Paulownia tomentosa, a member of the plant family Paulowniaceae and a rich source of biologically active secondary metabolites, is traditionally used in Chinese herbal medicine. Flavonoids, lignans, phenolic glycosides, quinones, terpenoids, glycerides, phenolic acids, and miscellaneous other compounds have been isolated from different parts of P. tomentosa plant. Recent interest in this species has focused on isolating and identifying of prenylated flavonoids, that exhibit potent antioxidant, antibacterial, and antiphlogistic activities and inhibit severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus papain-like protease. They show cytotoxic activity against various human cancer cell lines and inhibit the effects of human cholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, and bacterial neuraminidases. Most of the compounds considered here have never been isolated from any other species of plant. This review summarizes the information about the isolated compounds that are active, their bioactivities, and the structure-activity relationships that have been worked out for them. major flavonoid of citrus, activity reviewed by Khan and Zill-E-Huma (2014) 114 R1= R2= R3=R4= H 121 R1= R2=R3=R4 = H 115 R1= OH (6S), R2= R3=R4= H 122 R1= OH (6S), R2=R3= R4= H 116 R1= R3=R4= H, R2= OH (7R) 123 R1= R3=R4= H, R2= OH (7R) 117 R1= R2=R4= H, R3= OH (8R) 124 R1= R2=R4= H, R3= OH (8R) 118 R1= R2=R3= H, R4= OH (9R) 125 R1= R2=R3= H, R4= OH (9R) 119 R1= R3=R4= H, R2= OAc (7R) 126 R1= R2=R4= H, R3= OAc (8R) 120 R1= R2=R4= H, R3= OAc (8R) 127 R1= R2=R3= H, R4= OAc (9R)