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Diana M. Bautista
Diana M. Bautista is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies the molecular mechanisms of touch, pain, and itch, and became an HHMI investigator in 2022.
Diana M. Gibb
Diana M. Gibb is a British pediatrician and Professor of Epidemiology at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, known for landmark pediatric HIV trials in Africa.
Diana Mocanu
Diana Iuliana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer born 1984 in Brăila; double Olympic backstroke champion at Sydney 2000, Romania's first swimming gold medalist, 2001 world 200 m backstroke champion, retired 2004, later a coach and federation vice president.
Diana Moreno
Diana C. Moreno, Ecuadorian-born Queens labor organizer and DSA member, represents New York State Assembly District 36 (Astoria, Long Island City); she won the February 3, 2026 special election with about 74% to succeed Zohran Mamdani.
Diana Mosley
Diana Mosley (nee Freeman-Mitford, 1910-2003), Mitford sister, wife of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, friend of Hitler; married him in Goebbels's Berlin home in 1936, was interned under Regulation 18B, and died unrepentant in Paris exile.
Diana Muldaur
Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American actress known as Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law, Dr. Katherine Pulaski on Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2, and two original Star Trek roles; twice Emmy-nominated and a former Television Academy president.
Diana Mutz
Diana Mutz is an American political scientist and communication scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the 2018 PNAS paper on status threat and the 2016 presidential vote.
Diana Nyad
Diana Nyad, born 1949, is an American long-distance swimmer who in 2013 became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, at age 64.
Diana of Versailles
The Diana of Versailles (French: Diane à la biche, "Diana with the doe") is a Roman marble statue of Diana, copy of a Greek original attributed to Leochares, in the Louvre since 1798.
Diana Penty
Diana Penty (born 1985, Mumbai) is an Indian model and Hindi film actress, also called a Bollywood actress. Debuted as Meera in Cocktail (2012), Filmfare Best Female Debut nominee, known for Happy Bhag Jayegi, Parmanu, and Cannes appearances.
Diana Prince (DC Extended Universe)
Diana Prince is the DC Extended Universe version of Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot from Batman v Superman (2016) through Wonder Woman (2017, $800 million worldwide) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), until the DCEU ended under DC Studios' James Gunn reboot.
Diana Qiu
Diana Y. Qiu is a computational condensed-matter physicist and Assistant Professor at Yale University, known for first-principles many-body calculations of two-dimensional semiconductors and their excitons, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.
Diana Quick
Diana Quick (Diana Marilyn Quick, born 1946) is an English actress known as Lady Julia Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited, a BAFTA-nominated stage and screen performer, author of A Tug on the Thread, and Oxford's first female Dramatic Society president.
Diana Region
Diana Region (région DIANA), Madagascar's far northwestern region with capital Antsiranana and five districts including Nosy Be; economy of mining, fisheries, agriculture, and tourism, producing 90% of the country's fine cacao.
Diana Reiss
Diana Reiss is an American cognitive psychologist and marine mammal scientist at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, known for demonstrating mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins.
Diana Riba i Giner
Diana Riba i Giner, born in Barcelona in 1975, is a Spanish politician of the Republican Left of Catalonia who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Diana Rigg
Dame Diana Rigg (1938–2020), British actress; Emma Peel in The Avengers, Tracy in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tony-winning Medea, Emmy-winning Rebecca, and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones.
Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born 1944, Detroit) is an American singer and actress, lead singer of the Supremes (12 Billboard No. 1 hits) and a solo star with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," an Oscar nomination for Lady Sings the Blues, and the 2021 album Thank You.
Diana Ross discography
Diana Ross discography: recordings of the Supremes lead singer (1962–1970) and solo artist, about 25 solo albums from Diana Ross (1970) to Thank You (2021), on Motown and RCA, with six US and two UK number-one singles.
Diana Sailplanes Diana
The SZD-56 Diana, also called the Diana 2, is a Polish high-performance racing sailplane in the FAI 15-meter flapped class, first flown in its modern form in 2005.
Diana Saldaña
Diana Saldaña, born 1971, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, sitting in Laredo since 2011 after serving as a magistrate judge and federal prosecutor.
Diana Scarwid
Diana Scarwid (born 1955, Savannah, Georgia) is a retired American actress, Oscar-nominated for Inside Moves (1980) and Razzie-winning as adult Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981), with Emmy-nominated Bess Truman in Truman (1995).
Diana Serra Cary
Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery and known as Baby Peggy, was an American silent film child star who later became an author and child-actor advocate.
Diana Taurasi
Diana Taurasi, American basketball guard (born 1982, Chino, California), UConn star and Phoenix Mercury legend; WNBA all-time leading scorer (10,646 points), three-time champion, six-time Olympic gold medalist; retired February 25, 2025.
Diana Taylor (superintendent)
Diana L. Taylor is an American financier who served as New York State Superintendent of Banks from 2003 to 2007, appointed by Governor George Pataki and later a Citigroup director.
Diana Tifatina (temple)
Temple of Diana Tifatina, ancient Italic sanctuary of Diana on Monte Tifata near Capua, Campania; cult from the 6th century BC, podium under the Basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formis, patronized by Sulla in 83 BC.
Diana Turbay
Diana Turbay (Diana Consuelo Turbay Quintero, 1950–1991), Colombian journalist and lawyer, daughter of ex-president Julio César Turbay Ayala, directed Noticiero Criptón and edited Hoy por Hoy; kidnapped 30 August 1990 by Los Extraditables via a fake ELN interview and killed 25 January 1991 in a police rescue near Copacabana, Antioquia.
Diana Veteranorum
Diana Veteranorum (Aïn Zâna/Zana, Algeria), a Roman veteran municipium in Numidia between Lambaesis and Sitifis; attested 141–162 AD, a bishopric, with a 5th-century economic peak in textiles and pastoralism and 6th-century decline.
Diana Vickers
Diana Vickers, English singer and actress born 1991 in Blackburn, Lancashire; fourth-place X Factor 2008 finalist; UK number one single "Once" and album Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree; later West End and Kiln Theatre actor.
Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland (1903–1989), American fashion editor born Diana Dalziel in Paris, led Harper's Bazaar, edited Vogue, and as Met Costume Institute consultant created the modern blockbuster fashion exhibition and themed Met Gala.