Paul Michael Hurst (born 25 September 1974 in Sheffield) is an English footballer who plays in Football League 2 in England, for Rotherham, where he has played for over 10 years. He is married to Melanie and has one daughter called Molly.

There can rarely have been such a whole hearted player who has given better service to Rotherham United's cause over the years. He has been a loyal one-club player who always gives his best despite his lack of inches that opposing clubs have struggled to capitalise on.

Paul figured regularly on the left side of the back four and in this position he has performed well.

He has now played well over 450 games for the Millers and is on course to become the player with the most appearances for Rotherham United, a fine achievement.

FourFourTwo magazine decided before the 2007/08 season, that they would sponsor a player from every team within the top 4 divisions in England. Paul Hurst was the player they chose for Rotherham United.

On the 15th February, Paul joined Blue Square Premier side Burton Albion on a one month loan to regain his fitness after injury.

Paul Hurst (October 15, 1888 - February 27, 1953) was an American Film actor and director.

Born in Traver, California he appeared in hundreds of films during the 20s, 30s and 40s. He is best remembered for his role as a deserter killed by Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.

He committed suicide in 1953 and is buried in Reedley Cemetery in Reedley, California.

American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films. Much of his early work was in low budget western films. A native of central California, Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million acre Lux & Miller ranches which ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, Hurst became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled to Los Angeles to join in the emerging film industry there. He began appearing in films as early as 1912, most of them Westerns. By 1916, he was directing them as well (some sources report that he served in the First World War as a member of the French Foreign Legion, but the dates of his film projects make this story highly suspect). In the early 1920s, Hurst wrote several scenarios for films he directed and appeared in. He proved adept at working as a director for some of the cheapest producers along Gower Gulch, where movies were normally shot on location in a week or less and where stunt men were often the highest paid folks on the set. Within a few years, he focused all of his energies into acting, notably becoming one of the few successes to emerge from Hollywood's Poverty Row. Hurst quickly became one of the more prolific and familiar characters in American movies. With his blocky build and squinty demeanor, and with a raspy voice that enhanced his memorability once sound pictures came in, Hurst played villains and cops and comedy sidekicks in more than 250 films. His most famous role was that of the deserter shot dead on the stairway of Tara by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939). Hurst was the sidekick to Monte Hale in a number of B-Westerns. Former Gower Gulch veteran John Wayne (I) hired Hurst for _Big Jim McLain_ (1952) knowing that Hurst was ill with terminal cancer. In 1953, at the age of 64, due to his health problems, Paul Hurst committed suicide.