Professional/specialist Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a prolific scholar, teacher, and pope. He endorsed and promoted Arabic knowledge of arithmetic,

Was a prolific scholar, teacher, and pope. He endorsed and promoted Arabic knowledge of arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy in Europe, reintroducing the abacus and armillary sphere, which had been lost to Europe since the end of the Greco-Roman era. He was the first French Pope, reigning from 999 until his death . Due to his efforts to root out simony and other corruption within the Church, and his connection with the science and intellectualism of the Arab world

Is an Indian economist and political commentator, who has achieved international acclaim with his in

Is an Indian economist and political commentator, who has achieved international acclaim with his incisive analyses of economics and politics. He is a professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal

Was an Indian philosopher, social revolutionary, poet and linguist. Above all this, however, he is u

Was an Indian philosopher, social revolutionary, poet and linguist. Above all this, however, he is usually remembered for his role as one of the foremost spiritual teachers of Tantra (Ananda Marga Tantra) and Yoga of the twentieth century; the founding figure behind Ananda Marga, he is often known by his spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti and was affectionately referred to as Baba by his disciples. P. R. Sarkar left behind a vast body of work that includes theories aimed at increasing human welfare such as the Law of the Social Cycle, the Progressive Utilization Theory, the Theory of Microvitum as well as the philosophy of Neohumanism.

A Leading Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and a member[1] of Cen

A Leading Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and a member[1] of Center for Game Theory in Economics at Stony Brook. He also holds a visiting position [2] at Cowles Foundation, Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University and B.Sc. (with Honors in Physics) from University of Delhi. His areas of research interests are game theory and mathematical economics. He has published, among others, in Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is a Fellow [3] of Econometric Society and a member of the council of Game Theory Society.

A popular magician, illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer from Udupi, Karnataka, India. Ren

A popular magician, illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer from Udupi, Karnataka, India. Renowned for his escape acts, Prahlad has been termed Indian Houdini by the Indian media. Prahlad is also an entertaining ventriloquist, and an expert shadow play artiste. His show is called Maya Jadoo, which is a 20-member magical extravaganza filled with ethnic Indian illusions. He has developed an artform that splices drama with magic. He calls it "dramagic"

Was Chief Justice of India from 1 February 1964 to 15 March 1966. He has given lectures in Bombay Un

Was Chief Justice of India from 1 February 1964 to 15 March 1966. He has given lectures in Bombay University and Karnataka University. He had also presided over the Maharashtra Social Conference(1953-54)

Is a Romanian-born German mathematician, best known for his proof of Catalan's conjecture.Born in Bu

Is a Romanian-born German mathematician, best known for his proof of Catalan's conjecture.Born in Bucharest, he is the brother of Vintila Mihailescu. After leaving Romania in 1973, he settled in Switzerland. He studied mathematics and informatics in Zürich, receiving his Ph.D. from ETH Zürich in 1997. His thesis, titled Cyclotomy of rings and primality testing, was written under the direction of Erwin Engeler and Hendrik Lenstra.

Was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist and landowner.Selby is best known for his Illustra

Was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist and landowner.Selby is best known for his Illustrations of British Ornithology (1821–1834), the first set of life-sized illustrations of British birds. He also wrote Illustrations of Ornithology with William Jardine and A History of British Forest-trees (1842).Many of the illustrations in his works were drawn from specimens in his collection. In addition to the above works he contributed to Jardine's Naturalist's Library the volumes on the Pigeons (1835) and the Parrots (1836), the latter illustrated by Edward Lear. He was for some time one of the editors of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany. His collections were sold in 1885 and became dispersed. The South African birds collected by Andrew Smith went to the Zoology Museum of the University of Cambridge.

A Canadian geoscientist of great distinction and a world leader in Quaternary research. He is known

A Canadian geoscientist of great distinction and a world leader in Quaternary research. He is known for his groundbreaking research on the environment, climate change, and oceanography. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and professor at l'Université du Québec à Montréal.Dr. Hillaire-Marcel was born and educated in France. He received advanced degrees at the Sorbonne in 1968, and the University of Paris in 1979.He moved to Canada and became a professor at l'Université du Québec à Montréal. From between 1970 and 2003, Claude Hillaire-Marcel authored or co-authored over 150 scientific papers. He supervised 20 doctoral dissertations and 37 M.Sc. & D.E.A. theses, and in addition he had 13 scientists working with him as postdoctoral fellows from Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, the UK & the U.S..

A sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City of Norwich S

A sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City of Norwich School from 1955.Trudgill studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge. He was later awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught in the Department of linguistic science at the University of Reading from 1970 to 1986, before becoming professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Essex. He was professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Lausanne from 1993 to 1998, and after that at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from which he retired in September 2005. He is now part time professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway; and adjunct professor at the Research centre for linguistic typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, as well as honorary professor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

Was a French surgeon and naturalist.He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on La C

Was a French surgeon and naturalist.He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on La Coquille during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822-25). Along with Rene Primevere Lesson he collected numerous natural history specimens in South America and the Pacific. Garnot had a severe attack of dysentery and was sent back with some of the collection on the Castle Forbes. The specimens were lost when the ship was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope in July 1824. With Lesson he wrote the zoological section of the voyage's report, Voyage autour du monde exécuté par order du roi sur la corvette La Coquille (1828-32).

Was an Italian physician and botanist.in the republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time i

Was an Italian physician and botanist.in the republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in the Milanese army, but in 1574 he went to study medicine at Padua. After taking his doctor's degree in 1578, he settled as a physician in Campo San Pietro, a small town in the Paduan territory. But his tastes were botanical, and to extend his knowledge of exotic plants he travelled to Egypt in 1580 as physician to George Emo or Hemi, the Venetian consul in Cairo.In Egypt he spent three years, and from a practice in the management of Date Palms, which he observed in that country, he seems to have deduced the doctrine of the sexual difference of plants, which was adopted as the foundation of the Linnaean taxonomy system. He says that "the female date-trees or palms do not bear fruit unless the branches of the male and female plants are mixed together;

Was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogu

Was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue.

Was a prominent Russian theorist of narodism, philosopher, publicist, and sociologist.

Was a prominent Russian theorist of narodism, philosopher, publicist, and sociologist.

Was a Russian mathematician who was born in Moscow, Russia and died in Moscow, Russia.He is known fo

Was a Russian mathematician who was born in Moscow, Russia and died in Moscow, Russia.He is known for his work on combinatorial problems in group theory: the word problem for groups, and the Burnside problem.