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Daniel O'Connor (American neuroscientist)
Daniel O'Connor is an American systems neuroscientist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins, known for studying how neural circuits convert touch into perception and decisions.
Daniel O'Donnell
Daniel O'Donnell (born 1961), Irish country and easy-listening singer from Kincasslagh, Donegal, also called 'wee Daniel'. Known for a UK album-chart hit every year since 1988, 32 Top 40 UK albums, honorary MBE, and Strictly Come Dancing 2015.
Daniel Och
Daniel S. Och is an American investor who founded Och-Ziff Capital Management in 1994, built it to $50 billion in assets, and now runs Willoughby Capital.
Daniel of Galicia
Daniel of Galicia (Данило Романович), also called Daniel Romanovich or Danylo Romanovych, was a Rurikid prince who unified Volhynia and Galicia, ruling until his death in 1264.
Daniel of Moscow
Daniil Alexandrovich (Даниил Александрович), 1261 to 1303, was the youngest son of Alexander Nevsky and the first prince of Moscow, founding the dynasty that later produced the tsars of all Rus.
Daniel Oliver (botanist)
Daniel Oliver (1830–1916) was an English botanist, Keeper of the Herbarium at Kew from 1864 to 1890 and professor of botany at University College London.
Daniel Oros
Daniel Oros is an American venture capital investor and founding partner of G2 Venture Partners, a Menlo Park firm investing in late-stage companies reducing industry's carbon impact.
Daniel Ortega
Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Sandinista leader and president of Nicaragua since 2007 (previously 1985–1990), rules with co-president Rosario Murillo; abolished term limits, canceled elections in 2026.
Daniel P. Collins
Daniel P. Collins, born 1963 in Brooklyn, is a United States circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit, appointed by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in 2019.
Daniel P. Driscoll
Daniel P. Driscoll, American former Army officer and venture capitalist from Boone, North Carolina; 26th Secretary of the Army (confirmed February 25, 2025), Yale Law graduate, Iraq War armor officer, launched the Army Transformation Initiative, resigned August 31, 2026.
Daniel P. Hess
Daniel P. Hess is an American mechanical engineer at the University of South Florida known for research on friction dynamics and winner of a 1996 PECASE award.
Daniel P. Jordan III
Daniel P. Jordan III, also known as Daniel Porter Jordan III, is an American jurist serving as a federal district judge in Mississippi since 2006.
Daniel P. Kiehart
Daniel P. Kiehart is a cell and developmental biologist at Duke University, known for showing that the molecular motor nonmuscle myosin II drives morphogenesis in the fruit fly.
Daniel P. Lathrop
Daniel P. Lathrop is an American experimental fluid dynamicist, professor of physics and geology at the University of Maryland, known for turbulence, geodynamo, and superfluid helium experiments and a 1997 Presidential Early Career Award.
Daniel P. Loucks
Daniel P. Loucks is an American civil and environmental engineer who spent his career at Cornell University, applying economics, ecology, and systems analysis to water resources management.
Daniel P. Petrylak
Daniel P. Petrylak is an American medical oncologist at Yale School of Medicine whose trials established docetaxel for prostate cancer and enfortumab vedotin for bladder cancer.
Daniel P. Schrag
Daniel P. Schrag, born 1966, is an American geochemist and Harvard professor known for Snowball Earth research, energy policy work, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship.
Daniel Padilla
Daniel Padilla (Daniel John Ford Padilla, born 1995, Manila) is a Filipino actor-singer, half of the KathNiel love team with Kathryn Bernardo, FAMAS and FAP Best Actor winner known for The Hows of Us.
Daniel Palladino
Daniel Palladino (born 1960, Los Angeles) is an American TV writer, producer, and director, husband and partner of Amy Sherman-Palladino; four-time Emmy winner for Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Bunheads, and Étoile.
Daniel Passarella
Daniel Passarella (El Kaiser), born 1953 in Chacabuco, Argentina, is a former centre-back and libero who captained Argentina to the 1978 World Cup, won it again in 1986, starred for River Plate, Fiorentina, and Inter, and later coached Argentina and presided over River Plate.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, known as Pat Moynihan, was an American social scientist, diplomat, and four-term Democratic US senator from New York, serving from 1977 to 2001.
Daniel Paul Schreber
Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911), German Senatspräsident at Dresden, author of Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken (1903), the most cited psychiatric patient, subject of Freud's 1911 paranoia essay and Lacan's Seminar III.
Daniel Pauly
Daniel Pauly is a fisheries scientist at the University of British Columbia whose 2016 study found world marine catches about 30 percent higher than officially reported.
Daniel Peacock
Daniel Peacock, born in 1958 in Hammersmith, London, is an English actor, writer, and director known for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Harry and Cosh.
Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl (1963-2002), American Wall Street Journal South Asia bureau chief, kidnapped and murdered by militants in Karachi in January 2002 while reporting on Islamic radicals; his case led to the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the 2009 press-freedom act.
Daniel Pedoe
Daniel Pedoe (1910–1998) was a British-born geometer known for the Neuberg-Pedoe inequality for two triangles, who taught at Khartoum, Singapore, Purdue, and Minnesota and co-wrote Methods of Algebraic Geometry.
Daniel Peeper
Daniel S. Peeper is a Dutch cancer biologist who, since 2017, has headed the Division of Molecular Oncology & Immunology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
Daniel Pemberton
Daniel Pemberton (born 1977, UK), British film, TV, and video game composer; Ivor Novello winner, Oscar- and four-time Golden Globe-nominated; known for Spider-Verse, Steve Jobs, Slow Horses, and Project Hail Mary.
Daniel Petrie
Daniel Petrie (1920-2004), Canadian film and television director from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia; directed A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Sybil, Eleanor and Franklin, and The Dollmaker; won three Emmys and four DGA Awards.
Daniel Pfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer, Obama White House deputy communications director (2009), communications director, and senior adviser (2013–2015), last senior 2008 campaign aide to leave; later CNN contributor, author, and podcast host.