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Dean Lao
Dean Lao is a Filipino chemical engineer who co-founded D&L Industries with his brother Leon in 1963, led it as Chairman and President from 1971 to 2013, and now serves as Chairman Emeritus.
Dean Lennox Kelly
Dean Lennox Kelly (born 1975, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire) is an English actor, a Bristol Old Vic graduate known for Kev Ball in Shameless, Meredith Rutter in Jamestown, and Pekka Rollins in Shadow and Bone.
Dean Lewis
Dean Lewis (Dean Loaney, born 1987) is an Australian singer-songwriter from Sydney behind "Waves" and "Be Alright", albums A Place We Knew, The Hardest Love, and The Epilogue, over 14 billion streams, and a January 2026 split from Universal Music Australia.
Dean Lukin
Dean Lukin (Dinko Lukin, born 1960), Australian tuna fisherman and weightlifter; won super-heavyweight gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with 412.5 kg, Australia's only Olympic weightlifting gold, plus 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games titles.
Dean M. Wingerchuk
Dean M. Wingerchuk is a neurologist and Chair of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, known for the diagnostic criteria that defined NMOSD as distinct from multiple sclerosis.
Dean Malenko
Dean Malenko, American retired professional wrestler born Tampa, Florida, 1960, son of Boris Malenko; nicknamed The Iceman and The Man of 1,000 Holds; champion in ECW, WCW, and WWE, later a WWE producer and trainer.
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (Dino Paul Crocetti, 1917–1995), American singer, actor, and comedian known as the King of Cool; Martin and Lewis partner, Rat Pack member, star of The Dean Martin Show and hits like Everybody Loves Somebody.
Dean McDermott
Dean McDermott (born 1966, Toronto) is a Canadian actor known as Constable Renfield Turnbull on Due South, Doc Barlow in Open Range, host of Chopped Canada, and Tori Spelling's former husband.
Dean Murray (New York politician)
Dean Murray is an American politician and Republican member of the New York State Senate from the 3rd district, first elected in 2022 with 65 percent of the vote.
Dean Norris
Dean Joseph Norris (born 1963, South Bend, Indiana) is an American character actor known for DEA agent Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad, Big Jim Rennie on Under the Dome, and Uncle Daddy on Claws; Harvard 1985, RADA-trained.
Dean O'Banion
Dean O'Banion (Dion, Deanie), 1892-1924, Irish-American boss of Chicago's North Side Gang, bootlegging rival of Torrio and Capone; murdered November 10, 1924, in his State Street flower shop, feeding the Beer Wars.
Dean O'Gorman
Dean O'Gorman (born 1976, Auckland) is a New Zealand actor, director, and photographer, known as Fili in The Hobbit trilogy, Anders in The Almighty Johnsons, and for Bonjour Timothy, Trumbo, Pork Pie, Hillary, and After the Party.
Dean Paul Martin
Dean Paul Martin (1951-1987), son of entertainer Dean Martin, was an American pop singer, actor, and California Air National Guard captain. Known as Dino, he fronted Dino, Desi and Billy, starred in Players, and died in an F-4C crash near Mount San Gorgonio in 1987.
Dean Phillips
Dean Phillips, Minnesota congressman (MN-3, 2019–2025) and Phillips Distilling businessman, ran a long-shot 2024 Democratic primary challenge to Biden, launched October 27, 2023 in New Hampshire, suspended March 6, 2024, and endorsed Biden.
Dean Potter
Dean Potter (1972–2015), the "Dark Wizard," American free soloist, speed climber, highliner, and wingsuit BASE jumper; inventor of FreeBASE, Nose record holder, killed in a 2015 Taft Point wingsuit flight.
Dean Prissman
Dean Prissman is a venture capital investor who joined DST Global as a Principal in 2016 and became a Managing Director there in January 2022.
Dean R. Hewish
Dean R. Hewish is a molecular biologist who reported in 1973 that nuclease digestion of chromatin DNA yields regularly spaced fragments, key evidence for the nucleosome model.
Dean Radin
Dean Radin is an American parapsychology researcher and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, known for experiments testing psychic abilities.
Dean Roden Chapman
Dean Roden Chapman (1922–1995) was an American aeronautical engineer who spent his career at NASA's Ames Research Center, rising to Director of Astronautics, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Dean Rusk
Dean Rusk (1909-1994), American diplomat and 54th US Secretary of State (1961-1969) under Kennedy and Johnson; former Rockefeller Foundation president, Rhodes Scholar, and key adviser in the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam-era diplomacy.
Dean Saunders
Dean Nicholas Saunders (born 1964, Swansea) is a Welsh former striker and manager; record £2.9m move to Liverpool, FA Cup 1992, League Cup 1994, 75 Wales caps, 22 goals, later managed Wrexham, Doncaster, Wolves, Crawley, Chesterfield.
Dean Sheppard
Dean Sheppard is an American physician-scientist and UCSF professor of medicine whose laboratory showed that integrins such as αvβ6 activate latent TGF-β, driving pulmonary fibrosis.
Dean Smith
Dean Smith (1931-2015), American college basketball coach, head coach at North Carolina 1961-1997, 879-254 record, NCAA titles 1982 and 1993, 1976 Olympic gold, Four Corners offense innovator, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Dean Smith (footballer, born 1971)
Dean Smith (born 1971, West Bromwich) is an English football manager and former defender; managed Walsall, Brentford, Aston Villa (2019 promotion), Norwich, Leicester, and since December 2023 Charlotte FC of MLS.
Dean Spanos
Dean Spanos (Dean Alexander Spanos), owner and chairman of the Los Angeles Chargers, son of Alex Spanos; moved the franchise from San Diego to Los Angeles in 2017 for a $650 million relocation fee, now plays at SoFi Stadium.
Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell (Robert Dean Stockwell, 1936–2021), American actor: MGM child star of the 1940s, Oscar-nominated for Married to the Mob, four-time Emmy nominee as Al Calavicci on Quantum Leap, later collage artist.
Dean T. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison, also known as Dean Jamison, is an American health economist who led the World Bank's 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health, and the Disease Control Priorities project.
Dean T. Mason
Dean T. Mason is an American cardiologist who founded the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at UC Davis in 1968 and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.
Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi is an American business journalist who founded GamesBeat within VentureBeat in 2008 and is known for his insider Xbox books Opening the Xbox and The Xbox 360 Uncloaked.
Dean V. Buonomano
Dean V. Buonomano, also published as Dean Buonomano, is a neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA known for research on how the brain tells time.