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Diane Karusisi

Diane Karusisi is a Rwandan economist and banker, chief executive of Bank of Kigali since 2016 and a former chief economist in the Office of the President.

Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton (Diane Hall, 1946-2025), American actress, photographer, and author; Oscar winner for Annie Hall (1977), Kay Corleone in The Godfather films, AFI Life Achievement honoree, died October 11, 2025.

Diane Keen

Diane Keen, English actress born 1946 in London, raised in Kenya; star of The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings On Their Fingers, later Jenny Burden in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and Julia Parsons in Doctors.

Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger (Diane Heidkrüger), German actress born 1976 in Algermissen; former Royal Ballet-trained model; played Helen in Troy, Bridget in Inglourious Basterds; won 2017 Cannes Best Actress for In the Fade.

Diane Ladd

Diane Ladd (born Rose Diane Ladner) was an American actress with a seven-decade career who earned three Academy Award nominations, appearing in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Wild at Heart.

Diane Lane

Diane Lane, also known as Diane Colleen Lane, is an American actress born in 1965 who earned an Academy Award nomination for Unfaithful and plays Martha Kent in DC films.

Diane Leather

Diane Leather (Diane Charles, 1933–2018), British middle-distance runner and first woman to run a mile under five minutes (4:59.6, 29 May 1954, Birmingham); mile best 4:45.0; ratified 800m world record 2:09.0.

Diane Linthicum

Diane Linthicum is an American politician and Republican member of the Oregon State Senate from the 28th district, elected to the seat her husband Dennis Linthicum left.

Diane Lloyd

Diane Lloyd is a fictional consultant surgeon from BBC's Holby City, played by Patricia Potter from "High Risk" (2 July 2002) to her 2007 death, with a 2019 dream-sequence return in "Promise".

Diane M. Robins

Diane M. Robins is an American human geneticist, professor emerita at the University of Michigan, known for her work on androgen receptor regulation in prostate cancer.

Diane M. Simeone

Diane M. Simeone is an American pancreatic surgeon and cancer researcher who directs Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health and belongs to the National Academy of Medicine.

Diane Mathis

Diane Mathis is an immunologist who holds the Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professorship at Harvard Medical School, known for work on immunological tolerance, the Aire transcription factor, and type 1 diabetes.

Diane McIntyre

Diane McIntyre is a South African health economist, emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2012.

Diane Morgan

Diane Morgan, English comedian, actor, writer and director, creator of Philomena Cunk (Weekly Wipe, 2013), star of Mandy, Motherland and After Life, and of the 2026 BBC series Ann Droid and Cunk on Cinema.

Diane Mullins

Diane Mullins is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives for the 47th district, representing part of Butler County.

Diane Nash

Diane Judith Nash (born 1938, Chicago) is an American civil rights leader, SNCC co-founder, and Nashville sit-in chair who coordinated the 1961 Freedom Rides and co-planned the Selma voting-rights campaign; awarded the 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Diane Neal

Diane Neal (born 1975, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actress who played ADA Casey Novak on Law & Order: SVU and agent Abigail Borin on NCIS, later earned a Harvard Extension School degree and ran for Congress in NY-19 as an Independent.

Diane O'Brien

Diane M. O'Brien is an American nutrition scientist and ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who pioneered stable isotope ratios as objective dietary biomarkers.

Diane Papan

Diane Papan is an American Democratic politician representing California's 21st Assembly district since 2022, previously mayor and councilmember of San Mateo and chair of the Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee.

Diane Parish

Diane Parish (Diane Carol Richards, born 1969) is an English actress, Denise Fox in EastEnders since 2006 and DC Eva Sharpe in The Bill; RTS best actress winner for Babyfather, first black actor to win a major RTS award.

Diane R. Gold

Diane R. Gold is a pulmonologist and epidemiologist, professor at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for about forty years of research on air pollution, smoking, and childhood asthma.

Diane Rehm

Diane Rehm (born 1936), born Diane Aed, American public radio host of The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU/NPR (1979–2016, nearly 3 million weekly listeners), later the On My Mind podcast; known for spasmodic dysphonia, National Humanities Medal, and end-of-life advocacy.

Diane Rodríguez

Diane Rodríguez, an Ecuadorian trans activist, led campaigns for legal gender recognition and founded the Asociación Silueta X in 2008. She was the first trans woman to sit in the National Assembly.

Diane Rowland

Diane Rowland is an American health policy scholar who led the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured for 25 years and chaired MACPAC from 2009 to 2015.

Diane S. Sykes

Diane S. Sykes, born in 1957, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2025.

Diane Santa Maria

Diane Santa Maria is an American nurse-scientist and public health researcher who serves as dean of Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston, studying HIV and substance use prevention among homeless youth.

Diane Sawyer

Diane Sawyer (born 1945), American broadcast journalist, ABC News anchor, first female 60 Minutes correspondent, co-anchor of Primetime Live and Good Morning America, and anchor of ABC World News from 2009 to 2014.

Diane Sullivan

Diane Sullivan is an American footwear executive who joined Brown Shoe Company in 2004, was its CEO from 2011 to 2023, rebranded it as Caleres, and acquired Sam Edelman, Allen Edmonds, and Vionic.

Diane Tell

Diane Tell, born Diane Fortin in 1959 in Québec City, is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in France since the early 1980s, known for "Si j'étais un homme".

Diane Venora

Diane Venora (Diana Venora), born 1952, Hartford, Connecticut, American Juilliard-trained actress; first American woman to play Hamlet for Joseph Papp; known for Bird (1988, NYFCC Award), Heat (1995), and The Insider (1999).