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Daniel Herschlag

Daniel Herschlag is an American biochemist and professor of biochemistry at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for the RNA chaperone hypothesis and catalytic promiscuity.

Daniel Hillel

Daniel Hillel was an Israeli-American soil and water scientist who received the 2012 World Food Prize for micro-irrigation, taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and died in 2021.

Daniel Hodges (police officer)

Daniel Hodges, D.C. Metropolitan Police Civil Disturbance Unit 42 officer, was crushed in the Capitol tunnel on January 6, 2021, testified to the House Select Committee, received the Presidential Citizens Medal, and campaigned for Kamala Harris in 2024.

Daniel Holtzclaw

Daniel Ken Holtzclaw (born 1986), former Oklahoma City police officer convicted December 2015 on 18 of 36 counts of rape and sexual assault against eight Black women, sentenced to 263 years; appeals affirmed 2019, certiorari denied 2020.

Daniel Hong (洪瑜鸿)

Daniel Hong (洪瑜鸿), stage name Chunfeng (春风), born 1986, is a Taiwanese rapper-actor, leader and lyricist of Nine One One (玖壹壹), and a Golden Horse-nominated actor in Miss Shampoo and Mongrel.

Daniel Howard Appella

Daniel Howard Appella is an American chemist who leads the Synthetic Bioactive Molecules Section at NIH, working on peptoids, peptide nucleic acids, and HIV inhibitors.

Daniel Howell

Daniel Howell (born Daniel James Howell), also known as Danisnotonfire, is a British YouTuber who began posting comedy videos in 2009 and later hosted BBC Radio 1 with Phil Lester.

Daniel Huber

Daniel Huber (born 1993, Salzburg) is an Austrian ski jumper, SC Seekirchen-Salzburg; Olympic team gold Beijing 2022, Ski Flying World Cup winner 2023/24, retired December 2025. Not the gymnast Daniela Huber or luger Norbert Huber.

Daniel Hugh Kelly

Daniel Hugh Kelly (Daniel Hugh-Kelly), American actor born in Elizabeth, New Jersey; starred as Mark "Skid" McCormick in Hardcastle and McCormick (1983-1986) and Frank Ryan in Ryan's Hope; Broadway revivals of Born Yesterday and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; films Cujo and Star Trek: Insurrection.

Daniel Humm

Daniel Humm is a Swiss chef and owner of New York's Eleven Madison Park, which he made the first three-Michelin-star plant-based restaurant in 2021, after it was named World's Best Restaurant in 2017.

Daniel Hunt

Daniel P. Hunt is an American hospitalist and professor of medicine directing the Division of Hospital Medicine at Emory, known for New England Journal of Medicine clinicopathologic case conferences.

Daniel Huttlestone

Daniel Huttlestone (Daniel Richard Huttlestone), English actor born 1999 in Havering, Essex; West End child performer in Oliver! and Les Misérables, best known as Gavroche in the 2012 film and Jack in Into the Woods (2014).

Daniel I. Arnon

Daniel I. Arnon (1910–1994) was a Polish-born American plant physiologist and biochemist at UC Berkeley who discovered photophosphorylation and first achieved photosynthesis outside the living cell.

Daniel I. Goldman

Daniel I. Goldman is an American physicist at Georgia Tech who studies how animals and robots move over sand and other complex terrain, known for terradynamics and robophysics.

Daniel I. Sessler

Daniel I. Sessler is an American anesthesiologist and perioperative outcomes researcher whose trials showed mild hypothermia during surgery raises wound-infection risk, making warming standard practice.

Daniel I.C. Wang

Daniel I.C. Wang (王义翘) was an American biochemical engineer at MIT, a founding figure of biochemical engineering who directed its Biotechnology Process Engineering Center from 1985 to 1998.

Daniel Ibáñez (actor)

Daniel Ibáñez (born 1995, Madrid) is a Spanish actor known for Segundo premio (Goya Best New Actor nominee 2025), El Caracas in the Carmen Mola thrillers, Terminator: Dark Fate, and the Miguel Hernández musical Para la libertad.

Daniel Igali

Daniel Igali (Baraladei Daniel Igali, born 1974) is a Nigerian-Canadian freestyle wrestler, first Canadian Olympic wrestling champion (Sydney 2000, 69 kg), 1999 world champion, later Nigeria Wrestling Federation president and Bayelsa politician.

Daniel Immerwahr

Daniel Immerwahr is an American historian at Northwestern University (Bergen Evans Professor) and author of Thinking Small (2015) and the best-selling How to Hide an Empire (2019) on US territorial empire.

Daniel in the lions' den

Daniel in the lions' den, also called Daniel and the Lions, is the story in Daniel 6 where Daniel, punished for praying to God, is saved by an angel.

Daniel Ings

Daniel Ings (born 1985) is a British actor known as Luke in Lovesick, Mike Parker in The Crown, Freddy Horniman in The Gentlemen, and Ser Lyonel Baratheon in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms; not the footballer Danny Ings.

Daniel Inouye

Daniel Ken Inouye (1924-2012), Hawaii senator 1963-2012 and Medal of Honor recipient with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, first Japanese American in Congress, Watergate and Iran-Contra figure, president pro tempore.

Daniel Isn't Real

Daniel Isn't Real is a 2019 psychological horror film by Adam Egypt Mortimer and Brian DeLeeuw, adapted from DeLeeuw's novel In This Way I Was Saved, starring Miles Robbins and Patrick Schwarzenegger as a student and his malevolent imaginary friend; SpectreVision production released December 6, 2019.

Daniel J Firl

Daniel J Firl is an American physician-scientist and general surgery resident at Duke University Hospital. He is known for developing the HALT-HCC risk score for liver transplants.

Daniel J. Cziczo

Daniel J. Cziczo is an American atmospheric chemist who studies how airborne particles form clouds, and has led Purdue University's Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences department since 2019.

Daniel J. Donoghue

Daniel J. Donoghue, also published as D J Donoghue, is an American biochemist and cancer researcher, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego.

Daniel J. Drucker

Daniel J. Drucker (born 1956) is a Canadian endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at the University of Toronto whose work on the GLP-1 and GLP-2 hormones underlies major type 2 diabetes and obesity drugs.

Daniel J. Fink

Daniel J. Fink (1926–2012) was an American aerospace engineer and executive best known for leading the NASA and industry team that built and flew Landsat, winning the 1974 Collier Trophy.

Daniel J. Garry

Daniel J. Garry is an American cardiologist and molecular biologist at the University of Minnesota who studies heart stem cells and engineered pig hearts for transplantation.

Daniel J. Gauthier

Daniel J. Gauthier, known as D.J. Gauthier, is an American experimental physicist who studies the physics of information, known for slow light, all-optical switching, and quantum key distribution.