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Darius II
Darius II, born Ochus and called Nothus, was King of Kings of Persia from 424 to 404 BC and the last Achaemenid pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-seventh Dynasty.
Darius III
Darius III (Artašata, Codomannus), last Achaemenid King of Kings (r. 336–330 BCE), ruled a collateral branch, lost Issus and Gaugamela to Alexander, and was murdered by Bessos's conspirators near Hecatompylus in 330.
Darius Kasparaitis
Darius Kasparaitis (Дарюс Каспарайтис), born 1972 in Elektrėnai, Lithuania, is a former NHL defenseman (Islanders, Penguins, Avalanche, Rangers; 863 games) and 1992 Olympic champion who later played for Lithuania at age 45.
Darius McCrary
Darius McCrary (Darius Creston McCrary), American actor born 1976 in Walnut, California; played Eddie Winslow on Family Matters (1989–1998), Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless, and voiced Jazz in Transformers (2007); later faced repeated child-support arrests.
Darius Miles
Darius Miles (Darius LaVar Miles, "D-Miles"), NBA small forward born 1981, drafted 3rd overall in 2000 by the Clippers straight from East St. Louis High; 446 games, 10.1 PPG; distinct from the former Alabama player charged in a 2023 capital murder case.
Darius Robinson
Darius Robinson (born 2001) is an American football defensive lineman for the Arizona Cardinals, drafted 27th overall in 2024 out of Missouri after a first-team All-SEC 2023 season.
Darius Rucker
Darius Rucker (born 1966, Charleston, SC), Hootie & the Blowfish frontman turned country solo star; three Grammys, Cracked Rear View, Learn to Live, Wagon Wheel, Grand Ole Opry member.
Darius Slay
Darius Slay Jr., "Big Play" Slay, retired NFL cornerback from Brunswick, Georgia; Mississippi State, Lions, Eagles, Steelers; six Pro Bowls, 2017 All-Pro, Super Bowl LIX champion.
Darius Syrossian
Darius Syrossian is an English house and tech house DJ, producer, and label founder based in Manchester, known for his residencies at Sankeys and in Ibiza.
Darius the Great
Darius the Great (Darius I, Old Persian Dārayavauš), third Achaemenid king of kings (r. 522–486 BCE), seized the throne with six co-conspirators, suppressed empire-wide revolts, commissioned the Behistun inscription, introduced daric coinage, and expanded Persia into Thrace and the Indus valley.
Darius the Mede
Darius the Mede is a king of Babylon in the Book of Daniel, made king after Belshazzar's death, whom no cuneiform record of 539 BC names.
Darius Vassell
Darius Vassell, born 1980, English forward for Aston Villa, Manchester City, Ankaragücü, and Leicester City; 22 England caps, 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004, penalty saved by Ricardo in the 2004 shoot-out.
Darius-type tubular turbine
The Darius-type tubular turbine, also spelled Darrieus, is a low-head water turbine with a vertical-axis Darrieus runner in a ducted passage, proposed at Kyushu University for extra-low-head sites.
Dariush D. Divsalar
Dariush D. Divsalar is a communication theorist and JPL Fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for channel codes for deep-space communications.
Dariush Mozaffarian
Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist and nutritional epidemiologist at Tufts University, where he led the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy as dean from 2014 to 2022.
Dariush Talai
Dariush Talai (داریوش طلایی) is an Iranian tar and setar player, musicologist, and educator, born in 1953, who moved to France in 1979 and recorded the Persian classical radif.
Dariusz Klimczak
Dariusz Klimczak is a Polish politician of the Polish People's Party, its deputy president since 2015, who has served as Minister of Infrastructure since December 2023.
Dariusz Kowaluk
Dariusz Kowaluk (born 1996) is a retired Polish 400m sprinter and Olympic champion in the mixed 4x400m relay at Tokyo 2020; personal bests 45.44 (400m), 20.95 (200m), 10.50 (100m); retired October 2025.
Darja Varfolomeev
Darja Varfolomeev (Дарья Варфоломеева, born 2006, Barnaul) is a Russian-born German rhythmic gymnast, TSV Schmiden, Olympic all-around champion 2024, World all-around champion 2023, 2025, 2026, and European champion 2026.
Darjeeling (རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང་)
Darjeeling (རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང་), the "Queen of the Hills" in West Bengal, India: Himalayan hill station ceded by Sikkim to Britain in 1835, famous for Darjeeling tea and the UNESCO-listed Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
Darjeeling district
Darjeeling district, northernmost district of West Bengal, India, also called the Land of the Thunderbolt; Himalayan tea-growing district acquired by the British in 1835, shaped in 1866, governed partly by the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, and bifurcated in 2017 when Kalimpong became a separate district.
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, popularly known as the Toy Train, is a narrow-gauge mountain railway running from Siliguri to Darjeeling in West Bengal, India, opened in 1881.
Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling tea, the "champagne of teas", is a GI-protected Himalayan black tea from 87 gardens in West Bengal's Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts, grown from Chinese-variety bushes at up to 2,000 m, prized for muscatel flavor and sold in four flushes.
Dark 'n' stormy
Dark 'n' stormy: Bermuda's trademarked highball of dark rum (Goslings Black Seal), ginger beer, and lime, attributed to British sailors after World War I and legally restricted to Goslings rum since 1991.
Dark (2017 film)
Dark (2017) is Paul Schrader's 75-minute experimental recut of his 2014 film Dying of the Light, made from work print DVDs after producers re-edited it without him; Nicolas Cage plays CIA agent Evan Lake hunting a terrorist while losing his memory to dementia.
Dark (film)
Dark (டார்க்) is a 2026 Tamil psychological horror-thriller, the directorial debut of Kalyan K Jegan from a Ganesh K Babu story, starring Ajay Karthi as an atheist in a haunted house; released 3 July 2026, UA 16+, MG Studios, ₹1.13 crore gross.
Dark (TV series)
Dark is a German Netflix science-fiction thriller (2017–2020) created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's first German original. Set in Winden, it follows four families and time travel via a cave wormhole across 1953–2052 over three seasons, winning Grimme Awards.
Dark & Wild
Dark & Wild is the first full-length studio album by South Korean group BTS, released by Big Hit Entertainment in 2014 with the title track "Danger".
Dark 7 White
Dark 7 White is a 2020 Hindi political thriller web series on ZEE5 and ALTBalaji, 10 episodes of about 20 minutes, based on Shweta Brijpuria's book Dark White; Sumeet Vyas plays murdered Rajasthan CM Yudhveer Singh Rathore.
Dark academia
Dark academia is an internet aesthetic and literary subculture romanticizing higher education, gothic libraries, and classic literature. Emerging on Tumblr around 2014–2015 and popularized during COVID-19, it centers on Donna Tartt's The Secret History and has a lighter counterpart, Light Academia.