Paul Jeremy Duffen is a British businessman and entrepreneur, whose public profile was most prominent as chairman of the football club Hull City A.F.C. between 2007 and 2010. Duffen became chairman of publishing firm Newsdesk Media in June 2011.

Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. They play their home games at the MKM Stadium, after moving from Boothferry Park in 2002. The club's traditional home colours are black and amber, often featuring in a striped design on the shirt, hence their nickname, the Tigers. Hull also contest the Humber derby with both Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United.