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Duncan Scott (swimmer)
Duncan Scott (born 1997, Glasgow) is a Scottish freestyle and medley swimmer for Great Britain; first British athlete to win four Olympic medals at one Games (Tokyo 2020), eight Olympic medals, Scotland's most decorated Olympian.
Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik (1969-2026), American singer-songwriter and composer, known for the 1996 hit "Barely Breathing" and the Tony- and Grammy-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening with Steven Sater; also wrote American Psycho and Alice by Heart.
Duncan Sommerville
Duncan Sommerville, fully Duncan McLaren Young Sommerville (1879–1934), was a mathematician who worked on non-Euclidean and higher-dimensional geometry, first at St Andrews and from 1915 as professor at Victoria College, Wellington, New Zealand.
Duncan Trussell
Duncan Trussell (born 1974, Asheville, NC) is an American comedian, actor, and podcaster, host of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour and co-creator and voice of Clancy in Netflix's The Midnight Gospel with Pendleton Ward.
Duncan vB. Neuhauser
Duncan Neuhauser was an American health services researcher and professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, known for clinical decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and quality measurement.
Duncan Watmore
Duncan Watmore (born 1994, Manchester) is an English forward who rose from non-League Altrincham to Sunderland, overcame two ACL injuries, played for Middlesbrough, Millwall and Rotherham, and co-founded involvement in Common Goal.
Duncan yo yo
Duncan yo yo: American yo-yo brand founded by Donald F. Duncan Sr., who bought rights from Pedro Flores in 1929, trademarked "yo-yo," and dominated US sales until the 1965 generic-name ruling; now under Flambeau.
Duncanville (TV series)
Duncanville is an American animated sitcom on Fox (2020-2022) created by Amy Poehler, Mike Scully, and Julie Thacker Scully, with Poehler voicing 15-year-old Duncan and his mom Annie; 3 seasons, 39 episodes, canceled after low ratings.
Dunce
A dunce is an old-fashioned insult for someone slow to learn, especially at school. It derives from John Duns Scotus, whose followers' fall from favor in the 1500s turned his name into one.
Dundalk
Dundalk (Dún Dealgan), County Louth, Ireland: a walled Anglo-Norman port town founded in the 12th century, named after the fort linked to Cú Chulainn; second largest Irish town, 43,112 people in 2022.
Dundalk F.C.
Dundalk F.C., the Lilywhites, Irish club founded 1903 as a railway works team, League of Ireland member since 1926, 14 league titles, 12 FAI Cups, Oriel Park home, relegated 2024, promoted back for 2026 centenary.
Dündar Ali Osman
Dündar Ali Osman (Dündar Abdülkerim Osmanoğlu, دوندار علي عثمان), 1930–2021, Damascus-born great-grandson of Abdülhamid II and 45th head of the House of Osman, 2017–2021; succeeded by brother Harun Osmanoğlu.
Dundee
Dundee, Scotland's fourth largest city on the Firth of Tay (population 148,390 in 2025), was the world jute capital in its Juteopolis era and is now a tech- and university-led city with UNESCO City of Design status.
Dundee F.C.
Dundee F.C. (Dundee Football Club, the Dark Blues) is a Scottish professional club founded in 1893 from the Our Boys and East End merger, based at Dens Park; Scottish champions 1961-62, Scottish Cup winners 1910, League Cup winners 1951-52, 1952-53, 1973-74.
Dundee Island
Dundee Island: ice-covered Antarctic island, 450 km², south of Joinville Island at 63°29'S; named 1892-93 by Captain Thomas Robertson of Dundee whaling fleet; site of Argentina's Petrel Base and the Cape Purvis volcano.
Dundee United F.C.
Dundee United F.C., founded 24 May 1909 as Dundee Hibernian and renamed Dundee United in 1923, is a Scottish Premiership club at Tannadice Park, Dundee (capacity 14,223). Under Jim McLean it won the 1982-83 league title, two League Cups, and reached the 1984 European Cup semi-final and 1987 UEFA Cup final.
Dunder Mifflin
Dunder Mifflin (Dunder Mifflin Paper Company) is the fictional Scranton, Pennsylvania paper supplier in NBC's The Office (2005–2013), run by Michael Scott, struggling against Staples, later sold to Sabre.
Dundo
Dundo is a city in northeastern Angola, capital of Lunda Norte province. Founded in 1919 as the headquarters town of the Diamang diamond company, it became provincial capital in 2000 and a city in 2014.
Dundrod Circuit
Dundrod Circuit, home of the Ulster Grand Prix since 1953, is a 7.401-mile closed road course near Belfast, County Antrim. Car racing ended after the 1955 Tourist Trophy deaths; Peter Hickman's 136.415 mph 2019 lap made it the world's fastest road racing circuit.
Dundubhissara
Dundubhissara (Sinhala දුන්දුභිස්සර) was an arahant monk named in the Pali chronicles as one of Majjhima's four companions in the Himalaya mission dispatched after the Third Buddhist Council under Ashoka.
Dune
A dune, also called a sand dune, is a mound or ridge of wind-blown sand with a steep slipface, formed mainly in deserts and along sandy coasts.
Dune (1984 film)
Dune (1984) is David Lynch's film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, starring Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides. A $40 million Dino De Laurentiis production that grossed about $31.5 million, it was panned by critics, disavowed by Lynch, and became a cult film before Villeneuve's 2021 remake.
Dune (2021 film)
Dune (2021), also called Dune: Part One, is Denis Villeneuve's $165 million adaptation of the first half of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, starring Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides; released October 22, 2021, it earned 6 Oscars and led to Part Two (2024).
Dune (franchise)
Dune franchise: science fiction saga begun by Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, set on desert planet Arrakis with Paul Atreides and spice melange; spans six original novels, Brian Herbert prequels, Lynch 1984 and Villeneuve films, miniseries, and games.
Dune (novel)
Dune (1965) is Frank Herbert's best-selling science fiction novel about Paul Atreides, the desert planet Arrakis, the spice melange, the Fremen, and sandworms; serialized in Analog, rejected 20 times, published by Chilton, winner of the Nebula and a shared Hugo.
Dune (video game)
Dune (Cryo Interactive, 1992, Virgin Games) is a hybrid adventure-strategy game based on Herbert's novel and Lynch's film, nearly canceled in 1990, released May 1992 before Westwood's unrelated Dune II.
Dune 2000
Dune 2000 is a 1998 real-time strategy game by Westwood Studios and Intelligent Games, a remake of Dune II for Windows and PlayStation (1999), with Atreides, Ordos, and Harkonnen houses, spice harvesting, and Westwood Online multiplayer; never digitally re-released.
Dune Analytics
Dune Analytics is a Norwegian crypto data company founded in Oslo in 2018 by Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen, where users query blockchain data using SQL.
Dune buggy
The dune buggy, also called a beach buggy, is a lightweight recreational vehicle built or modified for driving over sand, popularized on the California coast in the 1960s.
Dune II
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (also Dune II: Battle for Arrakis) is Westwood Studios' 1992 MS-DOS real-time strategy game published by Virgin Games, set on Arrakis with Houses Atreides, Harkonnen, and Ordos, regarded as the first modern RTS.