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Diana W. Bianchi
Diana W. Bianchi is an American medical geneticist and neonatologist, director of the NIH's child health institute since 2016 and a pioneer of prenatal DNA screening.
Diana Walsh Pasulka
Diana Walsh Pasulka is an American professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, known for studying UFO belief as an emerging global religiosity.
Diana Wiesner
Diana Wiesner, German barebow archer of BSV Ulm, multiple German champion in women's barebow; 2022 title with German record 597, European team record 1612 (2023). Also the name of a Colombian architect.
Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) was an English fantasy writer for children and young adults whose Howl's Moving Castle became a 2004 Hayao Miyazaki animated film.
Diana-Anda Buzoianu
Diana-Anda Buzoianu is a Romanian lawyer and politician of the USR party who serves as interim Minister of Environment, Waters and Forests, after serving as a Deputy.
Diana-Maria Riva
Diana-Maria Riva (born Diana-Maria Uhlenbrock, 1969, Cincinnati) is a Dominican-American actress known for Dead to Me (Detective Ana Perez, Imagen Award), Gordita Chronicles, Telenovela, Philly, and McFarland, USA; co-founder of Latinas Acting Up during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Spencer, 1961–1997), first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, mother of William and Harry; married 1981, divorced 1996, died in a Paris car crash 31 August 1997; famed for HIV/AIDS, homelessness, and landmine charity work.
Diandong power station
Diandong power station (滇东电厂) is a coal-fired power complex in Qujing, Yunnan, China, operated by Huaneng Yunnan Diandong Energy, with two sites, Diandong and Yuwang, totaling 3,600 MW.
Diandong Yuwang power station
The Diandong Yuwang power station is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Fuyuan County, Qujing, Yunnan, China, owned by Huaneng, with units commissioned in 2009 and 2010.
Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott (Diane Julie Abbott), British Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987 and the first black woman elected to the UK Parliament; former Shadow Home Secretary, twice suspended and readmitted to Labour.
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus (1923–1971), born Diane Nemerov, American photographer of New York portraits of couples, children, nudists, and performers; Guggenheim fellow, MoMA New Documents 1967, first photographer shown at the Venice Biennale, subject of the 2007 Met archive acquisition.
Diane Baker
Diane Baker (Diane Carol Baker, born 1938) is an American actress and producer who debuted as Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), starred in Marnie and The Silence of the Lambs, and produced A Woman of Substance.
Diane Blair-Sherlock
Diane Blair-Sherlock is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 46th district, first elected in 2022.
Diane Brewster
Diane Brewster (1931-1991) was an American film and television actress from Kansas City, Missouri, known for Samantha Crawford on Maverick, Miss Canfield on Leave It to Beaver, and Helen Kimble on The Fugitive.
Diane Bui Duyet
Diane Bui Duyet (Bui-Duyet), born 1979 in Nouméa, is a French butterfly swimmer who set the short-course 100m butterfly world record of 55.05 in Istanbul in 2009, won European silver, seven French titles, and later became a deputy mayor of Nouméa.
Diane Chambers
Diane Chambers is the intellectual waitress on NBC's Cheers (1982-1993), played by Shelley Long, jilted fiancée of Sumner Sloane and romantic counterpart of Sam Malone; she left after season five and returned in the finale and Frasier.
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento, born Elizabeth Cilento, was an Australian stage and screen actress who achieved Oscar and Tony nominations for her work on Tom Jones and Tiger at the Gates.
Diane de France
Diane de France, also Diane de Valois (1538–1619), illegitimate daughter of Henry II of France, legitimated 1547; married Orazio Farnese then François de Montmorency; duchess of Angoulême who mediated between Henry III and Henry of Navarre.
Diane de Poitiers
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566), duchess of Valentinois, was the official mistress and advisor of Henri II of France; she built the bridge and gardens at Chenonceau, was exiled to Chaumont by Catherine de' Medici in 1559, and died at Anet, likely from gold and mercury poisoning.
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) was an American poet associated with the Beat Generation, author of Revolutionary Letters and more than 40 books, and Poet Laureate of San Francisco from 2009.
Diane Disney Miller
Diane Disney Miller (1933-2013), eldest daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney, co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco and used her family's funds to keep Frank Gehry on the Walt Disney Concert Hall project in 1997.
Diane Dixon
Diane Dixon is an American Republican politician serving in the California State Assembly's 72nd district since 2022, a former Newport Beach mayor now running for the Orange County Board of Supervisors in 2026.
Diane Downs
Diane Downs (Elizabeth Diane Downs), American convicted murderer who shot her three children near Springfield, Oregon, in May 1983, killing Cheryl; convicted 1984, sentenced to life, denied parole four times, appeals and DNA testing requests pending.
Diane Duane
Diane Duane, also known for Young Wizards and the Middle Kingdoms (Tale of the Five), is an American science fiction and fantasy author born 1952 in Manhattan, a Star Trek novelist (Spock's World, Rihannsu series) living in Ireland with Peter Morwood.
Diane Dufresne
Diane Dufresne, born 1944 in Montreal, is a Quebec singer and painter nicknamed "La Diva", known for the hit "J'ai rencontré l'homme de ma vie".
Diane E. Griffin
Diane E. Griffin (1940–2024) was an American virologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins known for research on measles virus and alphavirus encephalitis, and NAS vice president.
Diane E. Meier
Diane E. Meier is an American palliative care physician and geriatrician who founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
Diane Farr
Diane Farr (born 1969, Manhattan) is an American actress, writer, and director known for Megan Reeves in Numb3rs, Laura Miles in Rescue Me, Sharon Leone in Fire Country, MTV's Loveline, and the books The Girl Code and Kissing Outside the Lines.
Diane Franklin
Diane Franklin (born 1962, Plainview, New York) is an American actress known for 1980s films The Last American Virgin, Amityville II, Better Off Dead, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and for returning in The Amityville Murders (2018).
Diane Gentry
Diane Gentry (nee Bussa), born 1961, American distance runner; first Indiana girl under 5:00 for the mile (4:58.2, 1977), 1987 USA 25K champion, and three-time Bolder Boulder masters women's winner; distinct from other people named Diane Gentry.