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Davor Dominikovic
Davor Dominiković, Croatian handball left back born 1978 in Metković; Olympic gold 2004 and World Champion 2003 with Croatia, Champions League winner 2005 with Barcelona, later national team coach.
Davor Ivo Stier
Davor Ivo Stier is a Croatian politician of the Croatian Democratic Union, born in Buenos Aires in 1972, serving in the European Parliament since 2024.
Davor Solter
Davor Solter, born 1941 in Zagreb, is a developmental biologist known for discovering genomic imprinting and for embryonic antigens central to human stem cell work.
Davor Stefanek
Davor Štefanek (Давор Штефанек), born 1985 in Subotica, is a Serbian Greco-Roman wrestler who won the 66 kg gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Davor Šuker
Davor Šuker, born 1968 in Osijek, Croatian striker; Golden Boot winner with six goals as Croatia took bronze at the 1998 World Cup; Champions League with Real Madrid; HNS president 2012–2021.
Davorin D. Hrovat
Davorin D. Hrovat is an automotive control engineer who spent 1981 to 2015 at Ford and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
Davorjanka Paunović
Davorjanka Paunović, cover name Zdenka (Zdenka Horvat), Tito's wartime secretary and lover; born 1921, died 1 May 1946 of tuberculosis at Golnik, buried at the White Palace, Dedinje, secret until Dedijer's 1981 publication.
Davos
Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland: Alpine resort, winter tourism pioneer since 1865, site of the world's first T-bar ski lift (1934), six ski areas with Klosters, and annual host of the World Economic Forum since 1971.
Davos Seaworth
Davos Seaworth, the Onion Knight (Davos Shorthand), is a smuggler-turned-knight of House Seaworth in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones: Stannis Baratheon's loyal Hand, hero of the Storm's End food run, POV from A Clash of Kings, played by Liam Cunningham.
Davros
Davros is the fictional Chief Scientist of the Kaleds in Doctor Who, creator of the Daleks, first seen in Genesis of the Daleks (1975); played by Michael Wisher, David Gooderson, Terry Molloy, and Julian Bleach, and redesigned as able-bodied in 2023.
Davul
The davul is a large double-headed drum of Turkey and the Middle East, played with a mallet and a thin switch, often paired with the zurna.
Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett (David Crockett, 1786–1836), Tennessee frontiersman, Creek War veteran, three-term U.S. congressman who opposed Indian Removal, and Alamo defender killed March 6, 1836; his death circumstances are disputed, and his legend was reshaped by 1830s almanacs and Disney's 1954 series.
Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
The Davy Crockett was an American tactical nuclear weapon system, a recoilless rifle firing the M388 projectile with the W54 warhead, in service from 1961 to 1971.
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier is Disney's 1955 feature film, directed by Norman Foster and starring Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen, edited from the first three Disneyland TV episodes covering the Creek War, Congress, and the Alamo.
Davy Jones (musician)
Davy Jones (David Thomas Jones, 1945-2012), Manchester-born English singer and actor, the lone British member of the Monkees; Broadway Tony nominee, lead vocalist on "Daydream Believer".
Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean character)
Davy Jones is the tentacled villain of Pirates of the Caribbean's Dead Man's Chest (2006) and At World's End (2007), captain of the Flying Dutchman, played by Bill Nighy via ILM's Imocap motion capture, with a Calypso heartbreak backstory and an Oscar-winning CG realization.
Davy Jones's locker
Davy Jones's locker is a nautical idiom for the bottom of the ocean as the grave of all who perish at sea, first recorded in Daniel Defoe's writing in 1726.
Davy Klaassen
Davy Klaassen, Dutch midfielder born 1993 in Hilversum, Ajax academy product and captain; five Eredivisie titles, spells at Everton, Werder Bremen, Inter (Serie A 2024), 400 Ajax appearances, 41 Netherlands caps.
Davy lamp
The Davy lamp, or Davy safety lamp, is a miners' flame safety lamp invented by Sir Humphry Davy in 1815 to light coal mines without igniting firedamp.
Dawachi
Dawachi (达瓦齐) was a Dzungar noble who seized power in 1753 by killing his predecessor's heir, and whose rule ended with the Qing conquest of Yili in 1755.
Dawadar
The dawadar (دوادار) was the Mamluk officer who bore the sultan's inkwell, serving as a chief chancery and executive officer of Egypt's sultanate from 1250 to 1517.
Dawah (دعوة)
Dawah (دعوة), also spelled Da'wa, literally means "call" or "invitation": the Islamic practice of calling non-Muslims to Islam and reviving Muslims' own religious devotion, performed by a da'i.
Dawaro
Dawaro, also spelled Dawāro, was a medieval Muslim state in southeastern Ethiopia, contested between the Christian Solomonic kingdom and the sultanates of Ifat and Adal.
Dawatdar
Dawatdar (داودار), fully Mujahid al-Din Aybak, was head of the Abbasid caliph's army under al-Musta'sim, named for the inkstand-holder office, who led Baghdad's defense against Hulagu Khan in 1258 and was killed after the city fell.
Dawda Jawara
Dawda Jawara was a Gambian politician who led the country to independence from Britain in 1965, then served as its first president until a 1994 military coup.
Dawei Feng
Dawei Feng is an American-based materials chemist and Y. Austin Chang Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working on metal-organic frameworks for energy storage.
Dawei Wang
Dawei Wang (王大伟) is an electrochemical energy storage researcher known for lithium–sulfur batteries, carbon electrodes, and supercapacitors, now a chair professor at Shenzhen University of Technology.
Dawei, Myanmar
Dawei (formerly Tavoy) is the capital of Tanintharyi Region in southeastern Myanmar, a coastal city on the Andaman Sea and anchor of the long-stalled Dawei Special Economic Zone and deep-sea port project, now pursued with Russian backing.
Dawes (band)
Dawes is an American folk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 2009, centered on brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith and known for a Laurel Canyon-inspired vintage sound.
Dawes (Martian crater)
Dawes is a 185–191 km impact crater on Mars in Terra Sabaea, centered near 9.2°S, 38°E, with a flat graded floor, glacial inner-wall valleys, and a name from Proctor's Dawes Ocean.