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Dorian invasion
Dorian invasion: hypothesized migration of Dorians into southern Greece after the Mycenaean palatial collapse, also called the return of the Herakleidai; archaeology has discounted it as the collapse's cause, treating any migration as a consequence.
Dorian Missick
Dorian Crossmond Missick, American actor and producer born 1976 in East Orange, New Jersey; known for Six Degrees, Southland, For Life, Luke Cage, The Burial, and 56 Days; married to actress Simone Missick.
Dorian mode
Dorian mode: second mode of the major scale, also called the Russian minor. A minor-sounding diatonic scale (D to D on white keys) with a raised sixth degree; used in folk, modal jazz (So What), and pop.
Dorian Montes
Dorian Montes: mountain complex (montes) on Jupiter's moon Io, IAU-approved 1997, named for a region of ancient Greece; striated plateau about 566 km across, up to roughly 8-9 km high.
Dorian Strong
Dorian Strong (born 2002) is a Buffalo Bills cornerback from Upper Marlboro, Maryland; a Virginia Tech product drafted 177th overall in 2025 after an elite 2023 coverage season, now on reserve/NFI.
Dorian Thompson-Robinson
Dorian Thompson-Robinson, "DTR", American football quarterback from Las Vegas; UCLA record-holder (12,536 total yards, 116 TDs), 2023 Browns fifth-round pick, later Eagles and UFL Birmingham Stallions.
Dorian van Rijsselberghe
Dorian van Rijsselberghe (born 1988, Den Burg, Texel) is a Dutch windsurfer who won Olympic RS:X gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016, was London's Dutch flagbearer, and later led the iQFOiL class.
Dorian Yates
Dorian Yates, English professional bodybuilder, 'The Shadow', six consecutive Mr. Olympia wins 1992-1997, first British winner, pioneer of high-intensity 'Blood & Guts' training and the mass monster era.
Dorians (Δωριεῖς)
Dorians (Δωριεῖς), a major Greek ethnic group tied to the Dorian dialect and the Return of the Herakleidae. The "Dorian invasion" theory of the Mycenaean collapse is now largely rejected; migration after 1200 BC is accepted instead.
Doric order
The Doric order, also called Greek Doric, is the oldest of the classical architectural orders of ancient Greece, known for plain, sturdy columns without bases.
Doric temple (Pompei)
Doric Temple (Sanctuary of Athena and Hercules), Pompeii's oldest sanctuary, 6th century BC, in the Triangular Forum; limestone, Oscan inscription to Athena, solstice-oriented, excavated since 1765.
Doric temple of Segesta
Doric temple of Segesta (Tempio di Segesta): unfinished 6x14-column Doric peripteral temple built 430-420 BC by the non-Greek Elymians on Monte Barbaro, Sicily; no cella, roof, fluting, or known dedication; among Europe's best-preserved ancient monuments.
Dorien de Vries
Dorien de Vries (Dorien Berendina Lubertha de Vries), Dutch windsurfer born 1965 in Enschede; bronze in Women's Lechner A-390 at Barcelona 1992, tenth in Mistral at Atlanta 1996; distinct from other athletes named Dorien or de Vries.
Dorien Wilson
Dorien Wilson (born 1963) is an American actor known as Professor Stanley Oglevee on UPN's The Parkers, Eddie Charles on HBO's Dream On, Terrence on Sister, Sister, and Jay Weaver on Bounce TV's In the Cut.
Doriko
doriko is a pseudonymous Japanese Vocaloid producer who began posting Hatsune Miku songs on Nico Nico Douga in 2007, best known for Romeo and Cinderella.
Dorin Comaniciu
Dorin Comaniciu is a Romanian-American computer scientist, senior vice president at Siemens Healthineers, known for mean shift image analysis and AI contouring used in over 800 cancer centers.
Dorin N. Poenaru
Dorin N. Poenaru, also known as Dorin Mircea Stelian Poenaru, is a Romanian theoretical physicist, born in 1936, who with Săndulescu and Greiner predicted cluster radioactivity, a new nuclear decay mode confirmed experimentally in 1984.
Dorina Vaccaroni
Dorina Vaccaroni (Dorina Vaccaroni (-Manzo)), born 1963 in Venice, Italian foil fencer; four Olympics 1980-1992, medals: 1984 individual bronze, 1988 team silver, 1992 team gold; five world titles; later ultracyclist in California.
Dorion
Dorion (Ancient Greek: Δώριον), also spelled Dorium, was a town of ancient Messenia, known from Homer's Catalogue of Ships as where the Muses deprived Thamyris of his song.
Doripenem
Doripenem (Doribax) is an intravenous broad-spectrum carbapenem antibiotic approved in the US in 2007 and EU in 2008 for complicated intra-abdominal and urinary infections; withdrawn in the EU in 2014 and discontinued in the US after a VAP trial showed increased mortality.
Doris (album)
Doris is Earl Sweatshirt's debut studio album, released August 20, 2013 on Tan Cressida/Columbia: 15 tracks, 44 minutes, guests Frank Ocean, Tyler, The Creator, RZA, Vince Staples, and Mac Miller, named for his grandmother.
Doris (given name)
Doris (Δωρίς), "Dorian woman", a feminine Greek-derived given name; mythological sea nymph, wife of Nereus. Adopted in 19th-century English, peaked in the US in 1928 with 16,988 births, ranked #2195 in 2024; variants Dorris and Dory.
Doris Bachtrog
Doris Bachtrog is an evolutionary geneticist and professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley, known for studying how sex chromosomes form, degenerate, and evolve, using fruit flies and other animals.
Doris Brown
Doris Brown, later Doris Brown Heritage (born 1942, Gig Harbor, Washington), American distance runner; first women's international cross-country champion 1967 and five-time winner 1967-71; two-time US Olympian and Hall of Famer.
Doris Bures
Doris Bures is an Austrian politician of the SPÖ who has been Third President of the National Council since 2024 and previously served as a federal minister.
Doris Burke
Doris Burke, American basketball broadcaster and former Providence College point guard, ESPN/ABC NBA analyst; first woman to call the NBA Finals on TV (2024), first full-time national NBA game analyst (2017), Curt Gowdy Award 2018.
Doris Day
Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, 1922-2019) was an American singer and actress; big band star of "Sentimental Journey," Hollywood's top box-office draw of 1963, star of Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk, later an animal welfare activist.
Doris Day filmography
Doris Day filmography: the 39 theatrical features (1948-1968) of actress-singer Doris Day, from Romance on the High Seas to With Six You Get Eggroll, including Pillow Talk, Calamity Jane, and her Oscar-nominated role.
Doris Duke
Doris Duke was an American tobacco heiress and philanthropist, sole heir of American Tobacco Company founder James Buchanan Duke and once called the richest girl in the world.
Doris E. Roberts
Doris E. Roberts, born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1915, was an American nurse leader who served as a U.S. Public Health Service officer from 1945 to 1975.