Famous people with the initials WP April 4, 2026

William #25 To Live and Die in L.A.

William Powell

American actor (1892–1984)

William #31

Wayne Perkins

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

William #41

#10

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#11

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#12

Wendy Playfair

Australian actress

#13

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #57

#14

Will Peltz

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

#15

William Poole

William #62

#16

William Penn

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

William #68

#17

Walter Payton

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

Walter #10

#18

William Luther Pierce

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

William #79 The Turner Diaries

#19

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #12

#20

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#21

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#22

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #103

#23

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#24

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#25

Witold Pilecki

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

#26

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#27

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #142

#28

Will Proctor

American football player

#29

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#30

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#31

Walter Parazaider

American fashion designer

Walter #26

#32

Whitney Port

#33

William Packer

American film producer

William #185

#34

Warren Platner

American architect (1919–2006)

#35

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#36

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#37

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

Cinematographer | film director

#38

Wally Pfister

#39

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#40

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#41

William Prince

Canadian singer

#42

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#43

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#44

Will Payne

British actor

#45

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#46

William Petit

American physician and politician

#47

William David Powell

screenwriter

#48

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#49

Wolé Parks

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#50

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#51

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

#52

William Dudley Pelley

#53

Wallace Potts

American film director

#54

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#55

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#56

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#57

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#58

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #76

#59

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#60

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#61

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#62

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#63

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#64

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#65

William Proxmire

American politician

#66

Wendy Phillips

American actress

I Am Sam

#67

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#68

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#69

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#70

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#71

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#72

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #99

#73

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#74

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#75

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#76

William Penn

English admiral and politician

William #68

#77

Walter Pitts

American logician and computational neuroscientist

Walter #106

#78

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#79

William Prince

English doctor found guilty of murder

#80

William Palmer

#81

Willard E. Pugh

#82

Wally Palmar

American pornographic actor

#83

Wesley Pipes

#84

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#85

Webb Pierce

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#86

William S. Pye

United States admiral

#87

Wintley Phipps

#88

Wayde Preston

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

#89

Warren Petersen

#90

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#91

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#92

Walid Phares

American academic

#93

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#94

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#95

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#96

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#97

Wendi Peters

British actress

#98

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#99

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#100

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #144

#101

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#102

Woobens Pacius

Haitian-Canadian soccer player

#103

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#104

Wanda Perdelwitz

German actress (1984–2025)

#105

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#106

Walter Paolella

Argentine football manager

Walter #152

#107

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#108

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#109

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#110

William Pereira

American architect

#111

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#112

Wayne Péré

French actor

#113

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#114

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#115

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#116

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#117

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#118

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#119

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

British politician (1800-1879)

#120

Willie Preston

American politician

#121

Willard Parker

English peer of the 15th century

#122

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

#123

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#124

William Jackson Palmer

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

#125

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#126

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#127

Wendy Powell

American actress

#128

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#129

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#130

William Prunier

Footballer

#131

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#132

William Paca

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

#133

William de la Pole

British noble

#134

Wayne M. Perry

American businessman

#135

Wayne Pearce

Australian rugby league player and coach

#136

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#137

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#138

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#139

William Pitt

American singer

#140

Will Penisini

Australian rugby league footballer

#141

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#142

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#143

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#144

William Pleeth

British musician

#145

Will Powers

American investigative journalist

#146

Westbrook Pegler

#147

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#148

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#149

William Porteous

Australian land developer

#150

Wayne Pivac

Fijian rugby union player

#151

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#152

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#153

Wilf Paiement

Canadian ice hockey player

#154

Willie Pearse

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

#155

Will Putnam

American football player (born 2000)

#156

Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy

Malaysian politician

#157

Wictor Petersson

Swedish shot putter

#158

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

American sports columnist

#159

Woody Paige

#160

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#161

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#162

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#163

William Perkins

#164

Wooga Poplar

American basketball player

#165

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#166

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#167

Wil Parker

Australian cricketer

#168

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#169

Wehib Pasha

Ottoman general

#170

Washington Phillips

English rugby league footballer

#171

Will Pryce

#172

Walter of Pontoise

French abbot and saint

#173

Woody Paul

comedian and television actor from Britain

#174

Wayne Pacelle

American activist

#175

Wesley Plaisier

Dutch darts player

#176

Warren Peace

British singer

#177

Wally Patch

#178

William Post

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#179

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#180

Whitney Peyton

American Hip Hop Artist

#181

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#182

Wolfgang Petry

German singer and songwriter

#183

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#184

Walter Powers

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#185

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#186

Walter Piston

#187

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#188

William de la Pole

British judge and private banker

#189

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel