Leading Figures in History

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Poly Styrene

Punk musician

Polydore Vergil

Italian-English scholar (c. 1470–1555)

Pom Klementieff

b. 1986

French actress (born 1986)

Pommie Mbangwa

b. 1976

Zimbabwean cricketer and commentator

Pompeo Colonna

b. 1479

Italian noble (1479–1532)

Pomponio Nenna

Italian composer

Ponnambalam Ramanathan

b. 1851

Ceylon lawyer and politician

Ponnambalam Selvarasa

b. 1946

Sri Lankan politician

Pontiac (Odawa leader)

18th century Native American war chief

Pontormo

b. 1494

Florentine Mannerist painter

Pontus Hultén

b. 1924

Swedish art collector and museum director (1924–2006)

Pop Smoke

b. 1999

American rapper (1999–2020)

Pope Adeodatus II

Head of the Catholic Church from 672 to 676

Pope Adrian V

Head of the Catholic Church in 1276

Pope Agapetus I

Head of the Catholic Church from 535 to 536

Pope Alexander II

Head of the Catholic Church from 1061 to 1073

Pope Alexander IV

Head of the Catholic Church from 1254 to 1261

Pope Alexander VI

Head of the Catholic Church from 1492 to 1503

Pope Alexander VII

Head of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667

Pope Alexander VIII

b. 1610

Head of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691

Pope Benedict I

Head of the Catholic Church from 575 to 579

Pope Benedict II

Head of the Catholic Church from 684 to 685

Pope Benedict III

Head of the Catholic Church from 855 to 858

Pope Benedict V

Head of the Catholic Church in 964