Famous people with the initials WP December 18, 2025 to January 7, 2026

American actor (1892–1984)

William Powell

William #16

Will Patton

American actor and businessman

Armageddon

Wendell Pierce

Superman

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #24

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #34

#10

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#11

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#12

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

William #46

#13

William Poole

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

William #49

#14

William Petersen

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

William #59

#15

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

#16

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#17

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#18

William Penn

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

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

#19

William Luther Pierce

William #98 The Turner Diaries

#20

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#21

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#22

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#23

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #23

#24

Witold Pilecki

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

#25

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#26

William David Powell

screenwriter

William #129

#27

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#28

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #175

#29

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#30

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#31

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#32

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#33

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#34

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

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

#35

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#36

William IX, Count of Poitiers

#37

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#38

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#39

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#40

Will Proctor

American football player

#41

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#42

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#43

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#44

William Petit

American physician and politician

#45

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#46

Walter Parazaider

American gridiron football player; running back

Walter #56

#47

Willie Parker

#48

Wayne Perkins

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#49

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

#50

William Dudley Pelley

#51

William Packer

American film producer

#52

Wally Pipp

American baseball player

#53

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#54

Wendy Phillips

American actress

#55

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#56

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#57

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#58

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#59

Wallace Potts

American film director

#60

Wolé Parks

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

#61

Walter Pater

Walter #84

#62

Will Payne

British actor

#63

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#64

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#65

William Proxmire

American politician

#66

William Prince

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#67

William H. Pitsenbarger

#68

William Penn

English admiral and politician

South African cricket player

#69

Wayne Parnell

#70

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#71

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#72

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#73

Warren Platner

American architect (1919–2006)

#74

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#75

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#76

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#77

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#78

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#79

William Prince

Canadian singer

#80

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#81

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#82

Wendi Peters

British actress

#83

Wayne B. Phillips

cricketer

#84

Wally Palmar

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#85

Wilder Penfield

#86

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#87

William Palmer

English doctor found guilty of murder

#88

Webb Pierce

American fashion designer

#89

Wendy Pepper

#90

William Paterson

Scottish trader and banker

#91

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #121

#92

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#93

Walter E. Piatt

American Army military and executive

Walter #128

#94

Willard E. Pugh

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#95

William Pynchon

#96

Walter Pitts

American logician and computational neuroscientist

Walter #139

#97

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#98

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#99

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#100

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#101

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#102

Will Pulisic

American soccer goalkeeper

#103

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#104

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#105

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#106

Wayne Péré

French actor

#107

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#108

Wayde Preston

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#109

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#110

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

#111

William Pereira

American architect

#112

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#113

William Henry Perkin

English chemist

#114

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#115

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#116

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#117

William Jackson Palmer

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

#118

William B. Purvis

African-American inventor (1838–1914)

#119

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#120

Wayne M. Perry

American musician and actor

#121

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #171

#122

Waylon Payne

#123

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#124

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#125

William Prunier

Footballer

#126

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#127

Wilf Paiement

Canadian ice hockey player

#128

Wanda Perdelwitz

German actress (1984–2025)

#129

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#130

William de la Pole

British judge and private banker

#131

Willi Plett

Canadian ice hockey player

#132

William Prynne

English lawyer | author | polemicist | and political figure

#133

Willard Parker

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

#134

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian

#135

William Paca

#136

William de la Pole

British noble

#137

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#138

William Post

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#139

Wendy Powell

American actress

#140

Werner Peters

actor

#141

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

British politician (1800-1879)

#142

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#143

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#144

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#145

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#146

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#147

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#148

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#149

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#150

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#151

Waite Phillips

#152

Woody Paul

German singer and songwriter

#153

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#154

Wolfgang Petry

#155

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#156

Walid Phares

American academic

#157

William Porteous

Australian land developer

#158

William Penney, Baron Penney

English mathematician and physicist

#159

Will Powers

American football player (born 2000)

#160

Will Putnam

#161

Warren Peace

British singer

#162

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#163

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#164

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#165

Wagner Pina

#166

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#167

William D. Porter

United States Navy officer

#168

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#169

Walter Paepcke

American investigative journalist

#170

William Wain Prior

Danish general

#171

Westbrook Pegler

#172

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

Player of American football

#173

Walt Patulski

#174

Will Parks

American football safety

#175

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#176

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#177

Waheed Para

Indian Politician

#178

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#179

William R. Peers

United States general

#180

Warren Petersen

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

#181

William S. Pye

United States admiral

#182

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

British aircraft designer

#183

Wehib Pasha

Ottoman general

#184

W.E.W. Petter

#185

William Penn

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

#186

William Peters

American journalist

#187

William D. Pawley

American diplomat

#188

William Alexander Percy

American writer

#189

Washington Phillips

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#190

Waldo Peirce

American artist

#191

William Perkins

#192

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#193

Whitney Paul

American football player

#194

William Parker

musician

#195

William Peel

Royal Navy officer

#196

Wendy Petrie

New Zealand television presenter

#197

William Penn Patrick