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Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons

Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons is a 2020 DC animated project, planned as a 12-episode CW Seed series but released as an R-rated direct-to-video movie starring Michael Chiklis as Slade Wilson, directed by Sung Jin Ahn and written by J.M. DeMatteis.

Deathtrap (film)

Deathtrap (1982) is Sidney Lumet's film of Ira Levin's Broadway comedy-thriller, starring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, and Dyan Cannon; a playwright plots murder to steal a student's script, released by Warner Bros. on 19 March 1982.

Deathwatch (2002 film)

Deathwatch (Czech: Mrtva hlidka) is a 2002 British-German WWI horror-war film, M.J. Bassett's directorial debut, starring Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis as soldiers stalked by an unseen evil in a German trench.

Deauville American Film Festival

Deauville American Film Festival (Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville), annual September festival in Deauville, France, founded 1975 by Lionel Chouchan and André Halimi, showcasing Hollywood and independent American films with the Grand Prix and Prix d'Ornano-Valenti.

Deb Fischer

Deb Fischer (Debra Strobel Fischer, born 1951) is Nebraska's senior U.S. senator, a Republican cattle rancher first elected in 2012 as the first Nebraska woman elected to a full Senate term, reelected 2018 and 2024.

Deb Haaland

Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo citizen and Democratic politician, was the 54th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (2021–2025) and the first Native American Cabinet secretary; earlier one of the first Native American women in Congress, now New Mexico's 2026 Democratic gubernatorial nominee.

Deb Krishnadasan

Deb Krishnadasan, born Deborah Krishnadasan, is a Democratic member of the Washington State Senate representing the 26th district, appointed in December 2024 and elected in November 2025.

Deb Never

Deb Never, American LA-based singer-songwriter from Spokane, Washington; grunge-emo-hip-hop blend; BROCKHAMPTON "No Halo" vocalist; EPs House on Wheels, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?; debut album ARCADE (2026, Giant Music).

Deb Patterson

Deb Patterson is an American politician, healthcare administrator, and ordained minister who has served as a Democratic Oregon state senator from District 10 since 2021.

Deb Roy

Deb Roy is a Canadian computer scientist and MIT Media Lab professor known for the Human Speechome Project and for co-founding Bluefin Labs, acquired by Twitter in 2013.

Debabrata Basu

Debabrata Basu (1924–2001) was an Indian mathematical statistician, born in Dacca, whose 1955 Basu's theorem on independence of sufficient and ancillary statistics became a foundation of statistical theory.

Debabrata Maiti

Debabrata Maiti (দেবব্রত মৈতি) is an Indian chemist and Institute Chair Professor at IIT Bombay, known for distal C–H functionalization and the 2022 Bhatnagar Prize.

Debabrata Mukhopadhyay

Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, known professionally as Dev Mukhopadhyay, is a molecular biologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, who studies the tumor microenvironment, angiogenesis, and nanomedicine.

Debaltseve City Council

Debaltseve City Council (Дебальцеве) is the local self-government body of Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Under Ukrainian law it is the representative body of the territorial community; since the February 2015 battle the city is under Donetsk People's Republic control, with a council operating under Russian law.

Debarati Guha-Sapir

Debarati Guha-Sapir, born 1953, is a Belgian epidemiologist who directed CRED at UCLouvain from 1992 to 2021 and built EM-DAT, the standard international disaster database.

DeBarge

DeBarge, the Grand Rapids, Michigan family R&B group (El, Bunny, Mark, James, Randy DeBarge) signed to Motown via Jermaine Jackson and Switch; 1980s hits "Time Will Reveal" and "Rhythm of the Night."

DeBarge family

The DeBarge family of Grand Rapids, Michigan, produced the funk band Switch (Bobby, Tommy) and the 1980s Motown R&B group DeBarge (El, Randy, Mark, Bunny, James), known for "Rhythm of the Night" and "Time Will Reveal."

Debaryomyces

Debaryomyces, a genus of ascomycetous budding yeasts (family Debaryomycetaceae, synonym Wingea); its type species D. hansenii is a halotolerant, Na+-including yeast of cheese, sausages, and brines, growing up to 4 M NaCl.

Debased coinage of Harsha of Kashmir

The debased coinage of Harsha of Kashmir (हर्ष का मुद्रा-अपमार्जन) was the policy of King Harsha, who ruled Kashmir from 1089 to 1101 and looted temples to fund his army.

Debashish Bhattacharya

Debashish Bhattacharya is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for algal genomics, the origin of the plastid, and single-cell genomics of marine protists, including the 2012 Cyanophora paradoxa genome paper.

Debashish Samantaray

Debashish Samantaray is an Indian politician and Rajya Sabha member from Odisha, first elected for the Biju Janata Dal in 2024 before joining the BJP in 2026.

Debashree Roy (দেবশ্রী রায়)

Debashree Roy, also known as Debasree Roy, is an Indian actress known for her work in Bengali cinema, with more than forty awards including the National Film Award for Best Actress for Unishe April.

Debasis Mitra

Debasis Mitra is an electrical engineer known for research on communication networks, with a 44-year Bell Labs career and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Débat

The débat is a medieval French literary genre of verse dialogues in which speakers argue opposing views before a judge, flourishing from the early 12th century.

Debate

Debate is a structured, adversarial exchange arguing opposing positions to persuade an audience, distinguished from dialogue and consensus-seeking deliberation; used in democratic education, public deliberation, and multi-agent AI reasoning protocols.

Debate between Bird and Fish

The Debate between Bird and Fish is a Sumerian disputation poem, c. 2000 BCE, in which King Shulgi judges a rank contest and awards victory to Bird.

Debate between Sheep and Grain

The Debate between Sheep and Grain is a Sumerian disputation poem in which Sheep and Grain argue, with the god Enki ruling in Grain's favor.

Debate between Silver and Copper

The Debate between Silver and Copper is a Sumerian disputation poem, one of eight known debate poems, in which Silver and Copper claim superiority over each other.

Debate between the Hoe and the Plough

The Debate between the Hoe and the Plough is a Sumerian disputation poem in which the two farm tools argue and Enlil rules for the hoe.

Debate between tree and reed

The Debate between tree and reed is a Sumerian disputation poem, cataloged as cSL 5.3.4, in which tree and reed contend in speech before a god judges.