People
Brief biographical sketches for selected persons mentioned in Joseph Smith’s papers. Names listed in this directory include church leaders and members, Smith family members, people Joseph Smith encountered in his travels, parties involved in legal and business matters, and other acquaintances. Each entry also includes links to all documents that mention the person. Some entries have document links but no biographical sketch; these are included to assist researchers interested in individuals who are less prevalent in Joseph Smith’s documentary record.

- Pack, John
- Packard, Noah
- Paddock, Salome
- Page, Catherine Whitmer
- Page, Hiram
- Page, John Edward
- Page, Seymore
- Paine, Ira C.
- Paine, James H.
- Palmer, Ambrose
- Palmer, James
- Parker, Henry
- Parker, John Davis
- Parker, Joseph
- Parker, Mary (Polly) Harris
- Parker, William
- Parks, Hiram Gartrell
- Parks, John
- Parks, Laura Eliza Olney
- Parrish, Martha H. Raymond
- Parrish, Warren Farr
- Parry, Patty Bartlett
- Parsons, William
- Partridge, Edward
- Partridge, Eliza
- Partridge, Emily Dow
- Patrick, Shepherd Goodwin
- Patten, David Wyman
- Patten, John
- Patterson, George A. H.
- Patterson, John
- Patterson, Lovina
- Payne, Henry B.
- Peart, Jacob
- Peart, John
- Peart, W.
- Peck, Esther
- Peck, Hezekiah
- Peck, Polly
- Peck, Reed
- Peirce, Hannah Harvey
- Peirce, Robert
- Peixotto, Daniel Levy Maduro
- Pendleton, Lucinda
- Peniston, William P.
- Perkins, Ute, Sr.
- Perkins, William Lee
- Perry, Eliza Brown
- Perry, John
- Perry, Stephen Chadwick
- Perry, Thomas
- Perry, William Chadwick
- Peterson, Ziba
- Pettegrew (Pettigrew), David
- Pettingill, Abigail
- Petty, Albert
- Phelps, Burton Harmon
- Phelps, Sally Waterman
- Phelps, William Wines
- Phillips, Edward
- Phippen, Isaac
- Pickett, Agnes Moulton Coolbrith
- Pierce, Robert
- Pitcher, Thomas
- Pitkin, George White
- Pitman, James M.
- Pool, William
- Pope, Nathaniel
- Pope, William
- Porter, Robert
- Post, Stephen
- Potter, Ephraim
- Powers, Stephen Willard
- Pratt, Addison
- Pratt, Mary Ann Frost
- Pratt, Orson
- Pratt, Parley Parker
- Pratt, Sarah Marinda Bates
- Pratt, William Dickinson
- Prentiss, Daniel
- Prentiss, William
- Prescot, Prudence Marks
- Prescott, Almera Woodward Johnson
- Price, Charles
- Price, Jesse
- Price, Sterling
- Prindle, James
- Proctor, James
- Proctor, R.
- Prows, Thomas
- Pulsipher, Zera
- Purple, William D.