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Diminutive
Diminutive: a word-formation device, usually an affix, marking smallness plus affective senses (affection, irony, intensification). Studied cross-linguistically via Jurafsky's radial category, verbal diminutives in 248 languages, and child-directed speech.
Dimitar Berbatov (Димитър Иванов Бербатов)
Dimitar Berbatov (Димитър Иванов Бербатов), Bulgarian striker from Blagoevgrad; played for CSKA Sofia, Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham, Manchester United, Fulham, PAOK; five goals in one Premier League match, Bulgaria's all-time top scorer.
Dimitar Dobrev
Dimitar Dobrev (Димитър Добрев, 1931–2019), Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler, middleweight Olympic gold at Rome 1960 and silver at Melbourne 1956; later national coach who discovered Boyan Radev and Petar Kirov.
Dimitar Grekov
Dimitar Grekov (Димитър Греков) was a Bulgarian jurist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from January to October 1899 and earlier as justice and foreign minister.
Dimitar Miladinov
Dimitar Miladinov (Димитър Миладинов, 1810–1862) was a Bulgarian National Revival educator and folklorist from Struga who collected folk songs published by his brother Konstantin in 1861.
Dimitar Obshti
Dimitar Obshti (Димитър Общи; born Dimitar Nikolov, 1835–1873) was a Bulgarian revolutionary who served as Vasil Levski's assistant and organized the 1872 Arabakonak postal robbery; his testimony led to Levski's capture and hanging.
Dimitar P. Filev
Dimitar P. Filev is an engineer who spent 28 years at Ford Motor Company as Senior Henry Ford Technical Fellow and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Dimitar Rizov
Dimitar Rizov (Димитър Ризов; 1862–1918) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, journalist, and diplomat from Bitola who helped found the Balkan League and died in Berlin while serving as minister plenipotentiary.
Dimitar Sasselov
Dimitar Sasselov is a Harvard astronomer who studies exoplanets and the origins of life, directing Harvard's Origins of Life Initiative and serving on NASA's Kepler mission.
Dimitar Stoyanov (Bulgarian politician)
Dimitar Stoyanov, born in 1968 in Svilengrad, is a Bulgarian politician and retired Air Force colonel serving as Minister of Defense, after a 2022–2023 caretaker term.
Dimiter S. Dimitrov
Dimiter S. Dimitrov is a virologist and antibody engineer who spent 27 years at the National Cancer Institute before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2017.
Dimitra Galani
Dimitra Galani (Δήμητρα Γαλάνη) is a Greek singer and composer, born in Athens in 1952, whose career since 1969 spans more than 80 albums of Entekhno, Laïko, pop, and jazz.
Dimitri A. Antoniadis
Dimitri A. Antoniadis is a Greek-born electrical engineer and emeritus MIT professor known for pioneering contributions to MOSFETs and silicon process modeling, including the SUPREM simulators.
Dimitri A. Sverjensky
Dimitri A. Sverjensky is an Australian-born theoretical geochemist, professor at Johns Hopkins University since 1984, known for the Deep Earth Water model and mineral-water interface research.
Dimitri Basov
Dimitri Basov, also known as Dmitri N. Basov, is a condensed matter physicist who studies quantum materials with infrared light and chairs physics at Columbia University.
Dimitri Bertsekas
Dimitri Bertsekas (1942–2026) was a researcher in optimization, dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning, a longtime MIT professor who moved to Arizona State University in 2019 and wrote more than 20 influential textbooks.
Dimitri K
Dimitri K, the stage name of Demis Dimitri Kanakis, is a Dutch uptempo hardcore producer and DJ from Utrecht, born in 1998, known for his heavily distorted saw kick.
Dimitri Krainc
Dimitri Krainc is a Slovenian-born neurologist and neuroscientist who became chair of neurology at Northwestern University in 2013, known for research on Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.
Dimitri Kullmann
Dimitri M. Kullmann is a British neurologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for synaptic plasticity and epilepsy gene therapy.
Dimitri Lascaris
Dimitri Lascaris is a Canadian lawyer and journalist who co-founded a major securities class action team. He later ran for the Green Party of Canada leadership in 2020.
Dimitri Leonidas
Dimitri Leonidas (Shane Leonidas), English actor born 1987 in Brent, London; known for Tormented, Centurion, The Monuments Men, Riviera, Foundation (Hober Mallow), and Those About to Die (Scorpus).
Dimitri Mihalas
Dimitri Mihalas (1939–2013) was an American astrophysicist and National Academy of Sciences member known for his work on stellar atmospheres, radiation transport, and radiation hydrodynamics.
Dimitri Payet
Dimitri Payet, born 1987, French attacking midfielder from Réunion; retired 22 March 2026. Starred for Marseille, West Ham, and Vasco da Gama; 38 France caps, Euro 2016 finalist; no major trophy.
Dimitri Rassam
Dimitri Rassam is a French film producer born in Paris in 1981. He founded Chapter2 in 2005 and produced successful films including Le Petit Prince and Le Comte.
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike (Dimitri and Michael Thivaios) are a Belgian EDM DJ duo formed in 2006, twice DJ Mag Top 100 winners (2015, 2019), known for Tomorrowland and Smash The House.
Dimitrie Anghel
Dimitrie Anghel (1872–1914) was a Romanian symbolist poet, prose writer, and translator known as the "poet of flowers" for his garden imagery and for writing with Șt. O. Iosif under the shared pseudonym A. Mirea.
Dimitrie Bolintineanu
Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819–1872) was a Romanian poet and politician, a participant in the 1848 Wallachian Revolution and one of the founders of the Romanian novel.
Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie Cantemir was a Moldavian prince, historian, and composer who ruled Moldavia twice, then allied with Tsar Peter I of Russia against the Ottomans in 1711.
Dimitrie Gusti
Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955) was a Romanian sociologist and philosopher who founded the Bucharest Sociological School, pioneered village monographic research, and served as president of the Romanian Academy.
Dimitrie Pompeiu
Dimitrie Pompeiu (1873–1954) was a Romanian mathematician who worked in complex analysis and mechanics, introduced the distance between sets now called the Hausdorff distance, and posed the Pompeiu problem in 1929.