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Doroteo Vasconcelos
Doroteo Vasconcelos was a Salvadoran Liberal politician who served as President of El Salvador between 1848 and 1851, and led the failed allied invasion of Guatemala that forced his resignation in 1851.
Dorothea (film)
Dorothea (film) most commonly denotes Dorothea (2025), Chad Ferrin's true-crime horror film starring Susan Priver as Sacramento serial killer Dorothea Puente, released by Dread on October 31, 2025; other films share the title.
Dorothea Bennett
Dorothea Bennett (1929–1990) was an American geneticist known for her work on early mammalian development, especially the mouse T/t complex, at Cornell, Sloan-Kettering, and Texas.
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American reformer and Union Superintendent of Army Nurses whose investigations of jails and poorhouses led to 32 institutions for the mentally ill in the United States.
Dorothea Jameson
Dorothea Jameson (1920–1998) was an American cognitive psychologist who, with her husband and collaborator Leo Hurvich, built the first comprehensive quantitative model of color vision at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dorothea Jordan
Dorothea Jordan, also known as Mrs. Jordan or Dora Jordan, was an Irish actress famed for comic roles and breeches parts at Drury Lane from 1785 to 1809.
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), American documentary photographer of the Great Depression; FSA photographer 1935-1939, creator of Migrant Mother (1936, Florence Owens Thompson, Nipomo, California), An American Exodus with Paul Taylor, and suppressed War Relocation Authority internment photographs.
Dorothea Puente
Dorothea Puente, also Dorothea Helen Grey, the "Death House Landlady," ran a Sacramento boarding house at 1426 F Street; convicted 1993 of murdering three tenants for their benefit checks, died in prison 2011.
Dorothea Wierer
Dorothea Wierer (Doro), born 1990 in Brunico, is a retired Italian biathlete, two-time overall IBU World Cup winner (2019, 2020), ten-time world championship medalist, and four-time Olympic medalist who retired at Milano Cortina 2026.
Dorothea Zucker-Franklin
Dorothea Zucker-Franklin (1929–2015) was a German-born American hematologist at New York University who used electron microscopy to work out the fine structure of blood cells.
Dorothee Bär
Dorothee Bär, born 1978, is a German politician of the CSU who has served as Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space and sat in the Bundestag since 2002.
Dorothee Kern
Dorothee Kern is a German-born biophysical chemist who uses NMR spectroscopy to watch proteins move, an HHMI Investigator, and a founder of Relay Therapeutics and MOMA Therapeutics.
Dorothee Schneider
Dorothee Schneider (Doro, born 1969), German dressage rider; two Olympic team golds (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020) and silver (London 2012) on Showtime FRH and Diva Royal; Reitmeister 2019, Gestüt St. Stephan owner.
Dorotheenstadt
Dorotheenstadt, also Neustadt, a baroque planned town of Berlin founded 1674 and named for Electress Dorothea; merged into Berlin in 1710; later part of Berlin's commercial City, now in Mitte.
Dorothy (band)
Dorothy (DOROTHY) is an American hard rock band formed 2014 in Los Angeles, fronted by Budapest-born singer Dorothy Martin. Signed to Roc Nation, known for ROCKISDEAD, 28 Days in the Valley, Gifts from the Holy Ghost, and 2025's The Way featuring Slash.
Dorothy (crater on Charon)
Dorothy is the largest known impact crater on Charon, Pluto's largest moon: an IAU-approved 261 km, ~6 km deep basin at 58.53°N, 40.58°E, named in 2018 after the protagonist of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Dorothy (film)
Dorothy (டோரதி) is a 2026 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by Karthik Subbaraj, starring Keerthy Suresh, Sananth, and Rishikanth, set in rural Tamil Nadu.
Dorothy Atkinson
Dorothy Atkinson (Caroline Dorothy Atkinson), English actress born 1966 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire; Mike Leigh collaborator in Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing, and Mr. Turner (BIFA nomination), and TV lead in Mum, Pennyworth, and Ludwig.
Dorothy Bauer
Dorothy Bauer, American early-1910s discus thrower; recorded 26.12 m with a 1.25 kg discus in New York on 2 May 1914 in World Athletics' pre-federation women's marks, distinct from other people named Dorothy Bauer.
Dorothy Bridges
Dorothy Bridges (Dorothy Simpson, 1915–2009), American actress and poet, wife of Lloyd Bridges, mother of Beau, Jeff and Lucinda; appeared in Finders Keepers, Sea Hunt, and See You in the Morning, and wrote You Caught Me Kissing.
Dorothy Brooten
Dorothy Brooten is an American nurse scientist and professor at Florida International University, a National Academy of Medicine member known for the Quality Cost Model of transitional care.
Dorothy Bush Koch
Dorothy "Doro" Bush Koch (born 1959) is an American author and philanthropist, daughter of George H. W. Bush and sister of George W. Bush, author of My Father, My President and honorary chair of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
Dorothy Caldwell
Dorothy Caldwell (born 1948) is a Canadian textile artist in Trent Hills, Ontario, known for large dyed-and-stitched constructions with wood and stone, kantha and boro influences, works like Polestar and Distant Cloud Hears Me, and founding membership in Surfacing.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) was an American author and educational reformer who popularized the Montessori method, helped choose books for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and wrote Understood Betsy.
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Music Center theater at 135 N Grand Avenue; opened 1964, Welton Becket design, ~3,200 seats; former LA Phil home and Oscars venue, now LA Opera's hall.
Dorothy Cheney
Dorothy Cheney (1950–2018) was an American primatologist who, with her husband Robert Seyfarth, pioneered playback experiments on wild vervet monkeys in Kenya and baboons in Botswana.
Dorothy Counts
Dorothy Counts, also known as Dorothy Counts-Scoggins, became the first Black student at Charlotte's Harding High School in 1957, photographed facing a jeering white crowd.
Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge (Dorothy Jean Dandridge) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, the first African American performer nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, for Carmen Jones (1954).
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was an American journalist and Catholic convert who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin in 1933, publishing The Catholic Worker from Union Square and founding houses of hospitality; she described herself as pacifist and anarchist.
Dorothy E. Shippen
Dorothy E. Shippen is an American-trained biochemist and geneticist at Texas A&M University who established Arabidopsis thaliana as the model plant for telomere biology and discovered plant telomerase.