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Diana Fox Carney

Diana Fox Carney (born 1965), British-Canadian development and climate economist, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney; Oxford-educated, hockey player, ex-Canada 2020, IPPR, Pi Capital, Eurasia Group senior advisor.

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon, American author of the Outlander (Cross Stitch in UK) historical time-travel series begun in 1991; science Ph.D., RITA winner, tens of millions of copies sold, adapted by Starz in 2014.

Diana Garnet (ダイアナ・キャロライン・ガーネット)

Diana Garnet (ダイアナ・キャロライン・ガーネット) is an American anison singer, voice actress, and sound director from Washington, D.C., based in Tokyo; winner of Nodojiman the World 2013 Spring and singer of the Naruto Shippuden ending theme "Spinning World".

Diana Greene Foster

Diana Greene Foster is an American demographer and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who led the Turnaway Study, a ten-year study of about 1,000 women who sought abortions.

Diana H. Wall

Diana H. Wall was an American soil ecologist at Colorado State University who showed that soil animals, from Antarctic nematodes onward, are a working part of the climate system.

Diana Harshbarger

Diana Harshbarger, born 1960, is a Republican pharmacist and business owner serving as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 1st district since January 2021.

Diana Hart

Diana Hart (Diana Joyce Hart, born 1963) is a Canadian author, bodybuilder, and member of the Hart wrestling family; daughter of Stu and Helen Hart, ex-wife of Davey Boy Smith, author of Under the Mat and the Cauliflower Heart trilogy.

Diana Hayden

Diana Hayden (born 1973, Hyderabad) is an Indian model, actress, and author who won Miss World 1997 in Seychelles, the third Indian winner, later acting, hosting Biography on History Channel, and writing A Beautiful Truth.

Diana Hu

Diana Hu is a Chilean-born engineer and venture capitalist who became a Y Combinator Managing Partner in 2026, after co-founding the augmented reality startup Escher Reality.

Diana Hyland

Diana Hyland (Joan Diana Gentner, 1936-1977), American actress; Broadway's Heavenly Finney in Sweet Bird of Youth; posthumous 1977 Emmy for The Boy in the Plastic Bubble; Joan Bradford on Eight Is Enough.

Diana Igaly

Diána Igaly (1965–2021) was a Hungarian skeet shooter: Olympic gold at Athens 2004, bronze at Sydney 2000, four-time world champion, later Hungarian Shooting Federation vice-president; died of COVID-19.

Diana J. G. Motz

Diana J. G. Motz, born Diana Jane Gribbon Motz in 1943, is an American jurist and senior judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Diana Karazon

Diana Karazon (ديانا كرزون) is a Jordanian singer who won the first season of Superstar, the Arabic version of Pop Idol, on Future TV in 2003.

Diana King

Diana King is a Jamaican singer-songwriter of dancehall-reggae fusion, born in Spanish Town in 1970, best known for "Shy Guy", a 1995 top 15 hit from the Bad Boys soundtrack.

Diana Krall

Diana Krall (born 1964, Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer. Only jazz singer with eight albums debuting at No. 1 on Billboard's jazz chart; two Grammys, ten Junos, over 15 million albums sold.

Diana L. Miglioretti

Diana L. Miglioretti is an American biostatistician and chief of the Division of Biostatistics at UC Davis who studies breast cancer screening and radiation risks from medical imaging.

Diana Lee Inosanto

Diana Lee Inosanto (born 1966) is an American actress, stuntwoman, director, and martial artist, daughter of Dan Inosanto and goddaughter of Bruce Lee, known for Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth in The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Tales of the Empire and for The Sensei (2008).

Diana Lewis

Diana Lewis (1919–1997), American MGM actress, Miss Dunk in It's a Gift (1934), Go West and Cry 'Havoc'; wife of William Powell for 44 years; distinct from the Detroit WXYZ news anchor Diana Lewis.

Diana Liverman

Diana Liverman is a Regents Professor Emerita of geography at the University of Arizona who studies climate vulnerability, adaptation, and food security, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Diana Loginova

Diana Loginova names two Russians: a luger (Диана Валерьевна Логинова, born 2003) who won bronze and gold at the 2020 Youth Olympics, and the Stoptime singer Naoko jailed in 2025 and exiled in 2026.

Diana M. Bautista

Diana M. Bautista is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies the molecular mechanisms of touch, pain, and itch, and became an HHMI investigator in 2022.

Diana M. Gibb

Diana M. Gibb is a British pediatrician and Professor of Epidemiology at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, known for landmark pediatric HIV trials in Africa.

Diana Mocanu

Diana Iuliana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer born 1984 in Brăila; double Olympic backstroke champion at Sydney 2000, Romania's first swimming gold medalist, 2001 world 200 m backstroke champion, retired 2004, later a coach and federation vice president.

Diana Moreno

Diana C. Moreno, Ecuadorian-born Queens labor organizer and DSA member, represents New York State Assembly District 36 (Astoria, Long Island City); she won the February 3, 2026 special election with about 74% to succeed Zohran Mamdani.

Diana Mosley

Diana Mosley (nee Freeman-Mitford, 1910-2003), Mitford sister, wife of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, friend of Hitler; married him in Goebbels's Berlin home in 1936, was interned under Regulation 18B, and died unrepentant in Paris exile.

Diana Muldaur

Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American actress known as Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law, Dr. Katherine Pulaski on Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2, and two original Star Trek roles; twice Emmy-nominated and a former Television Academy president.

Diana Mutz

Diana Mutz is an American political scientist and communication scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the 2018 PNAS paper on status threat and the 2016 presidential vote.

Diana Nyad

Diana Nyad, born 1949, is an American long-distance swimmer who in 2013 became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, at age 64.

Diana of Versailles

The Diana of Versailles (French: Diane à la biche, "Diana with the doe") is a Roman marble statue of Diana, copy of a Greek original attributed to Leochares, in the Louvre since 1798.

Diana Penty

Diana Penty (born 1985, Mumbai) is an Indian model and Hindi film actress, also called a Bollywood actress. Debuted as Meera in Cocktail (2012), Filmfare Best Female Debut nominee, known for Happy Bhag Jayegi, Parmanu, and Cannes appearances.