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Dione surface features

Dione's surface is the cratered, fractured ice covering Saturn's fourth-largest moon, about 1,118 km across, whose wispy terrain is a network of bright tectonic canyons on the trailing hemisphere.

Dionela

Dionela (Timothy Dionela, born 1999) is a Filipino R&B singer-songwriter from Guiguinto, Bulacan whose 2024 hits "Sining" with Jay R and "Marilag" topped the Billboard Philippines Hot 100; he married Meizy Mendoza in 2026.

Dionisio Anzilotti

Dionisio Anzilotti (1867–1950) was an Italian jurist, a judge and President of the Permanent Court of International Justice and a founder of legal positivism in international law.

Dionisio Castro

Dionísio Castro is a Portuguese former long-distance runner, born in 1963 in Portugal. He held the 20,000-meter world record in 1990 and was the twin of Domingos Castro.

Dionisio de Herrera

Dionisio de Herrera (1781–1850) was a Honduran Liberal lawyer, first head of state of Honduras from 1824 to 1827 and later of Nicaragua, who introduced Honduras's first constitution in 1825.

Dionisio Gutiérrez G.

Dionisio Gutiérrez G. was a Guatemalan businessman, son of patriarch Juan Bautista Gutiérrez, who founded the fried-chicken chain Pollo Campero in 1971 and died in a 1974 plane crash.

Dionisio Romero Paoletti

Dionisio Romero Paoletti is a Peruvian businessman of the fourth generation of the Romero family, who chaired Credicorp and Banco de Crédito del Perú from 2009 and led Grupo Romero until 2025.

Dionisios G. Vlachos

Dionisios G. Vlachos is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at the University of Delaware, a founder of multiscale modeling in catalysis and plastics upcycling research.

Dionisy

Dionisy (Дионисий) was a foremost Russian painter of Muscovy, active from 1467 to 1503, who painted the Ferapontov Monastery frescoes in 1502 and received commissions from Grand Prince Ivan III.

Dionna Harris

Dionna Marie Harris, American softball player, 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold medalist with Team USA in softball's Olympic debut; Temple University four-time All-American, Raybestos Brakettes and California Jazz infielder-outfielder from Wilmington, Delaware.

Dionna Williams

Dionna Williams is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist, Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, studying how HIV and drugs of abuse damage the brain.

Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand (born 1953) is a Trinidadian-Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and filmmaker based in Toronto since 1970, whose work centers on diaspora, Black experience, and gender.

Dionne Bromfield

Dionne Bromfield, full name Dionne Julia Bromfield, is a London-born soul and R&B singer-songwriter who was the first artist signed to Amy Winehouse's label Lioness Records.

Dionne Farris

Dionne Farris (Dionne Yvette Farris), American R&B singer born 1969 in Plainfield, New Jersey; featured vocalist on Arrested Development's "Tennessee", solo hit "I Know" (No. 4 Hot 100, 1994), Grammy-nominated, founder of Free & Clear Records.

Dionne quintuplets

Dionne quintuplets: Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie Dionne, identical girls born May 28, 1934 in Corbeil, Ontario, the first quintuplets known to survive infancy, displayed as Quintland tourists attractions and exploited by the Ontario government.

Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick, born Marie Dionne Warrick in 1940, is an American singer whose collaboration with Burt Bacharach and Hal David produced 1960s pop classics like "Walk On By."

Diontae Johnson

Diontae Johnson, born 1996, is an NFL wide receiver drafted 66th overall by the Steelers in 2019; a 2021 Pro Bowler who played for three teams in 2024.

Dionysia (Διονύσια)

Dionysia (Διονύσια), the Attic festivals of Dionysus: the deme-level Rural Dionysia in Poseideon and the City or Great Dionysia in Elaphebolion, whose dramatic and dithyrambic competitions staged most surviving Greek drama.

Dionysiaca

The Dionysiaca (Διονυσιακά) is a fifth-century Greek epic in 48 books by Nonnus of Panopolis recounting the life, Indian war, and deification of Dionysus; at over 21,000 lines it is the longest extant ancient epic.

Dionysian Mysteries

The Dionysian Mysteries, also called the Bacchic mysteries, were initiatory cults of the god Dionysus, attested in Greece from the late Archaic period and later expanded to Rome.

Dionysios (son of Kephalas)

Dionysios son of Kephalas, also called Plenis, was a landholding official and royal farmer at Akoris in Ptolemaic Egypt, active about 125 to 100 BC.

Dionysios D. Dionysiou

Dionysios D. Dionysiou (Greek: Διονύσιος Δ. Διονυσίου; 1966–2023) was a Cypriot-born environmental engineer and University of Cincinnati professor known for pioneering sulfate-radical advanced oxidation processes for water treatment.

Dionysios I

Dionysios I (Διονύσιος Α΄) was twice Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, reigning 1466–1471 and 1488–1490, and was later acknowledged by the Orthodox Church as a saint.

Dionysios II

Dionysios II (Διονύσιος Β´) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1546 to 1556, who first titled Ivan IV tsar of Russia and sent emissaries to the Council of Trent.

Dionysios III

Dionysios III Vardalis (Διονύσιος Γ΄ Βαρδαλῆς), born about 1615 on Andros, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1662 to 1665 and later retired to the Great Lavra on Mount Athos, dying there in 1696.

Dionysios IV

Dionysios IV, known as Mouselimis (Διονύσιος Δ΄ Κομνηνός), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople five separate times between 1671 and 1694, took part in the Synod of Jerusalem of 1672, and died in Wallachia in 1696.

Dionysios Solomos

Dionysios Solomos (Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1798–1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, regarded as Greece's national poet and the founder of modern Greek poetry in the demotic language.

Dionysios V

Dionysios V, born Dionysios Charitonidis (Διονύσιος Χαριτωνίδης) in 1820, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1887 to 1891, clashing with the Ottoman government over church privileges.

Dionysius

Dionysius was the 25th pope, from 259 to 268, who rebuilt the Roman church after persecution and wrote the earliest surviving papal statement on the Trinity.

Dionysius Exiguus

Dionysius Exiguus, also known as Dennis the Short, was a sixth-century monk and computist in Rome who introduced the Anno Domini system for counting years from the birth of Christ.