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Doi Sanehira
Doi Sanehira (土肥実平), also called Doi Jirō, was a Japanese warrior from Sagami Province who joined Minamoto no Yoritomo at the start of his 1180 uprising and governed five western provinces in the Genpei War.
Doi Toshikatsu
Doi Toshikatsu (土井利勝, 1573–1644) was a senior retainer of the early Edo shogunate, daimyo of Koga with 160,000 koku, and the shogunate's first tairō from 1638.
Doihara Kenji
Doihara Kenji (土肥原賢二) was an Imperial Japanese Army general and intelligence chief who built puppet regimes in China and was hanged as a war criminal in 1948.
Doikayt (דאָקייט)
Doikayt (דאָקייט), Yiddish for "hereness", a Jewish diasporist political concept opposing territorial Zionism; central to the Jewish Labour Bund's program of socialism, Yiddish culture, and diaspora autonomy.
DOIL
DOIL is the stage name of Vebjørn Berg-Jørgensen, a Norwegian dubstep and bass music producer releasing music since 2021, whose track 'Ruckus' reached number 17 on Beatport.
Doin' It (film)
Doin' It is a 2024 sex comedy directed by Sara Zandieh, starring and co-written by Lilly Singh as Maya Singh, a 30-year-old virgin teaching high school sex ed; premiered at SXSW March 12, 2024, released theatrically September 19, 2025.
Doin' Time
"Doin' Time" is a 1996 Sublime song by Bradley Nowell and Marshall Goodman sampling Herbie Mann's cover of Gershwin's "Summertime"; the Gershwin estate forced a lyric change, and Lana Del Rey's 2019 cover peaked at Billboard number 59.
Doina Besliu Melinte
Doina Besliu Melinte (Doina Ofelia Beșliu-Melinte, born 1956, Hudești) is a Romanian middle-distance runner, 1984 Olympic 800 m champion and 1,500 m silver medallist, two-time world indoor 1,500 m champion, and former indoor mile world record holder.
Doina Ignat
Doina Ignat, born 1968 in Romania, is a rower who competed at five Olympic Games, winning four golds, one silver, and one bronze, mostly in the women's eight.
Doina Spircu
Doina Spircu (Doina Tudora Spircu-Craciun), Romanian rower born 1970 in Slobozia; Olympic gold in the women's eights at Atlanta 1996 and world champion in the eights in 1999.
Doink the Clown
Doink the Clown is a WWF/WWE wrestling gimmick debuted in 1993, originally played by Matt Osborne (Matt Borne) as an evil clown, later by Ray Apollo and others, turned comedic alongside Dink, with a final WWE appearance in 2012.
Doireann Ní Ghlacáin
Doireann Ní Ghlacáin, Irish fiddler, sean-nós singer, broadcaster and podcaster from Dublin; daughter of Kevin Glackin, granddaughter of Seán Ó Riada; presents TG4's Ceolaireacht, co-hosts How to Gael, and releases the album An Tairseach in 2027.
Dois (album)
Dois is the second studio album by Brazilian rock band Legião Urbana, released in 1986, containing "Eduardo e Mônica" and "Tempo Perdido" and selling more than 1.5 million copies.
Dois Irmãos
Dois Irmãos (Two Brothers) is a 2000 novel by the Brazilian writer Milton Hatoum about the hatred between twin brothers in a family of Lebanese immigrants in Manaus.
Doja Cat
Doja Cat (Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, born 1995) is an American rapper-singer; albums Amala, Hot Pink, Planet Her, Scarlet, Vie; hits Say So, Kiss Me More, Paint the Town Red; Grammy winner.
Doja Cat discography
The Doja Cat discography covers the American rapper and singer's five studio albums, Amala through Vie (2025), plus her 2014 debut EP Purrr! and hit singles.
Doji bara famine
The Doji bara famine (దోజీ బార కరువు) was a famine that struck southern India, including the Deccan and the Carnatic, between 1789 and 1792, killing an estimated 11 million people.
Dōjima Rice Exchange
The Dōjima Rice Exchange (堂島米会所) was the officially licensed rice market of Osaka, where tax rice was traded; from 1730 it ran the world's first organized futures market.
Dojo
Dojo (道場) is the Japanese term for a martial arts training hall, derived from Sanskrit bodhi-manda via Chinese. Covers its Buddhist origins, Edo-era history, architecture, etiquette, the McDojo critique, and modern dojo business and safety.
Dōjōji
Dōjōji (道成寺) is a Japanese legend in which Kiyohime, rejected by the monk Anchin, becomes a serpent and burns him inside the bell of Dōjō-ji temple.
Dok2
Dok2 (도끼, Lee Joon-kyung, born 1990) is a South Korean rapper and producer, Illionaire Records co-founder, Show Me the Money producer, and co-founder of 808 HI RECORDINGS with Lee Hi.
Dokgo Rewind (독고 리와인드)
Dokgo Rewind (독고 리와인드) is a 2018 South Korean web drama and mobile film, a prequel to the webtoon Dokgo, starring EXO's Sehun as Kang Hyuk and gugudan's Mina; 20 short episodes premiered September 7, 2018 on Kakao Page and oksusu.
Dokha (دوخة)
Dokha (دوخة) is an Arabian tobacco blend smoked in a small pipe called a midwakh, widely used in the United Arab Emirates and known for its high nicotine content.
Doki Doki Literature Club! (ドキドキ文芸部!)
Doki Doki Literature Club! (ドキドキ文芸部!) is a free 2017 Ren'Py visual novel by Team Salvato, a dating sim that reveals itself as psychological horror through file deletion and fourth-wall breaks; DDLC Plus! (2021) added Side Stories.
Dokka Umarov (Доку Хаматович Умаров)
Dokka Umarov (Доку Хаматович Умаров), also Doku Umarov, Chechen militant commander, last president of Ichkeria and emir of the Caucasus Emirate from 2007; threatened the 2014 Sochi Olympics, UN-sanctioned 2011, reported dead March 2014.
Dokkaebi (도깨비)
Dokkaebi (도깨비), also called Dokebi, is a supernatural being of Korean folklore, fond of tricks but sometimes helpful, known for its magic cap and club.
Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar
Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar, dark-elves and light-elves of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (Gylfaginning 17), are otherwise unattested Old Norse elf categories, probably modeled on Christian good and bad angels and likely identified with dwarfs.
Dokkebi Park
Dokkebi Park (도깨비공원, Dokkaebi Gongwon) was a theme park in Jeju City, South Korea, holding about 2,300 dokkaebi figures; it opened in 2005 and closed in 2017.
Dokken
Dokken, Los Angeles heavy metal/hard rock band formed 1977, led by Don Dokken with guitarist George Lynch in the 1980s; known for Tooth and Nail, Back for the Attack, Dream Warriors, and the Dokken–Lynch feud.
Dokkōdō
Dokkōdō (独行道) is a 21-article text of self-discipline written by Miyamoto Musashi a week before his 1645 death; the original ink manuscript survives in the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art.