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1,666 profilesDavid Rudisha
17 December 1988 – present
David Rudisha is a Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres. He set world records over the distan...
Deng Xiaoping
22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of C...
Denis Diderot
5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known as co-founder and chief editor of...
Dennis Ritchie
9 September 1941 – 12 October 2011
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who created the C programming language and, with Ken Thomp...
Desmond Tutu
7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021
Desmond Tutu was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian who became a leading voice against apartheid. He served...
Dhirubhai Ambani
28 December 1932 – 6 July 2002
Dhirubhai Ambani was an Indian entrepreneur who founded Reliance Industries, which grew from a small trading firm into o...
Dhyan Chand
29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979
Dhyan Chand was an Indian field hockey player who competed as a forward for India between 1926 and 1948. He was part of...
Diane Arbus
14 March 1923 – 26 July 1971
Diane Arbus was an American photographer known for her intimate black-and-white portraits of people on society's margins...
Diego Rivera
8 December 1886 – 24 November 1957
Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and a leading figure of the Mexican muralism movement. He is renowned for his large-s...
Diego Velázquez
c. 1599 – 6 August 1660
Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) was a Spanish Baroque painter and the leading artist at the court of King Philip IV of Spain...
Dieter Rams
20 May 1932 – present
Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer widely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the functiona...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident. A key figure in the Confessing Ch...
Dilip Kumar
11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021
Dilip Kumar, born Muhammad Yusuf Khan, was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema from the 1940s to the 1990s. Known...
Dizzy Gillespie
21 October 1917 – 6 January 1993
Dizzy Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and educator who was a key architect of bebop. Ren...
Django Reinhardt
23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953
Django Reinhardt was a Belgian-born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer regarded as one of the greatest guitarists...
Djibril Diop Mambéty
23 January 1945 – 23 July 1998
Djibril Diop Mambéty (1945–1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor and composer whose feature Touki Bouki (1973) is...
Dmitri Mendeleev
8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907
Russian chemist who formulated the periodic law and created the periodic table of the elements, predicting elements not...
Dmitri Shostakovich
25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975
Dmitri Shostakovich was a Soviet-Russian composer and pianist regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
Dogen
19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253
Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) was a Japanese Buddhist monk, writer, and philosopher who founded the Soto school of Zen in Japa...
Dolly Parton
19 January 1946 – 25 August 2026
Dolly Parton is an American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman known for country songs including "Jolene", "I...
Dolores Huerta
10 April 1930 – present
Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Associatio...
Domenico Scarlatti
26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757
Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti, who spent much of his career in the ser...
Donald Knuth
10 January 1938 – present
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist and mathematician, widely regarded as a father of the analysis of a...
Donald Trump
14 June 1946 – present
Donald Trump is an American politician, businessman and television personality who served as the 45th president of the U...
Donatello
c. 1386 – 13 December 1466
Florentine sculptor of the early Renaissance whose works in bronze and marble revived classical techniques and expressiv...
Doris Lessing
22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013
Doris Lessing was a British novelist and short-story writer best known for works such as The Grass Is Singing and The Go...
Dorothea Lange
26 May 1895 – 11 October 1965
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist best known for her Depression-era work for t...
Dorothy Hodgkin
12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography to determine the thre...
Dorothy Vaughan
20 September 1910 – 10 November 2008
Dorothy Vaughan was an American mathematician and computer programmer who worked at the Langley laboratory of NACA and l...
Douglas Engelbart
30 January 1925 – 2 July 2013
Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor, a pioneer of human–computer interaction best known for inventin...
Douglas MacArthur
26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964
Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general who commanded Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific during World Wa...
Dr. Seuss
2 March 1904 – 24 September 1991
Dr. Seuss was the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel, an American children's author, illustrator and cartoonist. He publis...
Duke Ellington
29 April 1899 – 24 May 1974
Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader widely regarded as one of the most important figures in...
Dwight D. Eisenhower
14 October 1890 – 28 March 1969
Dwight David Eisenhower was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United St...
E. O. Wilson
10 June 1929 – 26 December 2021
Edward Osborne Wilson was an American biologist and writer, the leading authority of his era on ants and a founder of th...
Éamon de Valera
14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975
Éamon de Valera was an Irish statesman and revolutionary who was a dominant political figure in twentieth-century Irelan...
Eddie Mabo
29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992
Eddie Koiki Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander whose land rights campaign led to a landmark High Court of Australia decis...
Edgar Allan Poe
19 January 1809 – 7 October 1849
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet and critic, a central figure of American Romanticism famed for...
Edgar Degas
19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of ballet dancers,...
Édith Piaf
19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963
Édith Piaf was a French singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century, renowned for her emotive v...
Edmond Halley
8 November 1656 – 25 January 1742
Edmond Halley (1656-1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and physicist best known for computing the orbit of...
Edmund Burke
12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Irish-born British statesman, orator, and political thinker who served in the House of C...
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552 – 13 January 1599
Edmund Spenser was an English poet of the Elizabethan era, best known for The Faerie Queene, an unfinished allegorical e...
Édouard Manet
23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883
Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French painter and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His...
Edsger Dijkstra
11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist and pioneer of structured programming. He is known for Dijkstra's sh...
Edvard Grieg
15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist, widely regarded as the leading figure of Norwegian Romant...
Edvard Munch
12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely psychological treatment of anxiety, love...
Edward Jenner
17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine, by d...