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(Encyclopedia) Gondi, Paul de: see Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de.
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(Encyclopedia) Cambon, Pierre Paul käNbôNˈ [key], 1843–1924, French diplomat; brother of Jules Martin Cambon. Named resident minister to Tunis in 1882, he conceived and organized the new Tunisian protectorate ...
(Encyclopedia) Painlevé, Paul pōl păNləvāˈ [key], 1863–1933, French statesman and mathematician. A mathematical prodigy when a child, he entered on a career devoted to science. He was a professor at the Sorb...
(Encyclopedia) Bourget, Paul pôl bo͞orzhāˈ [key], 1852–1935, French novelist. His early novels were naturalistic, but Le Disciple (1889, tr. 1901), a tale of the destruction of a pupil who applies his master's...
(Encyclopedia) Simon, Paul, 1941–, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, b. Newark, N.J. A polished and intelligent folk-rock lyricist and performer, he first gained fame as half of Simon and Garfunkel (with...
(Encyclopedia) Farmer, Paul (Paul
Edward Farmer), 1959–2022; American infectious disease doctor and
medical anthropologist, b. North Adams, Mass., M.D. and Ph.D. Har...
(Encyclopedia) North Saint Paul, village (1990 pop. 12,376), Ramsey co., SE Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, in a lake resort region; inc. 1888. Electronic equipment, concrete products, furniture, roofing materials, arr...
(Encyclopedia) McCartney, Paul: see Beatles, The.
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(Encyclopedia) Delaroche, Paul: see Delaroche, Hippolyte.
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(Encyclopedia) Paul II, 1417–71, pope (1464–71), a Venetian named Pietro Barbo; successor of Pius II. He was a nephew of Eugene IV. A Renaissance pope, he patronized printing, beautified and improved Rome, and c...