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Dürrîzâde Mehmed Atâullah Efendi
Dürrîzâde Mehmed Atâullah Efendi (born 1729) was an Ottoman şeyhülislam from 1783 to 1785, dismissed for allegedly plotting with Grand Vizier Halil Hamîd Paşa to depose Sultan Abdülhamid I.
Dürrîzâde Mustafa Efendi
Dürrîzâde Mustafa Efendi (died 1775) was an Ottoman scholar who held the office of şeyhülislam three times in the mid-18th century, under Sultans Osman III, Mustafa III, and Abdülhamid I.
Durrueli di Realmonte
Roman maritime villa at Realmonte, Agrigento, Sicily, identified as the villa marittima of Publius Annius; discovered 1907 during railway works, excavated by Antonino Salinas and by a University of Tsukuba team under Masanori Aoyagi, with peristyle, mosaics of Neptune and Scilla, and private baths.
Durrushevar
Durrushevar (درشہوار), born 1914 and died 2006, was an Ottoman princess, only daughter of the last Caliph Abdulmejid II, who married into Hyderabad's royal family and founded hospitals and girls' schools.
Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein, born 1962 in Dresden, is a German poet, essayist, and translator who debuted with Grauzone morgens in 1988 and won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1995.
Durus
Durus is an energy-efficient bipedal humanoid robot developed by SRI International under a DARPA contract beginning in 2013, later the experimental walking platform of Georgia Tech's AMBER Lab.
Durvalumab
Durvalumab (Imfinzi) is a fully human IgG1 anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody by AstraZeneca, first FDA-approved May 2017 for urothelial carcinoma, now used across NSCLC, SCLC, bladder, biliary, liver, endometrial, and gastric cancers.
Durvalumab and tremelimumab regimen
The durvalumab plus tremelimumab regimen, given as the STRIDE schedule of one tremelimumab dose plus regular durvalumab, is an approved immunotherapy for unresectable liver cancer and some lung cancers.
Durvasa (दुर्वासा)
Durvasa (दुर्वासा), also known as Rishi Durvasa, is an ancient sage of Hindu tradition, son of Atri and Anasuya and regarded as an incarnation of Shiva.
Durvinita
Durvinita (ದುರ್ವಿನೀತ) was a king of the Western Ganga dynasty in Karnataka, reigning from 529 CE, who won his throne by force and was credited with a commentary on Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya.
Durward Knowles
Durward Randolph Knowles, the Sea Wolf (1917-2018), Bahamian Star-class sailor; won the Bahamas' first Olympic medal (bronze 1956) and first gold (Tokyo 1964 with Cecil Cooke), competing in a record eight Olympic Games from 1948 to 1988.
Duryea Motor Wagon Company
The Duryea Motor Wagon Company, founded by brothers Charles and Frank Duryea in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the 1890s, was the first American company to manufacture and sell automobiles.
Duryodhan Vadh
Duryodhan Vadh (दुर्योधन वध) is the climactic episode of the Mahabharata war in which Bhima kills Duryodhana in a mace duel on the eighteenth day.
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन)
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन), also called Suyodhana, eldest of the hundred Kaurava sons of Dhritarashtra in the Mahabharata; his jealousy, the dice game, and refusal of land cause the Kurukshetra War, ending in his mace duel with Bhima.
Dus (दस)
Dus (दस) is a 2005 Hindi action thriller directed by Anubhav Sinha, starring Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, and Shilpa Shetty as anti-terrorist agents stopping a Canada attack; a tribute to Mukul S. Anand's unfinished 1997 film.
Dus Kahaniyaan (दस कहानियाँ)
Dus Kahaniyaan (दस कहानियाँ), a 2007 Hindi anthology film of ten twist-ending short stories by six directors including Sanjay Gupta, Meghna Gulzar, and Hansal Mehta; a box office disaster despite a large cast.
Dusa McDuff
Dusa McDuff, born in London in 1945, is a British mathematician who helped establish symplectic geometry as a core field and teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University.
DuSable Bridge
The DuSable Bridge, long known as the Michigan Avenue Bridge, is a double-deck bascule bridge carrying Michigan Avenue over the Chicago River, opened in 1920.
Dušan Bartsch
Dušan Bartsch is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist, professor at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, known for defining how CREB transcription factors regulate long-term memory.
Dusan Bogunovic
Dusan Bogunovic is an immunologist and Professor of Pediatric Immunology at Columbia University, known for work on inborn errors of immunity, MIS-C, and autoimmunity in Down syndrome.
Dusan Mandic
Dušan Mandić (Душан Мандић), born 1994 in Kotor, is a Serbian water polo attacker with Olympic gold in 2016, 2020, and 2024 plus 2012 bronze, Paris flagbearer and MVP, formerly of Pro Recco, now Ferencváros.
Dusan Maravic
Dušan Maravić (Душан Маравић), Yugoslav-Serbian midfielder (1939–2025), Red Star Belgrade player and 1960 Rome Olympics football gold medalist, later a UEFA and FIFA official.
Dušan Simović
Dušan Simović (1882–1962) was a Yugoslav army general who led the 27 March 1941 coup and served as prime minister of Yugoslavia, in exile in London.
Dušan Tadić (Душан Тадић)
Dušan Tadić (Душан Тадић), born 1988 in Bačka Topola, Serbian attacking midfielder; Ajax captain 2018–23 (241 games, 105 goals, three titles), Southampton, Fenerbahçe, Al Wahda, NEC; Serbia's most-capped player with 111 caps.
Dušan Vlahović
Dušan Vlahović (Душан Влаховић), Serbian striker born 2000; Partizan, Fiorentina, Juventus (€70m, 2022), then Beşiktaş 2026; 13 goals in 35 Serbia caps.
Dušan's Code
Dušan's Code (Душанов законик) is the principal legal code of medieval Serbia, promulgated by Emperor Stefan Dušan at Skopje on 21 May 1349 and supplemented in 1354.
Duse Bay
Duse Bay is a bay on the south side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, between View Point and Tabarin Peninsula, discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 and named for Lt. Samuel A. Duse.
Dush
Dush, also known as Kysis or Qasr Dush, is an ancient town and temple site at the far southern end of Egypt's Kharga Oasis, with Roman monuments.
Dushan Boroyevich
Dushan Boroyevich is a power electronics engineer born in Zagreb in 1952, a Virginia Tech professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Dushan Great Jade Sea
The Dushan Great Jade Sea (渎山大玉海), also called the Jade Urn, is a giant jade wine vessel made for Kublai Khan and completed in 1265, the largest surviving ancient jade object in China.