Paul Friedrich ya iku ahli antropologi saka Massachussetts, Amérikah Sarékat. Paul olèh gelar BA taun 1951 lan MA saka Harvard College lan Harvard University. Sabanjuré ing Yale University olèh gelar Ph.D. taun 1957. Dhéwéké naté nglakoni panlitian lapangan ana ing Jerman bab pangungsi Ruslan (1951), Meksiko (1955, 1966, 1970), lan Malayalam, Kerala, Indhi (1958). Paul wis nulis werna-werna karya akademis kaya déné "Language, Context and the Imagination" (1979), "The Language Parallax: Linguistics, Relativism and Poetic Creativity" (1986), ‘Language, ideology and political economy’ ana ing buku "American Anthropologist" (1989), lan "Music in Russian Poetry" (1997). Paul iki kawentar amarga pisumbangané ing bab basa manungsa (human language), sujarah linguistik, mitos klasik, lan puisi ing bebrayan Yunani lan Russia.