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On this page: Pitoëff, Georges to Pococke, Edward.

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Pitoëff, Georges (Russian actor & dramatist)
Pitt, William (1759–1806, British statesman)
Pittacus (Ancient Greek statesman & military leader)
Pius II (Italian pope)
Pius IV (Italian pope)
Pius IX (Pope / Religious Figure)
Pius V, Saint (Italian pope)
Pius VI (Italian pope)
Pius VII (Italian pope)
Pius X, Saint (Italian pope)
Pius XI (Italian pope)
Pius XII (Italian pope)
Pizarro, Francisco (Explorer / Conquistador)
Pizarro, Gonzalo (Spanish-Peruvian conquistador)
Pizarro, Hernando (Spanish-Peruvian conquistador)
Pizarro, Juan (Spanish-Peruvian conquistador)
Pizzetti, Ildebrando (Italian composer)
Place, Francis (English politician)
Planck, Max (Physicist)
Plantin, Christophe (Belgian-French printer)
Planudes Maximus (Byzantine scholar)
Plath, Sylvia (Poet / Writer)
Plato (Philosopher)
Platonov, Andrei (Russian novelist & writer)
Platt, Charles Adams (American architect, painter & artist)
Platt, Orville Hitchcock (American statesman)
Platt, Thomas Collier (American statesman & politician)
Plautus (Ancient Roman writer)
Playfair, John (Scottish mathematician, physicist & geologist)
Playfair, Sir Nigel (English actor & dramatist)
Plaza Lasso, Galo (Ecuadorian president)
Pleasonton, Alfred (American military leader)
Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich (Russian philosopher & politician)
Pleven, René (French statesman)
Plimer, Andrew (English painter)
Plimsoll, Samuel (English politician & statesman)
Pliny the Elder (Naturalist / Writer)
Plisetskaya, Maya (Russian ballet dancer)
Plotinus (Ancient Roman philosopher)
Plücker, Julius (German mathematician & physicist)
Plumb, Sir John Harold (English historian)
Plunket, Saint Oliver (Irish religious leader)
Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon (Irish statesman & agriculturalist)
Plutarch (Writer / Historian)
Po Chü-i (Chinese poet)
Pobyedonostzev, Konstantin Petrovich (Russian statesman & jurist)
Pocahontas (Political Figure / Legendary Character)
Pococke, Edward (English orientalist & scholar)