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Dillard University

Dillard University, a private historically Black liberal arts university in New Orleans, Louisiana's first HBCU, formed from the 1935 merger of Straight College and New Orleans University, both founded in 1869.

Dillard's

Dillard's, also known as Dillard's Department Stores, is an American department store chain headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, founded in 1938 by William T. Dillard and operating about 270 stores in 30 states.

Dilleniaceae

Dilleniaceae Salisb., sole family of the order Dilleniales, is a pantropical family of 11 genera and roughly 400-600 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including Hibbertia, Dillenia, and Tetracera, with numerous stamens and arillate seeds.

Dilleniales

Dilleniales is an accepted order of flowering plants containing the single family Dilleniaceae, with 12 genera and about 430 species, recognized in APG IV (2016) and placed uncertainly within the core eudicot Pentapetalae.

Dilli Ram Thapa

Dilli Ram Thapa is an Indian politician and president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Sikkim, who met Amit Shah in 2026 to raise border security and reservation issues.

Dillian Whyte

Dillian Whyte, born in Jamaica in 1988, is a British-Jamaican professional heavyweight boxer nicknamed "The Body Snatcher", who won the British heavyweight title and challenged Tyson Fury for the WBC title at Wembley in 2022.

Dillinger

Dillinger: John Dillinger (1903-1934), America's first Public Enemy #1, plus the 1945 Tierney and 1973 Milius films about him, later versions, and the Tron Dillinger family.

Dillion Harper

Dillion Harper, stage name of Kelsie (Kelsey) Marie Hayes, born 1991, is an American adult film performer from Florida active since 2012, an AVN-nominated performer, Fleshlight Girl, and OnlyFans creator.

Dillom

Dillom, real name Dylan León Masa, is an Argentine rapper, singer, and producer from Buenos Aires known for the albums Post Mortem (2021) and Por Cesárea (2024).

Dillon Bell (American football)

Dillon Bell, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver (No. 89), former Georgia Bulldogs pass-catcher and 2022 national champion; versatile runner, blocker, and trick-play weapon signed as a 2026 undrafted free agent.

Dillon Brooks

Dillon Brooks (born 1996, Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian NBA wing for the Phoenix Suns, formerly Memphis and Houston; 2023 All-Defensive Second Team, 2023 FIBA World Cup bronze and Best Defensive Player.

Dillon D. Fong

Dillon D. Fong is a condensed matter physicist and staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory who studies oxide thin films using in situ synchrotron x-ray scattering.

Dillon Danis

Dillon Danis, "El Jefe" (born 1993), American Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Marcelo Garcia, Conor McGregor's grappling coach, 2-0 in Bellator MMA, disqualified against Logan Paul in 2023 boxing.

Dillon Dingler

Dillon Dingler (Francis Dillon Dingler, born 1998) is a Detroit Tigers catcher, 2020 second-round pick from Ohio State, 2025 AL Gold Glove winner, and 2026 AL All-Star.

Dillon Francis

Dillon Francis (Dillon Hart Francis, born 1987) is an American DJ and producer from Los Angeles, pioneer of moombahton and moombahcore, known for "Get Low" with DJ Snake, albums Money Sucks, Friends Rule and Wut Wut, and his DJ Hanzel alias.

Dillon Gabriel

Dillon Gabriel, Cleveland Browns quarterback drafted 94th overall in 2025 after record college careers at UCF, Oklahoma, and Oregon; FBS leader with 189 total touchdowns and 63 starts.

Dillon Round

The Dillon Round was the fifth round of GATT tariff negotiations, held in Geneva from 1960 to 1962 and named for Douglas Dillon, the US official who proposed it.

DillonGoo

DillonGoo is the screen name of Dillon Gu, American animator, lead fight animator on RWBY Volume 3, founder of DillonGoo Studios, creator of the open-source Goo Engine Blender fork and the Anime-but-CATS and Soul Mart series.

Dilly Knox

Dilly Knox, born Alfred Dillwyn Knox, was a British codebreaker who served in Room 40 and led Enigma research at Bletchley Park until his death in 1943.

Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Rousseff (Dilma Vana Rousseff, born 1947) is a Brazilian politician, first woman president of Brazil (2011–2016), former guerrilla tortured under the dictatorship, former Lula energy minister and Petrobras board chair, impeached by the Senate on 31 August 2016 over fiscal peddling charges.

Dilmaar

Dilmaar (ಡಿಲ್ಮಾರ್) is a 2025 Kannada romantic action film, the directorial debut of KGF dialogue writer M Chandramouli, starring Ram Gowda, Aditi Prabhudeva, Dimple Hayathi, and Sai Kumar. Released 24 October 2025, 141 minutes, UA 16+, about an obsessive lover named Shukla.

Dilmun

Dilmun (Telmun), ancient Gulf trading civilization centered on Bahrain and Failaka, attested from 3300 BC; intermediary between Mesopotamia, Magan, and Meluhha; known for Qal'at al-Bahrain, burial mounds, and Dilmun seals.

Dilmun merchant archives

The Dilmun merchant archives are Old Babylonian cuneiform tablets from Ur, chiefly the archive of merchant Ea-nāṣir, documenting the copper trade with Dilmun (modern Bahrain) around 1800 BC.

Dilmun weight system

The Dilmun weight system is the Bronze Age weight standard of Early Dilmun, centered on Bahrain, around 2000 BC, with a basic unit of about 1.7 grams and a mina of about 1,350 grams.

Dilo

Dilo (Ukrainian: Діло, "Deed" or "Action") was a Ukrainian daily newspaper published in Lviv from 1880 to 1939, the first Ukrainian-language daily and the leading Galician paper for decades.

Dilon Ki Ram Leela

Dilon Ki Ram Leela (दिलों की राम लीला), also spelled Dilo Ki Ram Leela, is a 2026 Zee TV Hindi drama serial produced by Cockcrow & Shaika Entertainment, starring Aastha Sharma as wealthy Leela and Mishkat Varma as Ram, her father's PA; distinct from the 2013 film Ram-Leela.

Dilong (地龙)

Dilong (地龙), literally "Earth Dragon," is the dried body of certain earthworms used in traditional Chinese medicine for over two millennia, and is now studied for the fibrinolytic enzyme lumbrokinase.

Dilophosaurus

Dilophosaurus (D. wetherilli), the 'two-crested lizard', a large Early Jurassic theropod dinosaur from Arizona's Kayenta Formation, about 7 m and 400 kg; Jurassic Park's venom and frill are fiction.

Dilraba Dilmurat

Dilraba Dilmurat (迪丽热巴·迪力木拉提, born 1992, Ürümqi, Xinjiang) is a Chinese actress of Uyghur ethnicity, a Shanghai Theatre Academy graduate, Golden Eagle Award winner, and star of Eternal Love, The Long Ballad, and Kung Fu Women's Football.

Dilras Banu Begum

Dilras Banu Begum (دلرس بانو بیگم), a descendant of Shah Ismail I of Persia, was the first wife of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb; her tomb, the Bibi ka Maqbara, is called the "Taj of the Deccan".