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Dhruv Madhok
Dhruv Madhok is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded Arata, a New Delhi-based plant-based hair care brand, in 2018 with Dhruv Bhasin, serving over 1.5 million customers annually.
Dhruv Rathee (ध्रुव राठी)
Dhruv Rathee (ध्रुव राठी) is an Indian YouTuber and activist based in Germany whose Hindi-language videos on politics and news have drawn over 30 million subscribers.
Dhruv Vikram
Dhruv Vikram (born 1995, Chennai) is a Tamil film actor, son of Vikram; lead debut Adithya Varma (2019), Dada in Mahaan (2022), kabaddi athlete in Bison: Kaalamaadan (2025), upcoming Jackie (DV4).
Dhruva
Dhruva (ध्रुव, "the fixed one") is the Puranic devotee of Vishnu who, denied his father's lap as a boy, performed penance and became the pole star; also the Sanskrit name of the North Star and the dhruva-bera temple icon.
Dhruva (ధ్రువ) (2016 film)
Dhruva (ధ్రువ), 2016 Telugu action thriller by Surender Reddy, Geetha Arts; official remake of Tamil hit Thani Oruvan; stars Ram Charan, Rakul Preet Singh, Arvind Swamy; released 9 December 2016, grossed about ₹90 crore worldwide.
Dhruva Dharavarsha's northern campaigns
Dhruva Dharavarsha's northern campaigns (ध्रुव धरावर्ष) were the Rashtrakuta emperor Dhruva's expedition across the Narmada around 789, defeating the Pratihara Vatsaraja and the Pala Dharmapala.
Dhruva Mistry
Dhruva Mistry (born 1957) is an Indian sculptor from Kanjari, Gujarat, known for monumental public works in Britain, most prominently the 1993 Victoria Square fountain ensemble in Birmingham.
Dhruvacharitam
Dhruvacharitam (ധ്രുവചരിതം) is the title shared by works on the boy saint Dhruva, including Kunchan Nambiar's Malayalam thullal published in 1928 and dasaka 17 of Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri's Sanskrit Narayaneeyam.
Dhruvadāsa
Dhruvadāsa (ध्रुवदास), also written Dhruvdas or Hit Dhruv Das, was a Radhavallabhi devotional poet of Vrindavan, active roughly 1593 to 1641, best known for the Bhaktanamavali, a verse catalog of 123 devotees.
Dhruvadevi
Dhruvadevi (ध्रुवदेवी), also known as Dhruvasvamini, was the chief queen of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II, active around 380 to 415, and the mother of his successor Kumaragupta I.
Dhrystone
Dhrystone is a small synthetic benchmark measuring integer performance of processors and compilers, created by Reinhold Weicker in 1984 and scored in DMIPS; it remains in use for embedded processors.
DHT Holdings
DHT Holdings is an independent crude oil tanker company, incorporated in the Marshall Islands and headquartered in Bermuda, whose fleet of 22 very large crude carriers trades internationally.
Dhu al-Hijja (ذو الحجة)
Dhu al-Hijja (ذو الحجة) is the twelfth and final month of the Islamic lunar calendar, when the Hajj pilgrimage is performed and Eid al-Adha falls on the 10th.
Dhu al-Hijjah
Dhu al-Hijjah (Arabic: ذو الحجة) is the twelfth and final month of the Islamic lunar calendar, the month of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and of Eid al-Adha on its tenth day.
Dhu al-Nun al-Misri
Dhu al-Nun al-Misri (ذو النون المصري), born Thawban ibn Ibrahim, was an Egyptian ascetic and early Sufi theorist of the mystical path's states and stations, who died around 859.
Dhu al-Qarnayn (ذُو ٱلْقَرْنَيْن)
Dhu al-Qarnayn, "the two-horned one," is a figure in Surah al-Kahf of the Quran who travels east and west and builds a barrier against Gog and Magog.
Dhu al-Rumma
Dhu al-Rumma (ذو الرمة), born Ghaylan ibn Uqba, was an Arab poet of the Umayyad caliphate (696–735), often called the last major Bedouin poet, known for desert descriptions and love poems to Mayya.
Dhu Nuwas
Dhu Nuwas (Yusuf Asʾar Yathʾar) was the last Jewish king of Himyar in Yemen (reigned c. 517-525 CE), remembered for the massacre of Najran's Christians around 523 CE, attested in his own Sabaic inscriptions, and for his defeat by the Christian Abyssinians of Aksum.
Dhu Nuwas's persecution of the Christians of Himyar
Dhu Nuwas's persecution of the Christians of Himyar was a campaign by the Jewish king Yusuf As'ar against southern Arabia's Christians, culminating in the 523 attack on Najran.
Dhu Shanatir
Dhu Shanatir, also known as Zu Shenatir (ذو شناتر), is a tyrannical usurper of the throne of Himyar in Yemen known only from Arabic tradition, killed by Dhu Nuwas.
Dhul-Qadir tribe
The Dhul-Qadir tribe (ایل ذوالقدر) was a Ghuzz Turkic tribe that became one of the most important Qizilbash tribes of Safavid Iran, joining Shah Esmail at the state's founding.
Dhule (धुळे)
Dhule, also written धुळे, is a district in northwestern Maharashtra, India, headquartered at the city of Dhule, which was formed from the old West Khandesh district.
Dhumaketu
Dhumaketu (ધૂમકેતુ, "comet") was the pen name of Gujarati writer Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892–1965), a pioneer of the Gujarati short story who published 24 short-story collections.
Dhumavati (धूमावती)
Dhumavati (धूमावती), the smoky one, is the seventh of the ten Mahavidya goddesses of Shakta Tantra, the only widow without a consort, first attested in the 11th-century Sharadatilakatantra and worshipped today in Varanasi as a neighborhood goddess.
Dhumketu (ধূমকেতু) (2025 film)
Dhumketu (ধূমকেতু), 2025 Bengali romantic drama directed by Kaushik Ganguly, starring Dev and Subhashree Ganguly; shot in 2015, released 14 August 2025 after a decade-long delay, a record Bengali opener.
Dhunnunid dynasty
The Dhunnunid dynasty (بنو ذي النون, Banu Dhi l-Nun) was a Muslim Berber dynasty of the Hawwara tribe that took Toledo in 1036 under Ismail al-Zafir.
Dhurandhar (soundtrack)
Dhurandhar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Shashwat Sachdev's 2025 Saregama album for Aditya Dhar's Hindi thriller, 11 songs in 38 minutes sampling 1960s–1990s Hindi and Punjabi classics with Hanumankind, Diljit Dosanjh, Arijit Singh; distinct from the 2026 sequel soundtrack.
Dhurandhar (धुरंधर) (2025 film)
Dhurandhar (धुरंधर) is a 2025 Hindi spy action thriller directed by Aditya Dhar, starring Ranveer Singh as an undercover agent in Karachi's Lyari underworld. Released 5 December 2025, it became the highest-grossing Hindi film domestically and spawned Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026).
Dhurandhar Duology
The Dhurandhar Duology is a two-part Hindi spy action thriller directed by Aditya Dhar and starring Ranveer Singh. The franchise, including Dhurandhar (2025) and The Revenge (2026), crossed ₹30 billion worldwide.
Dhurandhar: The Revenge
Dhurandhar: The Revenge (Dhurandhar 2) is a 2026 Hindi spy action thriller sequel directed by Aditya Dhar, starring Ranveer Singh as undercover agent Hamza Ali Mazari/Jaskirat Singh Rangi; released 19 March 2026, 235 minutes, a major box-office hit with divided reviews.