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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/stateswoman)
Platt, Thomas Collier (American statesman/stateswoman & 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)
Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich (Russian statesman/stateswoman)
Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich (Russian philosopher & politician)
Pleven, René (French statesman/stateswoman)
Plimer, Andrew (English painter)
Plimsoll, Samuel (English politician & reformer)
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/stateswoman & agriculturalist)
Plutarch (Writer / Historian)
Po Chü-i (Chinese poet)
Pobyedonostzev, Konstantin Petrovich (Russian statesman/stateswoman & jurist)
Pocahontas (Political Figure / Legendary Character)
Pochereth (in the Old Testament)
Pococke, Edward (English orientalist & scholar)
Podgorny, Nikolai Viktorovich (Russian statesman/stateswoman & politician)
Podhoretz, Norman (American journalist & politician)
Pogány, Willy (American artist)
Poggendorff, Johann Christian (German physicist & chemist)
Pogodin, Mikhail Petrovich (Russian historian & publisher)
Pogodin, Nikolai (Russian dramatist)
Poincaré, Jules Henri (French mathematician, physicist & writer)
Poincaré, Raymond (French president)
Poindexter, George (American statesman/stateswoman)
Poinsett, Joel Roberts (American statesman/stateswoman & politician)
Poiret, Paul (French fashion designer)
Poisson, Siméon Denis (French mathematician & physicist)
Pol Pot (Political Leader)
Polanski, Roman (Filmmaker / Actor / Fugitive)