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Daisy Johnson
Daisy Johnson, aka Quake, is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Bendis and Dell'Otto in Secret Wars #2 (2004), daughter of Mister Hyde with vibration powers, and the lead of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. played by Chloe Bennet.
Daisy Jones & the Six
Daisy Jones & the Six, also Daisy Jones & The Six, is a fictional 1970s rock band from Taylor Jenkins Reid's 2019 oral-history novel and the 2023 Prime Video limited series, inspired by Fleetwood Mac, with a real cast-recorded album, Aurora.
Daisy Lowe
Daisy Lowe is an English model, DJ, and cookery-book author, the daughter of Pearl Lowe and Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, known for campaigns for Marc by Marc Jacobs and Agent Provocateur.
Daisy May Cooper
Daisy May Cooper (born 1986, Cirencester), English actor-writer, co-creator and star of BBC mockumentary This Country as Kerry Mucklowe, 2018 BAFTA winner, creator of Am I Being Unreasonable?, and lead of Rain Dogs.
Daisy McLaurin Stevens
Daisy McLaurin Stevens (1875-1950), Mississippi socialite, daughter of Governor-Senator Anselm J. McLaurin, was president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy 1913-1915 and presented the Arlington Confederate Monument to President Wilson in 1914.
Daisy of Love
Daisy of Love is an American reality dating series that aired on VH1 in 2009, starring Daisy de la Hoya, who chose among twenty male contestants.
Daisy Ridley
Daisy Ridley is a British actress known for Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019), cast in April 2014 from obscurity; later films include Chaos Walking, Young Woman and the Sea, We Bury the Dead, and Cleaner.
Daisy Shah
Daisy Shah, Indian actress and dancer born in Mumbai, debuted in Kannada cinema with Bhadra (2011) and rose to prominence opposite Salman Khan in Jai Ho (2014), after declining Bodyguard; also known for Hate Story 3 and Race 3.
Daisy Wolf
Daisy Wolf is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading health technology investments in AI-driven healthcare, consumer health, and healthcare fintech, including Function Health and Truemed.
Daith piercing
Daith piercing, an ear piercing through the crus of the helix above the ear canal, promoted as a migraine treatment; no clinical evidence supports the claim, and risks include infection and slow cartilage healing.
Daitō Islands
Daitō Islands (大東諸島), Daito Islands, three uplifted coral atolls of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, about 360 km east of Okinawa Island; settled from Hachijo in 1900, sugarcane and phosphate plantation history, population about 2,100.
Daito Manabe
Daito Manabe (真鍋 大度) is a Japanese media artist, programmer, and DJ, born in Tokyo in 1976, who founded the creative studio Rhizomatiks in 2006.
Daito Ridge
Daito Ridge (大東海嶺), also called Daito Mountains, is a 500-km-long east-west undersea remnant island arc at the northwestern end of the Philippine Sea plate, with 13-20 km thick Cretaceous arc crust, now subducting beneath the Ryukyu Trench.
Daito Trust Construction
Daito Trust Construction (大東建託) is a Japanese real estate group, founded in 1974, that builds rental housing for landowners and manages it under sublease contracts.
Daiva Inscription
The Daiva Inscription (XPh) is a trilingual proclamation of Xerxes I recording his destruction of a sanctuary of false gods and worship of Ahura Mazda.
Daivathinte Vikrithikal
Daivathinte Vikrithikal (ദൈവത്തിന്റെ വികൃതികൾ) is a 1989 Malayalam novel by M. Mukundan, set in Mahe in the years after the French left, that won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Daiwa House Industry
Daiwa House Industry is a diversified Japanese construction and real-estate group founded in 1955, which builds prefabricated housing, condominiums, hotels, and logistics facilities, and became Japan's largest prefab homebuilder by 2015.
Daiwa Securities
Daiwa Securities is the common name for Daiwa Securities Group Inc., a Tokyo securities group dating to 1902 that spans retail brokerage, asset management, and investment banking.
Daiwangcheng Site
代王城遗址 (Daiwangcheng site), ancient walled city at Daiwangcheng town, Yu County, Hebei; capital of the State of Dai and Han-era Dai Commandery seat. Elliptical rammed-earth walls about 9.2 km around, nine gates, fifth-batch national heritage site (2001).
Daiyan Trisha
Daiyan Trisha (Daiyan Trisha Mohd Nasaruddin), Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress from Bangi, Selangor; YouTube cover artist turned star of telefilm Dee (2013); second album Lovelorn (2024) won Best Local English Song at AIM 24 (2025).
Daizen Maeda (前田 大然)
Daizen Maeda (前田 大然), born 1997 in Osaka, is a Japanese forward who was J-League joint top scorer in 2021, won 10 trophies with Celtic (212 apps, 79 goals), and joined Ipswich Town in 2026.
Dajal
Dajal is a town in the Rajanpur District of Punjab, Pakistan, located at 29.5577° N. It is named after Daud, a grazier who camped under a jal tree.
Dajana Eitberger
Dajana Eitberger, German luger (born 1991, Ilmenau): Olympic silver in singles at PyeongChang 2018, then women's doubles silver and team relay gold with Magdalena Matschina at Milano Cortina 2026; 2023 sprint world champion.
Daji (妲己)
Daji (妲己) was the favored concubine of Shang's last king, King Zhou; early texts blame her for the dynasty's fall, and the Ming novel Fengshen Yanyi recast her as a nine-tailed fox spirit sent by Nüwa.
Daji CBM Gas Field
The Daji CBM Gas Field (大吉气田) is China's first and largest deep coal-rock gas field, in the eastern Ordos Basin, Shanxi, operated by PetroChina, with proven reserves of 145.2 billion cubic meters.
Dajian Huineng (大鉴慧能)
Dajian Huineng (大鉴慧能, 638–713) is the sixth patriarch of Chan Buddhism in China, known for the sudden-enlightenment teaching of the Platform Sutra; all later Chan, Sŏn, and Zen lineages trace back to him.
Dajing Mining Area No. 2 Mine
Dajing Mining Area No. 2 Mine is an underground coal mine in Qitai County, Xinjiang, China, planned to produce 6 million tonnes of coal per year.
Dajō-daijin
The Dajō-daijin (太政大臣) was the highest office of the Dajōkan in Japan's ritsuryō state, above the Sadaijin and Udaijin; first appointed in 857, it was abolished in 1885.
Dajuan Wagner
Dajuan Wagner, born 1983, Camden High School and Memphis star, sixth overall pick of the 2002 NBA draft by Cleveland; NBA career cut short by colitis and colon surgery.
Dak Nong UNESCO Global Geopark
Dak Nong UNESCO Global Geopark (Đắk Nông), Vietnam's third global geopark, designated July 2020: a 4,760 km2 Central Highlands territory with Southeast Asia's largest volcanic cave system, basalt lithophones, and over 40 ethnic groups; revalidated through 2027.