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Domenico Cefalù
Domenico "Italian Dom" Cefalù, Sicilian-born Palermo native and Gambino crime family boss 2011–2015 (some sources say 2011–2019), succeeded by Frank Cali; convicted of heroin conspiracy, contempt, and extortion in Operation Old Bridge.
Domenico Cimarosa
Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801) was an Italian composer, the leading writer of opera buffa in the late eighteenth century; his masterpiece is Il matrimonio segreto (1792).
Domenico Corrado
Domenico Corrado is an Italian cardiologist who leads the Clinica Cardiologica at the University of Padova, known for research showing Italy's athlete ECG screening cut sudden deaths by about 70%.
Domenico De Sole
Domenico De Sole is an Italian-born American lawyer and luxury-goods executive who led Gucci's turnaround as chief executive from 1994 and later co-founded and chaired Tom Ford International.
Domenico della Rovere
Domenico della Rovere (1442–1501) was an Italian cardinal and archbishop of Turin from 1482, known for building the Palazzo dei Penitenzieri in Rome and Turin cathedral.
Domenico Dolce
Domenico Dolce (born 1958, Polizzi Generosa, Sicily) is the Italian designer who co-founded Dolce & Gabbana with Stefano Gabbana, debuting in Milan in 1985; known for Sicilian-inspired Mediterranean femininity, couture Alta Moda lines, and family ownership.
Domenico Ferrata
Domenico Ferrata (1847–1914) was an Italian cardinal and papal diplomat who served as nuncio to Belgium and France and was Vatican Secretary of State for 37 days in 1914.
Domenico Fioravanti
Domenico Fioravanti (born 1977, Novara) is a retired Italian breaststroke swimmer, the first Italian to win Olympic swimming gold, taking the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke double at Sydney 2000 before retiring in 2004 with cardiac hypertrophy.
Domenico Gerosolimitano
Domenico Gerosolimitano, also known as Dominico Irosolimitano, was a Jerusalem-born Jew who converted to Catholicism in 1593 and became the most prolific official censor of Hebrew books in Italy.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico Ghirlandaio, born Domenico Bigordi, was a Florentine painter of 1449–1494 whose frescoes, including the Tornabuoni Chapel cycle, portrayed citizens of his day; Michelangelo trained in his workshop.
Domenico Mordini
Domenico Mordini (1898-1948), Italian sailor nicknamed U Menegu, won 8-metre class gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics aboard Italia, Italy's first Olympic sailing title.
Domenico Papalia
Domenico "Micu" Papalia (1945–2026), 'ndrangheta boss of Platì who with brothers Rocco and Antonio established the clan in Buccinasco-Corsico near Milan; imprisoned 49 years from 1977, acquitted of one murder in 2017, convicted for others, released July 2026, died in Milan.
Domenico Passionei
Domenico (Silvio) Passionei (1682–1761) was an Italian cardinal, papal diplomat, and Vatican librarian, remembered for his learning and one of the eighteenth century's most celebrated book collectors.
Domenico Praticò
Domenico Praticò is an Italian-born physician-scientist and pharmacologist, born in 1962, whose studies are credited as the first to delineate oxidative stress's role in Alzheimer's disease, and who directed the Alzheimer's Center at Temple University.
Domenico Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti (Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, 1685–1757), Italian Baroque composer and keyboard virtuoso, son of Alessandro Scarlatti; music master to Maria Barbara of Portugal and Spain and composer of 555 binary-form keyboard sonatas, the K-numbered catalog.
Domenico Tedesco
Domenico Tedesco (born 1985, Rossano, Italy) is an Italian-German football manager who coached Schalke 04, Spartak Moscow, RB Leipzig (DFB-Pokal 2022), Belgium, Fenerbahçe, and Bologna, never having played professionally.
Domenico Veneziano
Domenico Veneziano, born Domenico di Bartolomeo da Venezia in Venice about 1410, was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Florence, known for luminous color and perspective in landscape.
Domentijan
Domentijan (Доментијан) was a Serbian hieromonk of Hilandar on Mount Athos and a disciple of Saint Sava, best known for writing the Life of Saint Sava and the Life of Saint Simeon.
Domesday Book
Domesday Book, also called the Great Survey, is the 1086 record of landholding and values in England ordered by William the Conqueror; two Latin parchment volumes covering 31 counties plus Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, with over 13,000 places.
Domestic canary
Domestic canary (Serinus canaria), cage songbird from the wild Atlantic canary of the Canary Islands, Madeira, and Azores; domesticated within 500 years, yellow plumage by 1610-1677, bred for song, color, and type varieties.
Domestic dependent nations
Domestic dependent nations: term coined by Chief Justice Marshall in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) for the status of federally recognized American Indian tribes, which hold inherent sovereignty over members and territory while dependent on federal protection and Congress's plenary power.
Domestic Disturbance
Domestic Disturbance is a 2001 American psychological thriller directed by Harold Becker. It stars John Travolta as a father who believes his son's new stepfather committed a murder.
Domestic duck
Domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus; also Muscovy, Cairina moschata): poultry descended mainly from the mallard, domesticated in southern China. 1.15 billion kept in 2020, 89 percent in Asia; raised for meat, eggs, foie gras, and rice-paddy integration.
Domestic fiction
Domestic fiction, also called sentimental fiction or woman's fiction, is a genre of popular American novels of the mid-19th century written by, for, and about young women.
Domestic football leagues outside Europe
Domestic football leagues outside Europe is an overview of how league football spread beyond Europe, covering formats like promotion and relegation, closed MLS-style leagues, and Apertura and Clausura systems.
Domestic Girlfriend (ドメスティックな彼女)
Domestic Girlfriend (Domestic na Kanojo, ドメスティックな彼女) is Kei Sasuga's romance manga serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine 2014–2020, 276 chapters, 28 volumes, about step-siblings Natsuo, Hina, and Rui; adapted as a 12-episode 2019 anime.
Domestic goose
Domestic goose, from Greylag (Anser anser) and Swan goose (Anser cygnoides), a poultry bird kept for meat, down, weed control, and guarding; fourth most produced poultry species, dominated by China.
Domestic military deployments by the second Trump administration
Domestic military deployments by the second Trump administration: National Guard and active-duty troops sent to Los Angeles, Washington DC, Portland, Chicago, Memphis, and New Orleans from June 2025, facing Posse Comitatus Act litigation and a Supreme Court ruling against federalization.
Domestic mink
Domestic mink are American mink (Neogale vison) farmed for fur since the 1860s; semi-domesticated, cage-housed carnivores raised mainly in Europe, the US, and China, with contested welfare and disease concerns.
Domestic partnership
A domestic partnership is a legal status giving two unmarried people formal recognition and rights such as inheritance and hospital visitation under state law, without marriage; the federal government does not treat partners as spouses.