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Dean Falk
Dean Falk is an American evolutionary anthropologist and Hale G. Smith Professor at Florida State University, known for paleoneurology, the 1990 radiator hypothesis, and endocast studies of Homo floresiensis.
Dean Fergusson
Dean A. Fergusson is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and transfusion-medicine researcher at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute who led the BART trial, which found aprotinin increased mortality in cardiac surgery.
Dean Fertita
Dean Fertita, born 1970 in Royal Oak, Michigan, is an American rock multi-instrumentalist, keyboardist and guitarist for Queens of the Stone Age (joined 2007) and The Dead Weather (2009), formerly of The Waxwings, with solo projects Hello=Fire and Tropical Gothclub.
Dean Forbes
Dean Forbes, born 1978, is a British software chief executive who led KDS, CoreHR, and Forterro through acquisitions, including Forterro's €1 billion sale in 2022.
Dean Ford
Dean Ford, or Thomas McAleese, was a Scottish singer and songwriter. He led Marmalade to a UK number one hit and died in Los Angeles in 2018.
Dean Fujioka (藤岡竜雄)
Dean Fujioka (藤岡竜雄, also 藤岡靛), born 1980 in Fukushima, is a Japanese actor, musician, and director who built a career across Hong Kong, Taipei, Jakarta, and Tokyo, broke through with NHK's Asa ga Kita (2015), and wrote History Maker for Yuri on Ice.
Dean G. Tang
Dean G. Tang is a cancer researcher who studies cancer cell heterogeneity and prostate cancer stem cells, chairing Pharmacology & Therapeutics at Roswell Park in Buffalo, New York.
Dean Gaffney
Dean Martin Gaffney (born 1978, Hammersmith, London) is an English actor known for Robbie Jackson on BBC's EastEnders (1993–2019, on and off), I'm a Celebrity 2006 and 2023, and the film Reckless with Vinnie Jones.
Dean Geyer
Dean Geyer (Dean Stanley Geyer) is a South African-born Australian singer, actor, and martial artist, third on Australian Idol 2006, Ty Harper on Neighbours, Brody Weston on Glee, and Dr. Tristan Roberts on General Hospital from 2026.
Dean H. Hamer
Dean H. Hamer, born 1951, is an American molecular geneticist who spent nearly 30 years at NIH, known for metallothionein research and a 1993 Xq28 sexual-orientation linkage study.
Dean H. Lockwood
Dean H. Lockwood (1937–2004) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology who led the Endocrine and Metabolism Unit at the University of Rochester and warned of liquid protein diet dangers.
Dean Heller
Dean Heller (born 1960) is an American Republican politician, Nevada secretary of state 1995-2007, 2nd District congressman 2007-2011, and U.S. senator 2011-2019, appointed after John Ensign's resignation, elected in 2012, and defeated by Jacky Rosen in 2018.
Dean Henderson
Dean Bradley Henderson (born 1997) is an English goalkeeper for Crystal Palace and England who, after loans at Sheffield United, saved a penalty in the 2025 FA Cup final.
Dean Ho (nanomedicine researcher)
Dean Ho is a nanomedicine and digital medicine researcher who heads Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore and is known for nanodiamond drug delivery and CURATE.AI.
Dean Huijsen
Dean Huijsen (Dean Donny Huijsen Wijsmuller), born 2005 in Amsterdam, is a Spanish centre-back for Real Madrid and Spain. Málaga youth, Juventus, Roma loan, Bournemouth, then a 2025 transfer to Real Madrid; Spain debut March 2025.
Dean Island
Dean Island is an ice-covered Antarctic island, 37 km long and 19 km wide, within the Getz Ice Shelf between Grant and Siple islands; sighted from USS Glacier in 1962 and named for S.L. Dean, distinct from a British Columbian namesake.
Dean J. Kereiakes
Dean J. Kereiakes, also known as Dean Kereiakes, is an American interventional cardiologist who chairs The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dean J. Tantillo
Dean J. Tantillo (born 1973) is an American computational organic chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, known for post-transition-state bifurcations in terpene biosynthesis.
Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger (1903–1991), American film, stage, and television actor; Oscar winner for Twelve O'Clock High; also Brigham Young (1940), White Christmas (1954). Distinct from the younger Yorkshire-born actor of the same name.
Dean Jones (actor)
Dean Carroll Jones (1931-2015), American actor, Disney Legend (1995), star of The Love Bug, That Darn Cat!, and other Disney family films; later Born Again, St. John in Exile, Beethoven; distinct from James Earl Jones and Ben Jones.
Dean Jones (cricketer)
Dean Mervyn Jones (1961–2020), Australian Test and ODI batsman, 1987 World Cup and 1989 Ashes winner, famed for his 210 in the 1986 Madras tied Test; later coach and commentator, died in Mumbai aged 59.
Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen (Dean Lawrence Kamen), born 1951, is an American engineer and inventor best known for the Segway, the iBOT wheelchair, and founding the robotics nonprofit FIRST.
Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan is a development economist at Northwestern University who uses randomized controlled trials to test anti-poverty programs and was USAID Chief Economist from 2022 to 2025.
Dean Karnazes
Dean Karnazes (born 1962) is a Greek-American ultramarathon runner and author who won Badwater and the inaugural South Pole Marathon and ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days in 2006.
Dean Kelley
Dean Kelley (Melvin Dean Kelley, 1931-1996) was an American basketball player who won gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and the 1955 Pan American Games, played for the University of Kansas and the Peoria Cats, and was brother of 1960 Olympian Allen Kelley.
Dean Kennedy (American football)
Dean Kennedy is an American college football coach, UCLA offensive coordinator from 2026 under Bob Chesney, formerly James Madison OC (2024-25, first CFP berth) and Holy Cross OC/QB coach (2022-23).
Dean Kirby
Dean Kirby is an American Republican politician from Pearl, Mississippi, who has served in the Mississippi State Senate since 1992 and has been its President pro tempore since 2020.
Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz (born 1945, Everett, Pennsylvania) is an American suspense and horror novelist, author of Star Quest (1968), Whispers, Strangers, and the Odd Thomas series, with over 500 million copies sold in 38 languages.
Dean Koontz bibliography
Dean Koontz bibliography: complete record of works by Dean Ray Koontz (b. 1945), from Star Quest (1968) through ten pseudonyms including Leigh Nichols and Owen West, the Odd Thomas, Frankenstein, and Jane Hawk series, and recent Amazon Publishing novels.
Dean Kuriakose
Dean Kuriakose, born 1981, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Idukki in the Lok Sabha since 2024, and earlier from 2019 to 2024.