Famous people with the initials WP September 25, 2025 to October 15, 2025

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

Remember the Titans

Walter Payton

Walter #7

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

William #34

William Petersen

German Crown Prince (1882–1951)

William #44

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

William #47

#10

Winston Peters

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

#11

William Poole

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

William #49

#12

William Penn

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

#13

William Henry Perkin

English chemist

William #67

#14

Will Peltz

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

#15

William Luther Pierce

William #74 The Turner Diaries

#16

Walter Pidgeon

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

Walter #17

#17

Willian Pacho

Ecuadorian association football player

#18

William Powell

American actor (1892–1984)

William #80

#19

Whitney Peak

Ugandan-Canadian actress

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

#20

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

William #92

#21

Willie Peters

Australian rugby league player

#22

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

William #100

#23

Witold Pilecki

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

#24

Wolfgang Puck

Austrian-American chef and restaurateur

#25

Wolfgang Petersen

German film director

#26

Wilson Pickett

American singer and songwriter (1941-2006)

#27

Wade Phillips

American football coach

#28

William S. Paley

American television executive

William #147

#29

Wolfgang Pauli

physicist | Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

#30

Will Proctor

American football player

#31

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

William #183

#32

Whitney Port

American fashion designer

#33

Wolfgang Porsche

Austrian businessman

#34

Władysław III of Poland

King of Poland and Hungary

#35

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

South African cricket player

#36

Wally Pipp

American baseball player

#37

Wayne Parnell

#38

Wendy Pepper

American fashion designer

#39

Walker Percy

Southern philosophical novelist

#40

Wu Peifu

Chinese general

#41

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

#42

Wan Peng

Chinese actress

#43

Willow Pill

American drag queen

#44

Will Power

Australian racecar driver

#45

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

#46

William Packer

American film producer

#47

Wally Pfister

Cinematographer | film director

#48

Wendy Phillips

American actress

I Am Sam

#49

Walter Parazaider

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

Walter #65

#50

William IX, Count of Poitiers

#51

William Penn Patrick

American aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world

#52

William Wesley Peters

American architect

#53

Wiley Post

#54

Willie Parker

American gridiron football player; running back

#55

William H. Parker

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#56

Willie Pep

Italian-American boxer

#57

Wes Phillips

American football player and coach (born 1979)

#58

William Petit

American physician and politician

#59

William Proxmire

American politician

#60

Wilhelm Pfänder

German politician

#61

Walter Pater

Essayist |art and literature critic | fiction writer

Walter #86

#62

Wolfgang Přiklopil

Austrian kidnapper

#63

Wilfred Pickles

British actor

#64

William Prince

Canadian singer

#65

Will Payne

British actor

#66

Wilder Penfield

Canadian neurosurgeon | college football player and coach

#67

William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket

#68

Wendy Padbury

British actress

#69

Wesley Ira Purkey

American murderer

#70

Wayne M. Perry

#71

Wolé Parks

American abolitionist | advocate for Native Americans | orator and lawyer

#72

Wendell Phillips

#73

William Phips

First royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

#74

William Penn

English admiral and politician

American film and television actor

#75

Woodrow Parfrey

#76

William Prince

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#77

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet

#78

William David Powell

screenwriter

#79

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

#80

Wayde Preston

English doctor found guilty of murder

#81

William Prescott

Continental army soldier

#82

William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#83

William Palmer

#84

William Paley

Christian apologist | natural theologian | utilitarian

#85

Wolfgang Preiss

actor

#86

Wilson Palacios

Honduran footballer

#87

Waldemar Pabst

Prussian soldier

#88

Wesley Pipes

American pornographic actor

#89

William Paterson

Governor of New Jersey

#90

Wayne Pygram

Australian actor

#91

Webb Pierce

#92

Waris Pathan

Indian politician

#93

Wayne Perkins

American logician and computational neuroscientist

#94

Wolfgang Paul

German physicist

#95

Walter Pitts

Walter #131

#96

Will Perdue

American basketball player

#97

William Playfair

British mathematician | engineer and political economist

#98

Waylon Payne

American musician and actor

#99

Wally Palmar

English lawyer | author | polemicist | and political figure

#100

William Prynne

#101

Willard E. Pugh

Taiwanese-American singer | actor and entrepreneur

#102

Wilber Pan

#103

Wasiu Alabi Pasuma

Nigerian actor

#104

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield | Massachusetts

#105

William Petty

English scientist | philosopher | statistician and economist

#106

Wes Parker

American baseball player

#107

William Phipps

American actor and film producer

#108

William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

British peer and Lord Chamberlain from 2006 to 2021

#109

Whitney Peyton

American Hip Hop Artist

#110

Walter Pandiani

Uruguayan footballer

Walter #156

#111

William Daniel Phillips

American scientist

#112

William Pereira

American architect

#113

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

Irish shipbuilder

#114

Wagner Pina

Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)

#115

Weslley Patati

Brazilian footballer

#116

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English peer of the 15th century

#117

Wayne Péré

French actor

#118

William Hickling Prescott

American historian and Hispanist

#119

Wintley Phipps

Trinidad and Tobago musician

#120

Walter Ashby Plecker

American physician

Walter #178

#121

Will Pulisic

American soccer goalkeeper

#122

Waldemar Podolski

Polish association football player

#123

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#124

Wendy van der Plank

English actress

#125

Woody Paige

American sports columnist

#126

Wendi Peters

British actress

#127

William Jackson Palmer

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

#128

Wolfhart Pannenberg

German theologian

#129

Whilce Portacio

Comic artist

#130

Walid Phares

American academic

#131

William Paca

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

#132

William Sterling Parsons

American Naval officer

#133

William Penney, Baron Penney

English mathematician and physicist

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

#134

Wily Mo Peña

baseball player

#135

W. W. Phelps

#136

Will Pucovski

cricketer

#137

Wesley Person

American basketball player

#138

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel

British politician (1800-1879)

#139

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

#140

Werner Pinzner

German hired killer (1947-1986)

#141

William Paterson

Scottish trader and banker

#142

William Painter

American inventor

#143

Wayne Pearce

Australian rugby league player and coach

#144

William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

English Earl

#145

Werner Peters

actor

#146

Walter E. Piatt

American Army military and executive

#147

William du Pont

member of the Delaware Du Pont family

#148

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland

#149

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Dutch and English nobleman (1649-1709)

#150

Wayne Primeau

Canadian ice hockey player

#151

Willard Parker

#152

Will Powers

American investigative journalist

#153

Wendy Powell

American actress

#154

Westbrook Pegler

#155

William N. Pendleton

Confederate Army general

#156

William D. Pawley

American diplomat

#157

Warren Petersen

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

#158

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

English statesman

#159

William Ponsonby

British Army general

#160

Wolfgang Petry

German singer and songwriter

#161

Waite Phillips

Welsh physician | born 1800

#162

William Price

#163

Waller T. Patton

Confederate Army officer

#164

William Perkins

English cleric and Puritan theologian

#165

William Pierson

American television | motion picture and stage actor

#166

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland

#167

Will Palmer

British racing driver

#168

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland

American basketball player

#169

Wooga Poplar

#170

William de la Pole

British noble

#171

Willie Pearse

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

#172

Woody Paul

Tanzanian prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1965)

#173

Wesley Plaisier

Dutch darts player

#174

William Francis Pepper

American lawyer

#175

Wolfgang Pisa

#176

William Penn

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

American composer | music theorist and professor of music

#177

Willie Pastrano

American boxer

#178

William Henry Perrins

British businessman

#179

Walter Piston

#180

William Dorsey Pender

Confederate Army general

#181

Wensley Pithey

South African actor

#182

Will Pryce

English rugby league footballer

#183

Walter Paepcke

Journalist | publisher | diplomat

#184

William Parker

musician

#185

Warren Peace

British singer

#186

Willy Pogany

Hungarian artist

#187

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

English peer

#188

William Pokhlyobkin

Russian writer

#189

Walter Hines Page

#190

Waldo Peirce

American artist

#191

William Pope.L

American artist

#192

Willie Park

Professional golfer | golf course architect

#193

Wagner Prado

mixed martial artist

#194

William de la Pole

British judge and private banker

#195

Wolfgang Paalen

Austrian artist

#196

Walter Perez