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Dirk Englund
Dirk Englund is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT who leads the Quantum Photonics Laboratory, researching quantum communication, computing, sensing, and photonic AI hardware.
Dirk Gently
Dirk Gently, the "holistic detective" created by Douglas Adams, stars in the 1987 novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, its 1988 sequel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt, BBC Four and BBC America/Netflix TV adaptations, and IDW comics.
Dirk Gently (TV series)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: 2016-2017 BBC America series created by Max Landis, starring Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood, a loose adaptation of Douglas Adams's novels, cancelled after two seasons.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is Douglas Adams' 1987 comic novel about a "holistic" detective, real name Svlad Cjelli, who solves a murder, a ghost, and time travel via the fundamental interconnectedness of all things; adapted for radio, BBC Four, BBC America, stage, and IDW comics.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV series)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) is a BBC America/Netflix comic sci-fi detective series created by Max Landis, loosely adapting Douglas Adams's novels, starring Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood; cancelled after two seasons.
Dirk Görlich
Dirk Görlich, born 1966 in Halle, is a German biochemist who studies nucleocytoplasmic transport, identified importins, and directs a department at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.
Dirk Grundler
Dirk Grundler, born 1966, is a German physicist working on magnonics and spintronics, full professor at EPFL in Lausanne after holding a chair at TU München from 2005 to 2015.
Dirk H. Busch
Dirk H. Busch, also known as Dirk Busch, is a German immunologist who directs the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene at the Technical University of Munich.
Dirk Hafemeister
Dirk Hafemeister (1958-2017), German show jumper; Olympic team gold for West Germany at Seoul 1988 on Orchidee and world team gold at the 1994 Hague World Equestrian Games on P.S. Priamos; later a riding coach.
Dirk Hartog Island
Dirk Hartog Island (Wirruwana), Western Australia's largest island at Shark Bay, site of the first European landing on WA's coast by Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht on 25 October 1616, marked by a pewter plate at Cape Inscription.
Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing, German physicist and sociologist, professor of Computational Social Science at ETH Zurich; developer of the social force model of pedestrians, head of the DPG Physics of Socio-Economic Systems division, Leopoldina member, and FuturICT coordinator.
Dirk Hilbert
Dirk Hilbert, born in 1971 in Dresden, is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party who has served as Mayor of Dresden since 2015, reelected in 2022.
Dirk Hockemeyer
Dirk Hockemeyer is a molecular biologist at UC Berkeley who studies telomeres, telomerase, and genome engineering, known for work on POT1 and TERT promoter mutations in cancer.
Dirk J. Broer
Dirk J. Broer is a Dutch polymer chemist, inventor of reactive mesogens, who spent most of his career at Philips Research in Eindhoven and became a professor at TU/e.
Dirk J. Gouma
Dirk J. Gouma, born 1948, is a Dutch surgeon and emeritus professor of general surgery at the Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam, appointed to the chair in 1993.
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen is a Dutch cardiologist and heart failure researcher, Professor of Cardiology at the University Medical Center Groningen and chairman of its cardiology department from 2001.
Dirk Koetter
Dirk Koetter (born 1959, Pocatello, Idaho) is a retired American football coach, head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2016-2018 (19-29) and offensive coordinator for the Jaguars, Falcons, and Buccaneers.
Dirk Kuyt
Dirk Kuyt (Dirk Kuijt), born 1980 in Katwijk, Dutch forward and coach; Liverpool 2006-12 (285 apps, 71 goals), 104 Netherlands caps, 2010 World Cup finalist, retired 2017 after Feyenoord's title-winning hat-trick.
Dirk M. Guldi
Dirk M. Guldi is a German physical chemist and Chair of Physical Chemistry I at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2004, known for charge transfer in nanocarbons and solar energy conversion.
Dirk Nowitzki
Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball forward (Dirk Nowitzki, born 1978, Würzburg), played 21 seasons with the Dallas Mavericks; 31,560 career points, 2007 NBA MVP, 2011 champion and Finals MVP, Hall of Famer.
Dirk Pitt
Dirk Pitt, hero of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt Adventures, is a fictional NUMA marine adventurer first published in The Mediterranean Caper (1973); Pacific Vortex! was written first, and the series spans 28 novels with film adaptations of Raise the Titanic! and Sahara.
Dirk Richter
Dirk Richter names several Germans: an Olympic swimmer (born 1964, Cottbus, backstroke, two relay bronzes 1988/1992) and a sociologist and psychiatric care researcher (born 1962, Bern).
Dirk Roos
Dirk Roos, born in 1941, is a Dutch immunologist at the University of Amsterdam and Sanquin known for research on neutrophils and chronic granulomatous disease.
Dirk Rossmann
Dirk Rossmann, born 1946, is a German retail entrepreneur who founded the Rossmann drugstore chain, opening Germany's first self-service drugstore in Hannover in 1972; his son Raoul has led the company since 2021.
Dirk Schadendorf
Dirk Schadendorf is a German dermato-oncologist who directs the dermatology clinic at University Hospital Essen and led landmark melanoma trials including CheckMate 067 and COMBI.
Dirk Schrade
Dirk Schrade (born 1978, Münsingen) is a German eventing rider: Olympic team gold London 2012 on King Artus, world team gold 2014, European team golds 2013 and 2015; based in Heidmühlen.
Dirk Schreyer
Dirk Schreyer (1944–2025), West German rower of the Ratzeburger Ruderclub, won 1968 Olympic gold in the Deutschland-Achter under Karl Adam, plus 1965/1967 European and 1966 world titles, and carried the Olympic flag at Munich 1972.
Dirk Schübeler
Dirk Schübeler, born 1969 in Germany, is a molecular biologist known for work on DNA methylation and CpG islands, and director of the FMI in Basel since 2020.
Dirk Trauner
Dirk Trauner is an Austrian-born organic chemist known for pioneering photopharmacology, the use of synthetic light-switching molecules to control biological processes, and for total syntheses of more than 120 natural products.
Dirk Uittenbogaard
Dirk Uittenbogaard (Lucas Theodoor Dirk Uittenbogaard), Dutch rower born 1990 in Amsterdam, Nereus club; Olympic gold in quadruple sculls Tokyo 2020 and bronze in the eight Rio 2016; 2019 world champion.