| Christopher Pitt (1699–1748), English poet |
| Thomas Pitt, Baron Camelford (1737–1793), English politician and art patron |
| William Pitt (1759–1806), English statesman |
| William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708–1778), English statesman |
| Pittacus of Mytilene (c. 650–c. 570 B.C.), one of the Seven Sages of Greece |
| Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827–1900), English soldier and archæologist |
| Pius, name of eleven popes |
| Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475–1541), Discoverer and conqueror of Peru |
| Gustave Planche (1808–1857), French critic |
| James Robinson Planché (1796–1880), English dramatist and antiquary |
| Gottlieb Jakob Planck (1751–1833), German Protestant divine and historian |
| Karl Christian Planck (1819–1880), German philosopher |
| Robert Planquette (1848–1903), French musical composer |
| Plantagenet, surname |
| Christophe Plantin (c. 1520–1589), French printer |
| Maximus Planudes (c. 1260–1330), Byzantine grammarian and theologian |
| Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801–1883), Belgian physicist |
| August, Graf von Platen (1796–1835), German poet and dramatist |
| Plato (429–347 B.C.), the great Athenian philosopher |
| Plato (fl. 428–389 B.C.), Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy |
| Platon (1737–1812), Russian divine |
| Thomas Collier Platt (1833–1910), American politician |
| Carl Friedrich Plattner (1800–1858), German metallurgical chemist |
| Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.), the great comic dramatist of ancient Rome |
| John Playfair (1748–1819), Scottish mathematician and physicist |
| Lyon, Baron Playfair (1818–1898), Scottish chemist and politician |
| Viatscheslaf Konstantinovich Plehve (1846–1904), Russian statesman |
| Ernst, Freiherr von Plener (1841–1923), Austrian statesman |
| Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831), Austrian musician |
| Andrew Plimer (1763–1837), English miniature painter |
| Nathaniel Plimer (1757–c. 1822), English miniature painter |
| Samuel Plimsoll (1824–1898), British politician and social reformer |
| Pliny the Elder (23–79 A.D.), author of the Naturalis historia |
| Pliny the Younger (61/2–c. 113 A.D.), Latin author of the Letters |
| Luise von Ploennies (1803–1872), German poet |
| Robert Plot (1640–1696), English naturalist and antiquary |
| Plotinus (204–270), most important representative of Neoplatonism |
| Julius Plücker (1801–1868), German mathematician and physicist |
| Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, Viscount Plumer of Messines (1857–1932), British field marshal |
| Edward Hayes Plumptre (1821–1891), English divine and scholar |
| William Conyngham, Baron Plunket (1764–1854), Irish lawyer, orator and statesman |
| Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett (1854–1932), Irish politician |
| Saint Oliver Plunkett (1625–1681), Irish Roman Catholic divine |
| Plutarch (c. 45–120 A.D.), Greek biographer and miscellaneous writer |
| Plutarch of Athens (c. 350–430), Greek philosopher |
| Earls of Plymouth |
| Constantine Petrovich Pobêdonostsev (1827–1907), Russian jurist |
| Sir George Pocock (1706–1792), British admiral |
| Edward Pococke (1604–1691), English orientalist and biblical scholar |
| George of Poděbrad (1420–1471), King of Bohemia |
| Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American poet, writer of fiction and critic |
| Alessandro Poerio (1802–1848), Italian poet and patriot |
| Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796–1877), German physicist |
| Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (1800–1875), Russian historian and archæologist |
| Jules Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), French physicist |
| Lucien Poincaré (1862–1920), French physicist |
| Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934), French statesman |
| Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), American statesman |
| Louis Poinsot (1777–1859), French mathematician |
| Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781–1840), French mathematician |
| Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566), mistress of Henry II. of France |
| Pole, English family |
| Reginald Pole (1500–1558), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Richard de la Pole (d. 1525), Pretender to the English crown |
| William Pole (1814–1900), English engineer |
| Da Polenta, noble and ancient Italian family |
| Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1495–c. 1543), celebrated painter of frieze and other decorations in the Vatican |
| Polignac, ancient French family |
| Politian (1454–1494), Italian scholar, professor, critic and Latin poet |
| James K. Polk (1795–1849), eleventh President of the United States |
| Leonidas Polk (1806–1864), American soldier |
| Pollaiuolo, Florentine artists |
| Edward Alfred Pollard (1831–1872), American journalist |
| Gaius Asinius Pollio (76 B.C.–4 A.D.), Roman orator, poet and historian |
| Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz (1692–1775), German adventurer and writer |
| Pollock, name of an English family |
| Robert Pollok (c. 1798–1827), Scottish poet |
| Julius Pollux (180–238), Greek grammarian |
| Gaspar Gil Polo (1516?–1591?), Spanish novelist and poet |
| Marco Polo (1254–1324), greatest of medieval travellers |
| Jean de Poltrot (c. 1537–1563), nobleman of Angoumois, who murdered Francis, Duke of Guise |
| Polyaenus (Second Century A.D.), Macedonian, who lived at Rome as a rhetorician and pleader |
| Jan Polyander van den Kerckhoven (1568–1646), Dutch Protestant divine |
| Polybius (c. 200–c. 118 B.C.), Greek historian |
| Polycarp (c. 69–c. 155), Bishop of Smyrna and one of the Apostolic Fathers |
| Polyclitus, name of two Greek sculptors of the school of Argos |
| Polycrates (d. 522 B.C.), Tyrant of Samos |
| Polycrates (Fourth Century B.C.), Athenian sophist and rhetorician |
| Polygnotus (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek painter |
| Polyperchon (fl. Fourth Century B.C.), one of Alexander’s generals |
| Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquess of Pombal (1699–1782), Portuguese statesman |
| John Norton Pomeroy (1828–1885), American writer on jurisprudence |
| Mark Mills Pomeroy (1833–1896), called Brick Pomeroy, American journalist |
| Seth Pomeroy (1706–1777), American patriot and soldier |
| John Pomfret (1667–1702), English poet |
| Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV. |
| Pompey, name of a Roman plebeian family |
| Pietro Pomponazzi (1462–1525), Italian philosopher |
| Lucius Pomponius (fl. c. 90 B.C.?), Latin comic poet |
| Publius Pomponius Secundus (fl. First Century A.D.), Roman general and tragic poet |
| Juan Ponce de León (1460?–1521), Spanish adventurer, the discoverer of Florida |
| Jean Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), French mathematician and engineer |
| Étienne Poncher (1446–1525), French prelate and diplomatist |
| Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886), Italian musical composer |
| John Pond (c. 1767–1836), English astronomer-royal |
| Poniatowski, name of a Polish princely family of Italian origin |
| Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813), Polish Prince and Marshal of France |
| Jean Louis Pons (1761–1831), French astronomer |
| François Ponsard (1814–1867), French dramatist |
| John Ponsonby (1713–1789), Irish politician |
| Ponson du Terrail (1829–1871), French romance writer |
| Giovanni Pontano (1429–1503), Italian humanist and poet |
| Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant (1764–1853), French politician |
| Pontiac (c. 1720–1769), Indian chief of the Ottawa |
| Pontianus (d. c. 235), Pope |
| Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judaea under whom Jesus Christ suffered crucifixion |
| Armand, Comte de Pontmartin (1811–1890), French critic and man of letters |
| Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764), Danish author |
| Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943), Danish author |
| Jacopo da Pontormo (1494–1556), Italian painter of the Florentine school |
| Maria Louise Pool (1841–1898), American author |
| Matthew Poole (1624–1679), English Nonconformist theologian |
| Paul Falconer Poole (1807–1879), English painter |
| Reginald Lane Poole (1857–1939), English historian |
| Reginald Stuart Poole (1832–1895), English archæologist and orientalist |
| William Frederick Poole (1821–1894), American librarian |
| Benjamin Perley Poore (1820–1887), American journalist |
| Richard Poore (d. 1237), English Bishop |
| Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet |
| Alexander Pope (1763–1835), Irish actor and painter |
| Jane Pope (1742–1818), English actress |
| John Pope (1822–1892), American soldier |
| Sir Thomas Pope (c. 1507–1559), founder of Trinity College, Oxford |
| Sir Home Riggs Popham (1762–1820), British admiral |
| Sir John Popham (c. 1531–1607), English judge |
| David Popper (1843–1913), Bohemian violoncellist |
| Ernst Friedrich Poppo (1794–1866), German classical scholar and schoolmaster |
| Il Pordenone (1484?–1539), eminent painter of the Venetian school |
| Publilius Optatianus Porfirius (Fourth Century), Latin poet |
| Pomponius Porphyrio (Third Century?), Latin grammarian and commentator on Horace |
| Porphyry (c. 234–c. 305), Greek scholar, historian, and Neoplatonist |
| Nicola Porpora (1686–1768), Italian operatic composer and teacher of singing |
| Lars Porsena (Sixth Century B.C.), King of Clusium in Etruria |
| Richard Porson (1759–1808), English classical scholar |
| Giambattista della Porta (c. 1535–1615), Italian natural philosopher |
| Jean Portaels (1818–1895), Belgian painter |
| Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis (1746–1807), French jurist |
| John Porteous (d. 1736), Captain of the city guard of Edinburgh |
| Benjamin Curtis Porter (1843/5–1908), American artist |
| David Porter (1780–1843), American naval officer |
| David Dixon Porter (1813–1891), American naval officer |
| Endymion Porter (1587–1649), English royalist |
| Fitz-John Porter (1822–1901), American soldier |
| Henry Porter (fl. 1596–1599), English dramatist |
| Horace Porter (1837–1921), American diplomatist and soldier |
| Jane Porter (1776–1850), British novelist |
| Mary Porter (d. 1765), English actress |
| Noah Porter (1811–1892), American educationalist and philosophical writer |
| Beilby Porteus (1731–1809), Bishop of London |
| Earl of Portland |
| William Bentinck, Earl of Portland (1649–1709), English statesman |
| William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland (1738–1809), Prime Minister of England |
| Joseph Ellison Portlock (1794–1864), British geologist and soldier |
| Georges de Porto-Riche (1849–1930), French dramatist |
| Earls of Portsmouth |
| Porus (Fourth Century B.C.), Indian Prince |
| Camillo Porzio (1526?–1580?), Italian historian |
| Simone Porzio (1496–1554), Italian philosopher |
| Posidippus (Third Century B.C.), Greek dramatist |
| Posidonius (c. 130–50 B.C.), nicknamed “the Athlete,” Stoic philosopher |
| Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739–1791), Russian statesman |
| Everhardus Johannes Potgieter (1808–1875), Dutch prose writer and poet |
| Robert Joseph Pothier (1699–1772), French jurist |
| Ignacy Potocki (1750–1809), Polish statesman and writer |
| Stanisław Felix Potocki (1752–1805), Polish politician |
| August Friedrich Pott (1802–1887), German philologist |
| Percivall Pott (1714–1788), English surgeon |
| Alonzo Potter (1800–1865), American Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church |
| Henry Codman Potter (1834–1908), American Protestant Episcopal Bishop |
| John Potter (1673/4–1747), Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Paulus Potter (1625–1654), Dutch animal painter |
| Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter (1792–1871), English musician |
| August Potthast (1824–1898), German historian |
| Eldred Pottinger (1811–1843), Anglo-Indian soldier and diplomatist |
| Nicolas Poussin (1594?–1665), French painter |
| Émile Pouvillon (1840–1906), French novelist |
| Frederick York Powell (1850–1904), English historian and scholar |
| George Powell (c. 1658–1714), English actor and playwright |
| John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), American geologist and ethnologist |
| Vavasor Powell (1617–1670), Welsh Nonconformist |
| Tyrone Power (1797–1841), Irish actor |
| Hiram Powers (1805–1873), American sculptor |
| Earls and Marquesses of Powis |
| Thomas Pownall (1722–1805), British colonial statesman and soldier |
| Guillaume Poyet (1473–1548), French magistrate |
| Sir Edward Poynings (1459–1521), Lord Deputy of Ireland |
| Sir Edward John Poynter (1836–1919), English painter |
| Carlo Andrea, conte Pozzo di Borgo (1764–1842), Russian diplomatist |
| James Pradier (1790–1862), French sculptor |
| Francisco Pradilla Ortiz (1848–1921), Spanish painter |
| Rosa Campbell Praed (1851–1935), British novelist |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), English poet |
| Michael Praetorius (1571–1621), German musical historian, theorist and composer |
| Carl Prantl (1820–1888), German philosopher |
| Giovanni Prati (1814–1884), Italian poet |
| Pratinas (Fifth Century B.C.), one of the oldest tragic poets of Athens |
| Orson Pratt (1811–1881), Mormon apostle |
| Praxias and Androsthenes, Greek sculptors |
| Praxilla of Sicyon (fl. c. 450 B.C.), Greek lyric poetess |
| Praxiteles (Fourth Century B.C.), the greatest of the Attic sculptors |
| Edward Preble (1761–1807), American naval officer |
| Karl, Freiherr von Prel (1839–1899), German philosopher |
| Friedrich Preller (1804–1878), German landscape-painter |
| Ludwig Preller (1809–1861), German philologist and antiquarian |
| Přemysl, reputed ancestor of the line of dukes and kings which ruled in Bohemia |
| George Denison Prentice (1802–1870), American journalist |
| Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (1818–1878), American author |
| Seargent Smith Prentiss (1808–1850), American orator |
| William Prescott (1726–1795), American Revolutionary officer |
| William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859), American historian |
| Edmond Dehault de Pressensé (1824–1891), French Protestant divine |
| Francis de Pressensé (1853–1914), French politician and man of letters |
| Prester John, fabulous medieval Christian monarch of Asia |
| Harriet Waters Preston (1836–1911), American writer |
| John Preston (1587–1628), English Puritan divine |
| Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897), Southern poetess of a religious cast |
| Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896), English geologist |
| Pretorius, family name of two of the early leaders of the “Trek” Boers |
| Constant Prévost (1787–1856), French geologist |
| Marcel Prévost (1862–1941), French novelist |
| Pierre Prévost (1751–1839), Swiss philosopher and physicist |
| Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles (1697–1763), French author and novelist |
| Lucien Anatole Prévost-Paradol (1829–1870), French man of letters |
| Bartholomew Price (1818–1898), English mathematician and educationist |
| Bonamy Price (1807–1888), English political economist |
| Richard Price (1723–1791), English moral and political philosopher |
| Sterling Price (1809–1867), American soldier |
| James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848), English physician and ethnologist |
| Thomas Pride (d. 1658), Parliamentarian general in the English Civil War |
| Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724), English divine and Oriental scholar |
| Jeanne Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf, Marquise de Prie (1698–1727), French adventuress |
| Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), English chemist and Nonconformist minister |
| Pierre Prieur (c. 1626–c. 1676), French enamel painter |
| Pierre-Louis Prieur (1756–1827), French politician |
| Claude Antoine, Comte Prieur-Duvernois (1763–1832), French politician |
| Juan Prim, Marquis de los Castillejos (1814–1870), Spanish soldier and statesman |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime (1812–1885), American clergyman and editor |
| Marcus Antonius Primus (First Century A.D.), Roman general |
| Giuseppe Prina (1768–1814), Italian statesman |
| Thomas Prince (1687–1758), American clergyman |
| Sir John Pringle (1707–1782), British physician |
| Nathanael Pringsheim (1823–1894), German botanist |
| James Prinsep (1799–1840), Anglo-Indian scholar and antiquary |
| Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904), English artist |
| Matthew Prior (1664–1721), English poet and diplomatist |
| Priscian (fl. c. 500–530), celebrated Latin grammarian |
| Priscillian (c. 350–385), Spanish theologian |
| Priscus (d. c. 398), Greek Neoplatonist philosopher |
| Priscus (Fifth Century), Greek sophist and historian |
| Charles Pritchard (1808–1893), British astronomer |
| Hannah Pritchard (1711–1768), English actress |
| Nikolai Mikhailovich Prjevalsky (1839–1888), Russian traveller |
| Probus (232–282), Roman Emperor |
| Marcus Valerius Probus (First Century), Roman grammarian and critic |
| Proclus (c. 410–485), chief representative of the later Neoplatonists |
| Procopius (Sixth Century), Byzantine historian |
| Procopius of Gaza (c. 475–c. 528), Christian sophist and rhetorician |
| Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), English poet |
| Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874), English poet |
| Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860–1950), American sculptor and painter |
| Richard Anthony Proctor (1837–1888), British astronomer |
| Prodicus of Ceos (b. c. 465 or 450 B.C.), Greek humanist |
| Prokop, name of two of the most prominent Hussite generals |
| Theofan Prokopovich (1681–1736), Russian Archbishop and statesman |
| Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony (1755–1839), French engineer |
| Propertius (c. 50–c. 16 B.C.), greatest of the elegiac poets of Rome |
| Saint Prosper of Aquitaine (c. 390–c. 463), Christian writer and disciple of St. Augustine |
| Claude Prost (1607–1681), Franc-Comtois leader |
| Protagoras (fl. Fifth Century B.C.), Greek philosopher |
| George Walter Prothero (1848–1922), English man of letters |
| Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle (1851–1937), British agriculturist and politician |
| Protogenes (fl. 300 B.C.), Greek painter |
| Alexander Dmitrievich Protopopov (1866–1918), Russian statesman |
| Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), French socialist and political writer |
| Antonin Proust (1832–1905), French journalist and politician |
| Joseph Louis Proust (1754–1826), French chemist |
| Samuel Prout (1783–1852), English water-colour painter |
| William Prout (1785–1850), English chemist and physician |
| Prudentius (348–c. 410), most remarkable of the earlier Christian poets in the West |
| Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758–1823), French painter |
| Hans Prutz (1843–1929), German historian |
| Robert Eduard Prutz (1816–1872), German poet and prose writer |
| William Prynne (1600–1669), English parliamentarian |
| Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828–1919), American jurist and politician |
| George Psalmanazar (1679?–1763), French adventurer |
| Psammetichus, name of three kings of the Saite, XXVIth Dynasty |
| Psellus, name of several Byzantine writers |
| Ptolemaeus Chennus (Second Century), Greek grammarian |
| Ptolemies, dynasty of Macedonian kings |
| Ptolemy (c. 90–c. 168), the celebrated mathematician, astronomer and geographer |
| Publius Syrus (First Century B.C.), Latin writer of mimes |
| Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Italian operatic composer |
| Georg Friedrich Puchta (1798–1846), German jurist |
| Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871), German author |
| Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694), German jurist |
| Emel’yan Ivanovich Pugachev (1741?–1775), Russian pretender |
| Pierre Puget (1620–1694), French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer |
| Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852), English architect |
| Count Casimir Pułaski (1747–1779), Polish soldier |
| Luigi Pulci (1432–1484), Italian poet |
| Fernando del Pulgar (1436?–1492), Spanish prose-writer |
| Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), American editor and newspaper proprietor |
| George Mortimer Pullman (1831–1897), American inventor |
| Ferencz Aurelius Pulszky (1814–1897), Hungarian politician and author |
| Raphael Pumpelly (1837–1923), American geologist |
| William Morley Punshon (1824–1881), English Nonconformist divine |
| Henry Purcell (1659–1695), English musical composer |
| Samuel Purchas (1577?–1626), English compiler of works on travel and discovery |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), English divine |
| Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian poet |
| Gustav Heinrich Gans zu Putlitz (1821–1890), German author |
| George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872), American publisher |
| Israel Putnam (1718–1790), American soldier |
| Mary Traill Spence Lowell Putnam (1810–1898), American author |
| Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), American soldier and pioneer |
| Radomir Putnik (1847–1917), Serbian general |
| George Puttenham (1529–1590), reputed author of The Arte of English Poesie |
| Robert von Puttkammer (1828–1900), Prussian statesman |
| Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), French painter |
| Antoine de Laage, Duc de Puylaurens (d. 1635), French courtier |
| Félix Pyat (1810–1889), French Socialist |
| Henry James Pye (1745–1813), English poet laureate |
| Howard Pyle (1853–1911), American artist and writer |
| John Pym (1584–1643), English statesman |
| William Pynchon (1590–1662), a settler of Massachusetts |
| Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360–270 B.C.), Greek sceptic philosopher and founder of the school known as Pyrrhonism |
| Pyrrhus (c. 318–272 B.C.), King of Epirus |
| Pythagoras (c. 570–c. 495 B.C.), Greek philosopher |
| Pythagoras of Rhegium (Fifth Century B.C.), noted Greek sculptor |
| Pytheas of Massalia (Fourth Century B.C.), celebrated Greek navigator and geographer |
| Pythius (Fourth Century B.C.), one of the most noted Greek architects of the later age |
| Changchun Qiu (1148–1227), Chinese Taoist sage and traveller |
| George Payn Quackenbos (1826–1881), American educator |
| Sir Richard Quain (1816–1898), Irish physician |
| Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899), English bookseller and collector |
| Francis Quarles (1592–1644), English poet |
| Armand de Quatrefages (1810–1892), French naturalist |
| Étienne Marc Quatremère (1782–1857), French orientalist |
| Matthew Stanley Quay (1833–1904), American political “boss” |
| Earls, Marquesses and Dukes of Queensberry |
| Eça de Queirós (1843–1900), Portuguese writer |
| Friedrich August von Quenstedt (1809–1889), German geologist and palæontologist |
| Anthero de Quental (1842–1891), Portuguese poet |
| Joseph Marie Quérard (1797–1865), French bibliographer |
| Jenaro de Quesada y Matheus (1818–1889), Spanish soldier |
| François Quesnay (1694–1774), French economist |
| Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719), French Jansenist theologian |
| Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), Belgian astronomer, meteorologist and statistician |
| Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580–1645), Spanish satirist and poet |
| Jules Étienne Joseph Quicherat (1814–1882), French historian and archæologist |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863–1944), English man of letters |
| James Quin (1693–1766), English actor |
| Philippe Quinault (1635–1688), French dramatist and librettist
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