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Authors (P)

This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "P". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-P, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list.

Pa

• Paalzow, Karl Adolph (1823 – 1908)
• Pachelbel, Johann (1653 – 1706)
• Page, Curtis Hidden (1870 – 1946)
• Page, Norvell (1904 – 1961)
• Page, Ralph Walter (1881 – 1963)
• Page, Thomas Ethelbert (1850 – 1936)
• Paget, James (1814 – 1899)
• Paget, John Rahere (1848 – 1938)
• Paget, Stephen (1855 - 1926)
• Paine, Albert Bigelow (1861 – 1937)
• Paine, Byron (1827 – 1871)
• Paine, Thomas (1737 – 1809)
• Pak Hon-yong (1900 — 1956)
• Palacios, Enrique Juan (1881 – 1953)
• Paley, Frederick Apthorp (1815 – 1888)
• Paley, William (1743–1805)
• Palgrave, Sir Francis (1788 – 1861)
• Palgrave, Francis Turner (1824 – 1897)
• Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis (1827 – 1919)
• Palgrave, William Gifford (1826 – 1888)
• Palmer, Alexander Mitchell (1872 – 1936)
• Palmer, Charles Ferrers Raymond (1819 – 1900)
• Palmer, Edward Henry (1840 - 1882)
• Palmer, Samuel (1805 – 1881)
• Palmer, Walter B.
• Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount (1784 – 1865)
• Panizzi, Sir Antonio Genesio Maria (1797 – 1879)
• Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858 – 1928)
• Papias (60 – 135)
• Papillon, Fernand (1847 – 1874)
• Papillon, Thomas Leslie (1841 - 1926)
• Papineau, Louis-Joseph (1786 – 1871)
• Papini, Giovanni (1881 – 1956)
• Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus van Sandau (1822 – 1894)
• Paracelsus (1493 – 1541)
• Paramahamsa, Ramakrishna (1836 – 1986)
• Paris, John Ayrton (1785 – 1856)
• comte de Paris, Louis-Philippe, (1838 – 1894)
• Parish, Charles Woodbyne (1848 – 1922)
• Parish, William Douglas (1833 – 1904)
• Park Jung-yang (1874 - 1959)
• Parker, Alton B.(1852 – 1926)
• Parker, Charles Stuart (1829 - 1910)
• Parker, Edward Harper (1849 – 1926)
• Parker, Emma (fl 1809–1817)
• Parker, George Howard (1864 – 1955)
• Parker, Katherine Langloh (1855 – 1940)
• Parker, Theodore (1810 – 1860)
• Parker, Walter Sutherland (1857 - 1931)
• Parkes, William Kineton (1865 – 1938)
• Parkhurst, Charles Henry (1842 – 1933)
• Parkin, George Robert (1846 - 1922)
• Parkinson, James (1755 – 1824)
• Parkinson, John (1567 – 1650)
• Parkinson, Sydney (1745 – 1771)
• Parkman, Francis (1823 – 1893)
• Parks, W. A.
• Parloa, Maria (1843 – 1909)
• Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846 – 1891)
• Parrington, Vernon Louis (1871 – 1929)
• Parrish, Joseph (1819 – 1879)
• Parry, Frederick Sydney (1861 – 1941)
• Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings (1848 – 1918)
• Parsons, Albert (1848 – 1887)
• Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews (1875 – 1941)
• Parsons, Frederick Gymer (1863 - 1943)
• Parsons, Lucy (1853 – 1942)
• Parsons, Thomas William (1819 – 1892)
• Parsons, William Barclay (1859 - 1932)
• Partridge, John (1644 – 1714)
• de Parville, Henri (1838 – 1909)
• Parton, James (1822 – 1891)
• Parts, Karl (1886 – 1941)
• Pascal, Blaise (1623 – 1662)
• Pasco, Crawford Atchison Denman (1818 – 1898)
• Pascoli, Giovanni (1855 – 1912)
• Pasteur, Louis (1822 – 1895)
• Pastor, Ludwig von (1854 - 1928)
• Pastorius, Francis Daniel (1651 - c. 1720)
• Patañjali (ca. 200 BC)
• Pater, Walter Horatio (1839 – 1894)
• Paterson, Banjo (1864 – 1941)
• Paterson, James Alexander (1851 – 1915)
• Paterson, William (1745 – 1806)
• Paterson, William (1755 – 1810)
• Patmore, Coventry (1823 – 1869)
• Paton, Diarmid Noel (1859 - 1928)
• Paton, Henry (1854 – 1942)
• Paton, James (1843 - 1921)
• Paton, James Morton (1863 – 1944)
• Patrick, Saint (ca. 385 – 461)
• Patten, Christopher (b. 1944)
• Patterson, Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. (1867 – 1947)
• Patterson, Woodford (1870 – 1948)
• Pattison, Mark (1813 -1884)
• Pauer, Ernst (1826 – 1905)
• Paues, Anna Carolina (1867 – ?)
• Paul, Alfred Wallis (1847 - 1912)
• Paul, Sir James Balfour (1846 – 1931)
• Paul of Tarsus (ca. 5 – 67 C.E.)
• Paul II, Pope (1417 – 1471)
• Paul III, Pope (1468 – 1549)
• Paul IV, Pope (1476 – 1559)
• Paul V, Pope (1552 – 1621)
• Paul VI, Pope (1897 – 1978)
• Paul, Ron (b. 1935)
• Paul, Herbert Woodfield (1853 – 1935)
• Paulding, James Kirke (1778 – 1860)
• Pauli, Reinhold (1823 - 1882)
• Paull, H. P.
• Paull, Susannah Mary (1812 – 1888)
• Pausanias (2nd century C.E.)
• Pavón Jiménez, José Antonio (1754 – 1840)
• Payn, James (1830 – 1898)
• Payne, Edward John (1844 – 1904)
• Payne, John (1842 – 1916)
• Payne, John Howard (1791 - 1852)
• Payne, John Bruce (1856 – 1928)
• Payne, Joseph Frank (1840 – 1910)
• Payne, Sereno Elisha (1843 – 1914)
• von Payer, Julius (1841 – 1915)

Pc

• Pchelinski, Konstantin ( – )

Pe

• Peabody, Andrew P. (1811 – 1893)
• Peabody, Josephine Preston (1874 – 1922)
• Peacock, Marjorie Beatrice (1902 – 1999)
• Peacock, Thomas Love (1785 – 1866)
• Pearce, Nigel Douglas Frith (1862 – 1939)
• Pearce, Stephen Austen (1836 – 1900)
• Pearse, Hugh Wodehouse (1855 – 1919)
• Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879 – 1916)
• Pearson, Lester B. (1897 – 1972)
• Peary, Robert Edwin (1856 – 1920)
• Peate, Iorwerth (1901 – 1982)
• Peck, Harlan Page ( – )
• Peck, Harry Thurston (1856 – 1914)
• Peckham, Rufus Wheeler (1838 – 1909)
• Pedley, Ethel Charlotte (1859 – 1898)
• Peel, Arthur George Villiers (1868 – 1956)
• Peel, Robert (1788 – 1850)
• Peel, Thomas (1793 – 1865)
• Peele, George (1556 – 1596)
• Peele, Robert (1858 – 1942)
• Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839 – 1914)
• Pelham, Henry Francis (1846 – 1907)
• Pelham, John (1838 – 1863)
• Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan (1923 – 2006)
• Pellico, Silvio (1788 – 1854)
• Pellow, John Dynham Cornish (1890 – 1960)
• Peltier, Jean Charles Athanase (1785 – 1845)
• Pemberton, Max (1863–1950)
• Penderel-Brodhurst, James George Joseph (1859 – 1934)
• Penhallow, David Pearce (1854 – 1910)
• Penn, William (1644 – 1718)
• Pennecuik, Alexander (1690 ca. – 1730)
• Penrose, Francis Cranmer (1817 – 1903)
• Pepys, Samuel (1633 – 1703)
• Pepys, William Haseldine (1775 – 1856)
• Perceval, Arthur Philip (1799 – 1853)
• Percival, John (1863 - 1949)
• Pereda, José María de (1833 – 1906)
• Pergaud, Louis (1882 – 1915)
• Pericles (c. 495 BC – 429 BC)
• Perkins, George Henry (1844 – 1933)
• Péron, François Auguste (1775 – 1810)
• Perrault, Charles (1628 – 1703)
• Perrett, Wilfrid (1873 – 1946)
• Perrier, Edmond (1844 – 1921)
• Perris, George Herbert (1866–1920)
• Perronet, Edward (1726 – 1792)
• Perry, George Gresley (1820 – 1897)
• Perry, Lilla Cabot (1848 – 1933)
• Perry, Nancy Ling (1947 – 1974)
• Perry 1845-1928, Thomas Sergeant (1845 – 1928)
• Pershing, John J. (1860 – 1948)
• Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik (1761 – 1836)
• Pessoa, Fernando (1888 – 1935)
• Pestoni, Peter (1949 – 2005)
• Peters, John Punnett (1852 – 1921)
• Petersen, Anker Eli (1959 –)
• Peterson, Frederick (1859 – 1938)
• Peterson, John Bertram (1871 – 1944)
• Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William (1871–1961)
• Petraeus, David H. (b. 1952)
• Petrarca, Francesco (1304 – 1374)
• Petrie, Donald (1846 - 1925)
• Petrie, William Matthew Flinders (1853-1942)
• Petrie, George (1789 – 1866)
• Petronius (27 – 66)
• Petrovitch, Woislav Maximus (c.1885 – 1934)
• von Pettenkofer, Max Joseph (1818 – 1901)
• Pettigrew, James Bell (1834 – 1908)
• Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)

Pf

• Pfister, Christian (1857-1933)

Ph

• Phelan, James (1856 – 1891)
• Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1844 – 1911)
• Phelps, William Walter (1839 – 1894)
• Phelps, William Wines (1792 – 1872)
• Phelps, William Lyon (1865 – 1943)
• Philbrick, Francis Samuel (1876 – 1970)
• Philip, Alexander John ( – )
• Philip II of Spain (1527–1598)
• Philip, James Charles (1873–1941)
• Philips, Ambrose (1675 – 1749)
• Philips, Katherine (1631 – 1664)
• Phillimore, George Grenville (1867 - 1925)
• Phillimore, Walter George Frank (1845 – 1929)
• Phillip, Arthur (1738 – 1814)
• Phillips, Charles Stanley (1883 — ?)
• Phillips, Claude (1846–1924)
• Phillips, Harry (1909 – 1985)
• Phillips, John (1800 – 1874)
• Phillips, Paul Chrisler (1883 – 1956)
• Phillips, Reginald William (1854 - 1927)
• Phillips, Stephen (1864 – 1915)
• Phillips, Thomas (1770 – 1845)
• Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
• Phillips, Walter Alison (1864 – 1950)
• Phillips, William (1775 – 1828)
• Phillpotts, Dame Bertha Surtees (1877-1932)
• Phillpotts, Eden (1862 – 1960)
• Phin, John (1832 – 1913)
• Phule, Jotiba (1827 – 1890)

Pi

• Pickard-Cambridge, Sir Arthur Wallace (1873 – 1952)
• Pickering, William Henry (1858 – 1938)
• Pickthall‎, William Marmaduke (1875 – 1936)
• Pictet, Marc-Auguste (1752 – 1825)
• Pierce, Edward L. (1829 – 1897)
• Pierce, Franklin (1804 – 1869)
• Pierpont, James (1822 – 1893)
• Pierpont, John (1785 – 1860)
• Piétrement, Charles-Alexandre (1826 – 1906)
• Piggott, Romola (1874 – 1915)
• Pike, Albert (1809 – 1891)
• Pike, Luke Owen (1835 – 1915)
• Pilar, Marcelo Hilario del (1850 – 1896)
• Pilgrim, Peace, pseudonym for Mildred Lisette Norman (1908 – 1981)
• Pilkington, Joseph Green (1835 – 1917)
• Pilsbry, Henry Augustus (1862 – 1957)
• Pinchot, Gifford (1865 – 1946)
• Pinero, Arthur Wing (1955 – 1934)
• Pinkney, Edward Coote (1802 – 1828)
• Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine (1634 – 1693)
• Pirenne, Henri (1862 – 1935)
• Pirenne, Jacques (1891 – 1972)
• Pitcher, William (1858 - 1925) (pen name C. Wilhelm)
• Pitman, Charles Murray (1872 - 1948)
• Pitney, Mahlon (1858 – 1924)
• William Pitt the Elder (1708 – 1778)
• William Pitt the Younger (1759 – 1806)
• Pius II, Pope (1405 – 1464)
• Pius III, Pope (1439 – 1503)
• Pius IV, Pope (1499 – 1565)
• Pius V, Pope (1504 – 1572)
• Pius VI, Pope (1717 – 1799)
• Pius VII, Pope (1740 – 1823)
• Pius VIII, Pope (1761 – 1830)
• Pius IX, Pope (1792 – 1878)
• Pope Pius X (1835 – 1914)
• Pius XI, Pope (1857 – 1939)
• Pius XII, Pope (1876 – 1958)
• Pixley, Francis W. (1852 – 1933)

Pl

• Plačzek, Baruch Jacob (1835 – 1922)
• Planck, Max (1858 – 1947)
• Plate, Wilhelm Heinrich Franz (about 1810 – 1852)
• Plato (c. 427 – c. 347 BCE)
• Platt, John Arthur (1860 - 1925)
• Platts, Charles (1864 – 1923)
• Playfair, John (1748 – 1819)
• Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, Lyon (1818 – 1898)
• Pliny the Elder (24 – 79)
• Pliny the Younger (63 – 113)
• Plummer, Charles (1851 - 1927)
• Plummer, Henry Crozier Keating (1875 – 1946)
• Plumptre, Edward Hayes (1821 – 1891)
• Plunkett, Edward (1878 – 1957)
• Plutarch (c. 46 – 127)

Po

• Pocock, Nicholas (1814 – 1897)
• Pocock, Reginald Innes (1863 – 1947)
• Podgorec, Vidoe (1934 – 1997)
• Podmore, Frank (1856 – 1910)
• Poe, Edgar Allan (1809 – 1849)
• Pogany, Andras (1919 – 1995)
• Poggendorff, Johann Christian (1796 – 1877)
• Poincaré, Henri (1854 – 1912)
• Poindexter, Miles (1868 – 1946)
• Poisson, Siméon Denis (1781 – 1840)
• Pokagon, Simon (1830 – 1899)
• Pole, Herbert (1867 - 1949)
• Pole, William (1814 – 1900)
• Polk, James K. (1795 – 1849)
• Pollard, Albert Frederick (1869 – 1948)
• Pollard, Alfred William (1859-1944)
• Pollard, Eliza Fanny (1840 – 1911)
• Pollen, John Hungerford the elder (1820 – 1902)
• Pollen, John Hungerford the younger (1858 – 1925)
• Pollen, Maria Margaret (? – 1919)
• Pollock, Frederick (1845 – 1937)
• Pollock, Horatio Milo (1868 – 1950)
• Pollock, James Arthur (1865–1922)
• Pollock, Walter Herries (1850 – 1926)
• Polo, Marco (1254 – 1324)
• Polybius (203 BCE–120 BCE)
• Pomfret, John (1667 – 1702)
• Poole, Edward Stanley (1830 - 1867)
• Poole, Reginald Stuart (1832 – 1895)
• Poole, William Frederick (1821 – 1894)
• Poor, Charles Lane (1866 – 1951)
• Pope, Alexander (1688 – 1744)
• Pope, Georgina (1862 – 1938)
• Pope, Jessie (1868 – 1941)
• Popoff, Constantine (1868 – 1923)
• Popper, Karl (1902 – 1994)
• Popplewell, William Charles (1865 - 1928)
• Porter, Bertha (1852 – 1941)
• Porter, Henry (? – 1599)
• Porter, Horace (1837 – 1921)
• Porter, Hugh
• Porter, Rufus (1792 – 1884)
• Porter, William Haldane (1867 - ?)
• Porter, William Sydney (as O. Henry) (1862 – 1910)
• Postan, Michael Moissey (1898 – 1981)
• Postgate, John Percival (1853 - 1926)
• Poswiatowska, Halina (1935 – 1967)
• Potanin, Grigory (1835 – 1920)
• Potter, Beatrix (1866 – 1943)
• Potter, Paulus (1625 – 1654)
• Potter, Robert (1831 – 1908)
• Pottier, Eugène (1816 – 1887)
• du Pouget, Jean-François-Albert (1818 – 1904)
• Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1856 – 1943)
• Pound, Ezra (1885 – 1972)
• Pouchet, George (1833 – 1894)
• Poupardin, René (1874 - 1927)
• Powell, Colin L. (b. 1937)
• Powell, Eleanor Grace (1859 – 1945)
• Enoch Powell (1912 – 1998)
• Powell, Frederick York (1850 – 1904)
• Powell, George Henry (1880 – 1951)
• Powell, Harry James (1853 – 1922)
• Powell, John Giles (1799 – 1864)
• Powell, John Wesley (1834–1902)
• Powell, Jr., Lewis Franklin (1907 – 1998)
• Power, Sir D'Arcy (1855 – 1941)
• Powys, John Cowper (1872 – 1963)
• Poynting, John Henry (1852-1914)

Pr

• Praeger, Robert Lloyd (1865 – 1953)
• Prantl, Karl Anton Eugen (1849 – 1893)
• Pratt, Charles Tiplady (1839 – 1921)
• Pratt, Fletcher (1897 – 1956)
• Pratt, Orson (1811 – 1881)
• Pratt, Parley P. (1807 – 1857)
• Pratt, Richard Henry(1840 – 1924)
• Pratt, Waldo Selden (1857 – 1939)
• Pratten, Benjamin Plummer (1817 – 1889)
• Preece, William Henry (1834 – 1913)
• Prescott, Albert Benjamin (1832 – 1905)
• Prescott, George Bartlett (1830 – 1894)
• Prescott, William Hickling (1796 – 1859)
• Prešeren, France (1800 – 1849)
• Prestage, Edgar (1869 – 1951)
• Preston, Samuel Tolver (1844 – 1917)
• Preyer, David Charles (1861–?)
• Prévost, Antoine François (1697 – 1763)
• Pribram, Alfred Francis (1859 – 1942)
• Price, Richard (1723 – 1791)
• Prichard, Constantine Estlin (1820 – 1869)
• Prichard, Harold Arthur (1871 – 1947)
• Priebsch, Robert (1866-1935)
• Priest, Christopher (b. 1943)
• Priestley, Herbert Ingram (1875 – 1944)
• Priestley, Joseph (1733 – 1804)
• Prince, John Dyneley (1868 – 1945)
• Prince, L. Bradford (1840 – 1922)
• Primrose, Archibald (1847 – 1929)
• Prinet, Léon Jacques Maxime (1867 – 1937)
• Pringle, John 1st Bt. (1707 – 1782)
• Pringle, John (1803 – 1879)
• Pringle-Pattison, Andrew Seth (1856 – 1931)
• Prior, Edward Schroeder (1857 – 1932)
• Prior, Matthew (1664 – 1721)
• Pritchard, Charles (1808 - 1893)
• Privat, Edmond (1889 – 1962)
• Proclus (412–485)
• Procopius (500 – 565)
• Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825 – 1864)
• Procter, Bryan Waller (1787 – 1874)
• Proctor, Edna (1829 – 1923)
• Proctor, John Clagett (1867 – 1956)
• Proctor, Mary (1862 – 1957)
• Proctor, Richard Anthony (1837 – 1888)
• Prosser, Richard Bissell (1838 – 1918)
• Prothero, Sir George Walter (1848 – 1922)
• Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, Rowland Edmund (1851 – 1937)
• Protopopescu, Dragoş (1892 – 1948)
• Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809 – 1865)
• Proust, Marcel (1871 – 1922)
• Prout, Ebenezer (1835 – 1909)
• Prout, William (1785 – 1850)
• Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (348 – 413)
• Prus, Bolesław (1847 – 1912)

Pt

• Ptolemy (90 – 168)

Pu

• Puaux, Frank (1844 - 1922)
• Puffer, Ethel D. (1872 – 1950)
• Pugsley, William (1850 – 1925)
• Pulfrich, Carl (1858 - 1927)
• Pullen, Henry William (1836 – 1903)
• Pullman, Philip (b. 1946)
• Pulteney, Richard (1730 – 1801)
• Punnett, Reginald Crundall (1875 - 1967)
• Purchas, Samuel (1575? – 1626)
• Purdy, Richard (1863 – 1925)
• Purser, Frederick (1840 - 1910)
• Pursh, Frederick Traugott (1774 – 1820)
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich (1799 – 1837)
• Pushkin, Aleksandr (1821 – 1881)
• Putnam, George Haven (1844 – 1930)
• Putnam, Herbert (1861 – 1955)

Py

• Pycraft, William Plane (1868 – 1942)
• Pye-Smith, Philip Henry (1839 – 1914)
• Pyle, Howard (1853 – 1911)
• Pyle, Katharine (1863 – 1938)