Paul Beattie MacCready, Jr. (25. září 1925 New Haven – 28. srpna 2007 Pasadena) byl americký letecký inženýr. Byl zakladatelem AeroVironment Inc. (1971) a konstruktérem prvního skutečně použitelného letadla poháněného lidskou silou.
In 1960, painter Wayne Thiebaud's brilliantly colored images of pies, candy and hot dogs seemed worlds apart from the severe abstractions then fashionable in the serious art world.
"I was hopeless. I was very unathletic, and when I was in school I was two years younger than everybody in my class, so I got beaten up all the time, and I got laughed at for being interested in studying and doing stupid things like that."