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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), American five-star General of the Army, led Southwest Pacific forces in WWII, governed occupied Japan 1945–1951, commanded UN forces in Korea, and was relieved by President Truman in April 1951.
Douglas MacArthur II
Douglas MacArthur II (1909–1997) was an American diplomat who served as Counselor of the Department of State and as ambassador to Japan, Belgium, Austria, and Iran.
Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines
Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines (March 1942): Roosevelt-ordered evacuation from Corregidor by Bulkeley's PT-41 to Mindanao, then B-17 to Australia, leaving 90,000 troops and prompting "I shall return."
Douglas MacFarlane
Douglas MacFarlane is an Australian electrochemist and Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University known for ionic liquids and green ammonia, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2024.
Douglas Macgregor
Douglas Macgregor, retired U.S. Army colonel, led 2nd ACR's Cougar Squadron at the 1991 Battle of 73 Easting and wrote the Army reform book Breaking the Phalanx (1997); later a Pentagon adviser under Trump and Ukraine war commentator.
Douglas Magde
Douglas Magde is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, who co-invented fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with Elliot Elson and Watt Webb at Cornell in 1972.
Douglas Massey
Douglas Massey (born 1952) is an American sociologist and demographer, emeritus professor at Princeton, who founded the Mexican Migration Project and won the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award.
Douglas Mawson
Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) was an Australian geologist and polar explorer who led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1914 and survived a solo trek back after both companions died.
Douglas McIlroy
Douglas McIlroy, full name Malcolm Douglas McIlroy, is a computer scientist who headed Bell Labs computing research, where Unix was born, and conceived the Unix pipe.
Douglas Melton
Douglas A. Melton is an American developmental biologist known for deriving human embryonic stem cell lines and generating insulin-producing beta cells as a potential cure for type 1 diabetes.
Douglas Moylan
Douglas Moylan is an American politician and the Attorney General of Guam since January 2023, previously holding the office from 2003 as the territory's first elected attorney general.
Douglas Munn
Walter Douglas Munn (1929–2008) was a British mathematician who held chairs at Stirling and Glasgow and worked in the algebraic theory of semigroups, giving his name to Munn semigroups, Munn algebras, and Munn trees.
Douglas Murray (author)
Douglas Murray (born 1979) is a British author and journalist in New York, Spectator associate editor, author of The Strange Death of Europe, The Madness of Crowds, The War on the West, and On Democracies and Death Cults, and Yeshiva University's first President's Professor of Practice.
Douglas Natelson
Douglas Natelson is an American experimental condensed matter physicist at Rice University who uses electronic transport in atomic-scale metal junctions to probe quantum coherence and heating in nanoscale conductors.
Douglas Oliver (scientist)
Douglas Oliver (1913–2009) was an American anthropologist of the Pacific who taught at Harvard and the University of Hawai'i, known for his Siuai ethnography and three-volume Ancient Tahitian Society.
Douglas P. Hamilton
Douglas P. Hamilton is an American planetary scientist and professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, known for work on planetary rings and Pluto.
Douglas P. Woodlock
Douglas P. Woodlock, also known as Douglas Preston Woodlock, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Massachusetts since 1986, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Douglas P. Zipes
Douglas P. Zipes, born 1939, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine who pioneered the implantable cardioverter and led major cardiology societies.
Douglas Prasher
Douglas Prasher is an American molecular biologist who cloned the green fluorescent protein gene in 1992, enabling the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Chalfie, Shimomura, and Tsien.
Douglas R. Cole
Douglas R. Cole, born Douglas Russell Cole in 1964, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Ohio, nominated by President Trump in 2019.
Douglas R. Green
Douglas R. Green is an immunologist and cell-death researcher who chairs the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and is known for apoptosis research.
Douglas R. Lowy
Douglas R. Lowy is a virologist and cancer researcher who leads the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology at the National Cancer Institute and developed the technology behind HPV vaccines.
Douglas R. Worsnop
Douglas R. Worsnop, also known as D. R. Worsnop, is an American atmospheric chemist at Aerodyne Research near Boston, developer of the Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer.
Douglas Rain
Douglas Rain (1928–2018), Canadian Shakespearean stage actor and founding member of the Stratford Festival, best known as the voice of HAL 9000 in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel.
Douglas Range
Douglas Range, Antarctica: sharp-crested mountain range on Alexander Island, peaks to 3,000 m, running 75 mi NW-SE from Mount Nicholas to Mount Edred above George VI Sound; named for Admiral Sir Percy Douglas of the British Graham Land Expedition.
Douglas Robert Worsnop
Douglas Robert Worsnop is an American atmospheric chemist, Senior Vice-President of Aerodyne Research and professor at the University of Helsinki, known for the aerosol mass spectrometer.
Douglas Ross (Scottish politician)
Douglas Ross, Scottish Conservative leader 2020-2024, MP for Moray 2017-2024, MSP for Highlands and Islands, and part-time football assistant referee; resigned as leader after the 2024 general election.
Douglas S Kim
Douglas S Kim is a neuroscientist known for co-authorship on genetically encoded calcium indicators, including the GCaMP6 family, and for a 2015 study of ultraviolet vision in mouse visual cortex.
Douglas S. Kwon
Douglas S. Kwon, also cited as Douglas Kwon, is a physician-scientist in mucosal immunology at the Ragon Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies HIV acquisition.
Douglas S. Lee
Douglas S. Lee is a Canadian cardiologist and clinician-scientist at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre in Toronto, a University of Toronto professor known for heart failure risk prediction tools including EHMRG.