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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is an American presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner for No Ordinary Time; author of Team of Rivals, basis for Spielberg's Lincoln, and An Unfinished Love Story (2024).
Doris L. Pryor
Doris Lenea Pryor, born in 1977, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Seventh Circuit since 2022, nominated by President Biden.
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing (Doris May Taylor, 1919-2013), British novelist born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia, author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.
Doris Maletzki
Doris Maletzki (Brachmann, Maletzki-Romanowsky), born 1952 in Salzwedel, East German sprinter for SC Dynamo Berlin; Olympic 4x400 m relay gold at Montreal 1976 in world record 3:19.23 and European 4x100 m gold at Rome 1974 in 42.51.
Doris Matsui
Doris Matsui, born in 1944, is an American Democratic congresswoman representing California's 7th district since 2023, who has represented Sacramento in the U.S. House since 2005.
Doris Miller
Doris (Dorie) Miller, Waco, Texas-born Navy mess attendant and first African American awarded the Navy Cross for manning a machine gun on USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor; died on USS Liscome Bay in 1943.
Doris Neuner
Doris Neuner, Austrian luger born 1971 in Innsbruck, won the 1992 Albertville Olympic women's singles luge gold, 0.073 seconds ahead of her sister Angelika; five-time Austrian champion, retired 1995.
Doris R. Schwartz
Doris R. Schwartz (1915–1999) was an American nursing pioneer in public health and aging, a Cornell faculty member for twenty-nine years and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Nursing.
Doris Roberts
Doris Roberts (Doris May Green, 1925-2016), American actress, played Marie Barone on CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005), winning four of her five Emmys, plus one for St. Elsewhere.
Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo (born 1958, Bogotá) is a Colombian sculptor and installation artist whose work memorializes victims of political violence, known for Shibboleth at Tate Modern.
Doris Tate
Doris Tate, mother of murdered actress Sharon Tate, was a California victims' rights activist who helped pass the 1982 victim impact statement law, campaigned against Manson family paroles, and founded the Doris Tate Crime Victims Bureau before her 1992 death.
Doris Turner (Illinois politician)
Doris Turner is an American Democratic politician and lifelong Springfield resident serving in the Illinois Senate's 48th district, appointed in 2021 and elected in 2022.
Doris Twitchell Allen
Doris Twitchell Allen (1901–2002) was an American clinical psychologist at the University of Cincinnati who founded Children's International Summer Villages (CISV) in 1951, a peace-education organization for children.
Doris Ying Tsao
Doris Ying Tsao, who publishes as Doris Y. Tsao, is an American neuroscientist known for discovering the macaque face patch system and decoding how the brain represents faces.
Doriskos
Doriskos (Δορίσκος, Doriscus), ancient fortified settlement on Saraya hill by the Evros delta, Thrace, Greece; Persian garrison of Darius I, site of Xerxes' 480 BC army review, occupied to Hellenistic times.
Doritos
Doritos is a PepsiCo Frito-Lay brand of triangular seasoned tortilla chips, born at Disneyland's Casa de Fritos in the early 1960s and launched nationally in 1966; it held 44.7% of the US tortilla chip market in 2022.
Dorjee Tshering Lepcha
Dorjee Tshering Lepcha is an Indian politician, a Bharatiya Janata Party member of the Rajya Sabha representing Sikkim since 2024, after earlier serving as an SDF minister.
Dork Diaries
Dork Diaries is a middle-grade diary-format series by Rachel Renée Russell, illustrated by Nikki Russell, following Nikki Maxwell at Westchester Country Day; 16 books, 55 million copies, first published June 2009.
Dorking Wanderers F.C.
Dorking Wanderers F.C., also called the Wanderers, is an English non-league club founded in 1999 by Marc White and friends, promoted 12 times from park football to the National League, playing at 3,000-capacity Meadowbank Stadium in Dorking, Surrey.
Dormammu
Dormammu, also called the Dread Lord or Lord of the Dark Dimension, is a Marvel Comics mystical supervillain created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuting in Strange Tales #126 (November 1964). A Faltine who rules the Dark Dimension, he is Doctor Strange's arch-enemy and the MCU villain of Doctor Strange (2016).
Dorman Long
Dorman Long was a British iron and steel company of Middlesbrough, England, incorporated in 1889, which fabricated the steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tyne Bridge.
Dormancy
Dormancy: reversible low-metabolic-activity state used across bacteria, plants, and animals (seed dormancy, diapause, hibernation, torpor) to survive unfavorable conditions, forming seed banks that persist for years to millennia.
Dormant black hole
A dormant black hole is a black hole in a binary system that emits little or no X-rays because it is not accreting matter from its companion star.
Dormer
A dormer, also called a dormer window, is a roofed vertical projection from the slope of a pitched roof, built to add space and daylight to an attic.
Dormer Pramet
Dormer Pramet is a cutting tool manufacturer formed by the 2014 merger of British toolmaker Dormer and Czech insert producer Pramet, owned by the Sandvik Group.
Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
Dormition Cathedral (Uspensky Sobor, Успенский собор) is the five-domed main church of the Moscow Kremlin, built 1475–1479 by Aristotele Fioravanti for Ivan III, modeled on Vladimir's Assumption Cathedral, consecrated 1479, and used for coronations.
Dormition of the Mother of God
The Dormition of the Mother of God, or Koimisis, is the Eastern Christian feast of Mary's death and bodily translation to heaven, kept on August 15.
Dormitory
Dormitory: a building for sleeping accommodation, especially a college residence hall; from Latin dormitorium; American dorms evolved from Harvard's 1655 Indian College through segregated, gendered housing to modern residence halls.
Dormouse
Dormouse: small arboreal rodent of the family Gliridae (also called Myoxidae), including the hazel, edible, garden, and forest dormice; known for hibernation and torpor, early Eocene fossil record, and the garden dormouse's Vulnerable IUCN status.
Dorna Sports
Dorna Sports is a Spanish sports management and marketing company headquartered in Madrid, holder of the exclusive commercial and television rights to MotoGP motorcycle racing since 1991.