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Danta Vartti

Danta Vartti, a classical Ayurvedic varti (medicated stick) eye formulation from Ashtanga Hridaya Uttarasthana 11:33-33½, entry 13:5 in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, made from animal tooth and tusk ingredients.

Dantakumāra

Dantakumāra (दन्तकुमार) is, in Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicle tradition, the prince of Ujjain who with his wife Hemamālā brought the Buddha's Tooth Relic to Ceylon.

DanTDM

DanTDM (Daniel Robert Middleton, born 1991) is an English gaming YouTuber whose channel TheDiamondMinecart, launched July 14, 2012 and renamed DanTDM in 2016, became YouTube's most viewed gaming channel; he topped the 2017 creator earnings list.

Dante (Devil May Cry)

Dante (ダンテ), Capcom's Devil May Cry protagonist, is a half-demon devil hunter, son of Sparda, running the Devil May Cry agency; main playable character in most series games, from the 2001 original through Devil May Cry 5, plus anime and crossover cameos.

Dante (film)

Dante (2026) is a Spanish thriller directed and written by Hugo Ruiz, starring Chino Darín and Ester Expósito; a night-shift paramedic is trapped by gangsters after an emergency call. Premiered at Tribeca 2026, distinct from In the Hand of Dante.

Dante (footballer)

Dante (Dante Bonfim Costa Santos), Brazilian centre-back born 1983 in Salvador; Bayern Munich treble winner 2013, 13 Brazil caps, retired 2026 at Nice after 754 matches, now FC Bayern reserves head coach.

Dante (networking)

Dante, also called the Dante protocol, is a proprietary audio-video-over-IP platform developed by the Australian company Audinate, distributing digital audio, video, and control over standard Ethernet networks.

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (Durante Alighieri, 1265–1321), Florentine poet of the Divine Comedy (Commedia), exiled in 1302; wrote in Tuscan vernacular, invented terza rima, and shaped the Italian language.

Dante Basco

Dante Basco (Danté Roman Titus Basco, born 1975) is a Filipino-American actor and voice actor known as Rufio in Hook, Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Jake Long, and director of The Fabulous Filipino Brothers.

Dante Bichette

Dante Bichette (Alphonse Dante Bichette), MLB outfielder 1988-2001; Rockies Blake Street Bombers star; 1995 .340, 40 HR, 128 RBI, MVP runner-up; career .299, 274 HR, 1,141 RBI; father of Bo Bichette.

Dante C. Youla

Dante C. Youla (1925–2021) was an electrical engineer who spent over six decades at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and created broadband matching theory and the Youla–Kučera parameterization.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, 1828–1882) was an English poet, painter, and translator who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Millais and Hunt, painted some 100 Dante subjects, and published Poems (1870) recovered from his wife's grave.

Dante Gatteschi

Dante Gatteschi (1945–2026) was an Italian chemist at the University of Florence who pioneered molecular magnetism and whose laboratory discovered single-molecule magnetism, building a scientific school of international reach.

Dante Hall

Dante Hall, "The Human Joystick" and "X Factor", Chiefs return specialist and wide receiver (2000-06), 2003 four-game return-TD streak, 12 career return TDs, 2000s All-Decade Team, Chiefs Hall of Honor 2023.

Dante II

Dante II was a tethered, eight-legged walking robot built at Carnegie Mellon University with NASA funding, which in July 1994 rappelled into the Mount Spurr volcano crater in Alaska and sampled gases.

Dante Lauretta

Dante Lauretta, born in 1970, is a Regents Professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona and led NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.

Dante Patrick Bonaquist

Dante Patrick Bonaquist is an American chemical engineer who spent his career at Praxair pioneering cryogenic air separation technologies, earning 123 US patents and the 2015 Schoellkopf Medal.

Dante Pettis

Dante Pettis, born 1995, is an American football wide receiver and return specialist who set the NCAA record of nine career punt return touchdowns at Washington.

Dante's Inferno (video game)

Dante's Inferno is a 2010 Visceral Games/EA action-adventure hack-and-slash adapting Dante's Divine Comedy, with punish-or-absolve holy/unholy upgrades, God of War-style combat, a 73 Metascore, staged E3 protests, and a canceled Purgatorio sequel.

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) is an EA and Film Roman direct-to-video anime anthology film adapting the Dante's Inferno video game, itself loosely based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, with six studios animating segments through the nine circles of Hell. Distinct from the 2007 puppet film and Boris Acosta's Dante's Hell Animated.

Dante's Peak

Dante's Peak is a 1997 American disaster film directed by Roger Donaldson, in which volcanologist Harry Dalton, played by Pierce Brosnan, warns a Washington town of an eruption.

Dante's Satan

Dante's Satan, Lucifer in Inferno Canto XXXIV, is the three-faced, six-winged archangel frozen waist-deep in Cocytus at Hell's center, silently chewing Judas, Brutus, and Cassius while his wings freeze the lake, contrasting sharply with Milton's active Satan.

Danthonia

Danthonia (oatgrass) is a genus of 27 accepted perennial grasses in Poaceae, subfamily Danthonioideae, native from Macaronesia and Europe to temperate and subtropical America, with hairy ligules, three-awned lemmas, and sheath cleistogenes.

Danthron

Danthron (dantron, chrysazin, 1,8-dihydroxyanthraquinone, CAS 117-10-2) is an anthraquinone formerly used as a laxative, withdrawn in the US in 1999 and classified as a carcinogen by NTP and IARC.

Danti haritaki

Danti haritaki (Dantī harītakī) is an Ayurvedic semisolid leha of Terminalia chebula fruit with Baliospermum (danti) and Operculina turpethum roots, AFI formulation AFI000073, dosed 12–24 g, indicated for śopha, grahaṇī, gulma, arocaka, ānāha, and splenic disease.

Dantodbhedagadantaka rasa

Dantodbhedagadantaka rasa (दन्तोद्भेदगादान्तक ऱस), an Ayurvedic Formulary of India herbomineral tablet for teething disorders in children; 22 ingredients including four bhasmas; standardized in a 2026 JAIMS study.

Danton's Death

Danton's Death (Dantons Tod) is a drama by the German writer Georg Büchner, set in Paris during the French Revolution and depicting Georges Danton's final two weeks before his 1794 execution.

Dantrolene

Dantrolene (dantrolene sodium) is a skeletal muscle relaxant and ryanodine receptor antagonist, the only specific drug for malignant hyperthermia; synthesized 1967, US-approved 1979, also used for spasticity and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.

Dantu (crater on Ceres)

Dantu is a 126 km diameter impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres at 24.3°N, 138.23°E, named for a Ghanaian corn-planting god. A deep, floor-fractured crater in Vendimia Planitia with carbonate- and ammonium-rich bright faculae, formed roughly 43–150 Ma ago.

Danu (Irish goddess)

Danu is the reconstructed name of the presumed ancestral mother-goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology; only the genitive Danann is attested, and scholars largely treat her as a modern construction distinct from the attested goddess Anu.