Famous people with the initials WP May 23, 2026

American architect (1919–2006)

Armageddon

Warren Platner

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

William Petersen

American actor (1892–1984)

William #31

William Powell

William #45

#10

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #48

#11

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#12

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#13

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#14

Walter Payton

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

Walter #10

#15

William Penn

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

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

#16

William Poole

William #60

#17

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#18

Wendi Peters

British actress

#19

William Luther Pierce

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

William #80 The Turner Diaries

#20

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#21

Will Peltz

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

#22

Witold Pilecki

#23

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#24

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #101

#25

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #107

#26

William Packer

American film producer

William #111

#27

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #21

#28

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#29

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#30

Will Proctor

American football player

#31

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

William #173

#32

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#33

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#34

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#35

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

William #190

#36

Walter Parazaider

Southern philosophical novelist

Walter #39

#37

Walker Percy

#38

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#39

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#40

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#41

Wallace Potts

American film director

#42

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#43

Wally Pipp

American baseball player (1893–1965)

#44

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#45

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#46

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#47

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#48

Will Payne

British actor

#49

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#50

Wayne Perkins

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#51

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#52

Wendy Phillips

American actress

I Am Sam

#53

Wiley Post

#54

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#55

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#56

William Proxmire

American politician

#57

Waldemar Podolski

Polish association football player

#58

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#59

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#60

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#61

William David Powell

screenwriter

#62

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #84

#63

Wolé Parks

English admiral and politician

#64

William Penn

Argentine football manager

#65

Walter Paolella

Walter #87

#66

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#67

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#68

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#69

Willi Plett

Canadian ice hockey player

#70

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#71

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

#72

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#73

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#74

William Palmer

English doctor found guilty of murder

#75

William Prince

Canadian singer

#76

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#77

William Petit

American physician and politician

#78

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#79

Walter Pitts

American logician and computational neuroscientist

Walter #108

#80

Webb Pierce

#81

William Prince

American musician and actor

#82

Waylon Payne

#83

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#84

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#85

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#86

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#87

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#88

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#89

Wayde Preston

American actor and film producer

#90

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #125

#91

William Phipps

#92

Wally Palmar

British politician (1800-1879)

#93

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

#94

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#95

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#96

Wilson Raj Perumal

Singaporean criminal

#97

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#98

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#99

William Henry Perkin

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

#100

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#101

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#102

William Pereira

American architect

#103

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#104

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#105

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#106

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#107

Wout Poels

Dutch racing cyclist

#108

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#109

Willard E. Pugh

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#110

William Playfair

#111

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian (1928–2014)

#112

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#113

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#114

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#115

Wayne Pacelle

American activist

#116

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#117

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#118

Willie Pearse

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

#119

Wayne Péré

French actor

#120

William Paca

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

#121

Warren Petersen

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

#122

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#123

Wayne Pearce

Australian rugby league player and coach

#124

William Jackson Palmer

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

#125

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #180

#126

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#127

Woobens Pacius

Haitian-Canadian soccer player

#128

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#129

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

#130

Will Powers

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#131

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#132

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#133

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#134

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#135

Wagner Pina

#136

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#137

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#138

William Porteous

Australian land developer

#139

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#140

Wendy Powell

American actress

#141

Willard Parker

Canadian ice hockey player

#142

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#143

Wayne Primeau

#144

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#145

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#146

Walt Patulski

Player of American football

#147

Wilf Paiement

Canadian ice hockey player

#148

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#149

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#150

William de la Pole

British noble

#151

William Post

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#152

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#153

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#154

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#155

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#156

Will Patching

association football player

#157

Westbrook Pegler

American investigative journalist

#158

William Alexander Percy

American writer

#159

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#160

Walid Phares

American academic

#161

Will Perry

American basketball player (born 1994)

#162

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#163

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#164

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#165

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#166

Wehib Pasha

Ottoman general

#167

Will Penisini

Australian rugby league footballer

#168

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#169

Wolfgang Petry

German singer and songwriter

#170

Walter Piston

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#171

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#172

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#173

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#174

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#175

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#176

Woody Paul

#177

William R. Pogue

American astronaut

#178

Wojciech Pszoniak

Polish actor

#179

Waheed Para

Indian Politician

#180

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#181

Wolfgang Paalen

Austrian artist

#182

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

#183

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#184

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#185

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

#186

Winsome Pinnock

British writer

#187

Washington Phillips

#188

Wojciech Polak

Polish priest

#189

William Pope.L

American artist

#190

William Pennington

American politician

Anglo-Norman nobleman in Wales

#191

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#192

Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke

#193

Win Percy

British racing driver

#194

Willie Park

Professional golfer | golf course architect

#195

William Prunier

Footballer

#196

Wakefield Poole

American pornographic film director

#197

William Penney, Baron Penney

English mathematician and physicist