Famous people with the initials WP August 18, 2026

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

Armageddon

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

William #17

William Petersen

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

William #27 Manhunter

Winston Peters

William Powell

American actor (1892–1984)

William #32

#10

Walter Payton

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

Walter #11

#11

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#12

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#13

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #52

#14

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #12

#15

William Poole

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

William #61

#16

William Luther Pierce

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

William #66 The Turner Diaries

#17

William Penn

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

William #68

#18

Will Peltz

American football player (born 1962)

#19

William Perry

William #86

#20

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#21

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#22

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#23

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#24

Witold Pilecki

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

#25

Walter Parazaider

American woodwind musician (1945–2026)

Walter #21

#26

Wendi Peters

British actress

#27

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

William #120

#28

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #125

#29

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#30

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#31

Willa Beatrice Player

educator | government official | consultant

#32

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#33

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#34

Warren Petersen

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

#35

William Petit

American physician and politician

William #167

#36

Will Proctor

American football player

#37

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

British politician

William #176

#38

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#39

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

William #185

#40

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#41

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#42

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#43

Wally Palmar

American baseball player (1893–1965)

#44

Wally Pipp

#45

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#46

William Packer

American film producer

#47

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#48

Will Payne

British actor

#49

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#50

Wictor Petersson

Swedish shot putter

#51

William Proxmire

American politician

#52

William David Powell

screenwriter

#53

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#54

Wolé Parks

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#55

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#56

William H. Parker

#57

Will Putney

American record producer and guitarist

#58

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#59

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#60

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#61

William Palmer

English doctor found guilty of murder

#62

Wendy Phillips

American actress

#63

William Prince

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#64

William H. Pitsenbarger

#65

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#66

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #80

#67

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#68

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#69

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#70

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#71

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #86

#72

Waylon Payne

American musician and actor

#73

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#74

Wallace Potts

American film director

#75

William Penn

English admiral and politician

William #68

#76

Webb Pierce

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#77

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#78

Wintley Phipps

#79

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#80

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#81

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#82

William Prince

Canadian singer

#83

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#84

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#85

Wayde Preston

#86

Willard E. Pugh

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#87

Wendell Phillips

#88

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#89

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#90

Willie Joe Padden

Gaelic footballer

#91

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#92

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#93

Walter Pitts

American logician and computational neuroscientist

Walter #114

#94

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#95

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#96

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#97

Willard Parker

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#98

William Playfair

#99

Wayne Perkins

English mathematician and physicist

#100

William Petric

Australian swimmer

#101

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#102

Wayne Péré

French actor

#103

William Penney, Baron Penney

William #68

#104

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#105

W. W. Phelps

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

#106

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #135

#107

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#108

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#109

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#110

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#111

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#112

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#113

William Pereira

American architect

#114

Wayne Pearce

Australian rugby league player and coach

#115

William Porteous

Australian land developer

#116

Wout Poels

Dutch racing cyclist

#117

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#118

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#119

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#120

Wilson Raj Perumal

Singaporean criminal

#121

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#122

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#123

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

British politician (1800-1879)

#124

Wendy van der Plank

English actress

#125

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#126

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#127

Waite Phillips

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

#128

William Jackson Palmer

#129

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#130

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#131

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#132

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian (1928–2014)

#133

William Paca

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

#134

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#135

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#136

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#137

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#138

William Henry Perkin

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

#139

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#140

Will Pulisic

American soccer goalkeeper

#141

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#142

Waldemar Podolski

Polish association football player

#143

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#144

Wolfgang Pickert

German General and Knight's Cross recipients

#145

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#146

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#147

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#148

Wesley Plaisier

Dutch darts player

#149

Wendy Powell

American actress

#150

Will Pryce

English rugby league footballer

#151

Waheed Para

Indian Politician

#152

Wally Patch

comedian and television actor from Britain

#153

Woobens Pacius

Haitian-Canadian soccer player

#154

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#155

William de la Pole

British noble

#156

Walter Powers

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#157

William Perkins

#158

Willie Park

Professional golfer | golf course architect

#159

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#160

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#161

Wilson da Silva Piazza

Brazilian footballer

#162

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#163

William Pope.L

American artist

#164

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#165

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#166

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#167

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

British politician

#168

Woodensky Pierre

Haitian footballer (born 2004)

#169

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#170

Will Powers

American basketball player

#171

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#172

William Alexander Percy

American writer

#173

Wesley Person

#174

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#175

Waldir Peres

Brazilian footballer and manager (1951-2017)

#176

Wayne M. Perry

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#177

Wayne Pinnock

Jamaican athlete

#178

William Parker

musician

#179

William du Pont

#180

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#181

Will Penisini

Australian rugby league footballer

#182

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#183

Walid Phares

American academic

#184

Washington Phillips

#185

Woody Paul

#186

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#187

Walter Paepcke

#188

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#189

William Perez