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DeVaughn Nixon
DeVaughn Nixon, born 1983, is an American actor from Los Angeles, son of Norm Nixon and stepson of Debbie Allen. Known for Fletcher in The Bodyguard, Danny Dyson in Terminator 2, and playing his father in Winning Time (2022–2023).
Devaughn Vele
Devaughn Vele, NFL wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints (No. 14), formerly Denver Broncos; Utah walk-on, 2024 seventh-round pick (235th overall), traded to New Orleans in August 2025.
Devault
Devault is the performing name of Sage DeVault, an American electronic producer from Orange County, California, whose debut LP Stay arrived on Geffen in 2018.
Devawongse Varoprakar
Devawongse Varoprakar (1858 to 1923) was a Siamese prince and foreign minister from 1885 to 1923, whose policies kept Siam independent during the age of imperialism.
Devayani (தேவயானி) (actress)
Devayani (தேவயானி), born Sushma in 1974, is a Tamil film and television actress; breakthrough Kadhal Kottai (1996), lead in Kolangal, married director Rajakumaran, now directing shorts.
Devdas
Devdas (দেবদাস), also Devdās, is Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1917 Bengali tragic-romance novella about a self-destructive lover. Written circa 1901 in Bhagalpur, serialized in Bharatvarsa, it became South Asia's most-filmed non-epic story, notably via Bimal Roy's 1955 and Bhansali's 2002 Hindi films.
Devdas (1935 film)
Devdas (देवदास, 1935) is P.C. Barua's New Theatres bilingual talkie adapting Sarat Chandra's 1917 novella; Barua starred in Bengali, K.L. Saigal in Hindi, with Bimal Roy as cinematographer.
Devdas (देवदास) (2002 Hindi film)
Devdas (देवदास) is Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2002 Hindi romantic drama starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit, adapted from Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's 1917 novella; a Rs 50 crore Cannes-screened hit that won multiple Filmfare and National Film Awards.
Devdas (দেবদাস) (1955 film)
Devdas (দেবদাস), 1955 Hindi drama directed and produced by Bimal Roy from Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1917 novel, starring Dilip Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Vyjayantimala, and Motilal; the most faithful classic adaptation in the Devdas film lineage.
Devdutt Padikkal
Devdutt Padikkal is an Indian left-handed cricketer who plays for Karnataka and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, making his T20I debut for India in 2021 and Test debut in 2024.
Devdutt Pattanaik
Devdutt Pattanaik (born 1970) is an Indian mythologist, author, and illustrator, formerly a medical doctor and Chief Belief Officer at Future Group, known for Myth = Mithya, Jaya, Sita, and over 50 books on mythology.
Devdutt Yellurkar
Devdutt Yellurkar is a venture capitalist who has been a General Partner at CRV since 2008, known for enterprise cloud and SaaS investments and a 2020 Forbes Midas List debut.
Developable surface
A developable surface, also called a singly curved surface, is a surface in three-dimensional space that can be flattened onto a plane without stretching or tearing, such as cones and cylinders.
Developed country
Developed country: a high-income, industrialized state per IMF, UN, World Bank, or OECD classifications; no universal threshold exists, with UN listing 67 developed and 181 developing jurisdictions.
Developer Certificate of Origin
The Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is a statement by which open-source contributors certify they may submit a contribution, made per commit with a Signed-off-by line.
Developing country
A developing country, also called a less developed country, is a country at a lower stage of economic and social development, with no single agreed definition.
Development area
Development area: a government-designated area given special help to attract business and factories (GEMET); also a land-use planning zone term. Hebrew אזור פיתוח, Finnish kehittämisalue, Chinese 开发区; UK Development Areas from 1945.
Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
The Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, known as CAF, is a borrower-owned multilateral development bank founded in 1970 by six Andean countries and renamed in 2023.
Development communication
Development communication, or Communication for Development (C4D), is the strategic use of communication technologies and processes to promote social change. Coined by Nora Quebral in the 1970s, it spans diffusion and participatory models used by FAO, the World Bank, UNICEF, and UNESCO.
Development economics
Development economics is the branch of economics that studies the economic transformation of low- and middle-income countries, examining why poverty, inequality, and structural change persist despite growth.
Development hell
Development hell: a film, video game, or software project stalled for years in production; canonical cases Duke Nukem Forever (14 years), Kien (22 years), The Last Guardian; causes include scope creep, funding gaps, and reboots.
Development of Grand Theft Auto V
Development of Grand Theft Auto V: Rockstar North's 2008–2013 production of GTA V, with 1,000+ staff, a 1,000-page script, three protagonists, Los Santos field research, and record $1 billion three-day sales.
Development of Minecraft: Java Edition
Development of Minecraft: Java Edition, the original Java-codebase version by Markus 'Notch' Persson (2009), Mojang, and Microsoft; covers snapshots, versioning, modding APIs, and the Vulkan renderer shift.
Development of Star Trek 4
Star Trek 4: the long-developed, ultimately cancelled fourth film of the Kelvin-timeline reboot announced in July 2016, directed at one point by Matt Shakman, distinct from the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Development of the digestive system
Development of the digestive system: embryology of the primitive gut tube from definitive endoderm, foregut/midgut/hindgut derivatives, HOX and SHH patterning, midgut rotation, recanalization, and organoid models.
Development of the embryonic venous system
The embryonic venous system consists of three paired networks, vitelline, umbilical, and cardinal, that are remodeled from about 4 weeks into the adult vena cavae, portal vein, and right atrium.
Development of the face
Development of the face: embryology of facial formation from five prominences (frontonasal, maxillary, mandibular) in weeks 4 to 8, driven by neural crest cells, WNT/BMP/FGF/SHH signaling, and studied via mouse, chick, zebrafish, and frog models.
Development of the human spinal cord
The human spinal cord develops from the neural tube in the fourth week of embryonic life, then ascends within the vertebral canal to end near L1 in adults.
Development of the nervous system in humans
Development of the human nervous system (neurulation): neural tube and neural crest form from ectoderm 2–3 weeks after conception; tube becomes CNS, crest builds PNS; synapses peak at ~150% adult levels in infancy.
Development of the New Testament canon
The development of the New Testament canon is the process by which Christian churches settled on 27 books as Scripture, from the 2nd to 4th centuries.