Paul

Paul is a popular male first name, from the Greek Paulos. It appears to have been invented by Paul of Tarsus of the Bible. In Latin, Paulus was a family surname, never a first name. The Latin word paulus, related to the Greek pauros, means small. The Greek word saulos, which was the common transliteration of the Hebrew Saul, means an immoral gait http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2393443.

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Male - First name - Greek - Paul of Tarsus - Bible - Latin - Surname - Saul

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Several notable people were called by the single name Paul:

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• Paul of Tarsus, whose birth name was Saul, a disciple and apostle of Jesus, known to many as Saint Paul. See also Saint Paul for a St. Paul disambiguation page.
• Paul is the chosen name of many Popes of the Roman Catholic Church upon election to the papacy:
• Pope Paul I
• Pope Paul II
• Pope Paul III
• Pope Paul IV
• Pope Paul V
• Pope Paul VI
• Paul of Russia, a Russian Tsar
• Paul of Yugoslavia (Pavle), a prince regent of Yugoslavia in the 1930s