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Douglas S. Robinson
Douglas S. Robinson is a physician-scientist in asthma immunology and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, known for a landmark 1992 New England Journal of Medicine paper on TH2 cells in asthma.
Douglas Santos
Douglas Santos (Douglas dos Santos Justino de Melo), Brazilian left-back born 1994 in João Pessoa; 2016 Olympic gold with Brazil, Zenit Saint Petersburg defender with six Russian titles, and 2026 World Cup squad member.
Douglas SBD Dauntless
The Douglas SBD Dauntless was an American carrier-based dive bomber, built by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 to 1944, best known for sinking four Japanese carriers at Midway.
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk (Hans Detlef Sierck, 1897–1987), German-born Hollywood director of 1950s Universal melodramas such as All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life, rediscovered by auteur criticism and a major influence on Fassbinder, Almodóvar, and Haynes.
Douglas Smith (actor)
Douglas Smith (Douglas Alexander Smith) is a Canadian American actor recognized for his roles in Big Love, The Alienist, and films like The Bye Bye Man.
Douglas Souza
Douglas Souza (Douglas Correia de Souza), born 1995, is a Brazilian volleyball outside hitter, Rio 2016 Olympic champion, Tokyo 2020 fourth-place finisher, and 2026 national-team returnee.
Douglas squirrel
Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii), also called chickaree or pine squirrel, a small vocal tree squirrel of Pacific Northwest conifer forests from British Columbia to the Sierra Nevada, feeding mainly on conifer seeds and fungi and larder-hoarding cones in middens.
Douglas T. Fearon
Douglas T. Fearon, born in 1942, is an American medical immunologist who showed that complement C3 links innate and adaptive immunity, and later studied tumor immunology at Cambridge.
Douglas T. Golenbock
Douglas T. Golenbock is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who leads the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for defining the TLR4/MD-2 endotoxin receptor.
Douglas T. Prehn
Douglas T. Prehn, also known as Douglas Theodore Prehn, was an American United States Navy urologist who described Prehn's sign, used to distinguish testicular torsion from epididymitis.
Douglas TBD Devastator
The Douglas TBD Devastator, or TBD-1, was a three-seat US Navy carrier torpedo bomber in service from 1937, nearly wiped out at Midway in June 1942.
Douglas Tompkins
Douglas Tompkins (1943-2015), American co-founder of The North Face and Esprit, became a conservationist who bought and rewilded about 2.2 million acres in Chilean and Argentine Patagonia, creating Pumalín and Patagonia national parks before dying in a 2015 kayaking accident.
Douglas Treaties
Douglas Treaties (Vancouver Island Treaties): fourteen 1850–1854 land agreements between James Douglas of the Hudson's Bay Company and Vancouver Island First Nations, covering about 927 km² around Victoria, Saanich, Sooke, Nanaimo, and Port Hardy.
Douglas W. Burbank
Douglas W. Burbank is an American geologist and professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, known for Nature papers on Himalayan erosion and the textbook Tectonic Geomorphology.
Douglas W. Diamond
Douglas W. Diamond, born 1953, is an American financial economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Douglas W. Dockery
Douglas W. Dockery is an American environmental epidemiologist at Harvard, best known as Principal Investigator of the Harvard Six Cities Study on air pollution and mortality.
Douglas W. Fuerstenau
Douglas W. Fuerstenau (born 1928) is an American mineral engineer, P. Malozemoff Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Douglas W. Losordo
Douglas W. Losordo is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular regenerative medicine who led pioneering CD34+ stem cell trials for refractory angina and later held biotech chief medical officer roles.
Douglas W. Stephan
Douglas W. Stephan is a Canadian inorganic chemist at the University of Toronto who founded frustrated Lewis pair chemistry, enabling metal-free hydrogenation catalysis, and won the 2026 Davy Medal.
Douglas W. Wilmore
Douglas W. Wilmore is an American surgeon-scientist who directed the Nutrition Support Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for work on surgical metabolism and clinical nutrition.
Douglas Wiens
Douglas A. Wiens is an American seismologist, the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for studying deep earthquakes and Antarctic seismology.
Douglas Wilder
Douglas Wilder, born Lawrence Douglas Wilder in 1931, is an American politician and Democrat who became the first elected African American governor in US history, leading Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
Douglas Wilson (theologian)
Douglas Wilson, born 1953, is an American Reformed pastor in Moscow, Idaho, who founded Christ Church, the CREC denomination, and several schools, colleges, and a publishing house.
Douglas Wilson Johnson
Douglas Wilson Johnson (1878–1944) was an American geomorphologist at Columbia University, known for Shore Processes and Shoreline Development (1919) and Stream Sculpture on the Atlantic Slope (1931).
Douglas Woodall
Douglas Robert Woodall, born 1943, is a British mathematician who worked at the University of Nottingham from 1969 to 2007, known for graph colorings and electoral theory.
Douglas Yen
Douglas Ernest Yen (1924–2023) was a New Zealand-born ethnobotanist and archaeobotanist at the Bishop Museum and Australian National University, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1985.
Douglas, Isle of Man
Douglas (Manx: Doolish) is the capital city and ferry port of the Isle of Man, on the island's east coast. Population 26,677 (2021); seat of government since the 1860s, with a two-mile Victorian promenade, horse trams, and the island's main visitor facilities.
Douglass (Martian crater)
Douglass, an IAU-approved impact crater on Mars (Gazetteer feature ID 1631), 92.95 km across, centered at 51.34°S, 289.46°E in the southern hemisphere.
Douglass C. North
Douglass C. North (1920–2015) was an American economic historian and institutional economist who shared the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Robert W. Fogel.
Douglass J. Forbes
Douglass J. Forbes is an American cell biologist and Emeritus Professor at UC San Diego, known for work on nuclear transport and nuclear pore complex assembly.