All articles starting with D

Daniel Matúš

Daniel Matúš is a physician-scientist from Leipzig, Germany, who studies how latrophilin adhesion GPCRs organize synapse formation as a Stanford University postdoctoral scholar in molecular and cellular physiology.

Daniel Mays

Daniel Mays (born 1978), also known as Danny Mays, is an English actor from Essex trained at Italia Conti and RADA. Known for Mike Leigh's All or Nothing and Vera Drake, Line of Duty's Danny Waldron (2017 BAFTA nomination), Rogue One, The Gold, Guys & Dolls (Olivier nomination), and 2025-2026 roles in The Thursday Murder Club, Shelter, Believe Me, and Berlin Noir.

Daniel Mazia

Daniel Mazia (1912–1996) was an American cell biologist who, with Katsuma Dan at UC Berkeley in 1952, first isolated the mitotic apparatus intact from dividing sea urchin eggs, opening cell division to biochemical study.

Daniel McCloskey

Daniel McCloskey is an American neuroscientist at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, known for studying social behavior in naked mole-rats and winning a 2016 PECASE award.

Daniel McDonald (actor)

Daniel McDonald (1960–2007), American actor from Scranton, Pennsylvania; Broadway's Steel Pier (Tony-nominated), High Society, Mamma Mia!; films The Ice Storm and Blood in Blood Out; brother of Christopher McDonald.

Daniel Mejía

Daniel Mejía (Daniel Mejía Trujillo, b. Medellín 1992) is a Colombian director and singer-songwriter in New York, Emmy-nominated for Dapinty, una Aventura Musicolor, India Catalina winner for Los Caramelokis, debut album 1992 (2025).

Daniel Mérida

Daniel Mérida Aguilar (born 2004, Madrid), Spanish tennis player; 2026 Umag ATP 250 champion, Bucharest runner-up, career-high ATP No. 39 in August 2026, former top 20 junior.

Daniel METZGER

Daniel Metzger is a French molecular biologist at CNRS and IGBMC who studies nuclear receptor signaling, known for showing in 1988 that the human estrogen receptor functions in yeast.

Daniel Michael Tellep

Daniel Michael Tellep (1931–2020) was an American aerospace engineer who led reentry-system design for the Fleet Ballistic Missile program and became the first chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin.

Daniel Monks

Daniel Monks is an Australian actor and filmmaker from Perth, hemiplegic since age 11, known for Pulse, Teenage Dick at the Donmar, The Seagull opposite Emilia Clarke, Kaos, and All Her Fault.

Daniel Morelon

Daniel Morelon (born 1944, Bourg-en-Bresse), French track cyclist; Olympic sprint champion 1968 and 1972, tandem gold 1968 with Pierre Trentin, eight world titles, later French national track coach 1978–2005.

Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan (c. 1735/1736–1802) was an American Revolutionary War general, rifle corps commander at Saratoga, and victor over Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens (1781) using three-line defense in depth; not the murdered journalist or the historian.

Oct 22, 2026

Daniel Moyano

Daniel Moyano (1930–1992) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and violinist whose fiction centers on marginalization and uprooting in Argentina's provinces; he lived in exile in Madrid after 1976.

Sep 20, 2026

Daniel Mucida

Daniel Mucida (Daniel S. Mucida) is a Brazilian-born immunologist who leads the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology at The Rockefeller University and became an HHMI Investigator in 2021.

Sep 27, 2026

Daniel Mulino

Daniel Mulino is an Australian Labor Party politician who serves as Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, and has been the Member for Fraser since 2019.

Daniel Muller

Daniel Muller (Daniel Müller, born 1965), Swiss curler, Curling Club Lausanne Olympique; won gold as second on Patrick Hürlimann's rink at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, beating Canada 9-3 in the final.

Daniel Murphy (baseball)

Daniel Murphy, born 1985, American former MLB second baseman (Mets, Nationals, Cubs, Rockies, 2008-2020); 2015 NLCS MVP with record six straight postseason games homering, 2016 NL MVP runner-up, .296 career average, retired 2021.

Daniel N. Baker

Daniel N. Baker is an American space physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for research on the Van Allen radiation belts and space weather.

Daniel N. Dietz

Daniel N. Dietz (1913–1988) was a Dutch reservoir engineer who headed thermal recovery research at Shell, developed steam soak, and gave his name to the Dietz gravity tongue.

Daniel N. Hebert

Daniel N. Hebert (1962–2024) was an American cell biologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for work on glycan-directed protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum.

Daniel N. Wilson

Daniel N. Wilson is a New Zealand–trained molecular and structural biologist, professor of biochemistry at Universität Hamburg since 2016, who studies ribosomes, translation stalling, and antibiotics.

Daniel Naroditsky

Daniel "Danya" Naroditsky (1995–2025), American chess grandmaster, author, commentator, and streamer; U-12 World Youth Champion 2007, GM 2013, peak rating 2647, US Blitz champion 2025; died at 29 in Charlotte.

Daniel Nathans

Daniel Nathans (1928–1999) was an American molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for applying restriction enzymes to the genetics of DNA.

Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu, "Kid Poker" (born 1974, Toronto), Canadian poker pro with eight WSOP bracelets, two WPT titles, Poker Hall of Famer, and over $60 million in live tournament earnings.

Daniel Nestor

Daniel Nestor, Canadian tennis player born 1972 in Belgrade, doubles specialist: 91 Open Era titles, 12 Grand Slam doubles titles, 2000 Sydney Olympic gold with Lareau, 108 weeks as doubles World No. 1, retired 2018.

Daniel Neuhauser

Daniel Neuhauser is a chemical physicist and professor at UCLA known for inventing filter-diagonalization and developing stochastic quantum chemistry methods for systems with tens of thousands of electrons.

Daniel Noboa

Daniel Noboa Azin is an Ecuadorian businessman and politician, president of Ecuador since November 2023 and reelected in 2025 to a full term running until 2029.

Daniel Norling

Daniel Norling (Lars Daniel Norling, 1888–1958), Swedish Olympic gymnast and equestrian; won three gold medals at three Games: team gymnastics 1908 and 1912 (with brother Axel) and team show jumping 1920 on Eros II.

Daniel Nunez

Daniel Núñez (Daniel Núñez Aguiar), Cuban weightlifter born 1958 in Santiago de Cuba; first Cuban Olympic weightlifting champion, bantamweight gold at Moscow 1980 (275.0 kg), twice world champion, 10 world records, and 1983 Pan Am doping disqualification.