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Dick DeVos
Dick DeVos (Richard Marvin DeVos Jr., born 1955) is an American businessman who was president of Amway from 1993 to 2002 and lost Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial race.
Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin (Richard Joseph Durbin, born 1944) is the senior Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois, Senate Democratic Whip since 2005, former Judiciary Committee chair, and retiring in 2026.
Dick Ebersol
Dick Ebersol (born 1947) is an American television executive who co-created Saturday Night Live, led NBC Sports from 1989 to 2011, produced 19 Olympic telecasts, and created Sunday Night Football, distinguishing him from other media executives named Ebersol such as his son Charlie.
Dick Emery
Dick Emery (Richard Gilbert Emery) was an English comedian and star of the BBC sketch show The Dick Emery Show (1963–1981, 18 series, about 17 million viewers), creator of Mandy, Lampwick, Hettie, and the catchphrase "Ooh, you are awful... but I like you!".
Dick Enberg
Dick Enberg (Richard Alan Enberg, 1935–2017) was an American sportscaster famous for "Oh, my!", 60 years on air at NBC, CBS, ESPN, and the Padres, Frick Award 2015.
Dick Eve
Dick Eve (Richmond Cavill Eve, 1901-1970), Australian diver of the Cavill swimming family; won gold in plain high diving at Paris 1924, fifth in springboard; later Manly baths manager and Eve Rocker inventor.
Dick Figures
Dick Figures is a 2010-2014 flash-animated YouTube comedy web series by Ed Skudder and Zack Keller about stick figures Red and Blue, produced by Six Point Harness with Mondo Media, spanning five seasons and a Kickstarter-record 2013 feature film.
Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury (1947-2023), American high jumper, won 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold at 2.24 m using his backward, head-first "Fosbury flop", which became the universal high jump technique.
Dick Francis
Dick Francis (1920-2010), British steeplechase jockey and crime novelist; rode for the Queen Mother, Devon Loch's 1956 Grand National collapse, then wrote Dead Cert and 40-plus racing thrillers, three Edgars, CBE.
Dick Gaughan
Dick Gaughan (Richard Peter Gaughan, b. 1948), Scottish folk singer and guitarist from Leith; Boys of the Lough and Five Hand Reel member; 1981 album Handful of Earth; career ended by 2016 stroke; legacy box set R/evolution released 2025–26.
Dick Gautier
Dick Gautier (Richard Gautier, 1931-2017), American actor and comedian; original Broadway Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie (1961 Tony nominee), Hymie the Robot on Get Smart, Robin Hood in When Things Were Rotten, voice of Serpentor and Transformers characters, and caricaturist-author.
Dick Gephardt
Dick Gephardt (Richard Andrew Gephardt, born 1941) is a former U.S. Representative from St. Louis, Missouri's 3rd District (1977–2005), House Majority and Minority Leader, and two-time Democratic presidential candidate (1988, 2004).
Dick Grant
Dick Grant was a Canadian marathon runner who finished sixth in the 1900 Paris Olympic marathon and was runner-up at the 1899 Boston Marathon in his personal best of 2:57:46.
Dick Grayson
Dick Grayson (Richard Grayson) is DC Comics' original Robin, debuting in Detective Comics #38 (1940), later Nightwing (Tales of the Teen Titans #44, 1984) and briefly Batman, distinct from later Robins Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Damian Wayne.
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory (Richard Claxton Gregory, 1932–2017) was an American stand-up comedian, satirist, author, and civil rights activist who broke into national fame via the Chicago Playboy Club, marched with Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president in 1968, and wrote Nigger: An Autobiography.
Dick Gunn
Dick Gunn (Richard Kenneth Gunn, 1871-1961), British amateur boxer, 1908 London Olympic featherweight gold medalist and oldest ever Olympic boxing champion at 37 years 254 days; three-time ABA champion 1894-96.
Dick Hanley
Dick Hanley (Richard Dennis Hanley, 1936–2022), American freestyle swimmer; 1956 Melbourne Olympic silver medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, fifth in the 100 m free, and 200 m freestyle world record holder (2:01.5, 1957).
Dick Harpootlian
Dick Harpootlian (Richard A. Harpootlian, born 1949) is a Columbia, South Carolina trial lawyer, former Fifth Circuit Solicitor, twice South Carolina Democratic Party chairman, 2018–2024 state senator, and Alex Murdaugh's lead defense counsel.
Dick Haymes
Dick Haymes (1918-1980), Argentine-born American baritone crooner, Harry James/Benny Goodman/Tommy Dorsey band singer, Sinatra's chief 1940s rival, State Fair star, nine Gold Records.
Dick Heinegård
Dick Heinegård (1942–2013) was a Swedish biochemist and physician at Lund University whose laboratory identified numerous cartilage matrix proteins and developed biomarkers for monitoring joint disease.
Dick Hyland
Dick Hyland (Frank William Hyland, Jr., 1900-1981), American rugby player who won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, later a Stanford football halfback, Hollywood technical director, and Los Angeles sportswriter.
Dick in a Box
"Dick in a Box" (also "A Special Christmas Box") is a 2006 SNL Digital Short by The Lonely Island with Justin Timberlake, an early-1990s R&B parody that went viral uncensored online and won a 2007 Emmy.
Dick Joyce
Dick Joyce (Richard John Joyce), New Zealand rower born 1946 in Wellington, won Olympic gold in the coxed four at Mexico City 1968 and the men's eight at Munich 1972; distinct from the 1965 baseball pitcher Dick Joyce.
Dick K.P. Yue
Dick K.P. Yue is an American mechanical and ocean engineer at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 and originator of MIT OpenCourseWare.
Dick Landon
Dick Landon (Richmond Wilcox Landon; 1898–1971) was an American high jumper who won the 1920 Olympic gold medal at Antwerp, setting an Olympic record, and competed for Yale.
Dick LeBeau
Dick LeBeau (Charles Richard LeBeau), born 1937, is an American former football player and coach, a Hall of Fame Lions cornerback and creator of the zone blitz.
Dick Menzies
Dick Menzies is a Canadian respirologist and tuberculosis researcher at McGill University who led 2018 trials showing four months of rifampin treats latent TB as effectively as nine months of isoniazid.
Dick Meredith
Dick Meredith (Richard Otis Meredith, 1932-2025), American ice hockey wing and Minnesota Gopher; won 1956 Olympic silver and 1960 Olympic gold with the United States, then worked for the Minnesota North Stars.
Dick Miller
Dick Miller (1928–2019), American character actor from the Bronx, a Roger Corman stock player (A Bucket of Blood, Little Shop of Horrors) later cast by Dante, Scorsese, and Cameron; subject of the 2014 documentary That Guy Dick Miller.
Dick Morris
Dick Morris (born 1946) is an American political consultant and pollster who devised Clinton's 1996 "triangulation" strategy, resigned in a 1996 call-girl scandal, and later advised Trump and worked for Fox News.