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Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil (born October 30, 1936) is an American former NFL head coach of the Eagles, Rams, and Chiefs over 15 seasons, 126-114 record, Super Bowl XXXIV winner, Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
Dick Vitale
Dick Vitale (born June 9, 1939, Passaic, NJ), "Dickie V," ESPN college basketball analyst since 1979 who called ESPN's first college game; former Detroit coach and Pistons coach; Hall of Famer and V Foundation cancer advocate.
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Dick Whittington and His Cat is an English legend attaching a fortune-making cat folk tale to Richard Whittington (c. 1350–1423), the real London mercer and three-time Lord Mayor; first recorded in 1605, retold in chapbooks and pantomime.
Dick Williams
Dick Williams (Richard Norris Williams, 1891-1968), American tennis player and Titanic survivor; won 1924 Olympic mixed doubles gold with Hazel Wightman, U.S. singles 1914/1916, Wimbledon doubles 1920, refused leg amputation after the 1912 sinking.
Dick Wolf
Dick Wolf (Richard Anthony Wolf, born 1946, New York City) is the American producer who created Law & Order and built Wolf Entertainment, behind Law & Order, One Chicago, and FBI, with two Emmys and a Grammy.
Dick York
Dick York (1928-1992), American actor, original Darrin Stephens on ABC's Bewitched 1964-1969 and Bertram Cates in Inherit the Wind; left the sitcom over a back injury and later ran Acting for Life for the homeless.
Dick's Drive-In
Dick's Drive-In is a privately held burger chain in the Seattle area, founded in 1954 by Dick Spady, known for a barely changed menu and $22-an-hour starting pay.
Dick's Sporting Goods
Dick's Sporting Goods is an American sporting-goods retailer founded by Richard Stack in 1948 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, which acquired Foot Locker in 2025 and runs 3,195 stores with $17.22 billion in fiscal 2025 sales.
Dick's Sporting Goods Park
Dick's Sporting Goods Park is the Colorado Rapids' MLS soccer-specific stadium in Commerce City, Colorado, opened 2007, capacity about 18,086, with 23 lit fields, a $40 million naming deal, and the highest-elevation MLS venue.
Dicke model
The Dicke model, named for Robert H. Dicke, describes two-level atoms collectively coupled to a single cavity light mode and predicts a superradiant quantum phase transition.
Dickens (Mercurian crater)
Dickens (Mercurian crater): IAU-approved 78 km impact crater on Mercury near the south pole, quad H-15, center about -72.9, 153.3, adopted 1976 and named for English novelist Charles Dickens.
Dickensian (TV series)
Dickensian (BBC One, 2015–16) was a 20-part drama by Tony Jordan placing about 25 Dickens characters, including Fagin, Scrooge and Miss Havisham, in one Victorian street around a Marley murder mystery, axed after one series despite a £10m budget.
Dickey Betts
Dickey Betts (Forrest Richard Betts, 1943–2024) was a founding guitarist, singer, and songwriter of the Allman Brothers Band, wrote "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica," co-created its twin-lead sound, and entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
Dickey–Fuller test
The Dickey–Fuller test is a statistical test for a unit root in an autoregressive time series, introduced by David Dickey and Wayne Fuller in 1979.
Dickeya
Dickeya, formerly pectinolytic Erwinia, is a genus of Gram-negative Pectobacteriaceae plant-pathogen bacteria causing soft rot and potato blackleg; 12 species, including D. dianthicola and D. solani, distinguished from Pectobacterium by lower infective dose and higher-temperature disease.
Dickeya chrysanthemi
Dickeya chrysanthemi, formerly Erwinia chrysanthemi, is the type species of the soft-rot plant pathogen genus Dickeya (Pectobacteriaceae), causing wilt and rot in chrysanthemum, potato, and other crops.
Dickie Bird
Dickie Bird (Harold Dennis Bird, 1933–2025), English cricket umpire from Barnsley; officiated 66 Tests, 69 ODIs, and the 1975, 1979, and 1983 World Cup finals; former Yorkshire and Leicestershire batsman.
Dickie Burnell
Dickie Burnell was a British rower and journalist who won gold in the double sculls at the 1948 London Olympics with Bert Bushnell, then became rowing correspondent of The Times.
Dickie Carr
Dickie Carr (Richard John Carr, 1911-2000), Indian Anglo-Indian hockey Olympian and sprinter; won 1932 Olympic hockey gold, ran the 4x100 m relay, discovered Leslie Claudius, later coached in Australia.
Dickie Goodman
Dickie Goodman (Richard Dorian Goodman, 1934-1989), American novelty record producer, invented the break-in record, an early sampling precursor; hits include The Flying Saucer (1956, No. 3) and Mr. Jaws (1975, No. 4).
Dickie Moore (actor)
Dickie Moore (John Richard Moore Jr., 1925–2015), American child actor of The Beloved Rogue, Blonde Venus, Oliver Twist, and Our Gang; gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss, then ran Dick Moore and Associates PR firm.
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star is a 2003 Paramount comedy directed by Sam Weisman, starring David Spade as a washed-up 1970s child star who hires a family to relive his childhood, with real former child stars in cameos.
Dickinson (TV series)
Dickinson (2019–2021) is an Apple TV+ half-hour comedy-drama created by Alena Smith, starring Hailee Steinfeld as young Emily Dickinson; three seasons, 30 episodes, Peabody Award, intentional anachronism.
Dickinson College
Dickinson College, a private liberal-arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, chartered 1783 and named for John and Mary Norris Dickinson; first U.S. college chartered after independence, test-optional since 1994, a leader in study abroad and sustainability.
Dickinson W. Richards
Dickinson W. Richards (1895–1973) was an American physiologist at Columbia University and Bellevue Hospital who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on heart catheterization.
Dickite
Dickite is a clay mineral of the kaolinite group, one of three natural polytypes alongside kaolinite and nacrite, named for Allan B. Dick, who described Welsh material in 1888.
Dicks (band)
The Dicks were an American hardcore punk band formed in 1980 in Austin, Texas, fronted by openly gay, Marxist singer Gary Floyd. Known for "Dicks Hate the Police," the albums Kill from the Heart (SST, 1983) and These People (1985), and blues-inflected queer punk.
Dickson nearfield
The Dickson nearfield, also called a regular nearfield, is a nearfield made by twisting the multiplication of a division ring, first constructed by Leonard Dickson in 1905.
Dickson Poon
Sir Dickson Poon (潘迪生) is a Hong Kong retail entrepreneur who founded Dickson Watch & Jewellery in 1980 and built Dickson Concepts into a luxury goods group.
Dicksonia antarctica
Dicksonia antarctica, the soft tree fern or man fern, is an Australian tree fern with a fibrous trunk up to 12 m tall, common in south-eastern Australia.