Paul as First Name

Paul Karrer            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss
Paul Karrer: Swiss organic chemist best known for his work on vitamins. He and Walter Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.

Paul Sacher            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss
Paul Sacher: was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.He studied under Felix Weingartner among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra (Basler Kammerorchester) to play works written before the classical period and modern works. Immensely wealthy, he commissioned works from many well known composers, including Igor Stravinsky (who provided him with the Concerto in D), Béla Bartók (Divertimento and the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta), Arthur Honegger (many works, including the Second Symphony and the Fourth Symphony (Deliciae Basilienses ), Frank Martin (six works, including the Petite Symphonie Concertante), Paul Hindemith, Hans Werner Henze, Richard Strauss, Elliott Carter, and Harrison Birtwistle. Pierre Boulez's Messagesquisse was one of a number of pieces written in order to celebrate Sacher's seventieth birthday. Henze dedicated his Tenth Symphony as an in memoriam to Sacher, who had commissioned it but died before it was completed.

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Paul as Last Name

Christopher Emmanuel Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Christopher Emmanuel Paul: is a professional basketball player who currently plays point guard for the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA. His nickname is CP3.

Les Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Les Paul: is an American jazz guitarist and inventor. He is a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible." His many recording innovations include overdubbing, delay effects such as "sound on sound" and tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording. In 2003, he was named the 46th best guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone.

Pope John Paul I            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian
Pope John Paul I: reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and as Sovereign of Vatican City from August 26, 1978 until his death just 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent Year of Three Popes.

Ronald Ernest Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: United States
Ronald Ernest Paul: is a Republican United States Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a physician, a bestselling author, and a former 2008 U.S. presidential candidate.