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Demetrius Knight

Demetrius Knight Jr. (born 2000) is a Cincinnati Bengals linebacker, 49th overall pick in 2025 from South Carolina; rookie 106 tackles, 3 sacks, 2 interceptions; former high school quarterback.

Demetrius of Phalerum

Demetrius of Phalerum, also Demetrius Phalereus, was an Athenian statesman and Peripatetic philosopher, a pupil of Theophrastus, who governed Athens from 317 to 307 BC.

Demetrius Pinder

Demetrius Rashad Pinder (born 1989, Freeport, Bahamas), Bahamian 400 m sprinter; 2012 Olympic 4x400 m relay gold (2:56.72 NR, fastest leg 43.3) and 2012 World Indoor 400 m silver (45.34).

Demetrius Terrence Frazier

Demetrius Terrence Frazier (born 1972) was an Alabama death row inmate executed by nitrogen hypoxia on February 6, 2025, for the 1991 capital murder of Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Jefferson County; he was also serving a Michigan life sentence for murdering Crystal Kendrick, 14.

Demetrius Zvonimir

Demetrius Zvonimir (Dmitar Zvonimir) was king of Croatia from 1075 to 1089, crowned as a papal vassal and remembered as the last strong Croatian king.

Demi (album)

Demi (album): Demi Lovato's fourth studio album, released May 14, 2013 on Hollywood Records; pop/dance-pop with Cher Lloyd guesting, Metascore 64, top track "Heart Attack", Music Canada gold.

Demi Busatta

Demi Busatta is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives since 2020, representing District 114, which stretches from Palmetto Bay to West Miami.

Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato (Demetria Devonne Lovato, born 1992, Albuquerque) is an American singer and actor who rose via Disney's Camp Rock, released nine albums including It's Not That Deep, earned two Grammy nominations, and executive produces Camp Rock 3.

Demi Lovato discography

Demi Lovato discography: recorded catalog of American singer Demi Lovato, nine Billboard 200 Top 10 studio albums from Don't Forget (2008) to It's Not That Deep (2025), spanning pop-rock, R&B pop, rock, and dance-pop.

Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil

Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil is a 2021 four-part YouTube Originals docuseries directed by Michael D. Ratner about Lovato's near-fatal 2018 overdose, sexual assault, and recovery, paired with the album Dancing With the Devil... The Art of Starting Over.

Demi Moore

Demi Moore (born Demetria Gene Guynes, 1962), American actress known for St. Elmo's Fire, Ghost, Indecent Proposal, and The Substance; highest-paid Hollywood actress in 1996 with $12.5M for Striptease; 2025 Golden Globe winner and first-time Oscar nominee for The Substance.

Demi Riquísimo

Demi Riquísimo is a British DJ and music producer, born in Kent and raised in Detroit, known for acid and italo house and for running the Semi Delicious label.

Demi Sims

Demi Sims, British reality TV personality known for The Only Way Is Essex (2014–2024) and the OFTV family series House of Sims; sister of Chloe, Frankie, and Charlie Sims, and came out as bisexual on TOWIE.

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (天龙八部)

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (天龙八部, Tianlong Babu) is Jin Yong's wuxia novel serialized in Ming Pao 1963–1966, set in Northern Song with heroes Qiao Feng, Duan Yu, and Xuzhu, partly ghostwritten by Ni Kuang and widely adapted.

Demi-Leigh Tebow

Demi-Leigh Tebow (née Nel-Peters, born 1995, Sedgefield, South Africa) is a South African model, author and entrepreneur who won Miss South Africa 2017 and Miss Universe 2017, founded #Unbreakable, and married Tim Tebow in 2020.

Demian

Demian (Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend) is Hermann Hesse's 1919 Bildungsroman, published pseudonymously, about Emil Sinclair's self-becoming under Max Demian's guidance, shaped by Jungian psychoanalysis and Nietzsche, and embraced by postwar youth.

Demian (데미안) (singer)

Demian (데미안), stage name of Sohn Jeong Hyuck (손정혁), born 1994, is a South Korean singer-songwriter who debuted March 11, 2020 under Sony Music Entertainment Korea with "Cassette"; later singles include Karma, Yes, A Blue not Blues, and Basement Boy; he signed with MS Team Entertainment in 2023. Distinct from the German rapper, Chilean band, and Korean rapper of the same name.

Demian Maia

Demian Maia, Brazilian BJJ black belt and retired UFC fighter from São Paulo; middleweight and welterweight title challenger; retired with most UFC wins by a Brazilian and second-most submissions in UFC history.

Demian Mnohohrishny

Demian Mnohohrishny (Дем'ян Многогрішний) was a Cossack officer of peasant origin who served as hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine from 1669 to 1672 and concluded the Hlukhiv Articles.

Demián Rugna

Demián Rugna (born 1979, Haedo, Argentina) is an Argentine horror director and screenwriter, creator of Terrified (Aterrados, 2017) and When Evil Lurks (Cuando acecha la maldad, 2023), the first Latin American film to win Sitges' top prize.

Demigod

Demigod: a mythological being partly divine and partly human, or a minor deity; from Latin semideus, Greek hēmitheoi. Best-known example Heracles; also used figuratively for godlike people and in modern fantasy such as Percy Jackson.

Demilitarized zone

Demilitarized zone (DMZ): an area agreed between conflict parties from which forces and weapons are excluded. Covers the legal basis (Geneva Protocol I Article 60) and the Korean, Golan, and Cyprus buffer zones.

Demimonde

Demimonde (demi-monde, "half-world") is the 19th-century French social sphere of kept women, courtesans, and their wealthy patrons between respectable society and prostitution; coined by Alexandre Dumas fils in 1855, it flourished under the Second Empire.

Deming Prize

The Deming Prize (デミング賞) is a Japanese award for total quality management, established in 1951 by JUSE to honor W. Edwards Deming, and awarded annually ever since.

Demining in Angola

Demining in Angola is the ongoing clearance of mines left by four decades of war, most of them laid during the 27-year civil conflict that ended in 2002.

Demir Özlü

Demir Özlü (1935–2021) was a Turkish short story writer, novelist, and lawyer of the 1950 generation, whose work was shaped by exile in Sweden after the 1980 coup.

Demircihöyük

Demircihöyük (Demircihüyük), Early Bronze Age settlement mound in Sogut, Bilecik Province, Turkey, excavated 1975–1978 by Manfred Korfmann; with the Sarıket cemetery, type site of the Demircihöyük pottery group, ca 2870–2550 BC.

Demirkazik Tepe

Demirkazık Tepe (Demirkazik Tepesi), the 3,756 m limestone peak of Aladağlar in Niğde, Turkey; first climbed 1927, once thought the range's highest until GPS showed Kızılkaya at 3,771 m.

Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded DeepMind, sold it to Google in 2014, and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Demis Roussos

Demis Roussos (Artemios Ventouris Roussos, 1946–2015), Greek singer born in Alexandria, Egypt; founder of Aphrodite's Child with Vangelis, then solo star of 1970s romantic Mediterranean pop, selling over 60 million records with hits like Forever and Ever.