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Davis Cup zonal competition
The Davis Cup zonal competition is the regional ladder beneath the Davis Cup's top tier, dividing most member nations into Americas, Asia/Oceania, and Europe/Africa zones on promotion and relegation.
Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim, American director and producer, Oscar winner for An Inconvenient Truth (2006); also directed Waiting for "Superman", He Named Me Malala, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, and Deaf President Now!.
Davis L. Ford
Davis L. Ford (1937–2023) was an American environmental engineer in Austin, Texas, who worked on water pollution control and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Davis Lake
Davis Lake, Oregon: a Deschutes County lake dammed by a Holocene andesite lava flow of the Davis Lake Volcanic Field, three cones erupted about 5,000 years ago; low threat, monitored by the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory.
Davis Love III
Davis Love III, American golfer (born 1964, Charlotte, NC): 21 PGA Tour wins including 1997 PGA Championship and 1992/2003 Players; two-time Ryder Cup captain (2012, 2016); World Golf Hall of Fame 2017; RSM Classic host.
Davis Mills
Davis Mills, Houston Texans quarterback, Stanford product, third-round pick (67th overall) of the 2021 NFL Draft; first rookie QB with 300 yards, 3 TDs, and a 140.0+ rating in a game; career backup to C.J. Stroud.
Davis Mountains State Park
Davis Mountains State Park is a 2,708-acre Texas state park two miles west of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, established in 1933 and developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Davis Ng
Davis T. W. Ng is a cell biologist at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and the National University of Singapore known for defining ER-associated degradation pathways in yeast.
Davis R. Dewey
Davis R. Dewey, also known as Davis Rich Dewey, was an American economist who taught at MIT for over fifty years and edited The American Economic Review.
Davis School District
Davis School District is a Utah public school district headquartered in Farmington, coterminous with Davis County; founded 1911 by consolidating 13 districts, it serves about 70,000 students in roughly 94 schools.
Davis Sea
Davis Sea is a body of water off East Antarctica along Queen Mary Land and Wilhelm II Land, named by Douglas Mawson in 1912 for Captain John King Davis.
Davis station (MBTA)
Davis station is a rapid transit station on the MBTA Red Line in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, opened in 1984 and still the city's only subway station.
Davis Strait
Davis Strait is the sea passage between Baffin Island and Greenland, linking Baffin Bay to the Labrador Sea; named for John Davis (1585), it is a major Arctic gateway for freshwater and sea ice export.
Davis Tarwater
Davis Tarwater (born 1984, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American swimmer, 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay and 2009 world champion in the same event, and a three-time NCAA champion for Michigan.
Davis Wade Stadium
Davis Wade Stadium, officially Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field, is the on-campus football stadium of Mississippi State University and home of the Mississippi State Bulldogs football team.
Davis Warren
Davis Warren, American college football quarterback, Michigan walk-on (2020–2025) and Stanford starter (2026); acute myeloid leukemia survivor diagnosed March 2019; 2024: 1,199 passing yards, 7 TD, 9 INT.
Davis Webb
Davis Webb (born 1995) is the Denver Broncos' offensive coordinator and a former NFL backup quarterback drafted 87th overall by the Giants in 2017, later promoted to play caller by Sean Payton in 2026.
Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station
Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station is a single-unit nuclear plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, licensed in 1977 and known for the 2002 discovery that boric acid corroded its reactor vessel head.
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Tucson, Arizona, established in 1925, home to the 355th Wing and the Boneyard, which stores about 5,000 retired military aircraft.
Davis–Putnam algorithm
The Davis–Putnam algorithm, introduced by Martin Davis and Hilary Putnam in 1960, is a complete decision procedure for propositional satisfiability that eliminates one variable at a time by resolution.
Davis, California
Davis, California (formerly Davisville, incorporated 1917) is a Yolo County university city of about 67,000, home of UC Davis, with the nation's highest bicycle commuting share at 24.5%.
Davison Norupiri
Davison Norupiri is a Zimbabwean businessman who founded and leads Davipel Trading, a Harare dried-food manufacturer, and won the 2018 EY Southern Africa World Entrepreneur Award.
Davisson (lunar crater)
Davisson is a 92.46 km impact crater on the Moon's far side at 37.93°S, 174.97°W, IAU-approved in 1970, overlapping Leibnitz crater's eastern rim and named for Nobel physicist Clinton Joseph Davisson.
Davisson–Germer experiment
The Davisson–Germer experiment was a 1927 electron-scattering study at Bell Telephone Laboratories in which electrons diffracted from a single nickel crystal, confirming Louis de Broglie's hypothesis of matter waves.
Davit Chakvetadze
Davit Chakvetadze (Давит Чакветадзе, დავით ჩაკვეტაძე), born 1992 in Kutaisi, is a Georgian-born Russian Greco-Roman wrestler, 2016 Rio Olympic champion at 85 kg and 2015 European Games gold medalist.
Davit Gobejishvili
Davit Gobejishvili (დავით გობეჯიშვილი, born 1963) is a Georgian super-heavyweight freestyle wrestler, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion for the USSR and 1992 Barcelona bronze medalist for the Unified Team, twice world champion (1985, 1990).
Davit Khakhaleishvili
Davit Khakhaleishvili (დავით ხახალეიშვილი), Georgian heavyweight judoka, 1971-2021; Olympic +95 kg gold at Barcelona 1992 for the Unified Team, beating Naoya Ogawa; three European titles; disqualified at Atlanta 1996 for missing the weigh-in.
Davitiani
Davitiani (დავითიანი) is the collected poetical works of Georgian Baroque poet Davit Guramishvili (1705–1792), compiled as an autograph manuscript in 1787 and including "The Woes of Georgia" and "Shepherd Katsvia".
Davood Ghadami
Davood Ghadami (داود قدمی), English actor born 1982 in Harlow, Essex; played Kush Kazemi in EastEnders 2014-2021, Eli Ebrahimi in Holby City 2021-2022, and competed in Strictly Come Dancing 2017.
Davor Bozinovic
Davor Božinović is a Croatian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior in Prime Minister Andrej Plenković's government, where he is the leading voice on police, migration, and internal security.