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Daniel Platzman
Daniel Platzman (Daniel James Platzman), American drummer and film composer born 1986 in Atlanta; Berklee graduate, drummer of Imagine Dragons 2011-2024, left in August 2024 to focus on film scoring and solo singles like "Cloud Nine".
Daniel Plaza
Daniel Plaza (Daniel Plaza Montero), Spanish race walker born 1966 in Barcelona; won the 1992 Olympic 20 km walk gold in 1:21:45, the first athletics Olympic gold for Spain; also 1993 world bronze, 1990 European silver, disqualified at Atlanta 1996.
Daniel Podence
Daniel Castelo Podence, Portuguese winger and attacking midfielder born 1995 in Oeiras; Sporting academy product who played for Olympiacos, Wolves and Al Shabab, winning the 2023-24 UEFA Europa Conference League with Olympiacos.
Daniel Porte
Daniel Porte, Jr. (1931–2023) was an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington and Seattle VA who established sympathetic regulation of insulin secretion and beta-cell failure in type 2 diabetes.
Daniel Powter
Daniel Powter (Daniel Richard Powter), Canadian pop singer-songwriter and pianist born 1971 in Vernon, British Columbia, whose 2005 piano-pop single "Bad Day" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, was Billboard's top song of 2006, and remains his only Hot 100 entry.
Daniel Puder
Daniel Puder (born 1981, Cupertino, California) is an American retired pro wrestler and MMA fighter; won WWE Tough Enough 4's $1 million prize and locked Kurt Angle in a televised kimura in 2004.
Daniel Quillen
Daniel Quillen (1940–2011) was an American mathematician who founded higher algebraic K-theory and homotopical algebra, proved Serre's conjecture, and won the Fields Medal in 1978.
Daniel Quinn-Toye
Daniel Quinn-Toye (born 2002) is a Scottish actor, also credited as Daniel Quinn Toye, trained at LAMDA. Known for Paris in Jamie Lloyd's 2024 Romeo & Juliet, Jake in Sunny Dancer, the lead in Amazon MGM's Voltron, and Rory in Sterling Point; distinct from the American actor Daniel Quinn.
Daniel R. Gamelin
Daniel R. Gamelin is an inorganic chemist at the University of Washington, a 2003 PECASE recipient known for research on doped semiconductor nanocrystals and magnetic 2D perovskites.
Daniel R. Larson
Daniel R. Larson is an American biophysicist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for pioneering live-cell, single-molecule imaging of transcription and splicing.
Daniel R. Masys
Daniel R. Masys is an American physician and biomedical informaticist, elected to the National Academy of Medicine, who helped create the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Daniel R. Neumark
Daniel R. Neumark, also known as Daniel M. Neumark, is an American physical chemist born in 1955, known for transition state spectroscopy and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Daniel R. Pérez
Daniel R. Pérez is an Argentine-American virologist at the University of Georgia who studies influenza at the animal–human interface and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Daniel R. Scoggin
Daniel R. Scoggin, known as Dan Scoggin, is an American restaurant executive who licensed TGI Friday's for the South and Southwest in 1971 and led it as chief executive.
Daniel R. Storm
Daniel R. Storm is an American neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Washington in Seattle, known for research on calmodulin-stimulated adenylyl cyclases, cAMP signaling, and memory.
Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger (born 1947) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist known for the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia and studies of genetic risk for brain disorders.
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe, British actor born in London, played Harry Potter (2001–2011), then built a stage and indie-film career: Equus, How to Succeed, Merrily We Roll Along (Tony 2024), Swiss Army Man, Weird Al.
Daniel Ray
Daniel Burrill Ray (1928–1979) was a mathematician who earned his doctorate at Cornell in 1953 under Mark Kac and is known for Ray-Singer analytic torsion, introduced with Isadore Singer.
Daniel Razansky
Daniel Razansky is a biomedical imaging researcher known for multispectral optoacoustic tomography, professor at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich since 2018 and co-founder of iThera Medical.
Daniel Rebillard
Daniel Rebillard (Daniel Denis Etienne Rebillard), French track cyclist born 1948 in Tournan-en-Brie; won upset gold in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic 4,000 m individual pursuit, later two 1969 world bronzes and a 1974 Tour de France start.
Daniel Reisel
Daniel Reisel is a British-based neuroscientist turned physician who studied psychopaths at Wormwood Scrubs prison and gave a 2013 TED talk arguing that restorative justice could stimulate the brain regions involved in empathy.
Daniel Remeta
Daniel Eugene Remeta, American spree killer who murdered five people in Florida, Arkansas, and Kansas during a February 1985 crime spree with accomplices Lisa Dunn and James C. Hunter, drew multiple death sentences and was executed in Florida on March 31, 1998.
Daniel Revenu
Daniel Revenu (1942–2024), French foil fencer, Olympic team gold 1968 and six Olympic medals 1964–1976, world team champion 1971 and 1975, son of master Ernest Revenu of Melun, later DTN of French fencing.
Daniel Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo (born 1989, Perth), the "Honey Badger", is an Australian ex-Formula 1 driver: 257 starts, 8 wins, 32 podiums, third in the 2014 and 2016 championships; retired from F1 after the 2024 Singapore GP.
Daniel Rickardsson
Daniel Rickardsson (Jan Olof Daniel Rickardsson, born 1982), Swedish cross-country skier, Hudiksvalls IF. Two Olympic relay golds (2010, 2014), 15 km bronze 2014, four World Championship relay medals; later para-team coach.
Daniel Rigby
Daniel Rigby (born 1982, Cheadle Hulme, England) is an English actor and comedian, RADA-trained, who won the 2011 BAFTA Leading Actor award for playing Eric Morecambe in Eric and Ernie and starred in One Man, Two Guvnors and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Daniel Ríos (footballer, born 1995)
Daniel Ríos (Daniel Armando Ríos Calderón, born 1995), Mexican striker from Chivas academy; 20-goal USL seasons with North Carolina FC and Nashville SC, five MLS seasons, 2025 Whitecaps loan, now CF Montréal.
Daniel Roberts (Australian businessman)
Daniel Roberts is an Australian finance and infrastructure executive who co-founded IREN, a Sydney-headquartered, Nasdaq-listed AI cloud and data center company, serving as Co-CEO alongside his brother Will Roberts.
Daniel Rock
Daniel Rock is an economist and Wharton School professor who studies the economics of artificial intelligence, known for the "GPTs are GPTs" paper and the Productivity J-Curve.
Daniel Rodriguez (fighter)
Daniel Rodriguez, "D-Rod" (born 1986), American UFC welterweight from Los Angeles; 20-6 pro, 10-5 UFC, southpaw volume boxer; lost 2026 Belgrade main event to Uroš Medić after eight months in a Tijuana prison.