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Dwight Stones
Dwight Edwin Stones, American high jumper born 1953 in Irvine, California; two Olympic bronzes (1972, 1976), first man to clear 2.30 m (1973), three world records, later NBC track and field commentator.
Dwight W. Anderson
Dwight W. Anderson is an American hedge fund manager who founded Ospraie Management, a commodities firm that peaked at about $9 billion in 2008 before closing its flagship fund that September.
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam, born 1956 in Pikeville, Kentucky, is an American country singer-songwriter and actor of the Bakersfield honky-tonk revival. Breakthrough Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (1986); first No. 1 Streets of Bakersfield with Buck Owens; 25 million albums, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Dwight York
Dwight York, best known as Malachi Z. York, is an American religious leader born in 1945 who founded the Ansaaru Allah Community and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors.
Dwight Yorke
Dwight Eversley Yorke, born 1971 in Canaan, Tobago, is a Trinidadian former forward who starred for Aston Villa and Manchester United, winning the 1999 Treble, played at the 2006 World Cup, and coached Trinidad and Tobago from 2024 to 2026.
Dwijendralal Ray
Dwijendralal Ray (দ্বিজেন্দ্রলাল রায়), also known as D. L. Ray, was a Bengali poet, playwright, and musician of British India, known for nationalist historical plays and 500 songs.
Dwijendranath Tagore
Dwijendranath Tagore (দ্বিজেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 1840–1926) was a Bengali philosopher, poet, mathematician, and composer, eldest brother of Rabindranath Tagore, known for the first Bengali translation of Kalidasa's Meghdoot.
Dwipada
Dwipada (ద్విపద, "two-foot") is an indigenous Telugu verse meter of rhymed couplets, never mixed with other meters, used for long narrative and devotional poems and in Yakshagana stage performance.
Dwivedi era
The Dwivedi era (द्विवेदी युग) is a period of modern Hindi literature, roughly 1900 to 1920, named for the editor Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi of the journal Sarasvati.
DWK Life Sciences
DWK Life Sciences is a German-headquartered manufacturer of laboratory glassware, plastic labware, and pharmaceutical packaging, formed in June 2017 through the merger of Duran Group, Wheaton Industries, and Kimble Chase.
DWLA-FM
DWLA-FM, known as True FM Manila and branded 105.9 True FM, is a Metro Manila news-and-talk radio station broadcasting on 105.9 MHz since November 2024.
Dworshak Dam
Dworshak Dam is a 717-foot-high concrete gravity dam on the North Fork Clearwater River at Ahsahka, Idaho, the third tallest dam in the United States.
Dworshak National Fish Hatchery
Dworshak National Fish Hatchery is a federal salmon and steelhead hatchery near Ahsahka, Idaho, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1969 to compensate for habitat blocked by Dworshak Dam.
DWS system (dimensioning, weighing, scanning)
A DWS system (dimensioning, weighing, scanning) is an automated logistics station that measures a parcel's dimensions, weighs it, and reads its barcode, feeding billing, sortation, and warehouse systems.
Dwyane Wade
Dwyane Wade, NBA shooting guard (2003-2019), Miami Heat icon; three championships, 2006 Finals MVP, 13 All-Star selections, Hall of Fame 2023; later Jazz minority owner, Way of Wade brand, broadcaster.
DXC Technology
DXC Technology is an American IT services company formed in 2017 by the merger of CSC with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Enterprise Services business, serving large enterprises worldwide.
DXP reductoisomerase
DXP reductoisomerase (DXR, IspC, EC 1.1.1.267) is the NADPH- and divalent-metal-dependent enzyme catalyzing the first committed MEP-pathway step, DXP to MEP, and the target of the antibiotic fosmidomycin.
DXTeen
DXTEEN (ディーエックスティーン) is a six-member Japanese boy group under LAPONE Entertainment (Yoshimoto Kogyo and CJ ENM joint venture), formed from LAPONE BOYS trainees, debuting May 10, 2023 with "Brand New Day"; fandom name NICO.
DXVK
DXVK is a Vulkan-based translation layer that lets Direct3D 8, 9, 10, and 11 games run on Linux through Wine, started by Philip Rebohle in 2017.
DY Patil Stadium
DY Patil Stadium, Nerul, Navi Mumbai (also Dr DY Patil Sports Academy): cricket and football venue opened 4 March 2008, capacity 45,300-55,000, hosted the first IPL and ISL finals and India's 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup final win.
Dyad (sociology)
Dyad (sociology): the smallest social group, two people, from Georg Simmel's formal sociology (Zweierverbindung, Soziologie 1908). No majority possible, destroyed by one member's withdrawal; contrasted with the triad.
Dyadic analysis
Dyadic analysis is a set of statistical methods for data from pairs of people, such as couples or friends, whose outcomes are interdependent, most commonly modeled with the actor–partner interdependence model.
Dyadics
Dyadics, also called dyadic tensors or dyadic products, are second-order tensors built as sums of dyads, introduced by Josiah Willard Gibbs in the early 1880s.
Dyah Wawa
Dyah Wawa was the last attested king of the central Javanese kingdom of Mataram, reigning around 928 CE; his reign ended when his chief minister Mpu Sindok moved the kingdom to East Java.
Dyamenyuo Corona
Dyamenyuo Corona is a 200 km-wide corona on Venus at 57.5 S, 42.5 E, in quadrangle V56, named in 1997 for an Enets (Samoyed) Siberian women's and childbirth deity.
Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen, 1937) is an American actress and filmmaker, ex-wife of Cary Grant, with Oscar nominations for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, the short Number One, and Heaven Can Wait.
Dyan-Mu Dorsa
Dyan-Mu Dorsa (Dyan Mu Dorsa), a 687 km dorsum ridge system on Venus at 78.20°N, 31.90°E, IAU-named in 1985 for the Chinese lightning goddess, in quad v01.
Dyango
Dyango is the stage name of José Gómez Romero, a Spanish singer of romantic ballads born in Barcelona in 1940, with more than 50 million records sold.
Dyann F. Wirth
Dyann F. Wirth is an American malariologist and molecular parasitologist, the Richard Pearson Strong Professor at Harvard, known for her work on malaria parasite genetics and drug resistance.
Dyanne D. Affonso
Dyanne D. Affonso is an American nurse-scientist and clinical psychologist whose research made postpartum depression an NIH women's health priority; she was named a Living Legend in 2025.