Master P: Percy Miller (gangsta-rap musician/record producer/clothing entrepreneur/movie actor, b1970)
G.W. Pabst: Georg Wilhelm Pabst (kind German movie director, b1885 d1967)
Chris Paciello: Christian Ludwigsen (Miami nightclub owner/gangster/ex-boyfriend of supermodel Niki Taylor)
Al Pacino: Alfredo James Pacino [nn: Sonny] (movie actor/director/producer/writer, b1940)
Buster Pack: Stuard Pack (country western acoustic guitarist/vocalist, b1928 d19??)
Vin Packer: Marijane Meaker (writer)
Lewis Padgett: C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner (writers)
Diamond Dallas Page: Page Joseph Falkinburg (professional championship wrestler, b1949)
Gale Page: Sally Rutter (movie actor, b1911? b1913? d1983)
Genevieve Page: Genevieve Bonjean (movie actress, b1931)
Patti Page: Clara Ann Fowler [nn: The Singing Rage] (singer, b1927)
Debra Paget: Debra Lee Griffin (movie actor, b1933)
Nicola Pagett: Nicola Scott (movie & tv actress, b1945)
Janis Paige: Donna MacJaden (opera diva/movie & tv actress, b1922)
Richard Paige: Dean Ray Koontz (writer)
Satchel Paige: Leroy Robert Paige (professional baseball pitcher, b1906 d1982)
Dicken Pain: Jeff Robert Pain (British rock & roll singer/guitarist/songwriter with Mr. Big)
Lewis Paine: Lewis Thornton Powell [aka Lewis Payne, Lewis Wood] (U.S. conspirator/assassin involved w/John Wilkes Booth)
Jack Palance: Vladimir Palanuik (writer)
Jack Palance: Walter Jack Palanuik (movie & tv actor/published poet/one-armed push-up spokesperson, b1919)
Palinurus: Cyril Connolly (British novelist, b1903 d1974)
Corliss Palmer: Corliss Martin (silent-movie actor, b1902 d1952)
Gregg Palmer: Palmer Lee (disc jockey/movie actor, b1927)
Lilli Palmer: Lilli Marie Peiser (movie, stage & tv actress/novelist, b1911? b1914? d1986)
Robert Palmer: Alan Palmer (rock & roll singer/composer/songwriter/guitarist for Power Station and solo)
Chazz Palminteri: Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri (actor/playwright, b1951? b1952?)
Pami: Usermare-setepenre Pimay (8th pharaoh of the 22nd Dynasty of Egypt, 783-773BC)
Hermes Pan: Hermes Panaglotopolous (dance director, b1905 d1990)
Katina Paninou: Katina Constantopoulos (movie actress, b1932)
Pansy: Isabella Macdonald Alden (children's magazine writer/editor, b1841 d1930) {NdG was a childhood pet name given by her mother}
Paul Panzer: Paul Wolfgang Panzerbeiter (German-born silent-movie actor, b1872 d1958)
Papa Doc: Francois Duvalier (Haitian dictator, 1957-1971)
Irene Papas: Irene Lelekou (Greek movie actor, b1926)
Papillon: Henri Charriere (French convict who escaped from Devil's Island after 9 attempts) {the name is French for "butterfly"}
Papinian: Aemilius Papinianus (Roman jurist)
Joseph Papp: Yosef Papirofsky (stage director/producer, b1921 d1991)
Philippus Paracelsus: Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Swiss alchemist/physician/mystic, b1493 d1541)
Parasite: Maxwell Jensen (foe of Superman)
Brad Park: Douglas Bradford (Canadian professional hockey defensive player w/the N.Y. Rangers & Boston Bruins, b1948)
Ace Parker: Clarence Parker (professional football quarterback)
Cecil Parker: Cecil Schwabe (stocky British movie actor, b1897 d1971)
David Parker: David Gene (professional baseball player, b1951)
Dorothy Parker: Dorothy Rothschild (author/poet/critic, b1893 d1967)
Eleanor Parker: Ellen Friedlob {NOTE: this information comes from a questionable source} (movie and tv actress, b1922)
Jean Parker: Luise Stephanie Zelinska (movie actress, b1912)
Junior Parker: Herman Parker, Jr. (blues vocalist/composer/harmonica player/bandleader)
Suzy Parker: Cecilia Parker (model/movie actress, b1932)
Col. Thomas A. Parker: Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk (carnival pitchman/Elvis' agent & manager, b1909 d1997) {took name from his deceased Army commanding officer in Hawaii in 1930's}
Willard Parker: Worster van Eps (movie & stage actor, b1912)
Norman Parkinson: Ronald William Parkinson Smith (British photographer)
Bert Parks: Bert Jacobson (singer/actor/quiz show host/entertainer, b1914 d1992)
Larry Parks: Sam Kleusman Lawrence Parks (movie actor, b1914 d1975)
Parkyarkarkus: Harold Einstein (comedian/movie actor/father of Albert Brooks, d1958 |yet he appeared in the 1979 film, Real Life|)
Peter Parley: Samuel Griswold Goodrich (U.S. author/editor, b1793 d1860)
Dita Parlo: Gerthe Komstadt (German movie actress, b1906 d1971)
Il Parmigianino: Francesco Mazzola (16th-century Italian mannerist painter)
Julie Parrish: Ruby Joyce Wilbar (tv actor, b1940)
Gram Parsons: Cecil Ingram Connor (country rock musician, b1946 d1973) {Parsons was his step-father's surname}
Louella Parsons: Louella Oettinger (newspaper columnist, b1880? b1893? d1972)
Emin Pasha: Edward Schnitzer (German explorer in Africa)
La Pasionara: Dolores Ibarruri Gomez (Spanish Communist agitator/politician, b1895 d1989)
George Pastor: Emily Morse Symonds (British novelist/dramatist specializing in feminist themes, b1870? d1936)
Tony Pastor: Antonio Pestritto (musician, b1907 d1969)
Wally Patch: Walter Vinnicombe (British entertainer/movie & stage actor, b1888 d1970? d1971?)
Banjo Paterson: Andrew Barton Paterson (poet/songwriter, best known for writing Waltzing Matilda, b1864 d1941)
Mandy Patinkin: Mandel Patinkin (Hope-ful tv actor & Broadway star, b1952)
Sir Angus Paton: Thomas Angus Lyall Paton (good dam engineer! - honored for his work on the Owens Falls and Kariba dams in India, and the Indus Basin Project in Pakistan, b1905 d1999)
Jason Patric: Jason Patric Miller, Jr. (movie & tv actor/producer, b1966)
Butch Patrick: Patrick Allan Lilley (movie & tv actor/Munster, b1953)
Gail Patrick: Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick (movie actress/tv producer, b1911 d1980)
John Patrick: John Patrick Goggan (playwright, b1905? b1907?)
Nigel Patrick: Nigel Dennis Wemyss (British movie, stage & tv actor, b1913 d1981)
Howard Patterson: Howard Neal Weiner (CEO/con-man of Eurasia Motor Corp. who sold franchises for a bogus Brazilian SUV called the "Gazelle")
Ted Pauker: George Robert Acworth Conquest (English poet/writer/editor, b1917)
Paul: Noel Paul Stookey [of Peter, Paul & Mary] (folk singer)
Paul: Ray Hildebrand [of Paul & Paula] (pop singer, b1940)
Adrian Paul: Adrian Paul Hewitt (British model/dancer/movie, stage & tv actor - The Highlander, b1959)
Jean Paul: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (German author/humorist, b1763 d1825)
John Paul: Charles Henry Webb (journalist/editor, b1834 d1905)
Les Paul: Lester William Polfus [nn: Wizard of Waukesha] (guitarist/singer/inventor/lyricist/bandleader of reknown, b1915)
Lyn Paul: Lynda Susan Belcher (British singer with The New Seekers)
Sean Paul: Sean Paul Henriques (Jamaican-born pop singer, b1973)
Paula: Jill Jackson [of Paul & Paula] (pop singer, b1942)
Madame Paulette: Pauline de la Bruyère (French hat designer, b1900 d1984)
Jane Pauley: Margaret Jane Pauley (tv newscaster/interviewer, b1950)
Marisa Pavan: Marisa Pierangeli (movie actress, b1932)
Johnny Paycheck: Don Lytle (country western singer, b1937? b1941?)
Pax: Mary Cholmondeley (British novelist, b1859 d1925)
Minnie Pearl: Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (Grand Ole Opry country singer/comedienne/actress, b1912 d1996)
Drew Pearson: Andrew Russell Pearson (newspaper columnist, b1877? b1897? d1969)
Harold Peary: Harold José Pereira de Faria (comedian/movie, radio & tv actor, b1908 d1985)
Gregory Peck: Eldred Gregory Peck (outstanding movie & stage actor who has always kept his audiences Spellbound, b1916)
Sam Peckinpah: David Samuel Peckinpah (movie director/scriptwriter known for making films containing quite a bit of violence, b1925 d1984)
Torchy Peden: William Peden (Canadian bicycle racer)
John Peel: John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (British radio disc jockey, b1938? b1939?)
Nia Peeples: Verinia Peeples (movie & tv actress, b1961)
Jan Peerce: Jacob Pincus Perelmuth (opera tenor, b1904 d1984)
Peggy Sue: Peggy Sue Wright (country singer, b1903)
Baby Peggy: Peggy Montgomery (child movie star, b1917)
Westbrook Pegler: Francis Westbrook Pegler (journalist/columnist known for exposing labor corruption, b1894 d1969)
I.M. Pei: Ieoh Ming Pei (Chinese architect)
Pelé: Edson Arantes do Nascimento (great Brazilian soccer player, b1940)
Marti Pellow: Mark McLoughlin (singer/songwriter)
Meeno Peluce: Miro Fiore Peluce (movie actor/director/writer, b1970)
Ralph Pena: Raymond Pena (jazz double bassist)
Mike Pender: Michael Prendergast (British singer/guitarist with The Searchers, b1942)
Pendragon: Henry Sampson (newspaper publisher/editor/sports writer, b1841 d1891) {NdG means "head dragon"}
The Penguin: Oswald Chesterfield Cobblebot (cold-hearted fictional villain in the Batman franchaise)
Penn: Penn Jillette [of Penn & Teller] (magician/comedian, b1955)
D.A. Pennebaker: Don Alan Pennebaker (documentary movie maker, b1930)
Joe Penner: Joe Pinter (Hungarian-born radio comedian/movie actor, b1904 d1941)
J.C. Penney: James Cash Penney (businessman/retail chain entrepreneur)
Pennsylvania Farmer: John Dickinson (lawyer/political columnist/activist against the Crown, b1732 d1800)
Prudence Penny: Dorothy Malone, Hyman Goldberg (cookbook authors)
Pepa: Sandra Denton [of Salt-N-Pepa] (rap singer)
Pepper: Barkley (Jack Russell terrier co-star of the film This Boy's Life)
Pip Pepperpod: Charles Warren Stoddard (author, b1843 d1909)
Percival: Julian Ralph (journalist, b1853 d1903)
S.J. Perelman: Sidney Joseph Perelman (author/humorist)
Rosie Perez: Rosa Marie Perez (dancer/movie actress, b1964)
Tony Perez: Atanacio Rigal (Cuban professional baseball player/manager, b1942)
Mr. Perfect: Curt Hennig (profesional wrestler, b1959 d2003)
François Perier: François Pilu (French movie actor, b1919)
Eva Peron: Maria Eva Duarte de Peron [nn: Evita] (Argentine 1st lady/head of state, b1919 d1952 {sniff, boo hoo})
Isabel Peron: Maria Estela Martinez Cartas (former Argentinian head of state)
H. Ross Perot: Ray Henry Ross Perot (businessman/would-be politician, b1930)
Gigi Perreau: Ghislaine Perreau-Saussine (movie & tv actress/child star of the 40's and 50's, b1941)
Lee "Scratch" Perry: Rainford Hugh Perry [aka 'The Upsetter'] (record producer who specializes in Jamaican reggae - invented the mixing technique of "track bouncing", b1936)
Luke Perry: Coy Luther Perry, III (movie & tv actor, b1966)
Tony Perry: Antoinette Perry (stage actor/director/namesake of Broadway's Tony award, b1888 d19??)
Blackjack Pershing: John Joseph Pershing (World War I U.S. commanding general, b1860 d1948)
Peter: Peter Yarroux [of Peter, Paul & Mary] (folk singer)
J. Peterman: John Peterman (former poetic clothing catalog retailer & Seinfeld spoof target, b1942?)
Bernadette Peters: Bernadette Lazzara {Lazzaro?} (movie & stage actress/singer/comedienne/dancer, b1948)
Brock Peters: George Brock Fisher (movie actor/singer/cartoon voice, b1927)
Elizabeth Peters: Dr. Barbara Mertz (author)
Roberta Peters: Roberta Peterman (opera soprano)
Susan Peters: Suzanne Carmahan {Carnahan?} (movie actress, b1921 d1952)
Paul Petersen: William Paul Petersen (movie & tv actor - The Donna Reed Show, b1945)
Petrarch: Francesco Petrarca (Italian poet & scholar, B1304 D1374)
+ pets.com dog puppet: Michael Ian Black [born Michael Schwartz] (actor who doggedly keeps his hand in the advertising game)
Slim Jim Phantom: James McDonnell (rock & roll drummer with the Stray Cats)
Phil: Barkley (Jack Russell terrier co-star of the film Volcano)
Kim Philby: Harold Adrian Russell Philby [aka Stanley, Agent Tom] (KGB agent who infiltrated British intelligence in the 1940's-50's, b1912 d1988)
Philip II: Philip Augustus (King of France, 1180-1223)
Emo Philips: Phil Soltanec (strange stand-up comedian with an even stranger falsetto voice)
Bum Phillips: O.A. Phillips (former head coach of the Houston Oilers football team)
Julianne Phillips: Julianne Smith (movie & tv actress/former wife of Bruce Springsteen, b1960)
Lou Diamond Phillips: Lou Upchurchb(movie actor, b1962)
Phil Phillips: John Phillip Baptiste (rhythm & blues singer/guitarist)
Mackenzie Phillips: Laura Mackenzie Phillips (movie & tv actress, b1959)
Michelle Phillips: Holly Graham {Michelle?} Gilliam (movie & tv actress/model/pop singer with the Mamas & The Papas, b1944)
Sam Phillips: Leslie Phillips (contemporary Christian singer/Die Hard actress)
Phiz: Hablot Knight Browne (English painter/a Dickens of an illustrator, b1815 d1882)
Patricia Phoenix: Patricia Pilkington, Irish tv actress - Coronation Street, b1923 d1986)
River Phoenix: River Jude Bottom [nn: Rio] (movie actor, b1970 d1993)
Phranc: Susan Gottlieb (punk rocker/folksinger, b1960)
Duncan Phyfe: Duncan Fifi (Scottish furniture-maker, b1768 d1854)
Edith Piaf: Edith Giovanna Gassion (French chanteuse, b1915 d1963)
Piano Red: William Lee Perryman (blues singer/pianist, b1911 d1985)
Tina Pica: Concetta Annunziata Pica (Italian movie actress, b1884 d1968)
Pick & Pat: Pick Malone & Pat Padgett (vaudvillian blackface comics of the 40's)
Slim Pickens: Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. (singer/movie & tv actor/nuclear weapon broncbuster, b1919 d1983)
Jack Pickford: Jack Smith (Canadian movie actor, b1896 1933)
Mary Pickford: Gladys Marie Smith [aka 'Little Mary', 'Biograph Girl'] [nn: America's Sweetheart] (Canadian movie & stage actress/producer, b1892? b1893? d1979)
Peregrine Pickle: George Putnam Upton (journalist/music critic, b1834 d1919)
Jack Pierce: Janus Piccoulas (writer)
Pigpen: Ronald McKernan (rock musician, b1946 d1973)
Christopher Pike: Kevin McFadden (writer, b1954)
Robert L. Pike: Robert L. Fish (mystery writer, b1912 d1981)
Bronson Pinchot: Bronson Poncharavsky (movie & tv comic actor, b1959)
Theodore Pine: Emil Pataja (science fiction writer, b1915)
Pink: Alicia Moore (singer)
Lydia Pinkham: Lydia Estes (patent medicine bottler, b1819 d1883)
Pinky: Victor Dauvin (Canadian musician)
Pinturicchio: Bernardino di Betti di Biago (Italian painter, b1454 d1513)
Ezio Pinza: Fortunato Pinza (opera singer/movie actor, b1893 d1957)
Roddy Piper: Roderick Toombs (Scottish movie & tv actor, b1951)
Pipo the Clown: Herbert Joeks (Dutch actor, b1915 d1993)
Nelson Piquet: Nelson Soutomaior (Brazilian-born three-time Formula One auto racing champion, b1952) [an anagram of his name gives 'Eloquent Spin']
Killer Joe Piro: Frank Piro (dancer)
Paola Pitagora: Paola Gargaloni (Italian movie & tv actor, b1942)
Molly Pitcher: Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley (Revolutionary War notable who schlepped water to troops during Battle of Monmouth)
Brad Pitt: William Bradley Pitt (movie & tv actor, b1963)
Ingrid Pitt: Natasha Petrovana (movie & tv actress, b1943 on a concentration camp train in Europe)
Zasu Pitts: Eliza Susan Pitts (actress/comedienne, b1898 d1963) {eliZA SUsan, of course}
Antoninus Pius: Titus Aurelius Fulvius Boionius Arrius (Roman emperor, 138-161)
Pete Piute: Morris Kaufman (comedian)
Benjamin Place: Edward Thring (English schoolmaster/teacher/writer, b1821 d1887)
Plantu: Jean Plantureux (French political cartoonist for Le Monde, d1999)
Plato: Aristocles (Greek philosopher, b427BC? d347BC)
Playboy Advisor: Chip Rowe (monthly Playboy magazine columnist that dispenses advise on all things sexual)
Martha Plimpton: Martha Carradine (movie actress, b1971)
Pliny the Younger: Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Roman statesman)
Sally Plonsky: Karin Kuretschka (writer)
Christopher Plummer: Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (Canadian movie actor, b1927)
Pocahontas: Matoaka [aka Rebecca Rolfe] (American Indian princess, b1595 d1617) {Algonquian for "Little Wanton"}
Buster Poindexter: David Johansen (rock & roll singer/guitarist/songwriter/music producer, b1950)
Poker Alice: Alice Ivers (professional cigar-smoking gambler/cardsharp, b1851 d1930)
Roman Polanski: Raimund Liebling (movie actor/director/writer/producer/convicted rapist, b1933)
Polidor: Ferdinando Guillaume (French stage clown/movie comedian, b1887 d1977) {NdG means "many gifted"}
Gene Pollar: Joseph C. Pohler (fireman/actor/2nd Tarzan)
Daphne Pollard: Daphne Trott (movie actress, b1890 d1978)
Michael J. Pollard: Michael J. Pollack (movie & tv actor, b1939)
Snub Pollard: Harold Fraser (Australian-born comedian/movie actor, b1886 d1962)
Madame de Pompadour: Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (French courtesan)
Pompey the Great: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Roman general & statesman)
Doc Pomus: Jerome E. Felder [of Pomus & Shuman team] (rock & roll songwriter/lyricist, b1925 d1991)
Pont: Graham Laidler [aka 'Pontifex Maximus'] (British cartoonist with Punch, b1908 d1940)
D.J. Pooh: Mark Jordan (movie actor/writer/director/producer)
Iggy Pop: James Jewell Osterberg, Jr. (punk rock singer/songwriter/musician, b1947) {"Iggy" taken from his membership in an earlier group, The Iguanas}
Pope Adrian I: {name unknown by Vatican} (served from 772-795, Italian) (d795)
Pope Adrian II: {name unknown by Vatican} (served 867-872, Italian) (b792 d872)
Pope St. Adrian III: {name unknown by Vatican} (served 884-885, Italian) (d885)
Pope Adrian IV: Nicholas Brekespear (served from 1154-1159, English) (only Englishman to ascend to the papacy, b1100? d1159)
Pope Adrian V: Ottobuono Fieschi (served from July 12, 1276 - August 18, 1276, Italian) (d1276) [lived just long enough to experience "how great the mantle weighs," according to Dante]
Pope Adrian VI: Adrian Dedel [aka Adrian Florensz Boeyens] (served from 1522-1523, Dutch) (b1459 d1523) {last Pope to use his baptismal name as his papal name}
Pope St. Alexander I: {name unknown by Vatican} (served 106-115)
Pope Alexander II: Anselm of Lucca (served from 1061-1073, Italian) (d1073)
Pope Alexander III: Orlando Bandinelli (served from 1159-1181, Italian) (b1105? d1181)
Pope Alexander IV: Count Rinaldo di Segni (served from 1254-1261, Italian) (b1199 d1261)
Pope Alexander V: Pietro Philarghi [aka Pietro di Candia] (served from 1409-1410, Italian antipope) (b1339? d1410)
Pope Alexander VI: Roderigo Lançol y Borgia (served from 1492-1503, Spanish-born Italian) (b1431 d1503)
Pope Alexander VII: Fabio Chigi (served from 1655-1667, Italian) (b1599 d1667)
Pope Alexander VIII: Pietro Vito Ottoboni (served from 1689-1691, Italian) (b1610 d1691)
Pope St. Anastasius I: {name unknown by Vatican} (served from 399-403, Italian) (d403)
Pope Anastasius II: {name unknown by Vatican} (served from 496-498) (d498)
Pope Anastasius III: {name unknown by Vatican} (served from 911-913, Italian) (d913)
Pope Anastasius IV: Corrado della Subarra (served from 1153-1154, Italian) (d1154)
Pope Benedict VIII: Gregory Tusculum (served from 1012-1024)
Pope Benedict IX: Theophylactus (served from 1047-1048)
Pope Benedict X: John of Tusculum (served from 1058-1059) [antipope]
Pope Bl. Benedict XI: Niccolò di Boccasini (served from 1303-1304, Italian) (b1240 d1304)
Pope Benedict XII: Jacques Fournier (served from 1334-1342, French) (d1342)
Pope Benedict XIII: Pietro Francesco Orsini (served from 1724-1730, Italian) (b1649 d1730)
Pope Benedict XIII: Pedro de Luna (served from 1394-1423) [antipope]
Pope Benedict XIV: Prospero Lambertini (served from 1740-1758, Italian) (b1675 d1758)
Pope Benedict XIV: Bernard Garnier (served from 1425-1430) [antipope]
Pope Benedict XV: Giacomo Della Chiesa (served from 1914-1922, Italian) (b1854 d1922)
* Pope Benedict XVI: Joseph Ratzinger (serving 2005-present, German) (b1927)
Pope Benza: Alfredo Joseph Benza [aka A.J. Benza] (gossip columnist/mysterious tv personality that reports on Hollywood scandals with E!'s)
Pope Boniface VIII: Benedetto Caetani (served from 1294-1303, Italian) (b1355? d1404)
Pope Boniface IX: Pietro Tomacelli (served from 1389-1404)
Pope St. Caius: Caius Dalmatian (served from 283-296)
Pope Calixtus II: Guido di Borgogna (Italian) (d1124)
Pope Calixtus III: Alfonso Borgia (served from 1445-1458, Spanish) (b1378 d1458)
Pope Callistus II: Guy of Vienne {Guy of Burgundy?} (served from 1119-1124)
Pope Callistus III: Alfonso de Borja (served from 1455-1458)
Pope Callistus III: John of Struma (served from 1168-1178) [antipope]
Pope St. Celestine I: Celestine Campanian (served from 422-432)
Pope Celestine II: Guido di Città di Castello (served from 1143-1144, Italian) (d1144)
Pope Celestine III: Giacinto Boboni-Orsini (served from 1191-1198, Italian) (b1106? d1198)
Pope Celestine IV: Goffredo Castiglione (served from 1241-1241, Italian) (d1241)
Pope St. Celestine V: Pietro di Morrone [aka 'Peter of Murrone'] (served from 1294-1294, Italian) (b1209? b1215? d1296)
Pope Clement II: Adalbert of Hamburg [aka Suidger] (served from 1046-1047, Italian) (b1047)
Pope Clement III: Guibert of Ravenna (served from 1080-1100) [antipope]
Pope Clement III: Paolo Scolari (served from 1187-1191, Italian) (d1191)
Pope Clement IV: Guy le Gros Foulques (served from 1265-1268, French) (d1268)
Pope Clement V: Raymond Bertrand de Got (served from 1305-1314, French) (b1260? d1314)
Pope Clement VI: Pierre Roger de Beaufort (served from 1342-1352, French) (b1291 d1352)
Pope Clement VII: Giulio de'Medici (served from 1523-1534, Italian) (b1478 d1534)
Pope Clement VII: Robert of Geneva (served from 1378-1394) [antipope]
Pope Clement VIII: Ippolito Aldobrandini (served from 1592-1605, Italian) (b1536 d1605)
Pope Clement VIII: Gil Sanchez Munoz (served from 1423-1429) [antipope]
Pope Clement IX: Giulio Rospigliosi (served from 1667-1669, Italian, 238th Pope) (b1600 d1669)
Pope Clement X: Emilio Bonaventura Altieri (served from 1670-1676, Italian) (b1590 d1676)
Pope Clement XI: Giavan Francesco Albani (served from 1700-1721, Italian) (b1649 d1721)
Pope Clement XII: Lorenzo Corsini (served from 1730-1740, Italian) (b1652 d1740)
Pope Clement XIII: Carlo della Torre Rezzonico (served from 1758-1769, Italian) (b1693 d1769)
Pope Clement XIV: Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli (served from 1769-1774, Italian) (b1705 d1774)
Pope Damasus II: Poppo of Brixen (served from 1048-1048)
Pope Bl. Eugenius III: Bernardo Paganelli (served from 1145-1153, Italian) (d1153)
Pope Eugenius IV: Gabriele Condulmieri (served from 1431-1447, Italian) (b1383? d1447)
Pope Felix V: Amadeus VIII of Savoy (served from 1439-1449) [antipope]
Pope Gelasius II: John Coniulo {John of Gaeta?} (served from 1118-1119)
Pope Gregory V: Brunone di Carinzia (served from 996-999, Italian) (b972 d1048)
Pope Gregory VI: Giovanni Graziano [aka Johannes Gratianus] (served from 1045-1046, German-born Italian) (d1048)
Pope St. Gregory VII: Hildebrand (served from 1073-1085, Italian) (b1020? d1085)
Pope Gregory VIII: Maurice of Braga (served from 1118-1121) [antipope]
Pope Gregory VIII: Alberto di Morra (served from 1187-1187, Italian) (b1142? d1187)
Pope Gregory IX: Ugolino di Conti di Segni (served from 1227-1241, Italian) (d1241)
Pope Bl. Gregory X: Teobaldo Visconti (served from 1271-1276, Italian) (b1210 d1276)
Pope Gregory XI: Pierre Roger de Beaufort (served from 1370-1378, French) (b1331 d1378)
Pope Gregory XII: Angelo Corrario (served from 1406-1415, Italian) (b1327? d1417)
Pope Gregory XIII: Ugo Buoncompagni (served from 1572-1585, Italian) (b1502 d1585)
Pope Gregory XIV: Niccolo Sfondrati (served from 1590-1591, Italian) (b1535 d1591)
Pope Gregory XV: Alessandro Ludovisi (served from 1621-1623, Italian) (b1554 d1623)
Pope Gregory XVI: Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari (served from 1831-1846, Italian) (b1765 d1846)
Pope Hadrian IV: Nicholas Breakspear (served from 1154-1159)
Pope Hadrian V: Ottoboni Fieschi (served from 1276-1276)
Pope Honorius II: Peter Cadalus (served from 1061-1072) [antipope]
Pope Honorius II: Lamberto dei Fagnani Scannabechi (served from 1124-1130, Italian) (d1130)
Pope Honorius III: Cencio Savelli (served from 1216-1227, Italian) (d1227)
Pope Honorius IV: Giacomo Savelli (served from 1285-1287, Italian) (b1210? d1287)
Pope Innocent II: Gregory Parareschi dei Guidoni (served from 1130-1143, Italian) (d1143)
Pope Innocent III: Giovanni Lotario de'Conti di Segni (served from 1198-1216, Italian) (b1161 d1216)
Pope Innocent IV: Sinibaldo de'Fieschi (served from 1243-1254, Italian) (d1254)
Pope Bl. Innocent V: Pierre de Tarentaise (served from 1276-1276, French) (b1224? d1276)
Pope Innocent VI: Etienne Aubert (served from 1352-1362, French) (d1362)
Pope Innocent VII: Cosimo {Cosmato?} Gentile de'Migliorati (served from 1404-1406, Italian) (b1336? d1406)
Pope Innocent VIII: Giovanni Battista Cibo (served from 1484-1492, Italian) (b1432 d1492)
Pope Innocent IX: Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti (served from 1591-1591, Italian) (b1519 d1591)
Pope Innocent X: Giovanni Battista Pamfili (served from 1644-1655, Italian) (b1574 d1655)
Pope Bl. Innocent XI: Benedetto Odescalchi (served from 1676-1689, Italian) (b1611 d1689)
Pope Innocent XII: Antonio Pignatelli (served from 1691-1700, Italian) (b1615 d1700)
Pope Innocent XIII: Michelangelo de' Conti (served from 1721-1724, Italian) (b1655 d1721? d1724?)
Pope Innocent IX: Gian Antonio Facchinetti (served from 1591-1591)
Pope John II: Mercurius (served from 533-535, Italian) (1st pope to take a papal name, d535)
Pope John III: Catelinus (Italian) (d574)
Pope John XII: Octavian (Italian) (b937? d964)
Pope John XIV: Pietro Canepanova (served from 983-984, Italian) (d984)
Pope John XV: John (served from 985-996)
Pope John XVI: John Philagathus
Pope John XVII: Giovanni Siccone (served from 1003-1003, Italian) (d1003)
Pope John XVIII: Giovanni Phasanus {Fasano?} (served from 1003-1009, Italian) (d1009)
Pope John XIX: Romanus (served from 1024-1032)
Pope John XXI: Pietro Rebuli-Giuliani [aka Peter Juliani] (served from 1276-1277, Italian) (b1210? b1220? d1277)
Pope John XXII: Jacques d'Euse (served from 1316-1334, French) (b1249 d1334)
Pope John XXIII: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (261st pope, served from 1958-1963, Italian, b1881 d1963)
Pope John XXIII: Baldassare Cossa (served from 1410-1415) [antipope]
Pope John Paul I: Albino Luciani (served from 1978-1978, Italian) (b1913 d1978)
+ Pope John Paul II: Karol Jozef Wojtyla (served from 1978-2005, Polish, b1920 d2005)
Pope Julius II: Giuliano della Rovere (served from 1503-1513, Italian) (b1443 d1513)
Pope Julius III: Giammaria Ciocchi del Monte (served from 1550-1555, Italian) (b1487 d1555)
Pope Landus: Landus (served from 913-914)
Pope Leo VII: Alberic II (served from 936-939)
Pope St. Leo IX: Bruno of Egisheim {Bruno of Toul?} (served from 1049-1054, Alsatian) (b1002 d1054)
Pope Leo X: Giovanni de'Medici (served from 1513-1521, Italian) (b1475 d1521)
Pope Leo XI: Alessandro de'Medici-Ottaiano (served from 1605-1605, Italian) (b1535 d1605)
Pope Leo XII: Annibale Sermattei della Genga (served from 1823-1829, Italian) (b1760 d1829)
Pope Leo XIII: Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci (served from 1878-1903, Italian) (b1810 d1903)
Pope Lucius II: Gherardo Caccianemici (served from 1144-1145, Italian) (d1145)
Pope Lucius III: Ubaldus Allucingolus (served from 1181-1185, Italian) (b1097? d1185)
Pope Marcellus II: Marcello Cervini (served from 1555-1555)
Pope Martin IV: Simon de Brie (served from 1281-1285, French) (b1210? d1285)
Pope Martin V: Oddone Colonna (served from 1417-1431, Italian) (b1368 d1431)
Pope Nicholas II: Gérald of Burgandy (served from 1058-1061, French) (d1061)
Pope Nicholas III: Giovanni Gaetano Orsini (served from 1277-1280, Italian) (b1225? d1280)
Pope Nicholas IV: Girolamo Masci (served from 1288-1292, Italian) (b1227 d1292)
Pope Nicholas V: Tommaso Parentucelli (served from 1447-1455, Italian) (b1397 d1455)
Pope Nicholas V: Pietro Rainalducci (served from 1328-30) [antipope]
Pope Paschal II: Raneiro da Bieda {Rainerius?} (served from 1099-1118, Italian) (d1118)
Pope Paschal III: Guido of Crema (served from 1164-1168) [antipope]
Pope Paul II: Pietro Barbo (served from 1464-1471, Italian) (b1417 d1471)
Pope Paul III: Allessandro Farnese (served from 1534-1549, Italian) (b1468 d1549)
Pope Paul IV: Giovanni Pietro Caraffa (served from 1555-1559, Italian) (b1476 d1559)
Pope Paul V: Camillo Borghese (served from 1605-1621, Italian) (b1552 d1621)
Pope Paul VI: Giovanni Battista Montini (served from 1963-1978, Italian) (b1897 d1978)
Pope Pius II: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini [aka Enea Silvio de Piccolomini] (served from 1458-1464, Italian) (b1405 d1464)
Pope Pius III: Francesco Todoeschini-Piccolomini (served from 1503-1503, Italian) (nephew of Pius II, b1439 d1503)
Pope Pius IV: Giovanni Angelo de'Medici (served from 1559-1565, Italian) (b1499 d1565)
Pope St. Pius V: Antonio Michele Ghislieri (served from 1566-1572, Italian) (b1504 d1572)
Pope Pius VI: Giovanni Angelo Braschi (served from 1775-1799, Italian) (b1717 d1799)
Pope Pius VII: Gregorio Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti (served from 1800-1823, Italian) (b1742 d1823)
Pope Pius VIII: Francesco Saverio Castiglioni (served from 1829-1830, Italian) (b1761 d1830)
Pope Pius IX: Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti (served from 1846-1878, Italian) [nn: Pio Nono] (b1792 d1878)
Pope St. Pius X: Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (served from 1903-1914, Italian, canonized 1954) (b1835 d1914)
Pope Pius XI: Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (served from 1922-1939, Italian) (b1857 d1939)
Pope Pius XII: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (served from 1939-1958, Italian) (b1876 d1958)
Pope Sergius IV: Pietro Buccaporca (served from 1009-1012, Italian) (d1012)
Pope Sixtus IV: Francesco della Rovere (served from 1471-1484, Italian) (pope that had the Sistine Chapel built in the Vatican, b1414 d1484)
Pope Sixtus V: Felice Peretti (served from 1585-1590, Italian) (b1521 d1590)
Pope Stephen X: Frederick of Monte Cassino [aka Frederick of Lorraine] (served from 1057-1058, French) (b1000? d1058)
Pope Sylvester II: Gerbert of Aurillac (served from 999-1003, first French pope - inventor of pendulum clock)
Pope Bl. Urban II: Odo Eudes de Chatillon [aka Odo of Lagery] (served from 1088-1099, French) (b1035? d1099)
Pope Urban III: Uberto Crivelli (served from 1185-1187, Italian) (d1187?)
Pope Urban IV: Jacques Pantaléon (served from 1261-1264, French) (b1200? d1264)
Pope Bl. Urban V: Guillaume de Grimoard (served from 1362-1370, French) (b1310? d1370)
Pope Urban VI: Bartolomeo Prignano (served from 1378-1389, Italian) (b1318? d1389)
Pope Urban VII: Giambattista Castagna (served from 1590-1590, Italian) (b1521 d1590)
Pope Urban VIII: Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini (served from 1623-1644, Italian) (b1568 d1644)
Pope Victor II: Gebhardt von Dollnstein-Hirschberg (served from 1055-1057, German) (b1018? d1057)
Pope Bl. Victor III: Dauferius [aka Desiderius] (served from 1086-1087, Italian) (b1027 d1087)
Pope Victor IV: Ottaviano di Monticelli (served from 1159-1164) [antipope]
Mighty Pope: Earl Heedram [aka Pope] (Jamaican-born Canadian accountant/choirist/disco-singer)
Popski: Vladimir Peniakoff (Belgian military commander/author, b1897 d1951) {NdG was a cover name for his military intelligence work in WWII}
Peter Porcupine: William Cobbett (English political author, b1763 d1835)
Porphyry: Malchus (Syrian neo-Platonic philosopher and paganist)
Sylvia Porter: Sylvia Feldman (author/economist/columnist/tax expert, b1913 d1991)
Natalie Portman: Natalie Hershlag (Israeli-born movie actress, b1981) {Portman is her grandmother's maiden name}
Emily Post: Emily Price [aka Miss Manners] (etiquette author, b1873 d1960)
Markie Post: Marjorie Post (movie & tv actress - Night Court, b1950)
Adrienne Posta: Adrienne Poster (British movie actress, b1948)
Pol Pot: Saloth Sar (Cambodian dictator/mass murderer, b1925 d1998)
Beatrix Potter: Helen Beatrix Potter (English author & illustrator of children's books, most noted for 'Peter Rabbit', b1866 d1943)
Ezra Pound: Weston Loomis (poet)
C.C.H. Pounder: Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder (Guyana-born movie & tv actress, b1952) {Carol, Christine & Hilaria are all names of her relatives}
Jane Powell: Suzanne Burce {Bruce?} (movie actress/singer, b1929)
Sandy Powell: Albert Powell (British music hall & radio comedian/movie actor, b1898 d1982)
Tyrone Power: Frederick Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (American movie actor, b1914 d1958)
Tyrone Power, Jr.: Tyrone William Power, IV (movie & tv actor, b1959)
Tyrone Power, Sr.: Frederick Tyrone Edmund Power (British silent-movie actor, b1869 d1931)
Johnny Powers: John Pavlik (rockabilly guitarist/singer, b1938)
Mala Powers: Mary Ellen Powers (movie actress, b1931)
Stephanie Powers: Stefania Zofija Federkiewicz [aka, Taffy Paul] (actress, b1942)
Prankster: Oswald Loomis (foe of Superman)
Babe Pratt: Walter Pratt (Canadian professional hockey player, b1916 d1988)
The Preacher: Coupe' Cloue' [aka Le Roi] (Haitian guitarist/singer, b1925 d1998)
Preki: Predrag Radosavljevic (U.S. National Soccer Team member)
Paula Prentiss: Paula Ragusa (movie & tv actress, b1939)
Micheline Presle: Micheline Chassagne (French movie & stage actress, b1922)
Priscilla Presley: Priscilla Beaulieu (movie actress/widow of Elvis, b1945)
Reg Presley: Reginald Ball (British rock & roll singer/songwriter, b1943)
Kelly Preston: Kelly Palzis (movie actress, b1962)
Robert Preston: Robert Preston Meservey (movie, stage & tv actor/singer/Music Man, b1918 d1987)
Pretty Boy Floyd: Charles Arthur Floyd (1930's gangster)
Préville: Pierre-Louis Dibus (French comic stage actor, b1721 d1799)
Abbe Prevost: Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles (18th-century French writer)
Marie Prévost: Marie Bickford Dunn (movie actress, b1893 d1937)
Dennis Price: Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price (British movie & stage actor, b1915 d1973)
Mark Price: William Price (professional basketbal player - NBA guard)
Nancy Price: Lillian Maude (British naturalist/semi-mystic/movie & stage actress, b1880 d1970)
Maxi Priest: Max Elliott (Jamaican reggae singer, b1961)
J.B. Priestley: John Boynton Priestley (playwright)
"Primary Colors" author: Joe Klein (anonymous author/Newsweek columnist/CBS news consultant)
Prince: Prince Rogers Nelson (singer/songwriter/actor, b1958)
Prince Albert: Francis Charles Augustus Albert Emanuel (German prince)
Prince Andrew: Andrew Albert Christian Edward (British royalty)
Prince Charles: Charles Philip Arthur George (British royalty)
[aka His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland]
Prince Charmer: Louis Eugene Walcott [aka Louis Haleem Abdul Farrakhan] (Calypso star/minister/black nationalist/bow-tied leader of the 'Nation of Islam', b1933)
Prince Edward: Edward Antony Richard Louis (British royalty)
Prince Mark D.: Mark Morale (rap singer with The Fat Boys)
Prince Philip: Prince Phillip of Greece and Denmark [surname: Mountbatten] (Greek/Danish royalty/British royalty - husband to Queen Elizabeth II/pilot/movie actor/animal activist, albeit a hunter, b1921)
[aka the Duke of Edinburgh, the Earl of Merioneth, the Baron Greenwich]
Prince Rainier III: Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand (Monaco royalty, b1923)
Princess Anne: Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise (British royalty)
Princess Caroline: Caroline Louise Marguerite Grimaldi (Princess of Monaco)
Princess Di: The Honorable Diana Frances Spencer (British royalty, b1961 d1997)
Princess Grace: Grace Kelly (actress/Princess of Monaco)
Princess Stephanie: Stephanie Marie Elisabeth Grimaldi (pop singer/Princess of Monaco)
Hal Prince: Harold Smith (stage director/producer)
Aileen Pringle: Aileen Bisbee (silent-movie actress, b1895 d1989)
Yvonne Printemps: Yvonne Wigniolle (French musical comedy & movie actress, b1894 d1977)
Freddie Prinze: Freddie Preutzel (comedian/suicide victim, b1954 d1977)
P.J. Proby: James Smith (singer, b1943)
The Professor: Roy Hinkley (very smart, but fictitious, island castaway)
Robert Prosky: Robert Porzuczek (movie & tv actor, b1931)
G. Clifford Prout, Jr.: Buck Henry (who portrayed this ficticious do-gooder heir & president of the Society for the Indecency in Naked Animals before the media in the late 50's on behalf of practical jokester Alan Abel)
William Proxmire: Edward William Proxmire (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1957-1989) - best known for his "Golden Fleece Awards" mocking the government's wasteful spending, b1915)
Jeanne Pruett: Norma Jean Bowman (country singer/songwriter)
Joseph Prunier: Guy de Maupassant (French short story writer, b1850 d1893)
Kozma Prutkov: Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy and cousins Aleksei Mikhailovich & Vladimir Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov (Russian poets/writers, b1817 d1875)
Maureen Pryor: Maureen Pook (Irish movie, stage & tv actress, b1924 d1977)
Nicholas Pryor: Nicholas David Probst (movie & tv actor, b1935)
Vanessa Pryor: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (writer)
Pseudoplutarch: John Milton (English poet, b1608 d1674)
Psusennes I: Akheperre-setepanamun Psibkhaemne (3rd pharaoh of the 21st Dynasty of Egypt, 1040-992BC)
Ptolemy: Claudius Ptolemaeus (astronomer & geographer)
Ptolemy II: Ptolemy Philadelphus (King of Egypt, 285-246 B.C.)
Ptolemy III: Ptolemy Euergetes (King of Egypt, 246-221 B.C.)
Publicola: Publius Valerius (Roman statesman)
Emilio Pucci: Marchese di Barsento (fashion designer)
Puck: Robin Goodfellow (mischievious sprite)
Riley Puckett: George Puckett (country singer/guitarist, b1884? d1946)
Tommy Puett: Ralph Thomas Puett III (tv actor)
Puff Daddy: Sean Combs (hip-hop promoter-turned-entrepreneur/producer/movie & tv actor, b1969? b1970?)
Charles Puffy: Karoly Huszar (Hungarian movie actor, b1884 d1942)
Count Kazimierz Pulaski: Casimir Pulaski (Polish/Lithuanian military leader & revolutionary)
Big Poppa Pump: Scott Rechsteiner [aka Scott Steiner, 'Steiner Recliner', 'Frankensteiner'] (professional wrestler)
Reginald Purdell: Reginald Grandorf (British movie & tv actor, b1896 d1953)
Bobby Purify: Robert Lee Dickey (soul singer, b1939) {NdG taken from his cousin & singing partner, James Purify}
Ernie Pyle: Ernest Taylor Pyle (WWII reporter/journalist/editor/author)
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