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Dauphin County
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania: county created March 4, 1785 from Lancaster County, named for the French Dauphin; seat Harrisburg, state capital since 1812; 286,401 residents (2020 census), 40 municipalities, FIPS 42043.
Dauphin Island, Alabama
Dauphin Island is a 14-mile barrier island in Mobile County, Alabama, guarding Mobile Bay; Alabama's only barrier island, with French colonial history, Fort Gaines, tourism, and major restoration efforts.
Dauphin of France
Dauphin of France: title of the heir apparent, eldest son of the king, from Humbert II's 1349 cession of the Dauphiné to Philip VI until 1830; equivalent of Prince of Wales.
Dauphiné
Dauphiné (Daufinat), former province of southeastern France between the Rhône and the Alps, capital Grenoble, covering today's Isère, Drôme, and Hautes-Alpes. Sold to France in 1349 by Humbert II; its rulers' dolphin emblem gave the title Dauphin to French heirs.
Daura
Daura is a city and traditional emirate in Katsina State, northern Nigeria, regarded in Hausa tradition as the oldest of the Hausa states and setting of the Bayajidda legend.
Daura Chasma
Daura Chasma is a 729-km-long chasma, or extensional rift trough, on Venus, centered at 73.8°N, 53.8°E. IAU-approved in 1985, it is named for a Hausa great huntress of western Sudan.
Daurama
Daurama was, according to Hausa tradition, the ninth and last queen of Daura in northern Nigeria, whom the legendary Bayajida married after killing the snake of the town's well.
Daurella family
The Daurella family is a Barcelona-based Catalan business family that has bottled Coca-Cola in Spain since 1951 and controls the largest bloc in Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.
Daursky Biosphere Reserve
Daursky Biosphere Reserve (Даурский заповедник) is a cluster UNESCO biosphere reserve in southern Zabaikalsky Krai, Russia, established 1987, Ramsar-listed Torey Lakes, and part of the Landscapes of Dauria World Heritage site since 2017.
Dausara
Dausara (Dausar, Dawsar) is the pre-Islamic name of the Euphrates hill in Raqqa Governorate, Syria, later Qal'at Ja'bar; first attested from the seventh century, named in tradition after Dausar, servant of Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir, and also a Crambidae moth genus.
Dausi
Dausi is the epic cycle of the Soninke people of West Africa, an oral tradition preserving the legendary history of Wagadu, the Ghana Empire, most of which has been lost.
Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey (born 1966) is an American children's author-illustrator, creator of Captain Underpants (1997, 90M+ copies) and Dog Man (2016, 60M+ copies), a 1997 Caldecott Honor winner for The Paperboy whose dyslexia and ADHD shaped his career.
Dava Newman
Dava Newman is an MIT aerospace engineer whose group developed the skintight BioSuit spacesuit, and who served as NASA Deputy Administrator from 2015 to 2017.
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born 1947) is an American science writer, former New York Times science reporter, and author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, The Glass Universe, and The Elements of Marie Curie.
Davangere
Davangere (Davanagere, ದಾವಣಗೆರೆ), central Karnataka city and district headquarters formed 15 August 1997; the "Manchester of Karnataka," a textile, agro-processing, and education hub on the Tungabhadra.
Davante Adams
Davante Adams, NFL wide receiver (Packers 2014-21, Raiders 2022-24, Jets 2024, Los Angeles Rams 2025-), three-time First Team All-Pro (2020-22), 1,044 catches, 13,074 yards, 121 touchdowns, active touchdown-catch leader.
Davao City
Davao City, a highly urbanized Philippine city on Mindanao, third most populous with 1,848,947 people (2024), chartered 1936, premier Mindanao economic hub, named from Bagobo words for the Davao River.
Davao de Oro
Davao de Oro, formerly Compostela Valley, is a Philippine province in Davao Region, Mindanao; created 1998 (RA 8470), renamed 2019 (RA 11297); capital Nabunturan, 11 municipalities, gold-mining economy.
Davao del Norte
Davao del Norte is a Philippine province in Davao Region, Mindanao, created May 8, 1967 from the old Davao Province by RA 4867. Capital-area city Tagum; largest regional population (1,143,931 in 2024); banana plantations and Samal island beaches; Compostela Valley (Davao de Oro) split from it in 1998.
Davao Gulf
Davao Gulf (Tagalook) is a gulf in southeastern Mindanao, Philippines, bounded by Davao City and the Davao Region. Over 1,200 fish species, dugongs, whale sharks; annual June-August closed season since 2014 protects small pelagic fisheries.
Davao Region
Davao Region (Region XI, formerly Southern Mindanao; Cebuano: Rehiyon sa Davao) is a Philippine administrative region in southeastern Mindanao with five provinces, regional center Davao City, 5,389,422 people (2024), and Mindanao's lowest poverty incidence.
Dave 'Heavy D' Sparks
Dave 'Heavy D' Sparks (David Sparks, born 1985) is a Utah custom vehicle builder and entrepreneur, star of Discovery's Diesel Brothers and co-founder of DieselSellerz, later fined in a Clean Air Act lawsuit and jailed for contempt in 2025.
Dave (film)
Dave (1993) is an Ivan Reitman political comedy written by Gary Ross, starring Kevin Kline as Dave Kovic, a lookalike who stands in for stroked President Bill Mitchell; Warner Bros release grossed $61.0M and holds a 95% Tomatometer.
Dave (rapper)
Dave (Santan Dave), born David Orobosa Omoregie in 1998 in Brixton, is an English rapper and pianist from Streatham whose albums Psychodrama, We're All Alone in This Together, and The Boy Who Played the Harp all debuted at UK number one, winning the Mercury Prize and BRIT Awards.
Dave (TV series)
Dave (TV series), FXX comedy (2020–2023) created by Dave Burd (Lil Dicky) and Jeff Schaffer, a semi-autobiographical show about a white Jewish rapper; FX's most-watched comedy until The Bear, on hiatus since February 2024.
Dave & Buster's
Dave & Buster's is an American chain of large venues that combine a full-service restaurant and bar with an arcade and sports viewing, founded in Dallas in 1982.
Dave A. Chokshi
Dave A. Chokshi (Dave Ashok Chokshi) is an American physician and health policy researcher who served as New York City's 43rd health commissioner from 2020 to 2022.
Dave Abbruzzese
Dave Abbruzzese, American drummer, Pearl Jam's drummer August 1991 to August 1994; played on Vs. and Vitalogy, fired in 1994, excluded from the band's 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Dave Albritton
Dave Albritton was an American high jumper who tied the world record in 1936 and won the silver medal at the Berlin Olympics before serving in the Ohio House of Representatives.
Dave Allen (comedian)
Dave Allen (David Tynan O'Mahony, 1936–2005), Irish sit-down stand-up comedian and satirist, star of Dave Allen at Large, famed for whiskey-and-cigarette monologues skewering the Catholic Church, his missing half finger, and the sign-off "May your god go with you".