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Danuhepa
Danuhepa, also Tanuhepa, was a Hittite Great Queen known from seal impressions found at the capital Hattusa and from a court case that ruined her.
Danur: The Last Chapter
Danur: The Last Chapter is a 2026 Indonesian horror film, the fourth and final Danur film, directed by Awi Suryadi, starring Prilly Latuconsina as Risa Saraswati; released 18 March 2026, it earned 3,619,565 admissions and topped Indonesia's H1 2026 box office.
Danuri Aquarium
다누리아쿠아리움 (Danuri Aquarium), Danyang County, South Korea's public freshwater aquarium; opened 2012, expanded 2025 to 4,870 m², 203 tanks, 319 species, about 30,000 fish; largest freshwater fish aquarium in Asia.
Danuta Kozak
Danuta Kozak (Kozák Danuta), Hungarian sprint kayaker born 1987 in Budapest; six Olympic golds, one silver, one bronze from 2008 to 2020; first woman to win three canoe sprint golds at one Games (Rio 2016).
Danuta Piecyk
Danuta Zdzisława Piecyk (1950–2011), Polish 400 m sprinter and hurdler, 1972 Munich Olympian, unofficial 400 m hurdles world best 56.7 (1973), two European indoor relay bronzes, multiple Polish champion and record holder.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Danvers, Massachusetts, formerly Salem Village, is a town of about 28,000 in Essex County, 20 miles northeast of Boston; site of the 1692 witch trials, Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Oniontown nickname, and Danvers State Hospital.
Danville, California
Danville, California: an incorporated town (1982) in Contra Costa County's San Ramon Valley, East Bay, population about 43,000. Known for historic downtown, San Ramon Valley schools, high incomes, and $1.68 million median home values.
Danville, Virginia
Danville is an independent city in southside Virginia near the North Carolina border. Founded in 1793 as a tobacco inspection station, it had 42,590 residents in 2020.
Danwei Huangfu
Danwei Huangfu is a stem cell and developmental biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for showing that Hedgehog signaling requires primary cilia and for CRISPR screening in human stem cells.
Dany Bébel-Gisler
Dany Bébel-Gisler (1935–2003) was a Guadeloupean sociolinguist, essayist, and novelist who fought for recognition of Antillean Creole, directed a Creole-language school, worked on UNESCO's Slave Route project, and wrote Léonora.
Dany Boon
Dany Boon (Daniel Hamidou, born 1966, Armentières) is a French comedian, actor, and director; his Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008) sold over 20 million tickets, the record French box-office success.
Dany Garcia
Dany Garcia (born 1968) is an American producer, founder of The Garcia Companies, and co-founder with Dwayne Johnson of Seven Bucks Productions ($4.6 billion box office), XFL/UFL co-owner, Teremana co-founder, and IFBB Pro bodybuilder.
Dany Heatley
Dany Heatley, born 1981 in Freiburg, Germany, Canadian NHL winger, Calder winner 2002, Ottawa Senators' only 50-goal scorer, 372 NHL goals, 2010 Olympic gold, retired 2015.
Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière, born Windsor Klébert Laferrière in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian-born novelist and essayist in French who joined the Académie française in 2013.
Danya Taymor
Danya Taymor (born 1988) is an American theater director, niece of Julie Taymor, who won the 2024 Tony for Best Direction of a Musical for The Outsiders and directed John Proctor Is the Villain on Broadway.
Danyal Zafar
Danyal Zafar is a Pakistani singer-songwriter and actor, the younger brother of Ali Zafar, who broke through on Coke Studio in 2017 and later starred in the Hum TV serial Zanjeerain.
Danyang UNESCO Global Geopark
Danyang UNESCO Global Geopark (단양 유네스코 세계지질공원) is a 78,100-hectare geopark covering all of Danyang County, South Korea, designated by UNESCO in April 2025 for limestone karst landscapes, over 200 caves, and 43 geosites recording 1.3 billion years of geological history.
Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge
The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge (丹昆特大桥) is a 164.851-kilometer railway viaduct in Jiangsu, China, and the world's longest bridge, carrying the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway since 2011.
Danylo Apostol
Danylo Apostol, a Ukrainian Cossack military leader and statesman, served as colonel of the Myrhorod regiment until 1727 and later as Hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine until his death in 1734.
Danyon Loader
Danyon Loader, New Zealand swimmer (born 1975, Timaru), won 200m and 400m freestyle gold at Atlanta 1996 and 200m butterfly silver at Barcelona 1992; set four short course world records and was the first New Zealander in the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Danza Kuduro
Danza Kuduro is a 2010 Spanish-Portuguese hit by Don Omar featuring Lucenzo, adapted from "Vem Dançar Kuduro"; #1 Billboard Hot Latin Songs for 15 weeks, in Fast Five, about 2.8 billion Spotify streams, though stylistically distinct from Angolan kuduro.
Danzanravjaa
Danzanravjaa, formally Dulduityn Danzanravjaa (1803–1856), was a Mongolian Buddhist lama, poet, and playwright, the Fifth Noyon Khutagt of the Gobi and founder of the first Mongolian theater in 1830.
Danzhou Old City
儋州故城 (Danzhou Old City), also Zhonghe Ancient City, a walled Tang-to-Qing prefectural seat in Zhonghe Town, Danzhou, Hainan, founded 622 AD; national heritage site since 2006 with surviving Zhenhai and Wuding gates.
Danzhou Yang
Danzhou Yang is a medicinal chemist and Distinguished Professor at Purdue University who studies G-quadruplex DNA structures in oncogene promoters and telomeres by NMR spectroscopy.
Danzig (band)
Danzig: American gothic heavy metal band formed 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey, by Glenn Danzig (ex-Misfits, Samhain) for Def American; known for "Mother," Danzig III, and Danzig Sings Elvis.
Danzón
Danzón is a Cuban ballroom dance-music genre in 2/4 time, first performed in Matanzas in 1879, regarded as Cuba's national dance, and ancestral to the mambo and cha-cha-chá.
Danzōtei Diary
The Danzōtei Diary (断腸亭日乗) is the diary of Japanese writer Nagai Kafū, kept almost daily from 1917 until the day before his death in 1959.
Dao administration (Dao and phu divisions)
Dao administration (dao thua tuyen) was the territorial system of local government in Dai Viet, reformed by King Le Thanh Tong through the Hieu dinh quan che of 1471.
Dao Duy Tu
Dao Duy Tu (Đào Duy Từ, 1572–1634) was a Vietnamese scholar and strategist who served the Nguyen lord and built the Luy Thay defensive walls.
Dao Vallis
Dao Vallis is a large Martian outflow channel, over 700 km long and up to 2.7 km deep, on the eastern Hellas basin rim; IAU-named in 1979 from Thai for "star", it extends Niger Vallis from Hadriacus Mons.