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Đorđe Martinović incident

Đorđe Martinović incident: 1 May 1985 rectal bottle injury of a Kosovo Serb in Gnjilane, contested as assault by Albanians or self-inflicted; a symbol of Serb suffering fueling Kosovo nationalism.

Đorđe Perišić

Đorđe Perišić (Ђорђе Перишић) is a Montenegrin-born former swimmer and water polo player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at the 1968 Mexico City Games.

Dordeduh

Dordeduh is a Romanian atmospheric and progressive folk/black metal band from Timișoara, formed in 2009 by former Negură Bunget songwriters Hupogrammos and Sol Faur; its albums include Dar de duh (2012) and Har (2021).

Dordogne

Dordogne (INSEE code 24) is a department of southwestern France in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, prefecture Périgueux, created 4 March 1790 from Périgord. 417,614 inhabitants (2023), 9,060 km², third largest metropolitan department, 503 communes.

Doré bullion

Doré bullion is an unrefined gold–silver alloy bar cast at a mine from smelted concentrate and sent to a refinery, normally 85% to 90% pure gold.

Dore Strauch

Dore Strauch (also spelled Dora), Berlin-born settler who with Dr. Friedrich Ritter colonized uninhabited Floreana, Galápagos, in 1929; survivor of the Galápagos Affair and author of the 1936 memoir Satan Came to Eden.

Doree (TV series)

Doree, Hindi social drama TV series on Colors TV from 6 November 2023 (season 1 to 26 June 2024; season 2 January to June 2025), about a girl raised by foster father Ganga Prasad, a Varanasi weaver, fighting girl-child abandonment; stars Amar Upadhyay and Sudha Chandran.

Doreen Cantrell

Doreen A. Cantrell is a British immunologist and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, known for work on T lymphocyte activation and signaling.

Doreen Mantle

Doreen Mantle (1926-2023), South African-born British actress, won a 1979 Olivier Award as Linda in Death of a Salesman and played Mrs Warboys in One Foot in the Grave, plus roles in Jam & Jerusalem and Coronation Street.

Doreen Valiente

Doreen Valiente (1922–1999) was an English Wiccan high priestess initiated by Gerald Gardner in 1953, who rewrote the Charge of the Goddess and promoted the Wiccan Rede.

Doreen Wilber

Doreen Wilber (1930-2008), American archer from Jefferson, Iowa; won women's individual recurve gold at Munich 1972 with a 2,424-point Double FITA Round world record, first modern-era female Olympic archery champion.

Dorell Wright

Dorell Wright (born 1985) is an American retired NBA forward-guard, drafted 19th overall in 2004 by Miami; won a title with the Heat and led the NBA in three-pointers made and attempted in 2010-11 with Golden State.

DoReMi Market

DoReMi Market (도레미 마켓), known as Amazing Saturday (놀라운 토요일), is a tvN South Korean variety show since April 7, 2018, where a cast dictates song lyrics to win foods from featured Korean markets.

Dorfroman

Dorfroman, German for village novel, is a literary genre depicting the life of a village community, often around a central figure like the pastor or doctor.

Dorginarti

Dorginarti, an island fortress at the northern end of the Nile's Second Cataract in Lower Nubia, Sudan, occupied from the tenth to sixth centuries BC, linked to Psamtik II's 593 BC campaign, now submerged in Lake Nasser.

Dorgon

Dorgon (多爾袞) was a Manchu prince of the early Qing dynasty who, as regent for the child emperor Fu Lin, led the Qing conquest of China proper.

Dorgon's regency

Dorgon's regency (多尔衮摄政) was the period when Dorgon, Prince Rui, governed the Qing dynasty for the child Shunzhi Emperor, leading the 1644 conquest of China proper.

Dori Sakurada (桜田通)

Dori Sakurada (桜田通), born 1991 in Tokyo, is a Japanese actor and singer with Amuse. Known for Niragi in Netflix's Alice in Borderland, he made a worldwide artist debut in 2023 with "MIRAI" on the label Pandrec.

Dori Yeats

Dori Yeats (Dorothy Erzsebet Yeats), Canadian freestyle wrestler from Montreal, born 1993; 2010 Youth Olympic and 2014 Commonwealth and 2015 Pan Am Games champion, 2012 world silver medalist, fifth at Rio 2016; retired 2018; daughter of five-time Olympian Doug Yeats.

Doria Ragland

Doria Loyce Ragland (born 1956) is an American social worker and yoga instructor, mother of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; only family member at the 2018 royal wedding, later Loving Kindness CEO and 2022 Netflix interviewee.

Dorial Green-Beckham

Dorial Green-Beckham (DGB), record-setting Hillcrest High School receiver and Rivals' No. 1 recruit of 2012, played at Missouri and Oklahoma, then two NFL seasons (Titans 2015, Eagles 2016) with 68 catches, 941 yards, 6 TDs before a 2017 release.

Dorian

Dorian is a Spanish indie band from Barcelona, founded in 2004, known for blending new wave, electronics, and indie rock, with hits like "Paraísos artificiales".

Dorian B. McGavern

Dorian B. McGavern is an American immunologist who leads the Viral Immunology and Intravital Imaging Section at NINDS, NIH, studying immune responses in the central nervous system.

Dorian Corey

Dorian Corey (c. 1937–1993), American drag performer, Pearl Box Revue star, and founder of the House of Corey, famed as a voice of Paris Is Burning (1990) for explaining shade, reading, and realness; after her death a mummified body was found in her closet.

Dorian Electra

Dorian Electra (Dorian Electra Fridkin Gomberg, born 1992, Houston) is an American genderfluid hyperpop singer and performance artist; albums Flamboyant (2019), My Agenda (2020), Fanfare (2023), and a 2026 self-titled covers album.

Dorian Finney-Smith

Dorian Finney-Smith (Doe-Doe), undrafted NBA forward (born 1993, Portsmouth, Virginia) for the Atlanta Hawks; ex-Mavericks, Nets, Lakers, Rockets, Hornets; 3-and-D wing, 628 career games.

Dorian Gray (2009 film)

Dorian Gray is a 2009 British horror drama directed by Oliver Parker, adapted from Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel, starring Ben Barnes as Dorian and Colin Firth as Lord Henry Wotton.

Dorian Gray (character)

Dorian Gray, protagonist of Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/1891), a beautiful young man whose hidden portrait ages and records his sins while he stays youthful; icon of decadence and eternal youth.

Dorian Harewood

Dorian Harewood, American actor and singer from Ohio, played Simon Haley in Roots: The Next Generations and Jesse Owens in The Jesse Owens Story; also a voiceover artist and NBC announcer.

Dorian Heartsong

Dorian Heartsong, also known as Dorian 27, is an American bassist, composer, and producer, a founding bassist of Powerman 5000 (1990-2001, platinum Tonight the Stars Revolt!), now playing in Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening.