The Color Purple

#80

William Petit

#81

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#82

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#83

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#84

Walter Pitts

American logician and computational neuroscientist

Walter #117

#85

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#86

William Palmer

English doctor found guilty of murder

#87

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#88

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#89

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#90

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#91

William B. Purvis

African-American inventor (1838–1914)

#92

Wally Palmar

American actor and film producer

#93

William Phipps

#94

Wayde Preston

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#95

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #135

#96

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#97

William Paley

#98

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#99

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#100

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#101

Wayne Pivac

Fijian rugby union player

#102

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#103

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#104

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#105

Wendi Peters

British actress

#106

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#107

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#108

Wayne Péré

French actor

#109

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#110

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#111

Ward Pétré

Belgian speed skater

#112

William Pereira

American architect

#113

Walid Phares

American academic

#114

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#115

Wayne Perkins

Scottish trader and banker

#116

William Paterson

#117

William Henry Perkin

English chemist

#118

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#119

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#120

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#121

Warren Petersen

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

#122

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#123

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#124

William Prynne

English lawyer | author | polemicist | and political figure

#125

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#126

Willard Parker

American musician and actor

#127

Waylon Payne

#128

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian

#129

William Jackson Palmer

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

#130

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#131

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

British politician (1800-1879)

#132

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#133

Willi Plett

Canadian ice hockey player

#134

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#135

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#136

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#137

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#138

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

Canadian ice hockey player

#139

Wilf Paiement

#140

William de la Pole

British noble

#141

William Paca

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

#142

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#143

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#144

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#145

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#146

Westbrook Pegler

American investigative journalist

#147

Wayne M. Perry

American businessman

#148

Will Powers

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#149

William Porterfield

cricketer

#150

Werner Pinzner

#151

Wendy Powell

American actress

#152

William Post

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#153

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#154

William Pinckney

American sailor

#155

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#156

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#157

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#158

Wanda Perdelwitz

German actress (1984–2025)

#159

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#160

Waheed Para

Indian Politician

#161

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#162

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#163

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#164

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#165

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#166

Walter Hines Page

Journalist | publisher | diplomat

#167

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#168

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#169

William Williams Pantycelyn

Welsh hymnwriter

#170

William de la Pole

British judge and private banker

#171

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#172

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

#173

William Pope.L

American artist

#174

Washington Phillips

Inventor of modern traffic light

#175

Wayne Pacelle

American activist

#176

William Prunier

Footballer

#177

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#178

Warren Peace

British singer

#179

William Potts

#180

Walter Paepcke

American businessman

#181

Walter E. Piatt

American Army military and executive

#182

Wesley Plaisier

Dutch darts player

#183

William Penney, Baron Penney

English mathematician and physicist

William #70

#184

Walter Piston

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#185

Wolfgang Petry

German singer and songwriter

#186

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#187

William Henry Perrins

British businessman

#188

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

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

#189

Willie Preston

American politician

#190

William Peters

American journalist

#191

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#192

Wolfgang Paalen

Austrian artist

#193

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#194

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#195

Willie Pearse

#196

William S. Pye

United States admiral

#197

Will Penisini

Australian rugby league footballer

#198

Winifred Phillips

American composer

#199

Walter Powers