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Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek (born 1983, Stockholm) is the Swedish co-founder of Spotify, its CEO from 2006 to December 31, 2025 and now Executive Chairman; also co-founder of Neko Health and chairman of defense-tech firm Helsing via Prima Materia.
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023), American RAND analyst and whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971; his Espionage Act trial was dismissed for government misconduct, and the case shaped US press-freedom and whistleblower law.
Daniel Ernst Jablonski
Daniel Ernst Jablonski (Czech: Daniel Arnošt Jablonský, 1660–1741) was a Reformed court preacher in Berlin and Moravian bishop who co-founded the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Daniel Estes, Ph.D
Daniel Estes, Ph.D., is a biotechnology venture capitalist and General Partner at Frazier Life Sciences, which he joined in 2011, known for co-founding Arcutis Biotherapeutics and Lengo Therapeutics.
Daniel Ezra
Daniel Ezra, born in 1991 in Birmingham, England, is an English actor best known for the lead role of Spencer James in The CW's All American.
Daniel F. Bowen‐Pope
Daniel F. Bowen-Pope is an American molecular and vascular biologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for his work on platelet-derived growth factor.
Daníel F. Guðbjartsson
Daníel F. Guðbjartsson (Daniel F. Gudbjartsson) is an Icelandic geneticist who has worked at deCODE genetics in Reykjavík since 1998 and was appointed head of the company in 2026.
Daniel F. Hanley
Daniel F. Hanley, also published as Daniel Hanley, is an American neurologist at Johns Hopkins who leads large randomized clinical trials in brain injury, intracerebral hemorrhage, and COVID-19 convalescent plasma.
Daniel F. Hayes
Daniel F. Hayes is an American medical oncologist and breast cancer biomarker researcher at the University of Michigan, and was President of ASCO from 2016 to 2017.
Daniel F. Klessig
Daniel F. Klessig is a plant molecular biologist who helped discover RNA splicing in adenoviruses and established salicylic acid as a key hormone in plant immunity.
Daniel F. McAuley
Daniel F. McAuley is a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Queen's University Belfast and the Royal Victoria Hospital, known for precision-medicine research in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Daniel F. Voytas
Daniel F. Voytas, also known as Daniel Voytas, is an American plant geneticist at the University of Minnesota known for developing TALENs and co-founding the gene-editing company Calyxt.
Daniel Farke
Daniel Farke (born 1976), German football manager; managed Dortmund II, Norwich City, Borussia Mönchengladbach; three Championship titles; Leeds United manager since July 2023, contract to 2027.
Daniel Fast
The Daniel Fast is a biblically based Christian partial fast restricted to plant foods and water, lasting 21 days, modeled on the prophet Daniel's eating in the Book of Daniel.
Daniel Finley
Daniel Finley is an American cell biologist and Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School since 1988, known for his work on the ubiquitin-proteasome system.
Daniel Frank Walls
Daniel Frank Walls, known as Dan Walls, was a New Zealand theoretical physicist who pioneered the quantum theory of light, especially squeezed light, and died in 1999.
Daniel Franzese
Daniel Franzese (born 1978) is an American actor and comedian known as Damian in Mean Girls (2004) and Eddie in HBO's Looking; he came out in 2014 via a viral letter to Damian and works with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
Daniel Friedman (American neurologist)
Daniel Friedman is an American neurologist and epileptologist, Professor of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who directs the Division of Epilepsy at NYU Langone and researches cannabinoids, seizure-detection wearables, and SUDEP.
Daniel G. Anderson
Daniel G. Anderson is a chemical engineer and professor at MIT whose laboratory pioneered robotic, combinatorial methods for discovering drug delivery biomaterials, including lipid nanoparticles for RNA delivery.
Daniel G. Bichet
Daniel G. Bichet is a Canadian nephrologist at the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal and Université de Montréal, first to identify the AVPR2 gene behind nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
Daniel G. MacMartin
Daniel George MacMartin (1844–1923) was a Perth, Ontario mining engineer and Ontario's commissioner for Treaty 9 (James Bay Treaty) in 1905. His 1905 diary, held at Queen's University Archives, records oral hunting and fishing promises now central to Treaty 9 litigation.
Daniel G. Nocera
Daniel G. Nocera is an American inorganic chemist and Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard, known for the artificial leaf and solar fuels research.
Daniel G. Streicker
Daniel G. Streicker is a disease ecologist and Professor of Viral Ecology at the University of Glasgow, known for his long-term research on rabies in vampire bats in Peru.
Daniel G. Tenen
Daniel G. Tenen is a hematologist-oncologist and cancer researcher, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, known for work on PU.1, C/EBPα, and SALL4 in leukemia.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, also known as Daniel Fahrenheit, was a physicist and instrument maker born in Danzig who devised the Fahrenheit scale and pioneered mercury thermometers.
Daniel Gafford
Daniel Gafford (born 1998) is an American NBA forward-center, 6'10", for the Dallas Mavericks; drafted 38th in 2019 by Chicago, later Washington, 2024 Finals starter, elite shot blocker and record consecutive field-goal streak holder.
Daniel Gallie
Daniel R. Gallie (1957–2020) was an American plant molecular biologist and biochemist at UC Riverside who showed that the cap and poly(A) tail of mRNA act synergistically in translation.
Daniel Garmann
Dr. Daniel J. Garmann is a senior research aerospace engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, who won the 2019 PECASE award for computational aerodynamics.
Daniel Gaudet
Daniel Gaudet is a Canadian lipidologist, associate professor of medicine at the Université de Montréal, and head of ECOGENE-21, known internationally for trials of APOC3-targeting drugs that lower triglycerides.
Daniel Gerdes
Daniel Gerdes (1698–1765) was a German-born Dutch Reformed theologian, professor of theology and church history at the University of Groningen, known for his documentary collections on the sixteenth-century Reformation.