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Dimitar Sasselov

Dimitar Sasselov is a Harvard astronomer who studies exoplanets and the origins of life, directing Harvard's Origins of Life Initiative and serving on NASA's Kepler mission.

Dimitar Stoyanov (Bulgarian politician)

Dimitar Stoyanov, born in 1968 in Svilengrad, is a Bulgarian politician and retired Air Force colonel serving as Minister of Defense, after a 2022–2023 caretaker term.

Dimiter S. Dimitrov

Dimiter S. Dimitrov is a virologist and antibody engineer who spent 27 years at the National Cancer Institute before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2017.

Dimitra Galani

Dimitra Galani (Δήμητρα Γαλάνη) is a Greek singer and composer, born in Athens in 1952, whose career since 1969 spans more than 80 albums of Entekhno, Laïko, pop, and jazz.

Dimitri A. Antoniadis

Dimitri A. Antoniadis is a Greek-born electrical engineer and emeritus MIT professor known for pioneering contributions to MOSFETs and silicon process modeling, including the SUPREM simulators.

Dimitri A. Sverjensky

Dimitri A. Sverjensky is an Australian-born theoretical geochemist, professor at Johns Hopkins University since 1984, known for the Deep Earth Water model and mineral-water interface research.

Dimitri Basov

Dimitri Basov, also known as Dmitri N. Basov, is a condensed matter physicist who studies quantum materials with infrared light and chairs physics at Columbia University.

Dimitri Bertsekas

Dimitri Bertsekas (1942–2026) was a researcher in optimization, dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning, a longtime MIT professor who moved to Arizona State University in 2019 and wrote more than 20 influential textbooks.

Dimitri K

Dimitri K, the stage name of Demis Dimitri Kanakis, is a Dutch uptempo hardcore producer and DJ from Utrecht, born in 1998, known for his heavily distorted saw kick.

Dimitri Krainc

Dimitri Krainc is a Slovenian-born neurologist and neuroscientist who became chair of neurology at Northwestern University in 2013, known for research on Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.

Dimitri Kullmann

Dimitri M. Kullmann is a British neurologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for synaptic plasticity and epilepsy gene therapy.

Dimitri Lascaris

Dimitri Lascaris is a Canadian lawyer and journalist who co-founded a major securities class action team. He later ran for the Green Party of Canada leadership in 2020.

Dimitri Leonidas

Dimitri Leonidas (Shane Leonidas), English actor born 1987 in Brent, London; known for Tormented, Centurion, The Monuments Men, Riviera, Foundation (Hober Mallow), and Those About to Die (Scorpus).

Dimitri Mihalas

Dimitri Mihalas (1939–2013) was an American astrophysicist and National Academy of Sciences member known for his work on stellar atmospheres, radiation transport, and radiation hydrodynamics.

Dimitri Payet

Dimitri Payet, born 1987, French attacking midfielder from Réunion; retired 22 March 2026. Starred for Marseille, West Ham, and Vasco da Gama; 38 France caps, Euro 2016 finalist; no major trophy.

Dimitri Rassam

Dimitri Rassam is a French film producer born in Paris in 1981. He founded Chapter2 in 2005 and produced successful films including Le Petit Prince and Le Comte.

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike (Dimitri and Michael Thivaios) are a Belgian EDM DJ duo formed in 2006, twice DJ Mag Top 100 winners (2015, 2019), known for Tomorrowland and Smash The House.

Dimitrie Anghel

Dimitrie Anghel (1872–1914) was a Romanian symbolist poet, prose writer, and translator known as the "poet of flowers" for his garden imagery and for writing with Șt. O. Iosif under the shared pseudonym A. Mirea.

Dimitrie Bolintineanu

Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819–1872) was a Romanian poet and politician, a participant in the 1848 Wallachian Revolution and one of the founders of the Romanian novel.

Dimitrie Cantemir

Dimitrie Cantemir was a Moldavian prince, historian, and composer who ruled Moldavia twice, then allied with Tsar Peter I of Russia against the Ottomans in 1711.

Dimitrie Gusti

Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955) was a Romanian sociologist and philosopher who founded the Bucharest Sociological School, pioneered village monographic research, and served as president of the Romanian Academy.

Dimitrie Pompeiu

Dimitrie Pompeiu (1873–1954) was a Romanian mathematician who worked in complex analysis and mechanics, introduced the distance between sets now called the Hausdorff distance, and posed the Pompeiu problem in 1929.

Dimitrie Popescu

Dimitrie Popescu (1961–2023) was a Romanian rower who competed at four Olympics, 1984–1996, winning gold in the 1992 coxed four plus two silvers and a bronze, and the same medal set at world championships, later coaching CSA Steaua and the national team.

Dimitrie Sturdza

Dimitrie Sturdza was a Romanian politician and historian who served four terms as prime minister between 1895 and 1908 and led the National Liberal Party.

Dimitrije Cincar-Marković

Dimitrije Cincar-Marković (Димитрије Цинцар-Марковић) was a Serbian general and prime minister of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1902, killed in the May Coup of 1903.

Dimitrije Davidović

Dimitrije Davidović (Димитрије Давидовић) was a Serbian statesman, diplomat, and journalist who co-founded Novine srbske in 1813 and wrote the Sretenje Constitution, Serbia's first, adopted in 1835.

Dimitrije Demeter

Dimitrije Demeter, also written Dimitrija Demeter (1811–1872), was a Croatian writer and theater organizer of Greek descent, widely regarded as the founder of modern Croatian drama.

Dimitrije Ljotić

Dimitrije Ljotić (Димитрије Љотић, 1891–1945) was a Serbian lawyer and right-wing politician who led Zbor and became a leading German-occupation collaborationist commanding his own armed forces.

Dimitrije Tucović

Dimitrije Tucović (Димитрије Туцовић) was a Serbian socialist politician and publicist who co-founded the Serbian Social Democratic Party in 1903 and led it until his death at the Battle of Kolubara in 1914.

Dimitrios Gounaris

Dimitrios Gounaris (Δημήτριος Γούναρης, 1867–1922) was a Greek lawyer and politician who served twice as Prime Minister of Greece and led the anti-Venizelist opposition during the National Schism.