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Dana White

Dana White, American sports executive, president of the UFC since January 2001 and later CEO under TKO; built the promotion with the Fertittas from a $2 million purchase to a $4 billion sale, allied with Donald Trump.

Dana White's Contender Series season 10

Dana White's Contender Series season 10 (DWCS 2026): UFC prospect show, ten Tuesday episodes on Paramount+ at Meta APEX Las Vegas, August 11 to October 13, 2026; 49 fights, 46 contracts (record-tying), 11 Brazilians.

Dana White's Contender Series season 8

Dana White's Contender Series season 8, the UFC's 2024 talent-search show, ran ten Tuesday episodes at the UFC APEX, Las Vegas, August 13 to October 15, 2024, awarding 42 UFC contracts.

Dana White's Contender Series season 9

Dana White's Contender Series season 9, the UFC's 2025 prospect tryout show, ran ten weekly cards at UFC APEX Las Vegas from August 12 to October 14, 2025, awarding 46 UFC contracts.

Dana Winner

Dana Winner, stage name of Chantal Vanlee (born Hasselt, 1965), is a Flemish singer known for "Westenwind", "Woordenloos" and "One Moment In Time", recording in Dutch, English and Afrikaans, with a large South African following.

Dana Wynter

Dana Wynter (Dagmar Winter, 1931–2011), Berlin-born English actress; starred as Becky Driscoll in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Fox contract player, films Sink the Bismarck! and Airport, later TV work.

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) is a Boston comprehensive cancer center founded by Sidney Farber in 1947, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center known for the Jimmy Fund and its 2026 BIDMC transition.

Danabot

Danabot, also sold as DanaTools, is a Windows information-stealer and banking trojan released in 2018 that infected over 300,000 computers before its disruption in May 2025.

Danaë (Δανάη)

Danaë (Δανάη), Argive princess and daughter of King Acrisius, imprisoned for a prophecy that her son would kill him, impregnated by Zeus as a golden shower, mother of Perseus, from Homer through lost Euripides plays to Titian, Correggio, and Klimt.

Danaea

Danaea is a genus of eusporangiate ferns in the family Marattiaceae, the only marattioid genus restricted to the Neotropics, from southern Mexico to southern Brazil.

Danaher Corporation

Danaher Corporation is an American life sciences and diagnostics company founded by the Rales brothers in the early 1980s, operating more than 15 companies in over 50 countries.

Danaher Death Squad

Danaher Death Squad (DDS) was John Danaher's leg-lock grappling team at Renzo Gracie Academy NYC from about 2015, with Gordon Ryan, Garry Tonon, Eddie Cummings, and Nicky Ryan; it split in 2021 into New Wave and B-Team.

Danai Gurira

Danai Gurira (Danai Jekesai Gurira, born 1978) is a Zimbabwean-American actress and playwright: Michonne in The Walking Dead, Okoye in Marvel's Black Panther films, and author of Eclipsed, The Convert, and In the Continuum.

Danakil Depression

The Danakil Depression is a low-lying rift basin in northeastern Ethiopia, one of Africa's lowest land areas, known for its hyperacidic springs and Erta Ale volcano.

Danakil Desert

Danakil Desert, hyperarid hot desert of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti centered on the Danakil Depression, an active Afar triple-junction rift trough 125 m below sea level with salt flats, Dallol acid springs, Erta Ale lava lake, and the Afar salt trade.

DANAMI-3 trial

DANAMI-3 (Third Danish Study of Optimal Acute Treatment of Patients With STEMI), a Danish program of three randomized trials (iPOST, DEFER, PRIMULTI) at 4 centers, 2011-2014, testing postconditioning, deferred stenting, and complete revascularization in STEMI.

Dananeer Mobeen

Dananeer Mobeen (born 2001, Peshawar) is a Pakistani actress and influencer, the "Pawri Ho Rahi Hai" viral star of 2021, known for Sinf-e-Aahan, Meem Se Mohabbat, Mera Lyari, and Hurmat.

Danangombe

Danangombe, also spelled Danamombe and known as DhloDhlo, is a ruined stone-walled settlement in south-central Zimbabwe, capital of the Rozvi kingdom from the late 17th century until around 1830.

Dananhu No. 1 Coal Mine

Dananhu No. 1 Coal Mine (大南湖一号矿井) is an underground coal mine in Hami, Xinjiang, China, with an approved capacity of 10 million tonnes per year.

Dananhu No. 2 Surface Mine

Dananhu No. 2 Surface Mine, also called Dananhu West No. 2, is a large open-pit thermal coal mine in Hami, Xinjiang, China, begun in 2017.

Dananhu No. 7 Coal Mine

Dananhu No. 7 Coal Mine (大南湖七号煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Hami, Xinjiang, China, operated by Guotou (SDIC) Hami Energy with a 12-million-tonne annual capacity.

Dananhu power station

Dananhu power station (中煤哈密电厂) is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Nanhu Town, Hami, Xinjiang, China, owned by China National Coal Group, with two 660 MW units in service since 2014.

Danantara

Danantara, formally the Badan Pengelola Investasi Daya Anagata Nusantara, is Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund, launched by President Prabowo Subianto in February 2025 to manage state-owned enterprise assets directly.

Danaos

Danaos Corporation is an international owner of containerships and drybulk vessels, headquartered in Piraeus, Greece, whose founder Dimitris Coustas began operating as Danaos Shipping in 1972.

Danaparoid sodium

Danaparoid sodium (Orgaran) is a non-heparin heparinoid mixture of glycosaminoglycans from porcine mucosa, an antithrombin-mediated factor Xa inhibitor (anti-Xa:anti-IIa 22:1) used for HIT treatment and DVT prophylaxis; withdrawn from the US in 2002.

Danas Pozniakas

Danas Pozniakas (Dan Ivanovich Poznyak, 1939–2005), Polish-born Lithuanian boxer for the USSR; 1968 Olympic light-heavyweight gold, first Lithuanian Olympic champion, three-time European champion, 203 wins in 217 bouts.

Danasagara of Ballala Sena

The Danasagara (दानसागर) is a Sanskrit digest on ritual gifts compiled by Ballala Sena, a Sena king of Bengal, around 1168, among the earliest works of the dana-nibandha genre.

Danau Sentarum Wildlife reserve

Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve was a protected wetland in the upper Kapuas River basin, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, established in 1982; it became Indonesia's second Ramsar site in 1994 and a national park in 1999.

Danavulapadu Mound

Danavulapadu Mound, in Jammalamadugu taluka, Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, is an early Jain archaeological site with Rashtrakuta-era temple basements, 1903 ASI finds, and Indra III inscriptions.

Danay García

Danay García (Danay Aguilar Garcia), Cuban-born American actress born 1984 in Havana; known as Sofia Lugo in Prison Break and Luciana Galvez in Fear the Walking Dead (2016–2023, 98 episodes); now a series regular on Peacock's M.I.A. as twins Leah and Carmen.