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Douglas C. Dean

Douglas C. Dean is a molecular biologist holding an endowed chair at the University of Louisville, known for Cell papers on the retinoblastoma protein and later research on retinitis pigmentosa.

Douglas Cecil Moorhouse (1926–2012) was an American civil engineer who led the consulting firm Woodward-Clyde for decades, worked on the Trans-Alaska pipeline, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.

Douglas C. Rees

Douglas C. Rees (D.C. Rees) is an American structural biochemist, the Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, known for the first crystal structure of nitrogenase.

Douglas C. Wallace

Douglas C. Wallace is an American mitochondrial geneticist who founded the field of human mitochondrial genetics, showing that mtDNA is inherited only from the mother.

Sep 21, 2026

Douglas C. Youvan

Douglas C. Youvan is an American biophysicist who sequenced the bacterial photosynthetic reaction-center genes, engineered its amino acids to alter electron transfer, and co-founded Kairos Scientific.

Douglas C.H. Yu

Douglas C.H. Yu, also known as Chen-Hua Yu or Doug Yu, is a Taiwanese semiconductor engineer who spent 1994 to 2025 at TSMC creating the 3DFabric advanced packaging platform.

Douglas Carswell

Douglas Carswell (born 1971), British former MP for Harwich and Clacton, first UKIP MP elected at the 2014 Clacton by-election, later Vote Leave founding director and DIT board member.

Douglas Christopher Burger

Douglas Christopher Burger, known as Doug Burger, is a Microsoft computer architect whose Catapult FPGA platform runs in nearly every server Microsoft ships; he joined the NAE in 2026.

Sep 19, 2026

Douglas Cifu

Douglas Cifu, known as Doug Cifu, is an American former securities lawyer who co-founded the market-making firm Virtu Financial in 2008 and led it as CEO.

Douglas Coe

Douglas Coe, also known as Doug Coe, was an American evangelical lay pastor who led the Fellowship, a Christian network, and organized the National Prayer Breakfast.

Sep 21, 2026

Douglas Coombs

Douglas Saxon Coombs (1924–2016) was a New Zealand geologist at the University of Otago who established how rocks change chemically when buried, now called low-grade metamorphism, and named the zeolite facies.

Douglas Corrigan

Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan was an American aviator and mechanic who, denied permission to cross the Atlantic, flew from New York to Dublin in 1938, claiming a wrong-way mistake.

Douglas Costa

Douglas Costa de Souza (born 1990), Brazilian left-footed right winger from Grêmio via Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayern Munich, and Juventus; 31 Brazil caps, 22 trophies, later LA Galaxy, Sydney FC, Chievo, Al-Ittifaq.

Douglas County, Colorado, United States

Douglas County, Colorado, a Front Range county between Denver and Colorado Springs; county seat Castle Rock; established 1861, named for Stephen A. Douglas; 357,978 residents in 2020, $650.8 million 2026 budget.

Douglas County, Georgia, United States

Douglas County, Georgia: an Atlanta-metro county founded 1870 from Cobb, Campbell, and Carroll Counties, named for Stephen A. Douglas; seat Douglasville (formerly Skint Chestnut); 2020 population 144,237; land area 200.14 sq mi.

Douglas County, Kansas, United States

Douglas County, Kansas: northeastern Kansas county established August 25, 1855, named for Senator Stephen A. Douglas. County seat Lawrence; center of Bleeding Kansas, Quantrill's 1863 raid; home of the University of Kansas; population 118,785 (2020).

Douglas County, Nebraska, United States

Douglas County, Nebraska (FIPS 31055), the state's most populous county with county seat Omaha; created 1854 and named for Senator Stephen A. Douglas; 2020 census population 584,526, land area 326.41 square miles.

Oct 22, 2026

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland, born 1961, is a Canadian novelist and visual artist whose debut novel Generation X (1991) named a generation and coined the term "McJob".

Douglas D. Bannerman

Douglas D. Bannerman is an American immunologist whose USDA Beltsville research defined how cows' innate immunity responds to mastitis, earning the 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Sep 21, 2026

Douglas D. Osheroff

Douglas D. Osheroff, also known as Douglas Osheroff, is an American experimental physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.

Douglas D. Richman

Douglas D. Richman is an American virologist and physician at UC San Diego, known for the first identification of HIV drug resistance and landmark antiretroviral therapy trials.

Douglas DC-2

The Douglas DC-2, also built in Japan as the Nakajima-Douglas DC-2 Transport, is a 14-passenger all-metal airliner first flown by Douglas in 1934; 198 were built.

Douglas DC-3

The Douglas DC-3, first flown in 1935 as the Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST), is an American twin-engine airliner that first made passenger flying profitable without airmail subsidies.

Douglas DC-4

The Douglas DC-4 is a four-engine piston airliner developed by Douglas Aircraft Company that served as the military C-54 Skymaster in World War II before becoming a postwar airline mainstay.

Douglas DC-5

The Douglas DC-5 was a 16-to-22-seat twin-engine American airliner built by Douglas, the only DC type with a high wing and tricycle landing gear, with just 12 built.

Douglas DC-6

The Douglas DC-6, also known as the R6D Liftmaster, is a four-engine piston airliner Douglas built from 1946 to 1958, one of the last successful piston airliners.

Douglas DC-7

The Douglas DC-7 is an American four-engine piston airliner that in November 1953 became the first airliner to offer nonstop transcontinental service in both directions.

Douglas DC-8

The Douglas DC-8, also known as the McDonnell Douglas DC-8, is a four-engine jet airliner that Douglas built from 1958 to 1972 to compete with the Boeing 707.