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Didi Wuya (Didi Autonomous Driving)

Didi Wuya, or Didi Autonomous Driving, is a Chinese Level 4 self-driving company spun out of Didi Chuxing in 2019, operating driverless robotaxis in Guangzhou.

Didier Bourissou

Didier Bourissou is a French organometallic and main-group chemist who directs research at CNRS in Toulouse, known for gold catalysis, ambiphilic ligands, and biodegradable polymers for drug delivery.

Didier Courreges

Didier Courrèges (born 1960, Évreux) is a French eventing rider, Cadre Noir member, and 2004 Athens Olympic team gold medalist on Debat d'Estruval, with team silvers at the 2002 Worlds and 2001 Europeans.

Didier Cros

Didier Cros is a French-trained American neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for electrophysiological diagnosis of peripheral nerve disease and NEJM MGH case records.

Didier Cuche

Didier Cuche (born 1974 in Le Pâquier, Switzerland) is a Swiss former alpine ski racer who won Super G silver at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

Didier Defago

Didier Défago (born 1977, Morgins, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss alpine skier, 2010 Vancouver Olympic downhill champion, four-time Olympian, with 5 World Cup wins and 16 podiums.

Didier Delsalle

Didier Delsalle, born in 1957, is a French experimental test pilot for Eurocopter who landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest on 14 May 2005.

Didier Deschamps

Didier Deschamps is a French football manager and former player who captained France to the 1998 World Cup and managed the team to the 2018 title.

Didier Dinart

Didier Dinart (La Roca), born 1977 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French handball defender; Olympic gold 2008 and 2012, three world titles, two EHF EURO titles, four Champions Leagues; France head coach 2016–2020, later US Ivry and Montenegro coach.

Didier Dreyfuss

Didier Dreyfuss is a French professor emeritus of intensive-care medicine at Université Paris Cité and former head of intensive care at Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes.

Didier Drogba

Didier Drogba (born 1978, Abidjan), Ivorian centre-forward; Chelsea legend with 164 goals, four Premier League titles, 2012 Champions League; Ivory Coast record scorer with 65 goals; retired 2018.

Didier Flament

Didier Flament (born 1951, Tourcoing) is a French foil fencer, Olympic team foil gold medalist at Moscow 1980 and bronze medalist at Montreal 1976, and individual world foil champion at Hamburg 1978.

Didier Lebrec

Didier Lebrec (born 1945) is a French hepatologist and INSERM researcher at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, known for his 1981 trial showing propranolol sharply reduced recurrent bleeding in cirrhosis.

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Didier Malenfant

Didier Malenfant is an American-based video game developer who co-founded Ready At Dawn Studios in California in 2003, after working as a senior programmer at Naughty Dog.

Didier Mazel

Didier Mazel is a French geneticist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who studies integrons, horizontal gene transfer, and genome architecture in bacteria, including Vibrio cholerae.

Didier Ménard

Didier Ménard, born 1966, is a French pharmacist-biologist and malaria researcher who established K13 mutations as the main determinants of artemisinin resistance and led the KARMA consortium.

Didier Picard

Didier Picard, born 1957, is a Swiss molecular biologist who led a laboratory at the University of Geneva from 1990, known for work on the Hsp90 chaperone and steroid receptors.

Didier Pironi

Didier Pironi (1952–1987), French Formula One driver for Tyrrell, Ligier, and Ferrari; 1978 Le Mans winner; 1982 championship runner-up after a career-ending Hockenheim crash; died powerboat racing near the Isle of Wight.

Didier Pittet

Didier Pittet is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist who developed and popularized alcohol-based handrub and led WHO's Clean Care is Safer Care program.

Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz, born in 1966, is a Swiss astronomer who co-discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first planet found orbiting a Sun-like star, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Didier Raoult

Didier Raoult (born 1952 in Dakar, Senegal) is a French microbiologist known for culturing Tropheryma whipplei, discovering giant viruses, and contested COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine claims.

Didier Ratsiraka

Didier Ratsiraka, the "Red Admiral" (1936–2021), president of Madagascar 1975–1993 and 1997–2002, socialist AREMA founder, nationalizer, later IMF reformer, exiled after the disputed 2001 election, amnestied, returned 2011.

Didier Samuel

Didier Samuel is a French hepatologist who led the liver transplant program at Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif and became Chairman and CEO of Inserm in February 2023.

Didier Sénac

Didier Sénac, French central defender born 1958 in Saint-Denis, played for RC Lens (1977-87) and Girondins de Bordeaux (1987-95), won 1984 Olympic football gold with France, earned 3 caps, then worked as Lens coach and recruiter.

Didier Sornette

Didier Sornette is a French physicist and professor emeritus of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH Zurich, known for research on predicting financial bubbles and catastrophic events.

Didier Trono

Didier Trono, born 1956, is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland who heads the Laboratory of Virology and Genetics and invented lentiviral vectors for gene therapy.

Didier Y. R. Stainier

Didier Stainier is a Belgian-American developmental biologist who directs the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Didier Zokora

Didier Zokora (Alain Didier Zokora-Déguy, born 1980, Abidjan), nicknamed "Le Maestro", is an Ivorian retired defensive midfielder and Ivory Coast's most capped player (123 caps, 1 goal). Clubs: Genk, Saint-Étienne, Tottenham, Sevilla, Trabzonspor; three World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014).

Didilia Corona

Didilia Corona, a 320-km-wide corona on Venus at 19N 38E in Eastern Eistla Regio, IAU-named 1997 for an East Slavic childbirth goddess; a corona-nova linked to the Eastern Eistla mantle plume with Pavlova, Ninmah, and Isong.