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Dmitry Kramkov

Dmitry Kramkov (Dmitrii Olegovich Kramkov) is a Russian mathematician, professor of mathematical finance at Carnegie Mellon University, known for the optional decomposition theorem and utility maximization duality.

Dmitry Kroyter

Dmitry Kroyter (Hebrew קרויטר•דמיטרי, Russian Дмитрий Кройтер), born 1993 in Neryungri, Russia, is an Israeli high jumper, 2010 Youth Olympic gold medalist, 2009 World Youth champion, and 2016 Rio Olympian with a 2.29 m personal best.

Dmitry Kuzelev

Dmitry Leonidovich Kuzelev (Дмитрий Леонидович Кузелев), born 1969 in Kemerovo Oblast, Russian handball line player; Olympic gold at Sydney 2000, European silver 2000, starred for GWD Minden with 1010 Bundesliga goals.

Dmitry Laptev Strait

Dmitry Laptev Strait (пролив Дмитрия Лаптева), shallow Arctic strait connecting the Laptev and East Siberian Seas between Oyogos Yar and Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island; minimum depth 8 m, summer floating ice, named for explorer Dmitry Laptev.

Dmitry Leonkin

Dmitry (Dmytro) Leonkin, Дмитрий Максимович Леонкин, Soviet artistic gymnast born 1928 in Ryazan, died 1980 in Lviv; won 1952 Helsinki team gold and rings bronze for the USSR.

Dmitry Lepikov

Dmitry Lepikov (Дмитрий Михайлович Лепиков), born 1972, Russian freestyle swimmer; 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold and world record 7:11.95 in the 4x200 m freestyle relay for the Unified Team; not the weightlifter Dmitry Lapikov.

Dmitry Levitzky

Dmitry Levitzky (1735–1822) was a leading Russian portrait painter of the era of Catherine the Great and head of the portrait class of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Dmitry Likhachov

Dmitry Likhachov, also known as Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov, was a Russian philologist at Leningrad's Pushkin House who became the leading twentieth-century scholar of Old Russian literature.

Dmitry Lykin

Dmitry Lykin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Лыкин), born 1974 in Omsk, Russian running-target shooter; Olympic bronze in 10 m running target at Athens 2004 and 2002 world champion at Lahti.

Dmitry Lyumkis

Dmitry Lyumkis is an American structural biologist and Associate Professor at the Salk Institute known for cryo-electron microscopy methods and structures of HIV intasomes and CRISPR-Cas13d enzymes.

Dmitry Malikov

Dmitry Malikov (Дмитрий Маликов), born 1970 in Moscow, is a Russian pop singer, composer, and pianist, a People's Artist of Russia who rose to fame in 1988 with «Лунный сон».

Dmitry Mazepin (Дмитрий Аркадьевич Мазепин)

Dmitry Mazepin, also known as Dmitry Arkadievich Mazepin (Дмитрий Аркадьевич Мазепин), is a Belarus-born Russian billionaire who founded and led the fertilizer producer Uralchem, placed under EU sanctions in March 2022.

Dmitry Medvedev

Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev (Дмитрий Николаевич Медведев, 1898–1954) was a Soviet state-security officer and partisan commander who led the NKVD detachments Mitya and Pobediteli behind German lines in World War II.

Dmitry Medvedev (Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев)

Dmitry Medvedev (Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев), Russian president 2008–2012 during the Putin-Medvedev tandem, then prime minister 2012–2020 and Security Council deputy chairman; known for the modernization agenda, the 2011 castling, and post-2022 hawkishness.

Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Dmitry Merezhkovsky (Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский) is a Russian novelist, critic, and religious thinker whose Christ and Antichrist trilogy revived the Russian historical novel; he opposed the Bolsheviks and died in exile in 1941.

Dmitry Milyaev

Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Milyaev, born in 1975, is a Russian United Russia politician who became Governor of Tula Oblast in 2024, winning 78.53% of the vote.

Dmitry Milyutin

Dmitry Milyutin (Дми́трий Милю́тин) was a Russian military officer and statesman who served as Minister of War from 1861 to 1881, directing the military reforms of the 1860s.

Dmitry Mirimanoff

Dmitry Mirimanoff (Дмитрий Семёнович Мириманов; 1861–1945) was a Russian-Swiss mathematician at the University of Geneva who contributed to Fermat's Last Theorem and introduced the founded set.

Dmitry Mironov

Dmitry Mironov (Дмитрий Олегович Миронов), born 1965 in Moscow, is a retired Russian ice hockey defenseman, 1992 Olympic gold medalist with the Unified Team and 1998 silver medalist with Russia, distinct from KHL defenseman Andrei Mironov.

Dmitry Molosh

Dmitry Molosh is a Belarusian progressive house DJ and producer from Brest whose hypnotic tracks appear on Sudbeat, Hope Recordings, and Proton Music, and who founded the label Proportion.

Dmitry Muratov

Dmitry Muratov is a Russian journalist who co-founded the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta in 1993, led it as editor-in-chief, and shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize with Maria Ressa.

Dmitry Musersky

Dmitry Musersky (Дмитрий Мусэрский), born 1988 in Makiivka, Ukraine, is a Russian volleyball middle blocker and opposite, 2.18 m tall. Olympic champion London 2012 with a record 31 points in the final; retired 2026 after Suntory Sunbirds.

Dmitry Nelyubin

Dmitry Nelyubin (Дмитрий Нелюбин), Soviet track cyclist, 1988 Seoul Olympic team pursuit gold at 17, 1990 world champion, died 2005 in St. Petersburg.

Dmitry of Rostov

Dmitry of Rostov (Димитрий Ростовский), born Daniil Savvich Tuptalo, was Metropolitan of Rostov and Yaroslavl from 1702, best known for compiling the Book of the Lives of the Saints.

Dmitry Patrushev

Dmitry Patrushev is a Russian politician and son of former FSB director Nikolai Patrushev who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and previously served as Minister of Agriculture.

Dmitry Pavlov

Dmitry Pavlov, born Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov (Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов), was a Soviet general who led the Red Army's armored forces and commanded the Western Front in 1941.

Dmitry Peskov (Дмитрий Сергеевич Песков)

Dmitry Peskov (Дмитрий Сергеевич Песков) is press secretary and spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a deputy chief of the Presidential Executive Office, and the Kremlin's daily public voice, EU-sanctioned over Crimea statements.

Dmitry Pirog (Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог)

Dmitry Pirog (Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог), "The Grandmaster," Russian boxer born 1980, WBO middleweight champion 2010-2012, retired 20-0 (15 KOs) after a back injury, later a Russian State Duma deputy.

Dmitry Pisarev

Dmitry Pisarev (Дмитрий Иванович Писарев) was a Russian literary critic and materialist philosopher, leading critic of Russkoe slovo and a dominant influence on radical youth in the 1860s.

Dmitry Pozharsky (Дмитрий Михайлович Пожарский)

Dmitry Pozharsky (Дмитрий Михайлович Пожарский, 1577/1578–1642), Rurikid prince and commander of the Second Militia led with Kuzma Minin that liberated Moscow from the Polish garrison in October 1612.