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Padma Sambhava (Tibetan Buddhist saint)
Padmapani (Buddhist bodhisattva)
Paine, Thomas (writer)
Painter of the Louvre Bottle (vase painter)
Palmer, Samuel (artist)
Pan (Greek god)
Pandora (Greek legendary figure)
Papatuanuka (Maori Earth Mother)
Parattarna (king of Mitanni)
Parbury, Ishmail (goldsmith)
Paris (Trojan prince)
Parmigianino (artist)
Pars, William (artist)
Parshvanatha (Jain tirthankara)
Parvati (Hindu god)
Paser (Viceroy of Nubia)
Pasti, Matteo di Andrea de' (medallist)
Paul (Christian saint)
Payava (Lykian aristocrat)
Payne Knight, Richard (collector)
Pazuzu (demon god)
Pedro 'the Cruel' (king of Castile)
Peirithoos (king of the Lapiths)
Peleus (king of the Myrmidons)
Penthesileia (queen of the Amazons)
Peribsen (king of Egypt)
Perikles (Athenian statesman)
Perino del Vaga (artist)
Persephone (Greek goddess)
Perseus (Greek hero)
Peruzzi, Baldassare (artist)
Pescia Romana Painter (vase painter)
Peter (Christian saint)
Peter I (tsar of Russia)
Pether, William (artist)
Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders (archaeologist)
Pheidias (sculptor)
Philetairos (ruler of Pergamon)
Philip (Roman emperor)
Philip II (king of France)
Philip II (king of Macedon)
Philip II (king of Spain)
Philip III (king of Spain)
Philip V (king of Spain)
Philip VI (king of France)
Phrynos Painter (vase painter)
Picasso, Pablo Ruíz (artist)
Pied Piper (ratcatcher of Hamelin)
Piette, Edouard (archaeologist)
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste (artist)
Pilate, Pontius (Roman governor of Judaea)
Pilon, Germain (sculptor)
Pimay (king of Egypt)
Pingo, Lewis (chief engraver of the Mint)
Pingo, Thomas (engraver at the Royal Mint)
Pinudjem (king of Egypt)
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (artist)
Piruz (Sasanian emperor of Iran)
Pisanello (artist)
Pissarro, Camille (artist)
Pistoxenos Painter (vase painter)
Pistrucci, Benedetto (artist)
Pitt, William ('the Elder', 1st Earl of Chatham)
Pius VI (Pope)
Piye (king of Egypt)
Pliny 'the Elder' (Roman writer)
Poggini, Domenico (goldsmith, poet and sculptor)
Poggini, Gianpaolo (medallist)
Poliorcetes, Demetrius (king of Macedonia)
Pollaiuolo, Antonio (artist)
Polyphemus (legendary giant)
Pomona (Roman wood nymph)
Pons, David (watchmaker)
Pontormo, Jacopo da (artist)
Pope-Hennessy, Sir John Wyndham (art historian)
Posada, José Guadalupe (artist)
Poseidon (Greek god)
Postnikov, Georgy (medallist)
Postumus (Roman general)
Potter, Helen Beatrix (author)
Poussin, Nicolas (artist)
Power, Cyril (artist)
Poynter, Sir Edward John (artist)
Pozzo, Cassiano dal (antiquarian)
Prajnaparamita (Buddhist goddess)
Priestley, Dr Joseph (noncomformist minister and scientist)
Protesilaos (Greek hero)
Proust, Antonin (writer)
Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul (artist)
Psammetichus I (king of Egypt)
Psiax (vase painter)
Ptah (Egyptian god)
Ptah-Sokar (Egyptian god)
Ptah-Sokar-Osiris (Egyptian god)
Ptolemy Apion (king of Cyrene)
Ptolemy I Soter (king of Egypt)
Ptolemy II Philadelphos (king of Egypt)
Ptolemy IV Philopator (king of Egypt)
Ptolemy V Epiphanes (king of Egypt)
Ptolemy VIII Physkon (king of Egypt)
Ptolemy XIII (brother of Cleopatra VII)
Pu-abi ('queen' of Ur)
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (architect)
Pygmalion (king of Cyprus)
Pytheos (sculptor, architect)
Python (vase painter)
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