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Danika Mori

Danika Mori, reported real name Federica D'Amore, is an Italian adult content creator of Sicilian origin who with partner Steve Mori began on Pornhub in 2016, won Pornhub Awards, and runs an independent creator business.

Danila Izotov

Danila Izotov (Данила Сергеевич Изотов, born 1991) is a Russian freestyle swimmer: Olympic silver (4x200 m relay, Beijing 2008) and bronze (4x100 m relay, London 2012), 200 m freestyle world bronze, and two short-course relay world records.

Danila Kozlovsky (Данила Валерьевич Козловский)

Danila Kozlovsky (Данила Валерьевич Козловский), born 1985 in Moscow, is a Russian stage and film actor, director and producer; star of Soulless, Legend No. 17 and Vampire Academy, Honoured Artist of Russia (2018).

DaniLeigh

DaniLeigh, also known as Danielle Leigh Curiel, is an American R&B singer and songwriter from Miami. She is known for her singles "Lil Bebe" and "Easy."

Danilla

Danilla, also known as Danilla Riyadi, is an Indonesian singer-songwriter of dark, jazz- and bossa nova-tinged indie pop, born in Jakarta in 1990 and acclaimed since her 2014 debut Telisik.

Danilo (footballer, born 1991)

Danilo (full name Danilo Luiz da Silva) is a Brazilian footballer, born in 1991, who plays right-back or center-back for Flamengo and has captained the Brazil national team.

Danilo Blanuša

Danilo Blanuša (1903–1987) was a Croatian mathematician and physicist who discovered the Blanuša snarks in 1946 and derived 1947 formulae for heat and temperature in special relativity.

Danilo Bzdok

Danilo Bzdok is a neuroscientist and AI researcher, associate professor at McGill University and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila in Montreal, working on machine learning in psychiatry.

Danilo Dennis Sollazzo

Danilo Dennis Sollazzo, Italian sport shooter born 2002 from Casorate Sempione, 10m air rifle specialist; world record final of 255.0 set at Ningbo 2025, Paris 2024 Olympic finalist, and golds at World Cups, European Championships, European Games, and Taranto 2026 Mediterranean Games.

Danilo Di Luca

Danilo Di Luca (Il killer di Spoltore), Italian cyclist born 1976 in Spoltore; won the 2007 Giro d'Italia, Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2007, Giro di Lombardia 2001, and Amstel Gold 2005; banned for life in 2013 after a third EPO offence.

Danilo Dolci

Danilo Dolci was an Italian sociologist and nonviolent activist known as the "Sicilian Gandhi" who fought for farmers in western Sicily from 1952 until his death in 1997.

Danilo Gallinari

Danilo Gallinari, "Il Gallo" (born 1988), Italian 6'10" forward, sixth pick of the 2008 NBA Draft by the Knicks; retired December 2025 with 11,607 points, the most by an Italian in NBA history.

Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro

Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš (1826–1860), also numbered Danilo II in the dynasty, first secular Prince of Montenegro from 1852; issued the 1855 Law Code, won Grahovac in 1858, assassinated 1860, succeeded by nephew Nikola I.

Danilo II

Danilo II (Данило II), also known as Danilo of Peć, was archbishop of Serbia from 1324 until his death in 1337 and wrote the Lives of the Serbian Kings and Archbishops.

Danilo Restivo

Danilo Restivo, Italian murderer (the "Barber of Potenza"), serving life in Britain for Heather Barnett's 2002 Bournemouth murder and 30 years in absentia for Elisa Claps's 1993 Potenza murder; hair placed in victims' hands.

Danio Bardi

Danio Bardi (1937-1991), Italian water polo player from Scandicci, Florence; member of Italy's gold-medal Settebello team at the 1960 Rome Olympics and fourth at Tokyo 1964.

Danish Academy

The Danish Academy (Det Danske Akademi), founded in 1960, is a Danish literary institution of at most 20 lifetime members that works for Danish spirit and language.

Danish Academy of Technical Sciences

The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber, ATV) is an independent Danish engineering academy founded in 1937 to bridge technical research and industry.

Danish Academy Prize

The Danish Academy Prize (Danish: Den store pris) is Denmark's foremost literary prize, awarded by Det Danske Akademi since 1961 for a writer's entire body of work.

Danish and Norwegian alphabet

Danish and Norwegian alphabet, the Dano-Norwegian alphabet: a 29-letter Latin variant ending æ, ø, å, shared by Danish and Norwegian; å adopted 1917 (Norway) and 1948 (Denmark), unlike Swedish ä, ö.

Danish Aslam

Danish Aslam (दानिश असलम) is an Indian film director whose credits include Break Ke Baad (2010), web series Flesh, It's Not That Simple, Time Out, Feels Like Ishq, and Khwaabon Ka Jhamela (2024) on JioCinema, distinct from the musicians Danish Arslan and Ali Aslam.

Danish colonization of St. Thomas

The Danish colonization of St. Thomas began in 1672 under Governor Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, establishing the first island of the Danish West Indies, ruled by Denmark until 1917.

Danish cuisine

Danish cuisine (dansk køkken) is Denmark's food tradition of rye bread, pork, fish, and dairy, known for smørrebrød and the national dish stegt flæsk, and since 2004 for New Nordic Cuisine and Copenhagen's Noma.

Danish Defence

Danish Defence (Det Danske Forsvar): Denmark's unified military under Defence Command Denmark, covering Army, Navy, Air Force, and Joint Arctic Command; gender-equal 11-month conscription and the 2024-2033 Defence Agreement distinguish it.

Danish folk ballad

The Danish folk ballad (folkevise, plural folkeviser) is an anonymous narrative song of medieval origin, surviving in variants from oral transmission in aristocratic songbooks and folk tradition.

Danish Football Association

Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU), Danish football's governing body, founded 18 May 1889, first national association in mainland Europe; 381,840 members, DKK 534m revenue (2025), chaired by Jesper Møller.

Danish Golden Age literature

Danish Golden Age literature is the body of Danish writing from about 1800 to 1850, known in Danish literary history as Romanticism, whose leading figures were Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard.

Danish India

Danish India: the Danish-Norwegian colonies in India 1620-1845, mainly Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) and Serampore, founded by Ove Giedde's expedition, sites of the first Lutheran mission and Serampore College, sold to Britain in 1845 for 1,125,000 rigsdaler.

Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy

The Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy (DIPD) is a Danish state-funded institution, established by law in 2010 to support political parties and multiparty systems in developing countries.

Danish Kaneria

Danish Kaneria, born 1980 in Karachi, is a former Pakistan leg-break spinner, 261 Test wickets in 61 Tests at 34.79, Pakistan's most successful spinner; banned for life in 2012 spot-fixing case.