Paull Hobom Shin (Korean name Shin Hobom; 신호범; September 27, 1935 – April 12, 2021) was an American politician and educator who served as a member of the Washington State Senate, the first Korean American ever elected to the Washington State Legislature.

[1] Shin was a member of the Democratic Party, elected from the 21st Legislative District, in southwest Snohomish County.

Orphaned at the age of four, he lived on the streets of Seoul begging for food until the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, at which point he became a houseboy to a group of U.S. Army officers.

In 1954, one of them, a dentist named Ray Paull, adopted Shin and took him home to Salt Lake City, Utah.

On January 7, 2014, Shin resigned from the Washington State Senate effective immediately following his diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease.