| Marcel Proust | French novelist, critic, and … | 1871–1922 |
| Charles Province | | |
| Gary Provost | American writer | 1944–1995 |
| Glen Provost | Catholic bishop | 1949 |
| David Prowse | English bodybuilder, weightli… | 1935 |
| Prudentius | Roman writer | 348–413 |
| Scott Pruitt | 14th and current Administrato… | 1968 |
| Bolesław Prus | leading figure in the history… | 1847–1912 |
| Frederick II of Prussia | king of Prussia | 1712–1786 |
| Mark Pryor | American politician | 1963 |
| Richard Pryor | American stand-up comedian, a… | 1940–2005 |
| Yaroslav Pryriz | Ukrainian Eastern Catholic bi… | 1963 |
| Michael Prysner | American anti-war political a… | 1983 |
| Adam Przeworski | Polish-American academic | 1940 |
| Psy | South Korean singer | 1977 |
| Ptahhotep | Ancient Egyptian vizier | |
| Włodzimierz Ptak | immunologist | 1928–2019 |
| Ptolemy | Greco-Egyptian writer and ast… | 100–170 |
| Giacomo Puccini | Italian composer | 1858–1924 |
| John Pudney | British writer | 1909–1977 |
| Yung Pueblo | | |
| Catherine Pugh | American politician | 1950 |
| Lewis Pugh | Environmental campaigner, mar… | 1969 |
| Osvaldo Pugliese | Argentine pianist, tango comp… | 1905–1995 |
| Manuel Puig | Argentine author and screenwr… | 1932–1990 |
| Juan Alberto Puiggari | Argentine archbishop | 1949 |
| Nitin Pujari | Indian spiritual leader , Puj… | 1990 |
| Albert Pujols | Dominican-American baseball p… | 1980 |
| Georgi Pulevski | Macedonian writer | 1817–1893 |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian-American newspaper … | 1847–1911 |
| Lilly Pulitzer | American fashion designer | 1931–2013 |
| Chesty Puller | United States Marine Corps ge… | 1898–1971 |
| Erkki Pulliainen | Finnish zoologist and politic… | 1938 |
| Philip Pullman | English author | 1946 |
| Sean Punch | Canadian editor | 1967 |
| Hari Punja | Fijian businessman | 1936 |
| Michael Punke | American jurist and lawyer | 1964 |
| William Morley Punshon | English Nonconformist minister | 1824–1881 |
| Dominic Purcell | actor | 1970 |
| Edward M. Purcell | American physicist | 1912–1997 |
| Henry Purcell | | |
| Steve Purcell | American cartoonist, animator… | 1959 |
| Ashley Purdy | American musician | 1984 |
| Ian Purkayastha | | 1992 |
| Gottfried de Purucker | Author, Theosophist | 1874–1942 |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey | British saint | 1800–1882 |
| Aleksandr Pushkin | Russian poet | 1799–1837 |
| Ferenc Puskás | Hungarian-Spanish association… | 1927–2006 |
| Bosco Puthur | Indian bishop | 1946 |
| Vladimir Putin | President of Russia, former P… | 1952 |
| Hilary Putnam | American philosopher | 1926–2016 |
| Mary Jo Putney | American writer | 1946 |
| David Puttnam | British film producer | 1941 |
| Andrew Puzder | American businessman | 1950 |
| Mario Puzo | American Novelist | 1920–1999 |
| Róbert Puzsér | hungarian publicist | 1974 |
| Georgy Pyatakov | Bolshevik revolutionary leader | 1890–1937 |
| Artimus Pyle | American musician | 1948 |
| Howard Pyle | American illustrator and auth… | 1853–1911 |
| Richard Pyle | American ichthyologist | 1967 |
| Zenon Pylyshyn | Canadian philosopher | 1937 |
| Barbara Pym | British writer | 1913–1980 |
| Thomas Pynchon | American novelist | 1937 |
| Pythagoras | ancient Greek mathematician a… | -585–-495 BC |
