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Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult (born 1952 in Dakar, Senegal) is a French microbiologist known for culturing Tropheryma whipplei, discovering giant viruses, and contested COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine claims.
Didier Ratsiraka
Didier Ratsiraka, the "Red Admiral" (1936–2021), president of Madagascar 1975–1993 and 1997–2002, socialist AREMA founder, nationalizer, later IMF reformer, exiled after the disputed 2001 election, amnestied, returned 2011.
Didier Samuel
Didier Samuel is a French hepatologist who led the liver transplant program at Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif and became Chairman and CEO of Inserm in February 2023.
Didier Sénac
Didier Sénac, French central defender born 1958 in Saint-Denis, played for RC Lens (1977-87) and Girondins de Bordeaux (1987-95), won 1984 Olympic football gold with France, earned 3 caps, then worked as Lens coach and recruiter.
Didier Sornette
Didier Sornette is a French physicist and professor emeritus of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH Zurich, known for research on predicting financial bubbles and catastrophic events.
Didier Trono
Didier Trono, born 1956, is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland who heads the Laboratory of Virology and Genetics and invented lentiviral vectors for gene therapy.
Didier Y. R. Stainier
Didier Stainier is a Belgian-American developmental biologist who directs the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany.
Didier Zokora
Didier Zokora (Alain Didier Zokora-Déguy, born 1980, Abidjan), nicknamed "Le Maestro", is an Ivorian retired defensive midfielder and Ivory Coast's most capped player (123 caps, 1 goal). Clubs: Genk, Saint-Étienne, Tottenham, Sevilla, Trabzonspor; three World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014).
Didilia Corona
Didilia Corona, a 320-km-wide corona on Venus at 19N 38E in Eastern Eistla Regio, IAU-named 1997 for an East Slavic childbirth goddess; a corona-nova linked to the Eastern Eistla mantle plume with Pavlova, Ninmah, and Isong.
Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus (Marcus Didius Severus Julianus), Roman emperor for 66 days in 193 CE; won the Praetorian "auction of the empire" with 25,000 sesterces per man, deposed and executed by Septimius Severus.
Dido
Dido (Elissa), legendary Phoenician queen of Tyre who founded Carthage c. 813 BCE; Virgil's Aeneid invented her love affair with Aeneas, her curse, and her suicide, inspiring Ovid, Marlowe, and Dido's problem in mathematics.
Dido (singer)
Dido (Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, born 1971) is an English singer-songwriter, ex-Faithless vocalist, whose No Angel and Life for Rent sold millions and whose "Thank You" was sampled on Eminem's "Stan".
Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas (Z 626), Purcell's three-act English baroque opera to Nahum Tate's libretto after Virgil, first known performed 1689 at Josias Priest's Chelsea girls' school; famous for Dido's Lament over a chromatic ground bass.
Dido Elizabeth Belle
Dido Elizabeth Belle was a mixed-heritage British gentlewoman raised at Kenwood House in north London by Lord Chief Justice William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.
Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray
Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray is a c. 1778 double portrait by David Martin of two cousins raised at Kenwood House, now at Scone Palace.
Dido Harding
Dido Harding, also known as Diana Mary Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe, is a British business executive and Conservative peer who was chief executive of TalkTalk from 2010 to 2017.
Didodecyldimethylammonium bromide
Didodecyldimethylammonium bromide, also called DDAB or dilauryldimethylammonium bromide, is a double-tailed quaternary ammonium surfactant, C₂₆H₅₆BrN, that forms vesicles in water, serves as a model amphiphile in colloid science, and carries DNA in gene-delivery formulations.
Didomi
Didomi is a software company selling consent and privacy-management tools, centered on its consent management platform. Founded in 2017, it raised €72 million in 2025 and acquired Addingwell and Sourcepoint.
Didone
Didone, also called Modern or Neoclassical, is a classification of serif typefaces named after Didot and Bodoni, popular from the late 18th through the 19th centuries.
Didrik Nyholm
Didrik Nyholm was a Danish jurist who served 25 years on the Mixed Courts of Egypt and then, from 1921 to 1931, as a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Didrik Tønseth
Didrik Tønseth (born 1991) is a Norwegian cross-country skier from Trondheim who won Olympic gold in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 2018 PyeongChang Games.
DIDSON
DIDSON (Dual-frequency IDentification SONar) is a high-frequency imaging sonar, often called an acoustic camera, that turns echoes into video-like images of fish in dark or turbid water.
Didyma (Δίδυμα)
Didyma (Branchidai), Apollo's oracle sanctuary south of Miletus in Ionia; priestly Branchidae, destroyed by Darius I in 494 BC, refounded under Alexander, with the giant unfinished Hellenistic temple later converted to a Christian basilica.
Didyme (mistress of Ptolemy II)
Didyme was an Egyptian mistress of Ptolemy II Philadelphus in 3rd-century-BC Alexandria, described as very beautiful and known almost solely from Ptolemy VIII's Memoirs and a possible epigram by Asclepiades.
Didymograptus
Didymograptus, Ordovician planktonic graptolite genus (Dichograptidae), type species D. murchisoni (Beck 1839); two pendent stipes form a tuning-fork colony used as an index fossil.
Didymoi (Egypt)
Didymoi (Khashm al-Minayh), Roman praesidium on the Coptos–Berenice road in Egypt's Eastern Desert; founded 76/77 CE by prefect Iulius Ursus, rebuilt 176/177, abandoned mid-3rd century; rich ostraca record.
Didymosis aplasticosebacea
Didymosis aplasticosebacea, now pseudodidymosis aplasticosebacea, is a rare congenital disorder pairing sebaceous nevus with adjacent aplasia cutis congenita plus ocular and CNS abnormalities; a mosaic RASopathy.
Didymosphenia geminata
Didymosphenia geminata, commonly called didymo or rock snot, is a freshwater diatom native to northern Europe and North America that forms dense streambed mats in nutrient-poor rivers worldwide since the 1990s.
Die (manufacturing)
A die is a specialized tool, usually a block of hardened tool steel, that shapes material under pressure in processes such as stamping, extrusion, forging, and die casting.
Die Aktion
Die Aktion, a German literary and political weekly edited by Franz Pfemfert in Berlin from 1911 to 1932, helped literary Expressionism achieve its breakthrough and championed an undogmatic left politics.