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Diana Prince (DC Extended Universe)

Diana Prince is the DC Extended Universe version of Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot from Batman v Superman (2016) through Wonder Woman (2017, $800 million worldwide) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), until the DCEU ended under DC Studios' James Gunn reboot.

Diana Qiu

Diana Y. Qiu is a computational condensed-matter physicist and Assistant Professor at Yale University, known for first-principles many-body calculations of two-dimensional semiconductors and their excitons, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.

Diana Quick

Diana Quick (Diana Marilyn Quick, born 1946) is an English actress known as Lady Julia Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries Brideshead Revisited, a BAFTA-nominated stage and screen performer, author of A Tug on the Thread, and Oxford's first female Dramatic Society president.

Diana Region

Diana Region (région DIANA), Madagascar's far northwestern region with capital Antsiranana and five districts including Nosy Be; economy of mining, fisheries, agriculture, and tourism, producing 90% of the country's fine cacao.

Diana Reiss

Diana Reiss is an American cognitive psychologist and marine mammal scientist at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, known for demonstrating mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins.

Diana Riba i Giner

Diana Riba i Giner, born in Barcelona in 1975, is a Spanish politician of the Republican Left of Catalonia who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

Diana Rigg

Dame Diana Rigg (1938–2020), British actress; Emma Peel in The Avengers, Tracy in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tony-winning Medea, Emmy-winning Rebecca, and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones.

Diana Ross

Diana Ross (born 1944, Detroit) is an American singer and actress, lead singer of the Supremes (12 Billboard No. 1 hits) and a solo star with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," an Oscar nomination for Lady Sings the Blues, and the 2021 album Thank You.

Diana Ross discography

Diana Ross discography: recordings of the Supremes lead singer (1962–1970) and solo artist, about 25 solo albums from Diana Ross (1970) to Thank You (2021), on Motown and RCA, with six US and two UK number-one singles.

Diana Sailplanes Diana

The SZD-56 Diana, also called the Diana 2, is a Polish high-performance racing sailplane in the FAI 15-meter flapped class, first flown in its modern form in 2005.

Diana Saldaña

Diana Saldaña, born 1971, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, sitting in Laredo since 2011 after serving as a magistrate judge and federal prosecutor.

Diana Scarwid

Diana Scarwid (born 1955, Savannah, Georgia) is a retired American actress, Oscar-nominated for Inside Moves (1980) and Razzie-winning as adult Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981), with Emmy-nominated Bess Truman in Truman (1995).

Diana Serra Cary

Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery and known as Baby Peggy, was an American silent film child star who later became an author and child-actor advocate.

Diana Taurasi

Diana Taurasi, American basketball guard (born 1982, Chino, California), UConn star and Phoenix Mercury legend; WNBA all-time leading scorer (10,646 points), three-time champion, six-time Olympic gold medalist; retired February 25, 2025.

Diana Taylor (superintendent)

Diana L. Taylor is an American financier who served as New York State Superintendent of Banks from 2003 to 2007, appointed by Governor George Pataki and later a Citigroup director.

Diana Tifatina (temple)

Temple of Diana Tifatina, ancient Italic sanctuary of Diana on Monte Tifata near Capua, Campania; cult from the 6th century BC, podium under the Basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formis, patronized by Sulla in 83 BC.

Diana Turbay

Diana Turbay (Diana Consuelo Turbay Quintero, 1950–1991), Colombian journalist and lawyer, daughter of ex-president Julio César Turbay Ayala, directed Noticiero Criptón and edited Hoy por Hoy; kidnapped 30 August 1990 by Los Extraditables via a fake ELN interview and killed 25 January 1991 in a police rescue near Copacabana, Antioquia.

Diana Veteranorum

Diana Veteranorum (Aïn Zâna/Zana, Algeria), a Roman veteran municipium in Numidia between Lambaesis and Sitifis; attested 141–162 AD, a bishopric, with a 5th-century economic peak in textiles and pastoralism and 6th-century decline.

Diana Vickers

Diana Vickers, English singer and actress born 1991 in Blackburn, Lancashire; fourth-place X Factor 2008 finalist; UK number one single "Once" and album Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree; later West End and Kiln Theatre actor.

Diana Vreeland

Diana Vreeland (1903–1989), American fashion editor born Diana Dalziel in Paris, led Harper's Bazaar, edited Vogue, and as Met Costume Institute consultant created the modern blockbuster fashion exhibition and themed Met Gala.

Diana W. Bianchi

Diana W. Bianchi is an American medical geneticist and neonatologist, director of the NIH's child health institute since 2016 and a pioneer of prenatal DNA screening.

Diana Walsh Pasulka

Diana Walsh Pasulka is an American professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, known for studying UFO belief as an emerging global religiosity.

Diana Wiesner

Diana Wiesner, German barebow archer of BSV Ulm, multiple German champion in women's barebow; 2022 title with German record 597, European team record 1612 (2023). Also the name of a Colombian architect.

Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) was an English fantasy writer for children and young adults whose Howl's Moving Castle became a 2004 Hayao Miyazaki animated film.

Diana-Anda Buzoianu

Diana-Anda Buzoianu is a Romanian lawyer and politician of the USR party who serves as interim Minister of Environment, Waters and Forests, after serving as a Deputy.

Diana-Maria Riva

Diana-Maria Riva (born Diana-Maria Uhlenbrock, 1969, Cincinnati) is a Dominican-American actress known for Dead to Me (Detective Ana Perez, Imagen Award), Gordita Chronicles, Telenovela, Philly, and McFarland, USA; co-founder of Latinas Acting Up during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Spencer, 1961–1997), first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, mother of William and Harry; married 1981, divorced 1996, died in a Paris car crash 31 August 1997; famed for HIV/AIDS, homelessness, and landmine charity work.

Diandong power station

Diandong power station (滇东电厂) is a coal-fired power complex in Qujing, Yunnan, China, operated by Huaneng Yunnan Diandong Energy, with two sites, Diandong and Yuwang, totaling 3,600 MW.

Diandong Yuwang power station

The Diandong Yuwang power station is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Fuyuan County, Qujing, Yunnan, China, owned by Huaneng, with units commissioned in 2009 and 2010.

Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott (Diane Julie Abbott), British Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987 and the first black woman elected to the UK Parliament; former Shadow Home Secretary, twice suspended and readmitted to Labour.