Famous People with Name Paul

Paul Hartal            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Hartal: a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, and has created a manifesto to describe his thesis.Hartal emigrated to Israel in 1957 and on to Montréal, Québec in 1973. He earned a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964, an M.A. from Concordia University in 1977, and a Ph.D. in Education and Art from Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, California in 1986. In 1987 Hartal founded the Centre for Art, Science, and Technology in Montréal, Québec, which he directs. He is an honorary curator of the Israel Museum.

Paul Peel            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Peel: was a Canadian painter.Later he studied under William Lees Judson and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia under Thomas Eakins. He later moved to Paris, France where he received art instruction at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme and at the Académie Julian under Benjamin Constant, Henri Doucet and Jules Lefebvre.[Peel travelled widely in Canada and in Europe, exhibiting as a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy. He also exhibited at international shows like the Paris Salon. He was known for his often sentimental nudes and for his pictures of children; he was in fact among the first Canadian painters to explore the nude as a subject.[2]

Paul Kay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Kay: an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferring to the Department of Linguistics in 1982. He is best known for his work with anthropologist Brent Berlin on colour: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969) ISBN 1-57586-162-3. More recently, he has worked in the area of Construction Grammar with Charles J. Fillmore, authoring the textbook Construction Grammar (1996 manuscript). He is currently working on an extension of Construction Grammar called Sign-Based Construction Grammar, authoring a book on this topic with Charles Fillmore, Ivan Sag and Laura Michaelis.

Paul Pimsleur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Pimsleur: was an authority in the field of applied linguistics.Pimsleur grew up in New York City and earned a bachelor's degree at the City College of New York and a Ph.D. in French and a master's degree in psychological statistics from Columbia University.His first position involved teaching French phonetics and phonemics at the University of California, Los Angeles. After leaving UCLA, Pimsleur went on to faculty positions at Ohio State University, where he taught French and foreign language education. At the time, the foreign language education program at OSU was the major doctoral program in that field in the US. While at Ohio State he created and directed the Listening Center, one of the largest language laboratories in the United States.

Paul Martin Postal            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Martin Postal: an American linguist and member of the faculty of New York University.An important figure in the early development of generative grammar, he became a proponent of the generative semantics movement along with George Lakoff, and James D. McCawley. He has since become a vocal critic of generative grammar in all forms, and specifically criticizes the manner in which Noam Chomsky promotes his current theories of language.[1]

John Lee Paul, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Lee Paul, Jr.: is a former race car driver in CART and the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series and winner of the 1982 12 Hours of Sebring while co-driving with his father John Paul, Sr.

Jean Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jean Paul: is an award winning Canadian stage and screen actor who has performed extensively throughout Canada and in the United States.He was born in Edmonton, Alberta on January 8, 1978. Popular and dynamic as an actor, Ron has worked with such notable directors a

Frank Rudolph Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frank Rudolph Paul: was an illustrator of US pulp magazines in the science fiction field. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Robert Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Paul: was a Canadian figure skater, who competed in pairs with Barbara Wagner. He was born in Toronto.

Tommy Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tommy Paul: was an a former world featherweight boxing champion from Buffalo, NY. He was inducted into the first class of Buffalo’s Ring No. 44 Boxing Hall of Fame and in 2003 to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. He won the world featherweight championship in