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Dan Le Batard

Dan Le Batard (born 1968, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American sports journalist and host of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, a former Miami Herald columnist, ESPN personality, Highly Questionable host, and co-founder of Meadowlark Media.

Dan Leno

Dan Leno, born George Wild Galvin, was a British music-hall comedian and pantomime dame originator who starred in sixteen consecutive Drury Lane Christmas pantomimes from 1888.

Dan Levine

Dan Levine (Daniel Mark Levine) is an American venture capitalist who was a partner at Accel from 2015 to 2026, known for early investments in Scale AI, Vercel, and Sentry.

Dan Levy (American comedian)

Dan Levy (born 1981, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and producer, distinct from the Canadian Schitt's Creek actor of the same name. Known for Comedy Central Presents, the special Lion, the album Congrats on Your Success, Chelsea Lately, and The Goldbergs.

Dan Levy (Canadian actor)

Dan Levy (Daniel Joseph Levy, born 1983, Toronto) is a Canadian actor-writer-director, son of Eugene Levy, MTV Canada host, co-creator and David Rose of Schitt's Creek, and 2020 four-discipline Emmy winner.

Dan Li (chemist)

Dan Li (李丹, born 1964) is a Chinese supramolecular coordination chemist, professor, and founding dean of the College of Chemistry and Materials Science at Jinan University in Guangzhou.

Dan Li (materials scientist)

Dan Li (李丹) is a materials scientist and Chair Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, known for his 2008 paper on stable aqueous graphene dispersions.

Dan Lin

Dan Lin (林暐, born 1973, Taipei) is a Taiwanese-American film producer, founder of Rideback (formerly Lin Pictures), producer of The Lego Movie, It, Aladdin, and The Two Popes, and Netflix's film chief from 2024 to 2026.

Dan Linstedt

Dan Linstedt is the American data architect who invented the Data Vault data warehouse modeling method (hubs, links, satellites) in the 1990s, published it from 2002, created Data Vault 2.0, and co-founded Scalefree and DataVaultAlliance.

Dan Littman

Dan R. Littman is an American immunologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose laboratory defined Th17 cells and identified the HIV receptor complex CD4 and CCR5.

Dan Luo

Dan Luo is a professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University who engineers DNA as a bulk material for hydrogels, diagnostics, and drug delivery.

Dan Lupu

Dan Lupu is a Romania-born venture capital investor and Venture Partner at Germany's Earlybird since 2024, best known for backing UiPath, whose $29 billion 2021 IPO was the largest for a European startup.

Dan Luss

Dan Luss is an Israeli-born chemical engineer at the University of Houston, known for chemical reaction engineering, reactor dynamics and safety, and a National Academy of Engineering member.

Dan M. Goebel

Dan M. Goebel is a JPL Fellow and electric propulsion scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Dan M. Roden

Dan M. Roden (Dan Roden) is a Canadian-born physician-scientist in cardiology and clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for work on antiarrhythmic drugs, drug-induced long QT syndrome, and pharmacogenomics.

Dan Majerle

Dan Majerle ("Thunder Dan"), born 1965, American NBA shooting guard/small forward, 14th pick 1988, 14 seasons with Suns, Cavaliers, Heat; 3x All-Star, 1993 Finals runner-up, later Grand Canyon head coach.

Dan Margalit (mathematician)

Dan Margalit is an American mathematician at Vanderbilt University who studies mapping class groups of surfaces and co-wrote the prize-winning Primer on Mapping Class Groups.

Dan Marino

Dan Marino, Hall of Fame quarterback for the Miami Dolphins (1983-1999), 1984 NFL MVP, retired holding NFL records of 61,361 passing yards and 420 touchdowns; never won a Super Bowl.

Dan Markel

Dan Markel, also Daniel Markel, was a Florida State University criminal law professor known for retributivism scholarship, murdered in 2014 in a murder-for-hire plot by his ex-wife's Adelson family; five convictions followed, and Florida's Markel Act bears his name.

Dan mask

A Dan mask is a carved wooden face mask made by the Dan people of Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire, embodying a forest spirit during masquerade.

Dan Maydan

Dan Maydan is an electrical engineer who was President of Applied Materials from 1994 to 2003, building it into the world's leading maker of semiconductor production equipment.

Dan McCafferty

Dan McCafferty (William Daniel McCafferty, 1946-2022) was the Scottish lead vocalist and co-founder of hard rock band Nazareth from 1968 to 2013, known for "Love Hurts" and "Hair of the Dog"; COPD ended his touring career.

Dan McKay

Dan McKay is an American Democratic attorney and Army veteran running in the 2026 primary for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District seat held by Julia Letlow.

Dan McKee

Dan McKee is an American Democratic politician who has served as the 76th Governor of Rhode Island since 2021, after serving as lieutenant governor and Mayor of Cumberland.

Dan McKenzie

Dan McKenzie, born 1942, is a British geophysicist at the University of Cambridge, co-founder of plate tectonics whose 1978 sedimentary basin model won the Crafoord Prize.

Dan Merenstein M.D.

Dan Merenstein, M.D., is an American family medicine physician-scientist at Georgetown University whose probiotics and antibiotic stewardship research led to his 2024 election to the National Academy of Medicine.

Dan Meuser

Dan Meuser is an American Republican politician who has represented Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019, after serving as Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue from 2011 to 2015.

Dan Mintz

Dan Mintz (Daniel Alexander Mintz, born 1981, Anchorage, Alaska) is an American deadpan stand-up comedian, writer, and voice actor, the voice of Tina Belcher on Bob's Burgers, writer for Veep and Nathan for You, and creator of the 2026 animated special Well Rounded Entertainer.

Dan Morehead

Dan Morehead, also known as Daniel Morehead, is an American hedge fund manager who founded Pantera Capital in 2003 and launched the first US cryptocurrency fund in 2013.

Dan Mullen

Dan Mullen, American college football coach, head coach at UNLV since 2025, formerly Mississippi State (2009-17, 69-46) and Florida (2018-21, 34-15), career 117-67; ex-Florida OC under Urban Meyer.