Famous people with the initials WP March 4, 2026

William #24 Manhunter

Will Peltz

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

William #26

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #30

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#10

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #42

#11

William Poole

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

William #57

#12

William Powell

American actor (1892–1984)

William #64

#13

William Penn

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

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#14

Wolfgang Puck

#15

William Luther Pierce

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

William #94 The Turner Diaries

#16

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#17

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#18

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#19

Witold Pilecki

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

#20

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #19

#21

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#22

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#23

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #137

#24

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#25

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#26

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#27

Will Payne

British actor

#28

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#29

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#30

Will Proctor

American football player

#31

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#32

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

#33

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#34

Wolé Parks

Southern philosophical novelist

#35

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#36

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#37

Walker Percy

#38

Walter Parazaider

Australian racecar driver

Walter #46

#39

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

#40

Will Power

#41

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#42

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#43

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#44

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#45

Wally Pipp

American baseball player

#46

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#47

William Poromaa

Swedish cross-country skier

#48

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#49

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#50

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#51

William Proxmire

American politician

#52

Will Pryce

English rugby league footballer

#53

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#54

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#55

Wallace Potts

American film director

#56

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#57

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#58

Warren Platner

American architect (1919–2006)

#59

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #82

#60

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #83

#61

William Packer

American film producer

#62

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#63

William Prince

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#64

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#65

Wolfgang Pichler

German biathlon trainer

#66

Wintley Phipps

#67

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#68

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#69

William David Powell

screenwriter

#70

Wendy Phillips

American actress

#71

William B. Purvis

African-American inventor (1838–1914)

#72

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#73

Ward Pétré

Belgian speed skater

#74

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#75

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#76

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#77

Willard E. Pugh

English admiral and politician

The Color Purple

#78

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#79

William Penn

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#80

Wendell Phillips

#81

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#82

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#83

William Prince

Canadian singer

#84

William Petit

American physician and politician

#85

Webb Pierce

American logician and computational neuroscientist

#86

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#87

Walter Pitts

Walter #114

#88

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#89

William Palmer

English doctor found guilty of murder

#90

Wally Palmar

American actor and film producer

#91

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#92

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#93

William Phipps

#94

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#95

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#96

Wendi Peters

British actress

#97

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#98

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #138

#99

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#100

Wayde Preston

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#101

William Paley

#102

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#103

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#104

William Porterfield

cricketer

#105

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#106

Waheed Para

Indian Politician

#107

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#108

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#109

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#110

Wayne Péré

French actor

#111

William Prunier

Footballer

#112

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#113

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#114

Wayne Perkins

American historian and Hispanist

#115

William Hickling Prescott

#116

William Pereira

American architect

#117

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#118

William Henry Perkin

English chemist

#119

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#120

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#121

William Prynne

English lawyer | author | polemicist | and political figure

#122

Warren Petersen

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

#123

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#124

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian

#125

William Paterson

Scottish trader and banker

#126

William Potts

Inventor of modern traffic light

#127

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#128

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#129

William Jackson Palmer

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

#130

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#131

Willard Parker

American musician and actor

#132

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#133

Waylon Payne

#134

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#135

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#136

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#137

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#138

Willi Plett

Canadian ice hockey player

#139

William Paca

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

#140

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#141

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#142

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#143

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

#144

Will Powers

British politician (1800-1879)

#145

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

#146

Wilf Paiement

Canadian ice hockey player

#147

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#148

Westbrook Pegler

American investigative journalist

#149

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#150

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#151

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#152

William Post

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#153

William de la Pole

British noble

#154

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#155

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#156

Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy

Malaysian politician

#157

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#158

Wendy Powell

American actress

#159

Wayne Pivac

Fijian rugby union player

#160

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#161

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#162

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#163

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#164

Wayne M. Perry

American businessman

#165

Walid Phares

American academic

#166

Washington Phillips

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#167

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#168

William Pynchon

#169

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#170

Wesley Plaisier

Dutch darts player

#171

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#172

Warren Peace

British singer

#173

Wolfgang Petry

German singer and songwriter

#174

Walter Paepcke

American businessman

#175

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#176

Walter Piston

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#177

Wayne Pacelle

American activist

#178

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#179

Walter E. Piatt

American Army military and executive

#180

Willie Pearse

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

#181

Winifred Phillips

American composer

#182

William Pope.L

American artist

#183

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

Journalist | publisher | diplomat

#184

William Williams Pantycelyn

Welsh hymnwriter

#185

Walter Hines Page

#186

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#187

Woody Paul

English mathematician and physicist

#188

William Penney, Baron Penney

#189

William S. Pye

United States admiral

#190

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

British judge and private banker

#191

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#192

Willie Preston

American politician

#193

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#194

William de la Pole

#195

William Platt

British Army General

#196

Wolfgang Paalen

Austrian artist

#197

Wojciech Pszoniak

Polish actor

#198

William Penn

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