Famous people with the initials WP March 24, 2026

American actor (1892–1984)

William #34

William Powell

William #38

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

Trap House

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #54

#10

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#11

William Penn

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

William #59

#12

William Poole

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

William #63

#13

Will Peltz

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

In Time

#14

Walter Payton

Walter #11

#15

Wendy Playfair

Australian actress

#16

William Luther Pierce

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

William #91 The Turner Diaries

#17

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#18

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#19

Will Proctor

American football player

#20

Witold Pilecki

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

#21

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#22

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #18

#23

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #118

#24

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #124

#25

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#26

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#27

Warren Platner

American architect (1919–2006)

#28

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#29

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#30

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#31

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

William #178

#32

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#33

Walter Parazaider

Walter #30

#34

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

Australian rugby league player

#35

Willie Peters

#36

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#37

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#38

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#39

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#40

Will Payne

British actor

#41

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#42

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#43

Wolé Parks

Cinematographer | film director

#44

William Prince

Canadian singer

#45

William David Powell

screenwriter

#46

Wally Pfister

#47

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#48

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#49

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

#50

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#51

Wally Pipp

American baseball player

#52

William Packer

American film producer

#53

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#54

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #74

#55

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#56

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#57

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#58

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#59

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#60

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#61

Wendy Phillips

American actress

I Am Sam

#62

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#63

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #91

#64

William Proxmire

American politician

#65

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#66

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#67

Wallace Potts

American film director

#68

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#69

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#70

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#71

William Penn

English admiral and politician

William #59

#72

William Prince

#73

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#74

Webb Pierce

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#75

Wendell Phillips

#76

William Petit

American physician and politician

#77

Walter Pitts

American logician and computational neuroscientist

Walter #114

#78

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#79

William S. Pye

United States admiral

#80

Wally Palmar

#81

Wayde Preston

Fijian rugby union player

#82

Wayne Pivac

#83

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#84

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#85

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#86

Willard E. Pugh

English doctor found guilty of murder

#87

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#88

William Palmer

#89

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#90

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#91

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#92

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#93

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#94

Walid Phares

American academic

#95

Wanda Perdelwitz

German actress (1984–2025)

#96

Wendi Peters

British actress

#97

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #144

#98

Warren Petersen

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

#99

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#100

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#101

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#102

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#103

Woobens Pacius

Haitian-Canadian soccer player

#104

William Henry Perkin

English chemist

#105

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#106

Wayne Perkins

English rugby league footballer

#107

William Pereira

American architect

#108

Will Pryce

#109

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#110

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#111

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#112

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#113

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#114

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#115

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#116

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#117

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#118

Wayne Péré

French actor

#119

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#120

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#121

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

British politician (1800-1879)

#122

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#123

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#124

William Paterson

Scottish trader and banker

#125

Waylon Payne

American musician and actor

#126

William Prynne

English lawyer | author | polemicist | and political figure

#127

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#128

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#129

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian

#130

Willi Plett

Canadian ice hockey player

#131

William Jackson Palmer

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

#132

William de la Pole

British noble

#133

Willard Parker

American sports columnist

#134

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#135

Woody Paige

#136

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#137

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#138

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#139

William Paca

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

#140

William Pitt

American singer

#141

William Pleeth

British musician

#142

Will Penisini

Australian rugby league footballer

#143

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#144

Wendy Powell

American actress

#145

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#146

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

#147

Willie Preston

American politician

#148

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#149

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#150

Wesley Plaisier

Dutch darts player

#151

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#152

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#153

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

Canadian ice hockey player

#154

Wilf Paiement

#155

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#156

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#157

Will Powers

Australian rugby league player and coach

#158

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#159

Wayne Pearce

#160

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#161

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#162

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#163

Whitney Peyton

American Hip Hop Artist

#164

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#165

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#166

William de la Pole

British judge and private banker

#167

Wil Parker

Australian cricketer

#168

Walter Paolella

Argentine football manager

#169

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#170

William Post

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#171

Westbrook Pegler

American investigative journalist

#172

Wayne M. Perry

American businessman

#173

Walter E. Piatt

American Army military and executive

#174

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#175

William Pinckney

American sailor

#176

Washington Phillips

American football player (born 2000)

#177

William Williams Pantycelyn

Welsh hymnwriter

#178

Will Putnam

#179

Walter Hines Page

Journalist | publisher | diplomat

#180

William Pope.L

American artist

#181

William B. Purvis

African-American inventor (1838–1914)

#182

Warren Peace

British singer

#183

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#184

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#185

Walter Piston

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#186

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#187

Wagner Pina

#188

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#189

Wehib Pasha

Ottoman general

#190

Walter Plunkett

American costume designer

#191

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#192

William Parker

musician

#193

Wayne Pacelle

American activist

#194

Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy

Malaysian politician

#195

Wally Patch

comedian and television actor from Britain

#196

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#197

Walter Powers