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Dianne Buswell
Dianne Buswell (born 1989, Bunbury, Western Australia) is an Australian ballroom and Latin dancer, Strictly Come Dancing professional since 2017, 2024 Glitterball winner with Chris McCausland, partner of Joe Sugg.
Dianne Chong
Dianne Chong is a retired American materials engineer who was Boeing's vice president of Research and Technology and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Dianne Doan
Dianne Doan (born 1990) is a Canadian actress from Abbotsford, British Columbia, of Vietnamese descent, known as Lonnie in Disney's Descendants, Yidu in Vikings, and Mai Ling in Warrior.
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein, U.S. senator from California 1992–2023 and San Francisco mayor 1978–1988; longest-serving woman senator, author of the 1994 assault weapons ban and the CIA torture report.
Dianne Hart-Lowman
Dianne Hart-Lowman is an American Democratic politician who represented Florida's 63rd House district from 2018, known for her long-running push to reform Florida's prison system.
Dianne Hesselbein
Dianne Hesselbein is an American Democratic politician and Minority Leader of the Wisconsin State Senate, elected to the Senate in 2022 after five terms in the State Assembly.
Dianne Holum
Dianne Holum (Dianne Mary Holum, born 1951, Chicago) is an American speed skater and coach: four Olympic medals (gold 1500m, silver 3000m, 1972 Sapporo; silver 500m, bronze 1000m, 1968 Grenoble), later first woman to coach US women Olympic speed skaters and coach of Eric Heiden.
Dianne K. Newman
Dianne K. Newman is an American geobiologist and microbiologist at Caltech known for applying genetics to microbial metabolism and studying phenazines in cystic fibrosis lungs.
Dianne Primavera
Dianne Primavera is an American Democratic politician who became Colorado's 50th lieutenant governor in January 2019, after eight years representing the 33rd district in the Colorado House.
Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves, born 1956 in Detroit and raised in Denver, is an American jazz vocalist, five-time Grammy winner, and 2018 NEA Jazz Master known for scat singing and genre-spanning repertoire.
Dianne van Giersbergen
Dianne van Giersbergen (born 1985) is a Dutch soprano, founder/frontwoman of Ex Libris and Xandria vocalist 2013-2017 (Sacrificium, Theater of Dimensions); since 2022 records solo album Soulward Bound as DIANNE with Joost van den Broek.
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest, American actress born 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri; two-time Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner (Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway), two-time Emmy winner (In Treatment, Avonlea), longtime Woody Allen collaborator and New York stage veteran.
Dianqian
Dianqian (典签) was a low-ranking office under the Liu Song and Southern Qi whose imperial appointees watched princes and provincial governors, holding power far above their grade.
Dianqian Si (Palace Command)
The Dianqian Si (殿前司), or Palace Command, was one of the Song dynasty's three palace military commands, controlling the emperor's guard units and palace army.
Dianthus
Dianthus (pinks, carnations, sweet William) is a genus of about 384 accepted species in Caryophyllaceae, native from Europe to temperate Asia, Africa, and Subarctic America, with tubular calyces, five clawed petals, and capsules opening by four teeth.
Dianthus barbatus
Dianthus barbatus, Sweet William, is a Caryophyllaceae biennial/short-lived perennial native from European mountains to N. Korea, grown for fragrant clustered flowers; parent of Fairchild's 1717 first artificial plant hybrid.
Dianthus caryophyllus
Dianthus caryophyllus, the carnation or clove pink, a Mediterranean Caryophyllaceae subshrub and major cut-flower crop; diploid 2n=30, third most traded flower, Colombia top exporter, blue GM varieties exist.
Dianthus Therapeutics
Dianthus Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNTH) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing monoclonal antibody complement therapeutics for severe autoimmune and inflammatory diseases; its lead candidate is the anti-C1s antibody claseprubart.
Diantou power station
Diantou power station is a coal-fired power station of at least 1,320 MW in Diantou Town, Huangling County, Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, with its first phase commissioned in 2023.
Dianxiaomi (店小秘)
Dianxiaomi (店小秘) is a Chinese cross-border e-commerce SaaS company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shenzhen, selling listing and order-management ERP software to online sellers.
Dianzani autoimmune lymphoproliferative disease
Dianzani autoimmune lymphoproliferative disease (DALD) is a very rare inherited immune disorder causing autoimmunity and enlarged lymph nodes or spleen, without the double-negative T cells of ALPS.
Dianzhujiao (电主角)
Dianzhujiao (电主角) is a Shenzhen company founded in 2020 that claimed to be a high-end electronics retailer, exposed in 2024 for fabricated financing and partnership claims.
Dianzuo Wang
Dianzuo Wang (Wang Dianzuo, 1934–2023) was a Chinese mineral processing scientist known for flotation theory and reagent design, a member of the Chinese and US engineering academies who died in 2023.
Diao Gu Zhan Wen
Diao Gu Zhan Wen (吊古战场文, "On Mourning the Ancient Battlefield") is a prose eulogy by the Tang writer Li Hua, composed in 752 after he inspected the Shuofang frontier.
Diaochan (貂蝉)
Diaochan (貂蝉) is the fictional heroine of Wang Yun's interlocking stratagem in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, first appearing in the Yuan Sanguo Zhi Pinghua, absent from official histories, and the only fictional one of China's Four Great Beauties.
diaPASEF
diaPASEF is a mass spectrometry scan mode for bottom-up proteomics, combining data-independent acquisition with ion mobility on timsTOF instruments, introduced in Nature Methods in 2020.
Diapause
Diapause is a programmed seasonal developmental or reproductive arrest, coined by Wheeler in 1893 from Greek diapausis, occurring in phased stages and distinguished from quiescence by anticipatory, hormonally regulated induction.
Diaper
Diaper (nappy): absorbent garment containing infant or incontinence waste. Modern disposables use a superabsorbent polymer core absorbing over 30 times its weight; first disposables appeared 1942–1946; Pampers launched 1961.
Diaper fetishism
Diaper fetishism (diaperism), part of the ABDL community, is erotic arousal focused on diapers, historically called paraphilic infantilism or adult baby syndrome; no longer a DSM-5 or ICD paraphilia, distinct from pedophilia.
DIAPH1
DIAPH1 (diaphanous-related formin 1, mDia1), a Rho-effector formin gene on 5q31; causes DFNA1 deafness, and gain-of-function R1213 variants cause macrothrombocytopenia with hearing loss, while biallelic loss causes neurodevelopmental syndrome.