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Diana Canova

Diana Canova (Diana Rivero, born 1953) is an American actress, daughter of Judy Canova, known as Corinne Tate on Soap, Broadway's They're Playing Our Song and Company, Throb, and later Connecticut theatre directing and voice teaching.

Diana Chasma

Diana Chasma is a 938-km-long canyon on Venus at 14.8 S, 154.8 E, in eastern Aphrodite Terra, part of the Diana-Dali corona-chasma chain, with Venus's steepest trough slopes exceeding 30 degrees.

Diana Churchill

Diana Churchill was the name of two twentieth-century British women: Diana Spencer Churchill, eldest daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Diana Josephine Churchill, a London stage actress.

Diana Coupland

Diana Coupland (Betty Diana Coupland, 1932-2006), English actress and singer; Jean Abbott in ITV sitcom Bless This House opposite Sid James, and the singing voice of Ursula Andress's Honey Ryder in Dr No (1962).

Diana D. Cardenas

Diana D. Cardenas is an American physiatrist and spinal cord injury researcher who chaired rehabilitation medicine at the University of Miami and joined the Institute of Medicine in 2004.

Diana DeGarmo

Diana DeGarmo (Diana Nicole DeGarmo), American singer and Broadway actress; American Idol season 3 runner-up to Fantasia Barrino in 2004; later starred in Hairspray, Hair, 9 to 5, and releases country albums including GEMINI.

Diana DeGette

Diana DeGette, born 1957, is an American Democratic politician and former civil rights attorney who has represented Colorado's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House since 1997.

Diana Dors

Diana Dors (Diana Mary Fluck, 1931–1984), English actress and Britain's 1950s blonde sex symbol, dubbed the British Marilyn Monroe; best known for Yield to the Night (1956), three marriages, and a late-career reappraisal.

Diana Douglas

Diana Douglas, born Diana Love Dill (1923–2015), was a Bermudian-born American actress, the first wife of Kirk Douglas and the mother of actor Michael Douglas.

Diana Elbourne

Diana Elbourne (D. Elbourne) is a trials methodologist and perinatal health researcher, Professor of Healthcare Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for the UK neonatal ECMO and CESAR trials.

Diana Fox Carney

Diana Fox Carney (born 1965), British-Canadian development and climate economist, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney; Oxford-educated, hockey player, ex-Canada 2020, IPPR, Pi Capital, Eurasia Group senior advisor.

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon, American author of the Outlander (Cross Stitch in UK) historical time-travel series begun in 1991; science Ph.D., RITA winner, tens of millions of copies sold, adapted by Starz in 2014.

Diana Garnet (ダイアナ・キャロライン・ガーネット)

Diana Garnet (ダイアナ・キャロライン・ガーネット) is an American anison singer, voice actress, and sound director from Washington, D.C., based in Tokyo; winner of Nodojiman the World 2013 Spring and singer of the Naruto Shippuden ending theme "Spinning World".

Diana Greene Foster

Diana Greene Foster is an American demographer and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who led the Turnaway Study, a ten-year study of about 1,000 women who sought abortions.

Diana H. Wall

Diana H. Wall was an American soil ecologist at Colorado State University who showed that soil animals, from Antarctic nematodes onward, are a working part of the climate system.

Diana Harshbarger

Diana Harshbarger, born 1960, is a Republican pharmacist and business owner serving as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 1st district since January 2021.

Diana Hart

Diana Hart (Diana Joyce Hart, born 1963) is a Canadian author, bodybuilder, and member of the Hart wrestling family; daughter of Stu and Helen Hart, ex-wife of Davey Boy Smith, author of Under the Mat and the Cauliflower Heart trilogy.

Diana Hayden

Diana Hayden (born 1973, Hyderabad) is an Indian model, actress, and author who won Miss World 1997 in Seychelles, the third Indian winner, later acting, hosting Biography on History Channel, and writing A Beautiful Truth.

Diana Hu

Diana Hu is a Chilean-born engineer and venture capitalist who became a Y Combinator Managing Partner in 2026, after co-founding the augmented reality startup Escher Reality.

Diana Hyland

Diana Hyland (Joan Diana Gentner, 1936-1977), American actress; Broadway's Heavenly Finney in Sweet Bird of Youth; posthumous 1977 Emmy for The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; Joan Bradford on Eight Is Enough.

Diana Igaly

Diána Igaly (1965–2021) was a Hungarian skeet shooter: Olympic gold at Athens 2004, bronze at Sydney 2000, four-time world champion, later Hungarian Shooting Federation vice-president; died of COVID-19.

Diana J. G. Motz

Diana J. G. Motz, born Diana Jane Gribbon Motz in 1943, is an American jurist and senior judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Diana Karazon

Diana Karazon (ديانا كرزون) is a Jordanian singer who won the first season of Superstar, the Arabic version of Pop Idol, on Future TV in 2003.

Diana King

Diana King is a Jamaican singer-songwriter of dancehall-reggae fusion, born in Spanish Town in 1970, best known for "Shy Guy", a 1995 top 15 hit from the Bad Boys soundtrack.

Diana Krall

Diana Krall (born 1964, Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer. Only jazz singer with eight albums debuting at No. 1 on Billboard's jazz chart; two Grammys, ten Junos, over 15 million albums sold.

Diana L. Miglioretti

Diana L. Miglioretti is an American biostatistician and chief of the Division of Biostatistics at UC Davis who studies breast cancer screening and radiation risks from medical imaging.

Diana Lee Inosanto

Diana Lee Inosanto (born 1966) is an American actress, stuntwoman, director, and martial artist, daughter of Dan Inosanto and goddaughter of Bruce Lee, known for Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth in The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Tales of the Empire and for The Sensei (2008).

Diana Lewis

Diana Lewis (1919–1997), American MGM actress, Miss Dunk in It's a Gift (1934), Go West and Cry 'Havoc'; wife of William Powell for 44 years; distinct from the Detroit WXYZ news anchor Diana Lewis.

Diana Liverman

Diana Liverman is a Regents Professor Emerita of geography at the University of Arizona who studies climate vulnerability, adaptation, and food security, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Diana Loginova

Diana Loginova names two Russians: a luger (Диана Валерьевна Логинова, born 2003) who won bronze and gold at the 2020 Youth Olympics, and the Stoptime singer Naoko jailed in 2025 and exiled in 2026.