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Douglas Hyde
Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde, 1860–1949), Irish scholar, founder and first president of the Gaelic League, author of the 1892 'Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland' lecture, and first President of Ireland 1938–1945.
Douglas Is Cancelled
Douglas Is Cancelled is a 2024 four-part ITV1/ITVX British comedy drama by Steven Moffat, starring Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan, about a news anchor facing backlash over an alleged sexist joke.
Douglas J. Futuyma
Douglas J. Futuyma (born 1942) is an American evolutionary biologist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, known for research on speciation in herbivorous insects and the textbook Evolution.
Douglas J. Winton
Douglas J. Winton is a British cancer biologist at the University of Cambridge who studies intestinal stem cells and the earliest steps of bowel cancer.
Douglas James Scalapino
Douglas James Scalapino is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at UC Santa Barbara, known for work on superconductivity, magnetism, and strongly correlated electron models.
Douglas James Shearman
Douglas James Shearman (1918–2003) was a British geologist at Imperial College London who challenged deep-basin evaporite theory, showing from Arabian Gulf fieldwork that evaporites grow in sabkha sediments.
Douglas Jardine
Douglas Jardine (1900–1958), English amateur cricketer and Surrey and England captain, led the 1932–33 Bodyline Ashes tour won 4–1; 22 Tests, 1,296 runs at 48; Harlequin cap trademark.
Douglas K Owens
Douglas K Owens is an American physician and health economist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for cost-effectiveness analyses of HIV screening and implantable defibrillators.
Douglas K. Bishop
Douglas K. Bishop is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Chicago who studies homologous recombination and discovered the meiosis-specific protein Dmc1 in 1992.
Douglas K. Lilly
Douglas K. Lilly (1929–2018) was an American meteorologist known for numerical simulation of severe storms and for founding the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms.
Douglas K. Rex
Douglas K. Rex is an American gastroenterologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for colonoscopy quality measurement and colorectal cancer screening.
Douglas Kauffman
Douglas Kauffman is an American chemist and Federal Staff Scientist at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, known for electrocatalysis research converting carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.
Douglas Kenney
Douglas C. Kenney (1946-1980), American comedy writer, Harvard Lampoon editor, co-founder of National Lampoon with Henry Beard, co-wrote Animal House and Caddyshack; died in a Kauai cliff fall at 33.
Douglas Koshland
Douglas E. Koshland is an American molecular biologist and UC Berkeley professor known for identifying cohesins and for work on chromosome structure and segregation in budding yeast.
Douglas L. Arnold
Douglas L. Arnold is a neurologist and MRI researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute known for imaging research in multiple sclerosis and drug development, including ocrelizumab trials.
Douglas L. Black
Douglas L. Black is an American RNA biologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA, known for research on alternative pre-mRNA splicing by the Rbfox and PTB protein families.
Douglas L. Brutlag
Douglas L. Brutlag (born 1946) is an American molecular and computational biologist, emeritus professor of biochemistry at Stanford University who developed protein motif methods and co-founded IntelliGenetics.
Douglas L. Coleman
Douglas L. Coleman (1931–2014) was a Canadian-born scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, whose mouse parabiosis experiments predicted the hormone leptin, earning him the 2010 Lasker Award.
Douglas L. Mann
Douglas L. Mann is an American cardiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on inflammation in heart failure and for leading the RENEWAL and RENAISSANCE anticytokine trials.
Douglas L. Rayes
Douglas L. Rayes, born 1952 in Globe, Arizona, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona since 2024.
Douglas Lee Miller
Douglas Lee Miller is an American economist and professor at Cornell University, best known for co-authoring the standard references on cluster-robust inference and for applied research on how social policy and recessions affect health.
Douglas Leone
Douglas Leone is an Italian-born American venture capitalist who joined Sequoia Capital in 1988, led the firm from 1996 to 2022, and returned as chairman in 2026.
Douglas Lima
Douglas "The Phenom" Lima, born 1988 in Brazil, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former three-time Bellator welterweight champion who now fights at middleweight for the PFL.
Douglas Lin
Douglas N. C. Lin (林潮), born 1949, is a UC Santa Cruz theoretical astrophysicist who co-developed the theory of planetary migration and won the 2015 Bruce Gold Medal.
Douglas Livingstone (poet)
Douglas Livingstone (1932–1996) was a South African poet, playwright, and marine bacteriologist, often cited as South Africa's leading twentieth-century poet; his major late work was A Littoral Zone (1991).
Douglas Lowe
Douglas Lowe (1902–1981), British runner, first man to retain the Olympic 800 m title, winning gold at Paris 1924 (1:52.4) and Amsterdam 1928 (1:51.8 OR); later a QC.
Douglas Luiz
Douglas Luiz (Douglas Luiz Soares de Paulo) is a Brazilian central midfielder who plays for Juventus and the Brazil national team, formerly of Aston Villa, with 149 appearances there.
Douglas M. Chapin
Douglas M. Chapin was an American nuclear engineer who spent five decades at MPR Associates and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
Douglas M. Fowler
Douglas M. Fowler is an American biochemist and geneticist at the University of Washington who developed deep mutational scanning, a method for measuring hundreds of thousands of protein mutations at once.
Douglas M. Owen
Douglas M. Owen is an American civil and environmental engineer specializing in drinking water treatment and potable water reuse, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.