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Dominic Sandoval
Dominic Sandoval, known as D-Trix, is an American dancer born 1985 in Roseville, California; Top 8 on So You Think You Can Dance Season 3, Quest Crew's America's Best Dance Crew champion and judge, and a YouTube creator.
Dominic Savio
Dominic Savio (Domenico Savio) was an Italian pupil of Don Bosco in Turin, remembered for his vow "death, but not sin," canonized in 1954 after dying at fourteen.
Dominic Seiterle
Dominic Seiterle (born 1975, Montréal) is a Canadian rower, Dartmouth '98, and two-time Olympian: 13th in double sculls at Sydney 2000, then 2007 world champion and Beijing 2008 gold medalist in the men's eight (5:23.89).
Dominic Sessa
Dominic Sessa, American actor born 2002 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, discovered at Deerfield Academy; broke out as Angus Tully in The Holdovers, winning Independent Spirit and Critics Choice awards, and stars as Anthony Bourdain in A24's Tony (2026).
Dominic Sherwood
Dominic Anthony Sherwood, born 1990 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, is an English actor known as Christian Ozera in Vampire Academy (2014), the lead of Taylor Swift's 'Style' video, and Jace in Shadowhunters (2016-2019), notable for heterochromia.
Dominic Solanke
Dominic Solanke, English striker born 1997 in Reading; ex-Chelsea, Liverpool and Bournemouth; joined Tottenham in 2024 for up to £65m; won the 2024/25 Europa League; 5 England caps.
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem is an Austrian former professional tennis player, ranked as high as No. 3, who won the 2020 US Open and retired in 2024 after a wrist injury.
Dominic Toretto
Dominic Toretto, also Dom Toretto, is the Vin Diesel-played protagonist of the Fast & Furious franchise, from 2001 street racer to globe-saving family patriarch, known for his Dodge Charger and invincibility.
Dominic Vallarsi
Dominic Vallarsi (Domenico Vallarsi) was an Italian secular priest and patristic scholar of Verona, born in 1702, best known for his eleven-volume edition of St Jerome's works.
Dominic W. Lanza
Dominic William Lanza, born in 1976 in Seattle, is a United States district judge for the District of Arizona, appointed by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in 2018.
Dominic West
Dominic West is an English actor best known as Detective Jimmy McNulty in The Wire and as Prince Charles in Netflix's The Crown, winning a BAFTA for Appropriate Adult.
Dominic Wood
Dominic Simon "Dom" Wood (born 1978, Devon) is an English magician, TV presenter and DJ, one half of Dick and Dom with Richard McCourt, known for Dick and Dom in da Bungalow (2002–2006), two Children's Baftas, and the Ofcom-censured "Morning Wood" T-shirt.
Dominic Zvada
Dominic Zvada, born 2003, is an NFL placekicker for the New York Giants. A Michigan and Arkansas State college kicker, he set Michigan 50-yard field goal records and was a 2024 All-American.
Dominica
Dominica (Commonwealth of Dominica), the Nature Isle of the Caribbean: a mountainous Eastern Caribbean island between Martinique and Guadeloupe, independent since 1978, with nine volcanoes, Morne Trois Pitons UNESCO park, and a tourism, agriculture, and citizenship-by-investment economy.
Dominica World Creole Music Festival
The World Creole Music Festival is an annual three-night music festival held at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, Dominica, since 1997, showcasing bouyon, zouk, kompa, and reggae each October.
Dominical letter
The dominical letter is one of the letters A to G marking which days of a year are Sundays, used with the Golden Number to calculate Easter.
Dominican amber
Dominican amber is fossilized tree resin from the Dominican Republic, deposited 15 to 20 million years ago from the extinct tree Hymenaea protera and prized for its exceptional fossil inclusions.
Dominican Civil War
Dominican Civil War (Guerra de Abril, April Revolution), 1965 conflict in Santo Domingo between Bosch's Constitutionalists and Loyalists, followed by the U.S. Operation Power Pack intervention and the OAS Inter-American Peace Force.
Dominican Constitution of 1844
The Dominican Constitution of 1844 (Constitución de San Cristóbal de 1844) was the first constitution of the Dominican Republic, adopted at San Cristóbal on 6 November 1844.
Dominican Customs Receivership
The Dominican Customs Receivership was a fiscal arrangement under which the United States administered Dominican customs revenues from 1905 to 1941, applying them to debt service.
Dominican Liberation Party
Dominican Liberation Party (Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, PLD), Dominican political party founded 15 December 1973 by Juan Bosch after leaving the PRD; governed 1996-2020 under Leonel Fernández and Danilo Medina, lost 2020 to the PRM, ideology based on boschismo.
Dominican Order
The Dominican Order (Ordo Praedicatorum, Dominicans) is a Catholic mendicant order founded by St. Dominic and confirmed by Honorius III in 1216, defined by preaching, study, the Rule of St. Augustine, and Aquinas's intellectual tradition.
Dominican Order in Spanish America
The Dominican Order in Spanish America, or Orden de Predicadores en las Indias, evangelized the Spanish Indies from 1510, founding convents and universities from Mexico to Chile.
Dominican Party
The Dominican Party (Spanish: Partido Dominicano) was the single ruling political party of the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, founded in 1931 and dissolved after his 1961 assassination.
Dominican peso
The Dominican peso is the sole legal tender of the Dominican Republic, divided into 100 centavos and issued exclusively by the Banco Central de la República Dominicana.
Dominican Professional Baseball League
LIDOM (Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana), the Dominican winter baseball league founded 1951, legalized 1955; six teams, 50-game season, round robin playoffs, most Caribbean Series titles (22).
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a Caribbean presidential republic on eastern Hispaniola, capital Santo Domingo, independent since 27 February 1844. Population about 11.5 million; GDP $127 billion in 2025; fastest income convergence in Latin America.
Dominican Republic national football team
Dominican Republic men's national football team (Selección de fútbol de República Dominicana), CONCACAF/CFU side run by the Federación Dominicana de Fútbol. Never at a World Cup; first Gold Cup in 2025, FIFA-ranked 135th in late 2026.
Dominican Republic National Regularization Plan
The Dominican Republic National Regularization Plan (Plan Nacional de Regularización de Extranjeros) was a government program created by decree in November 2013 that regularized about 250,000 undocumented migrants, most of them Haitian.
Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement
The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) is a free trade agreement between the United States and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.