Pavel Ivanovich Yakushkin was a Russian writer, ethnographer and folklore collector.

Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin was a Soviet philosopher and Communist Party official specialising in the fields of culture and sociology, and later a diplomat.

Pavel Solomonovich Yushkevich was a Russian philosopher. He was a Menshevik activist and participated as one of the Russian Machists in Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism in 1908. This publication prompted criticism in Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-criticism. By the 1920s Yushkevich abandoned political activities and worked at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow from 1922.

Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky was a Russian writer, close to the Narodnik movement and Narodnaya Volya group. He was also known under his pen name Vologdin (Вологдин).

Pavel Nikolayevich Zhagun is a Russian poet, musician, record producer, artist, and curator. Zhagun was raised in Ukraine and graduated from R.M. Glier Kiev Institute of Music as a trumpet player.

Pavlo Arie is a Ukrainian playwright, artist conceptualist, and painter.

Pavlo Platonovych Chubynskyi was a Ukrainian poet and ethnographer whose poem Shche ne vmerla Ukraina was set to music and adapted as the Ukrainian national anthem.

Pavlo Movchan is a Ukrainian poet and public figure, head of the "Prosvita" Society. Pavlo Movchan is a former deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament elected first in May 1990. Elected in 1990 (Kyiv), 1994 and 1998 in a single-mandate constituency. In the 2002 parliamentary election on an Our Ukraine Bloc ticket and Movchan was elected in 2007 on a Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko ticket. Movchan became a creating member of Reforms for the Future in February 2011. Movchan did not participate in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Pavlo Hryhorovych Tychyna was a major Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman. He composed the lyrics to the Anthem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Pavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi or Zagrebelnyi was a Soviet and Ukrainian novelist.