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Daniel Siad

Daniel Siad, also recorded as Amar Siad, was an Algerian-born Swedish model scout who recruited women for Jeffrey Epstein, appeared in roughly 2,000 Epstein files records, faced French rape and trafficking complaints, and was found dead in Colombes in July 2026.

Daniel Sickles

Daniel Sickles, Tammany Hall Democrat and Union major general, shot Philip Barton Key in 1859 and won the first US temporary-insanity acquittal; at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863 he moved III Corps to the Peach Orchard against Meade's orders, lost a leg, feuded with Meade, and helped create Gettysburg National Military Park.

Daniel Sigman

Daniel M. Sigman is an American biogeochemist and Dusenbury Professor at Princeton University, known for using nitrogen isotopes in ocean microfossils to study past atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Daniel Silva (novelist)

Daniel Silva, American #1 New York Times bestselling spy-thriller novelist, former UPI and CNN journalist; creator of Israeli art-restorer spy Gabriel Allon, series begun with The Kill Artist (2000), 26th book Ransom due July 14, 2026.

Daniel Simberloff

Daniel Simberloff is an American ecologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, known for the mangrove-island experiments testing island biogeography and for his role in founding invasion biology.

Daniel Siniakov

Daniel Siniakov, Czech tennis player (born 2003, Hradec Králové), younger brother of Kateřina Siniaková; career-high ATP singles No. 438 (July 2026), one ITF-level title, right-handed with two-handed backhand.

Daniel Sloss

Daniel Sloss (born 1990) is a Scottish stand-up comedian from Fife who started at 16 under Frankie Boyle's mentorship, became the youngest West End solo-season comedian at 19, and broke out with the 2018 Netflix specials DARK and Jigsaw.

Daniel Snyder

Daniel Snyder, American businessman, principal owner of the NFL's Washington Redskins/Commanders 1999-2023; bought for $800M, sold to Josh Harris group for record $6.05B after misconduct investigations and a $60M fine.

Daniel Sobkowicz

Daniel Sobkowicz (born 2002) is an American wide receiver from Arlington Heights, Illinois, who set Illinois State career records with 262 catches and 41 receiving touchdowns, earned 2025 FCS All-America honors, and signed with the Houston Texans as a 2026 undrafted free agent.

Daniel Sorensen

Daniel Sorensen, "Dirty Dan" (born 1990), American NFL safety from BYU; Kansas City Chiefs 2014-2021 and Saints 2022-2023, Super Bowl LIV champion, famous for 2019 playoff fake-punt stop.

Daniel Sperling

Daniel Sperling is an American transportation sustainability researcher, founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, who co-designed California's low carbon fuel standard.

Daniel Spielman

Daniel Spielman is an American computer scientist and mathematician at Yale University known for smoothed analysis of algorithms, fast Laplacian solvers, and the Kadison–Singer solution.

Daniel St Johnston

Daniel St Johnston, born 1960, is Professor of Developmental Genetics at the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, an FRS known for studying cell polarity and mRNA localization in Drosophila.

Daniel Stahl

Daniel Ståhl, Swedish discus thrower (born 1992, Solna), Olympic champion Tokyo 2020 (68.90 m) and three-time world champion 2019, 2023, 2025; Swedish record 71.86 m.

Daniel Steinberg

Daniel Steinberg (1922–2015) was an American physician-scientist and biochemist at UC San Diego who originated the oxidative modification hypothesis of atherosclerosis and helped lead the National Cholesterol Education Program.

Daniel Stern (actor)

Daniel Jacob Stern (born 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American actor, director, and sculptor known as Marv in Home Alone and Home Alone 2, Phil in City Slickers, and the narrator of The Wonder Years; he directed Rookie of the Year and published the memoir Home and Alone in 2024.

Daniel Stern (investor)

Daniel Stern is an American investor who founded Reservoir Capital Group, a New York investment firm, in 1998, after co-founding and presiding over Ziff Brothers Investments from 1992 to 1997.

Daniel Stick

Daniel Stick is a quantum information scientist at Sandia National Laboratories known for microfabricated ion traps, including a 2006 demonstration of an ion trap on a semiconductor chip.

Daniel Strawn

Daniel G. Strawn is an American professor of soil and water systems at the University of Idaho who studies how contaminants and nutrients bind to and move through soils.

Daniel Sturridge

Daniel Sturridge, English forward born 1989 in Birmingham; clubs Manchester City, Chelsea, Bolton, Liverpool, West Brom, Trabzonspor, Perth Glory; 67 goals in 160 Liverpool games, 2013-14: 21 league goals; Champions League winner 2012 and 2019.

Daniel Suárez

Daniel Suárez (born 1992, Monterrey, Mexico) is a NASCAR Cup Series driver for Spire Motorsports' No. 7 Chevrolet; first Mexican-born Cup winner (Sonoma 2022), 2016 Xfinity champion, three Cup wins including the 2026 Coca-Cola 600.

Daniel Sundheim (D1 Capital Partners)

Daniel Sundheim is an investor who founded D1 Capital Partners, a New York hedge fund firm, in 2018 after 15 years at Viking Global Investors.

Daniel Sunjata

Daniel Sunjata (Daniel Sunjata Condon), American actor born 1971, known as firefighter Franco Rivera on Rescue Me, FBI agent Paul Briggs on Graceland, the Tony-nominated Take Me Out role, and Detective Karadec on High Potential.

Daniel T. Chiu

Daniel T. Chiu is an American chemist and bioengineer at the University of Washington, known for probing biological processes at the single-cell and single-molecule level.

Daniel T. K. Hurley

Daniel T. K. Hurley, born 1943 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.

Daniel T. O’Connor

Daniel T. O'Connor (1948–2014) was an American physician-scientist at UC San Diego who established plasma chromogranin A as a blood test for neuroendocrine tumors and discovered the blood-pressure-regulating peptide catestatin.

Daniel T. Starczynowski

Daniel T. Starczynowski is an American cancer researcher studying myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia, and director of the Advanced Leukemia Therapies and Research Center at Cincinnati Children's.

Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney, 1979) is an English autistic savant writer, known for Born on a Blue Day, reciting pi to 22,514 decimal places, synaesthesia, and books on neurodivergence.

Daniel Tardiff

Daniel Tardiff is a yeast-genetics and neurodegeneration researcher who co-founded Yumanity Therapeutics in 2014 from Susan Lindquist's Whitehead Institute lab, then became Chief Scientific Officer of CAMP4 Therapeutics.

Daniel Tassin

Daniel Tassin is a French bridge engineer specializing in precast segmental and cable-stayed concrete bridges, co-founder of International Bridge Technologies and a 2018 National Academy of Engineering member.