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Deborah J. Clegg
Deborah J. Clegg, also known as D.J. Clegg, is an American nutrition and metabolism researcher who studies sex differences in obesity and leads research at Texas Tech El Paso.
Deborah J. Wexler
Deborah J. Wexler, also known as Deborah Wexler, is an endocrinologist who is Chief of the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
Deborah James (journalist)
Dame Deborah James, also known as Bowelbabe, was a British journalist, podcaster and bowel cancer campaigner who co-hosted BBC Radio 5 Live's You, Me and the Big C, wrote for The Sun, and whose Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK raised over £20 million.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "D.C. Madam," ran the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service in Washington for 13 years, was convicted of racketeering and money laundering in 2008, and died by hanging two weeks later in a ruled suicide.
Deborah K. Chasanow
Deborah K. Chasanow (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the District of Maryland, appointed by President Clinton in 1993.
Deborah K. Morrison
Deborah K. Morrison is an American cell biologist who studies regulation of the Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK signaling pathway and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger (also billed Deborah Unger), Canadian actress born in Vancouver, trained at Australia's NIDA; known for Crash (1996), The Game (1997), Payback, Sunshine, White Noise, and Silent Hill's Dahlia Gillespie.
Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr (born 1921), Scottish-born film and stage actress, CBE, star of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Black Narcissus, From Here to Eternity, and The King and I; six Best Actress Oscar nominations without a win, honorary Academy Award 1994, BFI Fellowship 1986.
Deborah L. Boardman
Deborah L. Boardman, born Deborah Lynn Boardman in 1974, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Maryland since 2021.
Deborah L. Cook
Deborah L. Cook, born 1952 in Pittsburgh, is a senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (confirmed 2003, 66-25) and former 146th justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1995-2003.
Deborah L. Grubbe
Deborah L. Grubbe is an American chemical engineer, president of Operations and Safety Solutions, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for improving chemical process safety.
Deborah Levi
Deborah Levi (born 1997, Dillenburg, Germany) is a German bobsledder, brakewoman with pilot Laura Nolte; two-woman bobsleigh Olympic gold at Beijing 2022 and defended at Milano-Cortina 2026.
Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah E. Lipstadt, American Holocaust historian, Dorot Professor at Emory, author of Denying the Holocaust (1993), defeated David Irving's 2000 libel suit, and served as U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism from 2022.
Deborah M. Gordon
Deborah M. Gordon is an American biologist at Stanford University who studies how ant colonies work without central control, best known for a field study of red harvester ants running since 1985.
Deborah M. Muoio
Deborah M. Muoio is an American physiologist at Duke University who studies how muscle and heart mitochondria select and burn fuels, and how that fails in obesity and diabetes.
Deborah Mailman
Deborah Mailman AM (born 1972, Mount Isa) is a Bidjara and Māori Australian actor; first Aboriginal woman to win the AFI Best Actress Award (Radiance, 1998), star of Total Control, and first Indigenous Logies Hall of Fame inductee.
Deborah Meaden
Deborah Meaden is a British entrepreneur and investor best known as a Dragon on the BBC's Dragons' Den since 2006, after selling the family holiday-park business Weststar Holidays for millions.
Deborah Moore
Deborah Moore, also Deborah Barrymore, English actress born 1963 in Marylebone, daughter of Roger Moore and Luisa Mattioli; face of Scottish Widows ads 1986-1995, Lita Grey in Chaplin (1992), air hostess cameo in Die Another Day (2002).
Deborah Norville
Deborah Norville (born 1958), from Dalton, Georgia, is an American broadcast journalist and author who anchored Inside Edition from 1995 to 2025 and now hosts The Perfect Line.
Deborah number
The Deborah number (De) is a dimensionless rheology number, defined by Markus Reiner in 1964 as a material's relaxation time divided by the time scale of deformation.
Deborah P. Merke
Deborah P. Merke is an American pediatric endocrinologist and NIH physician-scientist known for research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia, including the discovery of adrenaline deficiency in the disorder.
Deborah Pratt
Deborah M. Pratt, born 1951 in Chicago, is an American writer, producer, and actress who co-created the science fiction series Quantum Leap (1989–1993) and voiced the computer Ziggy.
Deborah Raffin
Deborah Raffin (1953-2012), American film and TV actress and producer known for The Dove, Once Is Not Enough, Death Wish 3, and 7th Heaven, who co-founded the audiobook company Dove Books-on-Tape.
Deborah Read
Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1707/1708-1774) was Benjamin Franklin's common-law wife from 1730 and a Philadelphia businesswoman who managed the Franklin shops, printing operations, and post office affairs during his long absences in Europe; she died of a stroke in December 1774.
Deborah Roberts
Deborah Roberts (born 1960, Perry, Georgia) is an American ABC News Senior National Affairs Correspondent and co-anchor of 20/20 with David Muir. Formerly of NBC's Dateline, she won a Peabody for Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor and multiple Emmys, and is married to Al Roker. Not the Texas painter of the same name.
Deborah Ross (North Carolina politician)
Deborah K. Ross, born 1963, is an American Democratic politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd district since 2021, after a decade in the state House.
Deborah S. Hasin
Deborah S. Hasin is an American psychiatric epidemiologist, a Columbia University professor who helped write the DSM-5 substance use disorder criteria and led national alcohol use disorder surveys.
Deborah S. Jin
Deborah S. Jin (1968–2016) was an American physicist at JILA, a NIST and University of Colorado institute, who created the first fermionic condensate in 2003.
Deborah Sampson
Deborah Sampson, later Deborah Sampson Gannett, was a Massachusetts woman who served about seventeen months in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War disguised as a man.
Deborah Schrag
Deborah Schrag, also known as Deb Schrag, is an American gastrointestinal medical oncologist who became Chair of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2021.