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Didgeridoo
Didgeridoo (didjeridu; Yolngu yidaki or mandapul) is a termite-hollowed eucalypt drone tube of northern Aboriginal Australia, about 1500 years old by rock art, played by men with circular breathing.
Didgoroba
Didgoroba (Georgian: დიდგორობა, "Day of Didgori") is Georgia's annual August 12 commemoration of the Battle of Didgori, won by King David IV over a Seljuk invasion in 1121.
DiDi
DiDi (Chinese: 滴滴), also known as Didi Chuxing, is a Chinese ride-hailing and shared mobility platform founded in 2012, operating in China and 14 other countries.
Dìdi
Dìdi (弟弟) is Sean Wang's 2024 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy-drama about a 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy in Fremont, California, in 2008, starring Izaac Wang and Joan Chen; it won Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and was distributed by Focus Features.
Didi (music)
"Didi" (ديدي) is a 1992 song by the Algerian raï singer Khaled, produced by Don Was, a hit in 49 countries and the first Arabic-language record to reach the French Top 10.
Didi Autonomous Driving (滴滴自动驾驶)
Didi Autonomous Driving (滴滴自动驾驶) is a Beijing-based Level 4 autonomous driving company, set up in 2016 and spun out of Didi in 2019, deploying robotaxis through Didi's ride-hailing app.
Didi Barrett
Didi Barrett is an American politician, a Democrat in the New York State Assembly representing the 106th district in the Mid-Hudson Valley since 2012. She chairs the Assembly's Energy Committee.
Didi Conn
Didi Conn (Edith Bernstein, born 1951, Brooklyn) is the American actress who played Frenchy in Grease (1978) and Grease 2, also known for Benson, Shining Time Station, and Grease: Live!.
Didi Gregorius
Didi Gregorius (Mariekson Julius Gregorius), Dutch MLB shortstop born 1990 in Amsterdam; played for Reds, Diamondbacks, Yankees, and Phillies (2012-22), set Yankees shortstop home run records, and starred in the 2017 ALDS.
Didi Okpareke
Ndidiamaka "Didi" Okpareke is a Republican pharmacist and founder of Olive Tree Compounding Pharmacy who is the 2026 GOP nominee for New Mexico's 1st Congressional District, facing Democratic incumbent Melanie Stansbury.
Didi Wuya (Didi Autonomous Driving)
Didi Wuya, or Didi Autonomous Driving, is a Chinese Level 4 self-driving company spun out of Didi Chuxing in 2019, operating driverless robotaxis in Guangzhou.
Didier Bourissou
Didier Bourissou is a French organometallic and main-group chemist who directs research at CNRS in Toulouse, known for gold catalysis, ambiphilic ligands, and biodegradable polymers for drug delivery.
Didier Courreges
Didier Courrèges (born 1960, Évreux) is a French eventing rider, Cadre Noir member, and 2004 Athens Olympic team gold medalist on Debat d'Estruval, with team silvers at the 2002 Worlds and 2001 Europeans.
Didier Cros
Didier Cros is a French-trained American neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for electrophysiological diagnosis of peripheral nerve disease and NEJM MGH case records.
Didier Cuche
Didier Cuche (born 1974 in Le Pâquier, Switzerland) is a Swiss former alpine ski racer who won Super G silver at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
Didier Defago
Didier Défago (born 1977, Morgins, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss alpine skier, 2010 Vancouver Olympic downhill champion, four-time Olympian, with 5 World Cup wins and 16 podiums.
Didier Delsalle
Didier Delsalle, born in 1957, is a French experimental test pilot for Eurocopter who landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest on 14 May 2005.
Didier Deschamps
Didier Deschamps is a French football manager and former player who captained France to the 1998 World Cup and managed the team to the 2018 title.
Didier Dinart
Didier Dinart (La Roca), born 1977 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French handball defender; Olympic gold 2008 and 2012, three world titles, two EHF EURO titles, four Champions Leagues; France head coach 2016–2020, later US Ivry and Montenegro coach.
Didier Dreyfuss
Didier Dreyfuss is a French professor emeritus of intensive-care medicine at Université Paris Cité and former head of intensive care at Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes.
Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba (born 1978, Abidjan), Ivorian centre-forward; Chelsea legend with 164 goals, four Premier League titles, 2012 Champions League; Ivory Coast record scorer with 65 goals; retired 2018.
Didier Flament
Didier Flament (born 1951, Tourcoing) is a French foil fencer, Olympic team foil gold medalist at Moscow 1980 and bronze medalist at Montreal 1976, and individual world foil champion at Hamburg 1978.
Didier Lebrec
Didier Lebrec (born 1945) is a French hepatologist and INSERM researcher at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, known for his 1981 trial showing propranolol sharply reduced recurrent bleeding in cirrhosis.
Didier Malenfant
Didier Malenfant is an American-based video game developer who co-founded Ready At Dawn Studios in California in 2003, after working as a senior programmer at Naughty Dog.
Didier Mazel
Didier Mazel is a French geneticist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who studies integrons, horizontal gene transfer, and genome architecture in bacteria, including Vibrio cholerae.
Didier Ménard
Didier Ménard, born 1966, is a French pharmacist-biologist and malaria researcher who established K13 mutations as the main determinants of artemisinin resistance and led the KARMA consortium.
Didier Picard
Didier Picard, born 1957, is a Swiss molecular biologist who led a laboratory at the University of Geneva from 1990, known for work on the Hsp90 chaperone and steroid receptors.
Didier Pironi
Didier Pironi (1952–1987), French Formula One driver for Tyrrell, Ligier, and Ferrari; 1978 Le Mans winner; 1982 championship runner-up after a career-ending Hockenheim crash; died powerboat racing near the Isle of Wight.
Didier Pittet
Didier Pittet is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist who developed and popularized alcohol-based handrub and led WHO's Clean Care is Safer Care program.
Didier Queloz
Didier Queloz, born in 1966, is a Swiss astronomer who co-discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first planet found orbiting a Sun-like star, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.