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Daniel Bouckaert

Daniël Bouckaert (1894–1965), Belgian equestrian; won both Olympic golds in equestrian vaulting, individual (30.500 points) and team, at Antwerp 1920, the only time vaulting appeared at the Games.

Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud (born 1955) is a French chef-restaurateur from Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu near Lyon, based in New York since 1982; founder of The Dinex Group and of the flagship restaurant Daniel (1993), a James Beard and Michelin-starred empire.

Daniel Bovet

Daniel Bovet was a Swiss-born, naturalized Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for synthetic compounds acting on the vascular system and skeletal muscles.

Daniel Bradley (Irish geneticist)

Daniel Bradley is an Irish population geneticist, Professor at Trinity College Dublin, known for ancient DNA studies of Irish prehistory and a 2020 Nature paper on Newgrange.

Daniel Branton

Daniel Branton is a cell biologist and Higgins Professor Emeritus at Harvard who established the lipid-bilayer structure of membranes and proposed nanopore DNA sequencing, earning National Academy of Sciences membership.

Daniel Brière

Daniel Brière, born 1977 in Gatineau, Quebec, is a Canadian former NHL center (973 games, 696 points) and 2010 Stanley Cup Finalist, now general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers since May 11, 2023.

Daniel Brocklebank

Daniel Brocklebank (born 1979) is an English actor known for playing Ivan Jones in Emmerdale and vicar Billy Mayhew in Coronation Street from 2014 to 2025.

Daniel Brodie

Daniel Brodie is an American physician specializing in pulmonary and critical care medicine, a Johns Hopkins professor known for his 2011 NEJM review of ECMO for ARDS in adults.

Daniel Broek

Daniel Broek is a molecular biologist at the University of Southern California known for defining how yeast RAS proteins are switched on, in Cell papers from 1985 and 1987.

Daniel Brühl

Daniel Brühl (Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo), German-Spanish actor, director, and producer born 1978 in Barcelona, raised in Cologne; known for Good Bye, Lenin!, Rush as Niki Lauda, Zemo, and All Quiet on the Western Front.

Daniel Burkhoff

Daniel Burkhoff (D. Burkhoff) is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, known for heart failure hemodynamics research and the Harvi simulator.

Daniel Burnham

Daniel Burnham (1846–1912) was an American architect and urban planner who directed the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, designed the Flatiron Building, and co-authored the 1909 Plan of Chicago.

Daniel Burrill Ray

Daniel Burrill Ray (1928–1979) was a mathematician who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1953 under Mark Kac and introduced Ray-Singer analytic torsion with Isadore Singer in 1971 and 1973.

Daniel Bush

Daniel Bush is a neuroscientist and Associate Professor at University College London who leads the Human Neurophysiology lab, studying human spatial and episodic memory with intracranial EEG and MEG.

Daniel C. Baumgart

Daniel C. Baumgart is a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine known for inflammatory bowel disease research, based at Charité Berlin and the University of Alberta.

Daniel C. Brennan

Daniel C. Brennan is an American transplant nephrologist and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, known for kidney transplant induction trials and research on BK polyomavirus infection.

Daniel C. Chung

Daniel C. Chung is an American gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who led the ECLIPSE study behind the first FDA-approved colorectal cancer blood test.

Daniel C. Douek

Daniel C. Douek is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who studies how HIV damages the immune system, as chief of the Human Immunology Section at the NIH Vaccine Research Center.

Daniel C. Drucker

Daniel C. Drucker (1918–2001) was an American mechanical engineer whose stability postulate and limit design theorems defined modern plasticity theory; he won the 1988 National Medal of Science.

Daniel C. Edelstein

Daniel C. Edelstein is an IBM Fellow and Chief Interconnect Strategist at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center who led IBM's industry-first copper interconnect technology, announced in 1997.

Daniel C. Fredrickson

Daniel C. Fredrickson is an American solid-state chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the 18-n electron counting rule and a 2010 PECASE award.

Daniel C. Hallin

Daniel C. Hallin is Distinguished Professor of Communication Emeritus at UC San Diego, known for The Uncensored War (1986) and Comparing Media Systems (2004), co-written with Paolo Mancini.

Daniel C. Link

Daniel C. Link is an American physician-scientist and medical oncologist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for research on hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow niches, and acute leukemia.

Daniel C. Tsui

Daniel C. Tsui, also known as Daniel Chee Tsui (崔琦), is a Chinese-born American physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Daniel Caesar

Daniel Caesar (Ashton Dumar Norwill Simmonds, born 1995) is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter from Ontario. Albums Freudian, CASE STUDY 01, Never Enough, Son of Spergy; 2019 Grammy winner for Best Part.

Daniel Camargo Barbosa

Daniel Camargo Barbosa (1930–1994), "El Sádico del Chanquito," a Colombian serial killer and rapist who murdered girls in Colombia and Ecuador; escaped Gorgona prison in 1984, confessed 71 Ecuadorian killings, drew Ecuador's 16-year maximum sentence, and was killed in prison by a victim's relative.

Daniel Cameron (American politician)

Daniel Cameron, Kentucky attorney general 2020–2024 and 2023 Republican gubernatorial nominee, lost to Andy Beshear, handled the Breonna Taylor grand jury case, and is a 2026 U.S. Senate candidate.

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008), American pediatrician and virologist, shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for proving kuru transmissible via funerary cannibalism; convicted in 1997 of child abuse.

Daniel Casey

Daniel Thomas Casey is an experimental plasma physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who works on inertial confinement fusion at the National Ignition Facility and received a Presidential Early Career Award.

Daniel Castanho

Daniel Castanho is a Brazilian entrepreneur who cofounded Ânima Educação in 2003, led it as CEO for 15 years, and has chaired its board since 2018.