Famous people with the initials WP April 15, 2026

American logician and computational neuroscientist

William #24 Detachment

Walter Pitts

Walter #7

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #32

Wayne Perkins

American filmmaker and actor

#10

William Atticus Parker

William #40

#11

William Powell

American actor (1892–1984)

William #41

#12

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

William #44

#13

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#14

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#15

William Poole

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

William #66

#16

William Penn

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

William #72

#17

Walter Payton

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

Walter #11

#18

William Luther Pierce

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

William #81 The Turner Diaries

#19

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #12

#20

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#21

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#22

Will Peltz

American television executive

#23

William S. Paley

William #90

#24

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#25

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#26

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#27

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#28

Witold Pilecki

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

#29

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

William #122

#30

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#31

William Prince

Canadian singer

William #169

#32

Warren Platner

American architect (1919–2006)

#33

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#34

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#35

William Packer

American film producer

William #188

#36

Will Proctor

American football player

#37

Walter Parazaider

Australian racecar driver

Walter #36

#38

Will Power

#39

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

American physician and politician

William #198

#40

William Petit

#41

Wallace Potts

American film director

#42

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#43

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#44

Will Payne

British actor

#45

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#46

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#47

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#48

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#49

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#50

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#51

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#52

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#53

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#54

Wolé Parks

American basketball player

#55

Will Perdue

#56

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#57

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#58

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#59

William David Powell

screenwriter

#60

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#61

Wendy Phillips

American actress

I Am Sam

#62

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #78

#63

William Palmer

English doctor found guilty of murder

#64

William Proxmire

American politician

#65

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#66

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#67

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#68

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#69

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#70

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#71

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#72

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#73

Wayde Preston

#74

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#75

Willard E. Pugh

English admiral and politician

#76

William Penn

William #72

#77

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#78

Webb Pierce

#79

Waheed Para

Indian Politician

#80

Wendy Playfair

Australian actress

#81

William Prince

Haitian-Canadian soccer player

#82

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #120

#83

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#84

Woobens Pacius

#85

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#86

Wally Palmar

Welsh physician | born 1800

#87

William Price

#88

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#89

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#90

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#91

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#92

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#93

Walid Phares

American academic

#94

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#95

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#96

Walter of Pontoise

French abbot and saint

Walter #134

#97

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#98

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#99

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#100

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#101

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#102

Wendi Peters

British actress

#103

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#104

Wayne Péré

French actor

#105

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#106

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#107

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#108

William Pereira

American architect

#109

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#110

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#111

Wilguens Paugain

French association football player

#112

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#113

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#114

Wilhelm Pfeffer

german botanist

#115

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#116

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #163

#117

Willard Parker

English peer of the 15th century

#118

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

#119

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#120

Wendy Powell

American actress

#121

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#122

Warren Petersen

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

#123

Wayne M. Perry

American businessman

#124

Walter Paolella

Argentine football manager

Walter #170

#125

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#126

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#127

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#128

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

British politician (1800-1879)

#129

William Jackson Palmer

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

#130

Willie Pearse

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

#131

William de la Pole

British noble

#132

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#133

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#134

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#135

William Paca

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

#136

William Prunier

Footballer

#137

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#138

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#139

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#140

William Porteous

Australian land developer

#141

William R. Pogue

American astronaut

#142

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#143

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#144

Wilf Paiement

Canadian ice hockey player

#145

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#146

Westbrook Pegler

American investigative journalist

#147

Will Powers

Royal Navy admiral (1861-1933)

#148

William Pakenham

#149

Wayne Pearce

Australian rugby league player and coach

#150

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#151

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#152

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#153

Wictor Petersson

Swedish shot putter

#154

William Post

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#155

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#156

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#157

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#158

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#159

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#160

Will Pulisic

American soccer goalkeeper

#161

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#162

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#163

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#164

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

#165

Warren Peace

British singer

#166

Washington Phillips

German singer and songwriter

#167

Wout Poels

Dutch racing cyclist

#168

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#169

Wolfgang Petry

#170

William D. Pawley

American diplomat

#171

William Pope.L

American artist

#172

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#173

Winsome Pinnock

British writer

#174

Will Pryce

English rugby league footballer

#175

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#176

Woody Paul

#177

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#178

William Perkins

#179

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#180

William Perez

American businessman

#181

Wooga Poplar

American basketball player

#182

Wayne Pacelle

American activist

#183

Wanda Perdelwitz

German actress (1984–2025)

#184

Wayne Primeau

Canadian ice hockey player

#185

Walter Powers

#186

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#187

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel