Famous people with the initials WP February 2, 2026

American actor (1892–1984)

William Powell

William #14

Wendell Pierce

American actor and businessman

Superman

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

German Crown Prince (1882-1951)

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #26

#10

William Petersen

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

William #30

#11

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

William #45

#12

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#13

William Poole

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

William #55

#14

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #10

#15

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#16

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#17

William Penn

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

American television executive

#18

William S. Paley

William #81

#19

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#20

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#21

William Luther Pierce

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

William #85 The Turner Diaries

#22

Witold Pilecki

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

#23

Will Payne

British actor

#24

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#25

William David Powell

screenwriter

William #128

#26

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#27

Wesley Plaisier

Dutch darts player

#28

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#29

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#30

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#31

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#32

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#33

Will Proctor

American football player

#34

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#35

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

#36

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#37

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#38

Wally Pipp

American baseball player

#39

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#40

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

Cinematographer | film director

#41

Wally Pfister

#42

Walter Parazaider

American gridiron football player; running back

Walter #51

#43

Willie Parker

#44

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#45

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

#46

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#47

William IX, Count of Poitiers

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

#48

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#49

William Petit

American physician and politician

#50

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#51

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#52

Wendy Phillips

American actress

I Am Sam

#53

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#54

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#55

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#56

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#57

William Prince

#58

Wolé Parks

Diplomat | public administrator | viceroy

#59

William Packer

American film producer

#60

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

#61

Wallace Potts

American film director

#62

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#63

Wiley Post

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#64

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#65

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #79

#66

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#67

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#68

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#69

William Proxmire

American politician

#70

Warren Platner

American architect (1919–2006)

#71

William Prince

Canadian singer

#72

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#73

Wayne Parnell

South African cricket player

#74

William Penn

English admiral and politician

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#75

Wilder Penfield

#76

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#77

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#78

Wayne Perkins

American film and television actor

#79

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#80

Woodrow Parfrey

#81

Wendell Phillips

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#82

Wally Palmar

#83

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#84

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#85

Webb Pierce

American fashion designer

#86

Wendy Pepper

#87

Wendi Peters

British actress

#88

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #119

#89

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#90

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#91

Willard E. Pugh

English doctor found guilty of murder

#92

William Palmer

#93

Wayde Preston

American logician and computational neuroscientist

#94

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#95

Walter Pitts

Walter #129

#96

William Paterson

Scottish trader and banker

#97

William Price

Welsh physician | born 1800

#98

Wayne Péré

French actor

#99

William Prynne

English lawyer | author | polemicist | and political figure

#100

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#101

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#102

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#103

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#104

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#105

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#106

Wilber Pan

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#107

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#108

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#109

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #150

#110

William Pereira

American architect

#111

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#112

William Henry Perkin

English chemist

#113

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#114

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#115

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#116

Walter E. Piatt

American Army military and executive

Walter #168

#117

Walid Phares

American academic

#118

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#119

Willi Plett

#120

Wilf Paiement

American historian and Hispanist

#121

William Hickling Prescott

#122

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#123

Warren Peace

British singer

#124

William Prunier

Footballer

#125

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian

#126

William Jackson Palmer

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

#127

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#128

Warren Petersen

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

#129

Waylon Payne

American musician and actor

#130

Will Patching

association football player

#131

Wayne M. Perry

American businessman

#132

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#133

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#134

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#135

William de la Pole

British noble

#136

Wayne B. Phillips

cricketer

#137

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#138

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

British politician (1800-1879)

#139

Wendy Powell

American actress

#140

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#141

Willard Parker

American basketball player

#142

Wesley Person

#143

William Post

American businessman and inventor of Pop-Tarts

#144

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#145

William de la Pole

British judge and private banker

#146

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#147

William Wain Prior

Danish general

#148

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#149

William Paca

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

#150

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#151

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#152

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#153

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#154

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#155

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#156

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#157

Will Powers

Australian land developer

#158

William Porteous

#159

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

#160

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

American football player (born 2000)

#161

Waite Phillips

American businessman

#162

Will Putnam

#163

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#164

Wolfgang Petry

German singer and songwriter

#165

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#166

Walter Paepcke

American businessman

#167

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#168

William E. Peterson

American politician

#169

Wendy Petrie

New Zealand television presenter

#170

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

Player of American football

#171

Walt Patulski

#172

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#173

Walter Piston

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#174

William Parker

musician

#175

Will Pulisic

American soccer goalkeeper

#176

Werner Peters

actor

#177

William Penney, Baron Penney

English mathematician and physicist

#178

Washington Phillips

American investigative journalist

#179

Westbrook Pegler

#180

W.E.W. Petter

British aircraft designer

#181

William Alexander Percy

American writer

#182

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#183

Wayne Pinnock

Jamaican athlete

#184

William Poromaa

Swedish cross-country skier

#185

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#186

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#187

Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

humanitarian | reformer | animal rights advocate

#188

Wanda Perdelwitz

German actress (1984–2025)

#189

William Penn

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

#190

Wayne Primeau

#191

William Barclay Parsons

American civil engineer

#192

Walt Poddubny

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

#193

Willie Pearse

#194

Waldo Peirce

American artist

#195

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#196

Walter Hines Page

Journalist | publisher | diplomat

#197

Waldemar Pawlak

Polish politician

#198

Woody Paul

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

#199

W. W. Phelps

#200

Walter Powers