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Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus (1923–1971), born Diane Nemerov, American photographer of New York portraits of couples, children, nudists, and performers; Guggenheim fellow, MoMA New Documents 1967, first photographer shown at the Venice Biennale, subject of the 2007 Met archive acquisition.
Diane Baker
Diane Baker (Diane Carol Baker, born 1938) is an American actress and producer who debuted as Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), starred in Marnie and The Silence of the Lambs, and produced A Woman of Substance.
Diane Blair-Sherlock
Diane Blair-Sherlock is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 46th district, first elected in 2022.
Diane Brewster
Diane Brewster (1931-1991) was an American film and television actress from Kansas City, Missouri, known for Samantha Crawford on Maverick, Miss Canfield on Leave It to Beaver, and Helen Kimble on The Fugitive.
Diane Bui Duyet
Diane Bui Duyet (Bui-Duyet), born 1979 in Nouméa, is a French butterfly swimmer who set the short-course 100m butterfly world record of 55.05 in Istanbul in 2009, won European silver, seven French titles, and later became a deputy mayor of Nouméa.
Diane Chambers
Diane Chambers is the intellectual waitress on NBC's Cheers (1982-1993), played by Shelley Long, jilted fiancée of Sumner Sloane and romantic counterpart of Sam Malone; she left after season five and returned in the finale and Frasier.
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento, born Elizabeth Cilento, was an Australian stage and screen actress who achieved Oscar and Tony nominations for her work on Tom Jones and Tiger at the Gates.
Diane de France
Diane de France, also Diane de Valois (1538–1619), illegitimate daughter of Henry II of France, legitimated 1547; married Orazio Farnese then François de Montmorency; duchess of Angoulême who mediated between Henry III and Henry of Navarre.
Diane de Poitiers
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566), duchess of Valentinois, was the official mistress and advisor of Henri II of France; she built the bridge and gardens at Chenonceau, was exiled to Chaumont by Catherine de' Medici in 1559, and died at Anet, likely from gold and mercury poisoning.
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) was an American poet associated with the Beat Generation, author of Revolutionary Letters and more than 40 books, and Poet Laureate of San Francisco from 2009.
Diane Disney Miller
Diane Disney Miller (1933-2013), eldest daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney, co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco and used her family's funds to keep Frank Gehry on the Walt Disney Concert Hall project in 1997.
Diane Dixon
Diane Dixon is an American Republican politician serving in the California State Assembly's 72nd district since 2022, a former Newport Beach mayor now running for the Orange County Board of Supervisors in 2026.
Diane Downs
Diane Downs (Elizabeth Diane Downs), American convicted murderer who shot her three children near Springfield, Oregon, in May 1983, killing Cheryl; convicted 1984, sentenced to life, denied parole four times, appeals and DNA testing requests pending.
Diane Duane
Diane Duane, also known for Young Wizards and the Middle Kingdoms (Tale of the Five), is an American science fiction and fantasy author born 1952 in Manhattan, a Star Trek novelist (Spock's World, Rihannsu series) living in Ireland with Peter Morwood.
Diane Dufresne
Diane Dufresne, born 1944 in Montreal, is a Quebec singer and painter nicknamed "La Diva", known for the hit "J'ai rencontré l'homme de ma vie".
Diane E. Griffin
Diane E. Griffin (1940–2024) was an American virologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins known for research on measles virus and alphavirus encephalitis, and NAS vice president.
Diane E. Meier
Diane E. Meier is an American palliative care physician and geriatrician who founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
Diane Farr
Diane Farr (born 1969, Manhattan) is an American actress, writer, and director known for Megan Reeves in Numb3rs, Laura Miles in Rescue Me, Sharon Leone in Fire Country, MTV's Loveline, and the books The Girl Code and Kissing Outside the Lines.
Diane Franklin
Diane Franklin (born 1962, Plainview, New York) is an American actress known for 1980s films The Last American Virgin, Amityville II, Better Off Dead, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and for returning in The Amityville Murders (2018).
Diane Gentry
Diane Gentry (nee Bussa), born 1961, American distance runner; first Indiana girl under 5:00 for the mile (4:58.2, 1977), 1987 USA 25K champion, and three-time Bolder Boulder masters women's winner; distinct from other people named Diane Gentry.
Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy, born Helen Diane Hall in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American poet and novelist of Cherokee descent known for experimental language and Native American themes.
Diane Greene
Diane Greene is an American software engineer and businesswoman who cofounded VMware in 1998, led it as CEO until 2008, and later ran Google Cloud from 2015 to 2019.
Diane Guerrero
Diane Guerrero (born 1986, Passaic, New Jersey) is a Colombian American actress, author, and immigration advocate known for Maritza Ramos in Orange Is the New Black, Lina in Jane the Virgin, Crazy Jane in Doom Patrol, and voicing Isabela in Encanto.
Diane Gujarati
Diane Gujarati, born 1969 in New York, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2020.
Diane Havlir
Diane V. Havlir is an American physician-scientist at UCSF, chief of HIV and infectious diseases at San Francisco General, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Diane Hendricks
Diane Hendricks, born 1947, is an American billionaire businesswoman who co-founded ABC Supply, North America's largest roofing materials distributor, in 1982 and has owned it since 2007.
Diane J. Humetewa
Diane Joyce Humetewa, born 1964, is a United States district judge for the District of Arizona, appointed by President Obama in 2014 as the first female Native American federal judge.
Diane Johannigman
Diane Johannigman, Cincinnati-born University of Houston swimmer 1978-81, won four AIAW butterfly titles including three straight 200-yard butterfly crowns, set American records, and entered the UH Hall of Honor in 2006.
Diane K O'Dowd
Diane K. O'Dowd is an American neurobiologist and HHMI Professor at UC Irvine, known for research on ion channels and SCN1A epilepsy mutations and for undergraduate science-education reform.
Diane K. Hawley
Diane K. Hawley is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Oregon since 1986, known for work on RNA polymerase II and transcription.