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Dan Gable
Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach from Waterloo, Iowa; 1972 Munich Olympic freestyle gold without a point conceded, 181-1 college record, and 15 NCAA team titles coaching Iowa (355-21-5).
Dan Gheesling
Dan Gheesling (Daniel Robert Gheesling), Big Brother 10 (US) winner (2008, unanimous 7-0 vote) and Big Brother 14 runner-up (2012), is a Michigan-based Twitch streamer, YouTube creator, and The Traitors season 2 and Destination X season 2 contestant.
Dan Gibson
Dan Gibson is a molecular biologist who invented Gibson Assembly, the widely used DNA-joining method, and co-led construction of the first synthetic-cell genome at the J. Craig Venter Institute in 2010.
Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert, also known as Daniel Gilbert, is an American entrepreneur who founded Quicken Loans in 1985, owns the Cleveland Cavaliers, and has invested heavily in downtown Detroit.
Dan Gilroy
Dan Gilroy, American screenwriter and director, brother of Tony Gilroy; wrote Freejack, The Bourne Legacy, and Kong: Skull Island; directed Nightcrawler (2014), Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay, plus Roman J. Israel, Esq. and Velvet Buzzsaw.
Dan Gilroy (musician)
Dan Gilroy, American pop/rock singer-songwriter, co-founder and vocalist of Breakfast Club with brother Ed; Madonna's boyfriend and bandmate 1979-1980; co-wrote 1987 US top-10 hit "Right on Track"; distinct from the screenwriter Dan Gilroy and DJ Dan.
Dan Gilvezan
Dan Gilvezan is an American actor and writer born in St. Louis, Missouri. He is best known for voicing Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Bumblebee on The Transformers.
Dan Glickman
Dan Glickman (Daniel Robert Glickman, born 1944) is a Kansas Democrat who served nine House terms (1977-1995), was Bill Clinton's 26th Secretary of Agriculture (1995-2001), led the 1996 HACCP food-safety overhaul, and later chaired the MPAA (2004-2010).
Dan Goldman
Dan Goldman, also known as Daniel S. Goldman, is an American Democratic congressman representing New York's 10th district since 2023 and former lead counsel in Trump's first impeachment.
Dan Green
Dan Green is an American Republican politician and the 2026 GOP nominee for the U.S. House in Florida's 9th District, after Navy service and Pentagon defense work.
Dan Green (voice actor)
Dan Green, stage name of James Hadley Snyder (also Jay Snyder), American voice actor born 1975 in San Rafael, California, based in New York; voice of Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi in the 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh! dub, Entei and Mewtwo in Pokémon, and Knuckles in Sonic.
Dan Gregor
Dan Gregor is an American comedy writer, director, and producer. He is known for his work on How I Met Your Mother, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and co-writing Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.
Dan Gronkowski
Dan Gronkowski, a former American football tight end, played for the Lions, Broncos, Browns, and Patriots from 2009 to 2011, having been a seventh-round draft pick in 2009. (30 words)
Dan Gurney
Dan Gurney (1931-2018), American racing driver, constructor, and founder of All American Racers; first driver to win in F1, IndyCar, NASCAR, and sports cars; won 1967 Le Mans and Belgian GP in his own Eagle; inventor of the Gurney flap.
Dan H. Barouch
Dan H. Barouch is an American physician-scientist who directs the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and develops HIV and COVID-19 vaccines.
Dan H. Moore
Dan H. Moore was an American cancer virologist and biophysicist known for purifying the mouse mammary tumor virus and searching for a human breast cancer virus.
Dan Haggerty
Dan Haggerty (Daniel Francis Haggerty, 1942-2016) was an American actor and animal trainer famous as the bearded Grizzly Adams in the 1974 film and the 37-episode NBC series, later a restaurant owner and infomercial pitchman.
Dan Hamhuis
Dan Hamhuis (born 1982, Smithers, BC), nicknamed Hammer, Canadian defenceman; 1,148 NHL games with Nashville, Vancouver, Dallas; Olympic gold 2014 Sochi; Worlds gold 2007, 2015; retired 2020.
Dan Hardy
Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy (born 1982), English welterweight MMA fighter, 25-10 pro, 6-4 UFC; challenged Georges St-Pierre for the UFC welterweight title at UFC 111 in 2010; retired after a 2013 Wolff-Parkinson-White heart diagnosis; later UFC commentator and analyst.
Dan Harmon
Dan Harmon (born 1973, Milwaukee) is an American writer-producer, creator of Community, co-creator with Justin Roiland of Rick and Morty, creator of Krapopolis, author of the eight-step Story Circle, and a three-time Emmy winner.
Dan Harrington
Dan Harrington, "Action Dan" (born 1945), American poker player and author; won the 1995 WSOP Main Event ($1,000,000), made four Main Event final tables, won the 2007 WPT Legends of Poker, and wrote the Harrington on Hold'em series.
Dan Harris (journalist)
Dan Harris, American journalist and former ABC News anchor (Nightline, weekend Good Morning America), author of the 2014 #1 bestseller 10% Happier, host of the 10% Happier podcast, after a 2004 on-air panic attack led him to meditation.
Dan Hartman
Dan Hartman (1950-1994), American singer-songwriter and producer, Edgar Winter Group member who wrote "Free Ride", scored disco hits "Instant Replay" and "Relight My Fire", and produced James Brown's "Living in America".
Dan Hedaya
Dan Hedaya (Daniel G. Hedaya, born July 24, 1940, Brooklyn) is an American character actor of Syrian-Jewish descent known for Blood Simple, Cheers' Nick Tortelli, Clueless, and playing Nixon in Dick.
Dan Henderson
Dan Henderson, American retired MMA fighter and two-time Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler (1992, 1996); PRIDE welterweight and middleweight champion simultaneously, Strikeforce light heavyweight champion, UFC 17 tournament winner, retired after UFC 204.
Dan Heng
Dan Heng (丹恒) is an Astral Express guard in Honkai: Star Rail, rebirth of the exiled Vidyadhara High Elder Dan Feng; playable as 4-star Wind Hunt, 5-star Imaginary Imbibitor Lunae, and Permansor Terrae.
Dan Hentschel
Dan Hentschel (@danhentschel, @danghentschel), born 1996, is an American parody comedian and satirist from Baltimore who plays outrageous characters in unedited car videos, spawning memes like Cocky Want Boing Boing and I Hate Being a Therapist.
Dan Herschlag
Dan Herschlag is an American biochemist at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for work on enzyme catalysis and RNA biophysics.
Dan Hill
Dan Hill is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and author. He won a Grammy as co-producer for Celine Dion and was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2021.
Dan Hirschberg
Dan Hirschberg is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, best known for a 1975 algorithm computing a longest common subsequence in linear space.