Famous people with the initials WP August 21, 2025 to September 10, 2025

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

The Client

Walter Payton

Walter #2

William Powell

American actor (1892–1984)

William #29

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #38

William Petersen

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

William #43 Detachment

William Penn

William #48

#10

Will Peltz

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

#11

William Poole

William #65

#12

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#13

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman

William #73

#14

William Luther Pierce

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

William #77 The Turner Diaries

#15

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#16

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #81

#17

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#18

Will Proctor

American football player

#19

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#20

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#21

Witold Pilecki

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

#22

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #15

#23

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#24

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#25

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#26

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#27

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#28

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#29

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #184

#30

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#31

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

William #193

#32

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#33

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#34

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

#35

Walter Parazaider

Southern philosophical novelist

Walter #39

#36

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#37

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#38

Wally Pipp

American baseball player

#39

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#40

Walker Percy

#41

William David Powell

screenwriter

#42

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#43

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#44

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

#45

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#46

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#47

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#48

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#49

Wendy Phillips

American actress

I Am Sam

#50

William Packer

American film producer

#51

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#52

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#53

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#54

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#55

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#56

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#57

Wolé Parks

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

#58

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#59

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #84

#60

Will Payne

British actor

#61

Walter Pater

Walter #86

#62

William Penn

English admiral and politician

William #48

#63

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#64

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#65

William Proxmire

American politician

#66

Webb Pierce

American logician and computational neuroscientist

#67

Walter Pitts

Walter #102

#68

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#69

Wayde Preston

#70

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#71

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#72

Willard E. Pugh

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

The Color Purple

#73

Wendell Phillips

#74

William Prince

American physician and politician

#75

William Petit

#76

Will Perdue

English doctor found guilty of murder

#77

William Palmer

#78

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#79

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#80

Wil Parker

Australian cricketer

#81

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#82

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#83

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#84

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#85

William Prince

Canadian singer

#86

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#87

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#88

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#89

Willi Plett

Canadian ice hockey player

#90

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#91

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#92

Waylon Payne

American musician and actor

#93

William Henry Perkin

English chemist

#94

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#95

Walt Piatkowski

American football player (born 2000)

#96

Will Putnam

#97

Wally Palmar

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#98

William Petty

#99

Wendi Peters

British actress

#100

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#101

William Pereira

American architect

#102

Wayne Péré

French actor

#103

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#104

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#105

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#106

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#107

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#108

William Jackson Palmer

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

#109

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#110

Wynne Prakusya

Indonesian tennis player

#111

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#112

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#113

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #164

#114

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#115

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#116

Will Penisini

Australian rugby league footballer

#117

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#118

Walter E. Piatt

American Army military and executive

Walter #166

#119

Whatumoana Paki

Maori elder royal

#120

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#121

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#122

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#123

Wayne Pinnock

Jamaican athlete

#124

Wout Poels

Dutch racing cyclist

#125

Willard Parker

British politician (1800-1879)

#126

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

#127

William Prynne

English lawyer | author | polemicist | and political figure

#128

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#129

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian

#130

Wayne Perkins

#131

Wagner Prado

mixed martial artist

#132

Walter Perez

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

Walter #183 The Avengers

#133

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

#134

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#135

Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy

Malaysian politician

#136

William Paca

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

#137

Wayne Pearce

Australian rugby league player and coach

#138

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#139

Warren Petersen

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

#140

William R. Peers

United States general

#141

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#142

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#143

Wendy Powell

American actress

#144

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#145

William de la Pole

British noble

#146

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

Scottish trader and banker

#147

William Paterson

#148

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#149

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#150

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#151

W. W. Phelps

Leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

#152

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#153

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#154

Will Powers

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#155

William Pierson

#156

William Alexander Percy

American writer

#157

Waheed Para

Indian Politician

#158

Wictor Petersson

Swedish shot putter

#159

Wooga Poplar

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#160

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#161

Wesley Person

#162

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#163

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

Journalist | publisher | diplomat

#164

Warren Platner

American architect

#165

Walter Hines Page

#166

Wally Patch

comedian and television actor from Britain

#167

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#168

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#169

William Prunier

Footballer

#170

Woody Paul

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

#171

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#172

Wilson Raj Perumal

Singaporean criminal

#173

Willie Preston

American politician

#174

William Penn

William #48

#175

Willie Pearse

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

#176

Walter Piston

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#177

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#178

Westbrook Pegler

American investigative journalist

#179

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#180

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#181

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#182

William Plotnikov

Canadian-Russian boxer

#183

Willie Pettigrew

Scottish footballer (born 1953)

#184

Will Pulisic

American soccer goalkeeper

#185

White Panda

American DJ | remixer; solo artist since 2018-06

#186

Wolfgang Petry

German singer and songwriter

#187

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

Canadian ice hockey player

#188

Warren Peace

British singer

#189

William S. Pye

United States admiral

#190

William Pleeth

British musician

#191

Wilf Paiement

#192

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#193

Walter Pringle

New Zealand rugby union player

#194

William Pitt

American singer

#195

Waldir Peres

Brazilian footballer and manager (1951-2017)

#196

Wehib Pasha

Ottoman general

#197

Wojciech Polak

Polish priest

#198

William Perez

American businessman

#199

Washington Phillips