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Dragan Kicanovic

Dragan Kicanovic (Драган Кићановић), born 1953 in Čačak, Serbian shooting guard, Yugoslav star with Partizan Belgrade; Olympic gold 1980, World champion 1978, three EuroBasket titles, FIBA Hall of Fame 2010, later Olympic Committee president 1996-2005.

Dragan Mladenović

Dragan Mladenović (Драган Младеновић) names several Serbian athletes: a handballer born 1956 in Pirot, 1984 Olympic gold medalist with Yugoslavia, and a footballer born 1976 in Kraljevo, Red Star and Rangers midfielder with 17 national caps.

Dragan Stojković (Драган Стојковић)

Dragan Stojković (Piksi), Serbian midfielder born 1965 in Niš; Yugoslavia captain with 84 caps, Red Star and Marseille star, Nagoya Grampus legend, and Serbia head coach 2021–2025, qualifying for the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024.

Dragan Tsankov

Dragan Tsankov, born Dimitar Gikov (Драган Цанков), was a Bulgarian politician and journalist who led the Uniate movement and twice served as prime minister of Bulgaria.

Draganflyer X6

The Draganflyer X6 is a six-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle built by Draganfly Innovations of Saskatoon, Canada, launched in 2008 and flown by North American police for aerial photography.

Draganov

Draganov, real name Adnan Mahyou, is a Moroccan rapper and producer from Oujda, active since 2008 and named among the leading figures of the new generation of Moroccan rap.

Dragée

Dragée: French sugar-coated confection (Jordan almond, comfit, mlabas ملبس), a nut, seed, chocolate, or liqueur center built up by panning with layers of hardened sugar; also decorative sugar balls and sugar-coated pills.

Dräger (company)

Dräger is a German medical and safety technology company founded in Lübeck in 1889, which built the Pulmotor, the world's first mass-produced emergency ventilator, and still makes anesthesia and breathing equipment.

Dragged Across Concrete

Dragged Across Concrete: 2018 neo-noir crime thriller written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn as suspended Bulwark detectives who turn to crime; released March 22, 2019, 158 minutes.

Dragging Canoe

Dragging Canoe, also known as Tsiyu Gansini, was a Cherokee war chief who led armed resistance in the Tennessee Valley from 1775 until 1792, founding the Chickamauga confederacy.

Draghi report

The Draghi report, formally The Future of European Competitiveness, is a 2024 report by Mario Draghi urging €750–800 billion in yearly investment to revive EU productivity.

Dragica Đuric

Dragica Đurić (Драгица Ђурић), born 1963 in Šabac, Serbian handball goalkeeper; won 1984 Olympic gold with Yugoslavia, placed fourth in 1988, later coached Serbia's women's national team.

Dragiša Cvetković

Dragiša Cvetković (1893–1969) was a Yugoslav statesman who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 until the military coup of 1941.

Dragline excavator

A dragline excavator, also called a dragline crane, is a large cable-operated digging machine that drags a suspended bucket through the ground to fill and empty it.

DRAGN (film)

DRAGN (Defense Reaction and Ground Neutralization) is a 2025 sci-fi horror film directed by Peter Webber, starring James Paxton and Lilly Krug, about co-workers on a Serbian corporate retreat hunted by a rogue AI military drone; released digitally by Cineverse in March 2026.

Dragnet (1987 film)

Dragnet is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Tom Mankiewicz, starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks as mismatched LAPD detectives in a parody of the classic television series.

Dragnet (franchise)

Dragnet is Jack Webb's American police procedural franchise about LAPD detectives, begun on radio in 1949 and on TV in 1952, starring Joe Friday, with revivals in 1967, 1987, 1989, and 2003.

Dragnet Girl (非常線の女)

Dragnet Girl (非常線の女, Hijosen no onna) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1933 silent Japanese gangster film for Shochiku Kamata, starring Kinuyo Tanaka as typist-moll Tokiko; his third and last crime melodrama, rediscovered in the mid-1970s.

Drago Vukovic

Drago Vuković, Croatian handball player born 1983 in Split; Olympic gold 2004 and bronze 2012 with Croatia; left/centre back for Zagreb, Velenje, Gummersbach, Lübbecke, and Füchse Berlin; retired 2019.

Dragomir Despić Desingerica

Desingerica, born Dragomir Despić in Belgrade in 1993, is a Serbian rapper whose folk-trap fusion made "Ccokolada" a number-one hit on the Billboard chart in Croatia in 2023.

Dragon

Dragon: a legendary serpentine or reptilian monster found in myths worldwide, from Mesopotamian Tiamat and the mušḫuššu to the Chinese loong and medieval European dragons; also called loong (龙) in China, symbolizing chaos, evil, water, or imperial power depending on culture.

Dragon (2025 film)

Dragon (2025) is an Indian Tamil coming-of-age comedy drama directed by Ashwath Marimuthu, starring Pradeep Ranganathan as Ragavan, a dropout who turns to financial fraud; AGS Entertainment production, released 21 February 2025, highest-grossing Tamil film of 2025.

Dragon (band)

Dragon is a New Zealand rock band formed in Auckland in January 1972, led by Todd Hunter and fronted by his brother Marc Hunter; hits include April Sun in Cuba, Are You Old Enough?, and Rain. ARIA Hall of Fame 2008, NZ Music Hall of Fame 2011.

Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons)

Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons): the iconic monster family of the D&D tabletop RPG, present since the 1974 White Box with five chromatic types, later metallic and gem dragons, breath weapons, life stages up to Great Wyrm, and 2025 stat block redesigns.

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon (magazine), official Dungeons & Dragons periodical, 1976–2007 in print (issue #359), online to #430 in 2013; sister magazine Dungeon (1986–2007); edited by Tim Kask, later Paizo under license.

Dragon (soundtrack)

Dragon (டிராகன்) is the 2025 soundtrack album by Leon James for Ashwath Marimuthu's Tamil film Dragon starring Pradeep Ranganathan; six Think Music tracks including Vazhithunaiye, Rise of Dragon, and Yendi Vittu Pona, plus a separate original score album.

Dragon (龙) (zodiac)

The Dragon (龙) is the fifth sign of the twelve-year Chinese zodiac, paired with the earthly branch Chen, and the only mythical creature among the twelve animals.

Dragon 2

Dragon 2 is a reusable SpaceX spacecraft carrying astronauts and pressurized cargo to the International Space Station, flying in Crew Dragon and cargo Dragon variants.

Dragon 32/64

The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 were 8-bit home computers made in Wales by Dragon Data, a Mettoy company, launched in 1982 and 1983 at £199 and £229, similar to the Tandy Color Computer.

Dragon Age

Dragon Age is BioWare's fantasy RPG franchise set in Thedas, published by EA. Four mainline games from Origins (2009) to The Veilguard (2024), averaging 80 with critics; Veilguard missed EA sales expectations by half.