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Dorothy Stratten
Dorothy Stratten (Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten), Canadian Playboy Playmate of the Month August 1979 and Playmate of the Year 1980, actress in Galaxina and They All Laughed, murdered by estranged husband Paul Snider on August 14, 1980.
Dorothy T. Krieger
Dorothy T. Krieger was an American endocrinologist who directed endocrinology at Mount Sinai, showed pituitary peptide hormones are made in the brain, and received a special Lasker Foundation award in 1984.
Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan, born Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan, was an American mathematician who led NACA's segregated West Area Computing Unit from 1949 and later became an expert FORTRAN programmer at NASA.
Dorothy W. Nelson
Dorothy W. Nelson, also known as Dorothy Wright Nelson, is an American jurist on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Dorothy Wiggins
Dorothy Katz Wiggins (born August 14, 1925), American centenarian social media influencer, socialite, and former stylist on Instagram and TikTok; still plays tennis at 100, tossed the 2025 US Open coin, and is distinct from the Georgia pediatrician Dorothy P. Wiggins.
Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) was a British diarist, prose writer, and poet, sister of William Wordsworth, whose Grasmere journals recorded Lake District life and fed his poetry.
Dorothy Wright
Dorothy Wright (Dorothy Winifred Wright, née Machin, 1889–1960) was a British Olympic sailor who won gold in the 7-metre class at Antwerp 1920 aboard Ancora, the only woman in the 1920 yachting events and third female yachting gold medalist.
Dorothy Wrinch
Dorothy Wrinch, who published as D. M. Wrinch, was a mathematician and biochemist who originated the cyclol theory of protein folding and taught at Smith College from 1942 to 1971.
Dorothy Zbornak
Dorothy Zbornak is the fictional divorced substitute teacher played by Bea Arthur on NBC's The Golden Girls (1985-1992), daughter of Sophia Petrillo, Emmy-winning role, ending with her marriage to Lucas Hollingsworth.
Doroud Oil and Gas Field
The Doroud Oil and Gas Field is Iran's largest offshore oil field, an anticline in the northern Persian Gulf partly underlying Kharg Island, discovered in 1961.
Dorrance Publishing Company
Dorrance Publishing Company: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania fee-based publishing services and vanity press founded in 1920 by Gordon Dorrance; known for The Navajo Code Talkers, A.R. Ammons' Ommateum, and the Lockhart royalties class action.
Dörries Scharmann
Dörries Scharmann is a German machine tool brand, now part of the Swiss Starrag Group, based in Mönchengladbach and known for large vertical lathes and boring mills.
Dorrigo National Park
Dorrigo National Park, NSW North Coast, Australia: World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests park on the Great Escarpment, established 1967, about 11,900 ha, with the Dorrigo Rainforest Centre, Skywalk, and a $56.4M Great Walk project due 2028.
Dorrit Willumsen
Dorrit Willumsen, born in 1940 in Copenhagen, is a Danish author whose modernist novels center on women's experience; she won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1997 for Bang.
Dorry L. Segev
Dorry L. Segev is an Israeli-born transplant surgeon and epidemiologist who directs the Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research at NYU Langone Health in New York.
Dorsa Aldrovandi
Dorsa Aldrovandi, a lunar wrinkle-ridge network in eastern Mare Serenitatis named for Ulisse Aldrovandi, IAU-approved 1976, 126.81 km long, young and block-rich, a proposed CLPS landing site.
Dorsa Andrusov
Dorsa Andrusov, a lunar mare-ridge system (dorsa) in Mare Fecunditatis at 1.56S 56.77E, 80.98 km across, IAU-approved 1976 and named for Soviet geologist Nikolai Ivanovich Andrusov (1861-1924).
Dorsa Argand
Dorsa Argand, a lunar wrinkle ridge system (dorsum) 91.94 km across at 28.29°N, -40.34°E in quad LAC-39; IAU-approved 1976 and named for Swiss geologist Émile Argand (1879-1940).
Dorsa Argentea
Dorsa Argentea: sinuous ridge system on Mars (~360 km, IAU 1976) in the south polar Dorsa Argentea Formation, a ~1.5 million km2 Hesperian unit interpreted as remnants of an ancient south polar ice sheet, with ridges widely read as eskers.
Dorsa Barlow
Dorsa Barlow is a lunar wrinkle ridge system in Mare Tranquillitatis near Mare Serenitatis, 112.57 km across, named for British crystallographer William Barlow and approved by the IAU in 1976.
Dorsa Brevia
Dorsa Brevia is a 651 km-long ridge system in Mars' southern high latitudes near 71°S, 63°E, named by the IAU in 1976, formed by large thrust faults with throws up to 965 m active very early in martian history.
Dorsa Burnet
Dorsa Burnet is a 195-km lunar wrinkle-ridge system in northern Oceanus Procellarum at 26.18°N, 56.78°W, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for British Earth scientist Thomas Burnet (1635-1715).
Dorsa Cato
Dorsa Cato is a wrinkle-ridge system (dorsum, dorsa) on the Moon, 128.64 km across, centered at 0.21°N, 47.70°E; IAU-approved in 1976 and named for Marcus Porcius Cato (234–149 B.C.).
Dorsa Dana
Dorsa Dana is an 82.31-km-long lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) at 2.26°N, 89.60°E on the Moon's nearside, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for American geologist James Dwight Dana (1813-1895).
Dorsa Ewing
Dorsa Ewing, lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) approved by the IAU in 1976, named for American geophysicist William Maurice Ewing (1906-1974); 261.57 km across, centered near -11.0°, -38.3° in quad LAC-75.
Dorsa Geikie
Dorsa Geikie is a ~220 km wrinkle-ridge system (dorsa) in Mare Fecunditatis on the Moon, IAU-approved 1976, named for Scottish geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), near Dorsa Mawson and Dorsum Cayeux.
Dorsa Harker
Dorsa Harker is a 213 km wrinkle ridge system on the Moon in southeastern Mare Crisium, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for British petrologist Alfred Harker; its thrust faults reach 18-20 km deep.
Dorsa Lister
Dorsa Lister, a lunar wrinkle ridge system in eastern Mare Serenitatis, southern segment of the Serpentine Ridge with Dorsa Smirnov; IAU named 1976 for Martin Lister, about 180 km gazetteer diameter.
Dorsa Mawson
Dorsa Mawson is a lunar wrinkle ridge system in Mare Fecunditatis, IAU-approved in 1979, diameter 142.71 km at 7.77S 52.48E, named for Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson.
Dorsa Rubey
Dorsa Rubey is a lunar wrinkle ridge system, about 100.64 km long at 9.88°S, 42.36°W near crater Letronne, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for American geologist William Walden Rubey (1898-1974).