Famous people with the initials WP August 7, 2026

Ecuadorian association football player

Willian Pacho

Wendell Pierce

American actor and businessman

Superman

Walter Parazaider

American woodwind musician (1945–2026)

Walter #1

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #17

Will Patton

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

Armageddon

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

William #22

#10

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#11

William Petersen

German film director (1941–2022)

William #31 Manhunter

#12

Wolfgang Petersen

#13

William Penn

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

American actor (1892–1984)

#14

William Powell

William #47

#15

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

#16

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #51

#17

Walter Payton

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

Walter #13

#18

William Luther Pierce

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

William #79 The Turner Diaries

#19

Warren Petersen

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

#20

William Poole

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

William #82

#21

Will Pulisic

American soccer goalkeeper

#22

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #20

#23

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#24

Witold Pilecki

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

#25

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#26

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#27

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#28

Will Proctor

American football player

#29

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #126

#30

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#31

Wolfgang Paul

German footballer

#32

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#33

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#34

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#35

William Petit

American physician and politician

William #188

#36

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

William #189

#37

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#38

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

British politician

William #198

#39

William Poon

British chef

William #200

#40

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#41

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#42

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#43

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#44

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#45

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#46

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#47

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#48

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#49

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#50

Will Payne

British actor

#51

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#52

Wally Pipp

American baseball player (1893–1965)

#53

William Paca

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

#54

William Proxmire

American politician

#55

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#56

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#57

Wolé Parks

English admiral and politician

#58

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#59

William Penn

American record producer and guitarist

#60

William David Powell

screenwriter

#61

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#62

Will Putney

#63

Wendy Phillips

American actress

#64

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#65

Wilson Raj Perumal

Singaporean criminal

#66

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #84

#67

Woodrow Parfrey

American film and television actor

#68

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#69

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#70

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#71

William Packer

American film producer

#72

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#73

William Prince

Canadian singer

#74

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#75

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#76

Webb Pierce

#77

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#78

Wayde Preston

American basketball player

#79

Wallace Potts

American film director

#80

Will Perdue

#81

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#82

Wilguens Paugain

French association football player

#83

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#84

Wally Palmar

American logician and computational neuroscientist

#85

Walter Pitts

Walter #119

#86

William Prince

American fashion designer

#87

Wendy Pepper

#88

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#89

William Palmer

English doctor found guilty of murder

#90

Wayne Perkins

British politician (1800-1879)

#91

Wilson da Silva Piazza

Brazilian footballer

#92

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

#93

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#94

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#95

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#96

Woodensky Pierre

Haitian footballer (born 2004)

#97

Willard Parker

American musician and actor

#98

Waylon Payne

#99

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #138

#100

Willard E. Pugh

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#101

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#102

William Phips

#103

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#104

William Pereira

American architect

#105

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#106

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#107

Wendi Peters

British actress

#108

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#109

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#110

Waldir Peres

Brazilian footballer and manager (1951-2017)

#111

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#112

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#113

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#114

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#115

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #154

#116

Waldemar Podolski

Polish association football player

#117

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#118

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#119

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#120

Woody Paul

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

#121

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#122

William Henry Perkin

#123

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#124

William P. Pollock

American politician

#125

William Pope.L

American artist

#126

Wayne Péré

French actor

#127

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#128

Wayne Pearce

Australian rugby league player and coach

#129

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#130

William Jackson Palmer

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

#131

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#132

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#133

William Porteous

Australian land developer

#134

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#135

Wakefield Poole

American pornographic film director

#136

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#137

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#138

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#139

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian (1928–2014)

#140

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#141

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#142

Wendy Powell

American actress

#143

Willi Plett

Canadian ice hockey player

#144

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#145

Willian Popp

Brazilian footballer

#146

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#147

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#148

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#149

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#150

William de la Pole

British noble

#151

Wayne M. Perry

American businessman

#152

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#153

William Penn

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

American basketball player

#154

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

British politician

#155

Wesley Person

#156

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#157

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#158

Will Powers

German singer and songwriter

#159

William Phillips

British Army general

#160

Wolfgang Petry

#161

W. W. Phelps

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

#162

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#163

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#164

William Alexander Percy

American writer

#165

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#166

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#167

Westbrook Pegler

American investigative journalist

#168

Woobens Pacius

Haitian-Canadian soccer player

#169

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#170

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#171

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#172

Walter Powers

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#173

William Post

#174

Wolfgang Paalen

Austrian artist

#175

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#176

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#177

Washington Phillips

South African-British writer

#178

Walid Phares

American academic

#179

William Pepperrell

British Army general

#180

William Plomer

#181

William S. Pye

United States admiral

#182

Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

humanitarian | reformer | animal rights advocate

#183

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#184

Walter Piston

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#185

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

British politician

#186

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#187

William Penney, Baron Penney

English mathematician and physicist