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Daniel Catovsky

Daniel Catovsky (1937–2022) was an Argentine-born British haematologist who defined the diagnosis and treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, working at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Daniel Cattran

Daniel C. Cattran is a Canadian nephrologist and University of Toronto professor who chairs the Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry and co-led the MENTOR trial establishing rituximab for membranous nephropathy.

Daniel Chamier

Daniel Chamier (1565–1621) was a French Reformed (Huguenot) pastor and theologian, professor at the academies of Die and Montauban and author of the four-volume Panstratiae catholicae against Roman Catholic teaching.

Daniel Chandramohan

Daniel Chandramohan is a clinical epidemiologist and Professor of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for leading large malaria vaccine trials in West Africa.

Daniel Chapo

Daniel Francisco Chapo (born 1977) is a Mozambican lawyer and FRELIMO politician, President of Mozambique since 15 January 2025, elected in the disputed 9 October 2024 vote with 65.17% certified.

Daniel Chatto

Daniel Chatto (Daniel St. George Chatto, born 1957) is a British landscape painter and Royal Drawing School tutor, formerly a 1980s actor in Heat and Dust, and husband of Lady Sarah Chatto, daughter of Princess Margaret.

Daniel Chester French

Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor (1850–1931) best known for the Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and the seated Abraham Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial.

Daniel Chipenda

Daniel Chipenda (Daniel Júlio Chipenda, 1931–1996) was an Angolan politician who commanded the MPLA's Eastern Front, led the breakaway Eastern Revolt, and joined the FNLA.

Daniel Choquet

Daniel Choquet is a French neurobiologist at the CNRS in Bordeaux known for showing that AMPA receptors move in the neuronal membrane, enabling synaptic plasticity and learning.

Daniel Christopher Worledge

Daniel Christopher Worledge is an IBM materials scientist and Senior Manager of MRAM who developed embedded STT-MRAM technology, earning the 2025 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award and 2024 NAE election.

Daniel Cohen‐Or

Daniel Cohen-Or is an Israeli computer scientist and Tel Aviv University professor working in computer graphics and geometric modeling, now focused on generative models for image and shape synthesis.

Daniel Coleman

Daniel Coleman is an American trading executive who was CEO of Chicago electronic market maker GETCO from 2012, then of KCG Holdings until Virtu acquired it in 2017.

Daniel Colladon

Daniel Colladon, also known as Jean-Daniel Colladon, was a Swiss physicist who in 1841 demonstrated guiding light along a water jet, the principle behind optical fiber.

Daniel Contos

Daniel Contos is an Australian fashion entrepreneur who co-founded White Fox Boutique, an online women's fashion label, in Sydney in 2013, which reached $542.5 million in sales in 2025.

Daniel Cormier

Daniel Cormier (born 1979, Lafayette, Louisiana), American retired MMA fighter and two-time Olympian in freestyle wrestling; second UFC fighter to hold light heavyweight and heavyweight titles simultaneously; UFC Hall of Fame 2022; later commentator.

Daniel Cosgrove

Daniel Thomas Cosgrove (born 1970, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actor known for Scott Chandler on All My Children, Matt Durning on Beverly Hills 90210, Emmy-nominated Bill Lewis on Guiding Light, and roles on Days of Our Lives and General Hospital.

Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig (born 1968, Chester, England) is a British actor who played James Bond in five films from Casino Royale (2006) to No Time to Die (2021) and stars as Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out series.

Daniel Cudmore

Daniel Cudmore (born 1980) is a Canadian actor and stuntman who played Colossus in three X-Men films, Felix in the Twilight Saga, and Master Chief in Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn; he declined Deadpool (2016).

Daniel Curtis Lee

Daniel Curtis Lee (born 1991, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American actor and rapper, known as Cookie on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and Kojo on Zeke and Luther; records as Saint Maurice.

Daniel D. Crabtree

Daniel Dale Crabtree, born 1956, is a senior judge on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014 and known for overseeing the EpiPen antitrust litigation.

Daniel D. Domenico

Daniel Desmond Domenico, born 1972, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Colorado since 2019 and its chief judge since 2026.

Daniel D. Joseph

Daniel D. Joseph (1929–2011) was an American fluid dynamicist and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota known for stability theory, viscoelastic fluids, and lubricated pipelining.

Daniel D. Von Hoff

Daniel D. Von Hoff is an American medical oncologist and Distinguished Professor at TGen in Phoenix, Arizona, known for developing new anticancer agents, especially for pancreatic cancer.

Daniel D'Aniello

Daniel A. D'Aniello is an American businessman who co-founded the Washington, D.C. private equity firm The Carlyle Group in 1987 with David Rubenstein and William Conway Jr.

Daniel Dae Kim

Daniel Dae Kim, Korean-American actor born 1968 in Busan, South Korea; known for Jin-Soo Kwon on Lost, Chin Ho Kelly on Hawaii Five-0, 3AD's The Good Doctor, and his 2025 Tony nomination for Yellow Face.

Daniel Daly

Daniel Joseph Daly (1873-1937), USMC sergeant major, only enlisted Marine with two Medals of Honor, for Peking 1900 and Haiti 1915; famous Belleau Wood battle cry.

Daniel David Palmer

Daniel David Palmer (D.D. Palmer, 1845-1913), Canadian-American magnetic healer who founded chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa; performed the first adjustment on Harvey Lillard on September 18, 1895, coined the term chiropractic, and opened the first chiropractic school in 1897.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957, London) is a British knighted actor and the only performer with three Best Actor Oscars, for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln; known for immersive method preparation, he retired in 2017 after Phantom Thread and returned in 2025's Anemone, directed by his son Ronan.

Daniel De Backer

Daniel De Backer (born 1961) is a Belgian intensivist, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, who led the SOAP II trial and was ESICM president from 2014 to 2016.

Daniel De Carvalho

Daniel De Carvalho is a cancer epigenetics researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto, known for viral mimicry and the cfMeDIP-seq blood test.