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Doris Fisher (businesswoman)

Doris Fisher, born Doris Feigenbaum, was an American retailer who co-founded The Gap with her husband Donald in San Francisco in 1969 and shaped its look as merchandiser until 2003.

Doris Grau

Doris Grau (1924–1995), American script supervisor, actress, and voice actress. Voiced Lunchlady Doris on The Simpsons and Doris the makeup lady on The Critic; script supervisor on Point Blank, Clue, Seinfeld pilot, and The Tracey Ullman Show.

Doris H. Calloway

Doris Howes Calloway (1923–2001) was an American nutrition scientist and UC Berkeley professor whose controlled feeding studies shaped protein and energy standards in dietary recommendations.

Doris Hsu

Doris Hsu (徐秀兰, also Hsu Hsiu-lan) is a Taiwanese executive who has chaired GlobalWafers since 2011 and won the EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year award in 2023.

Doris Kareva

Doris Kareva, born in Tallinn in 1958 to composer Hillar Kareva, is an Estonian poet, translator, and UNESCO official, one of Estonia's leading and most translated poets.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is an American presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner for No Ordinary Time; author of Team of Rivals, basis for Spielberg's Lincoln, and An Unfinished Love Story (2024).

Doris L. Pryor

Doris Lenea Pryor, born in 1977, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Seventh Circuit since 2022, nominated by President Biden.

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing (Doris May Taylor, 1919-2013), British novelist born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia, author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.

Doris Maletzki

Doris Maletzki (Brachmann, Maletzki-Romanowsky), born 1952 in Salzwedel, East German sprinter for SC Dynamo Berlin; Olympic 4x400 m relay gold at Montreal 1976 in world record 3:19.23 and European 4x100 m gold at Rome 1974 in 42.51.

Doris Matsui

Doris Matsui, born in 1944, is an American Democratic congresswoman representing California's 7th district since 2023, who has represented Sacramento in the U.S. House since 2005.

Doris Miller

Doris (Dorie) Miller, Waco, Texas-born Navy mess attendant and first African American awarded the Navy Cross for manning a machine gun on USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor; died on USS Liscome Bay in 1943.

Doris Neuner

Doris Neuner, Austrian luger born 1971 in Innsbruck, won the 1992 Albertville Olympic women's singles luge gold, 0.073 seconds ahead of her sister Angelika; five-time Austrian champion, retired 1995.

Doris R. Schwartz

Doris R. Schwartz (1915–1999) was an American nursing pioneer in public health and aging, a Cornell faculty member for twenty-nine years and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Nursing.

Doris Roberts

Doris Roberts (Doris May Green, 1925-2016), American actress, played Marie Barone on CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005), winning four of her five Emmys, plus one for St. Elsewhere.

Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo (born 1958, Bogotá) is a Colombian sculptor and installation artist whose work memorializes victims of political violence, known for Shibboleth at Tate Modern.

Doris Tate

Doris Tate, mother of murdered actress Sharon Tate, was a California victims' rights activist who helped pass the 1982 victim impact statement law, campaigned against Manson family paroles, and founded the Doris Tate Crime Victims Bureau before her 1992 death.

Doris Turner (Illinois politician)

Doris Turner is an American Democratic politician and lifelong Springfield resident serving in the Illinois Senate's 48th district, appointed in 2021 and elected in 2022.

Doris Twitchell Allen

Doris Twitchell Allen (1901–2002) was an American clinical psychologist at the University of Cincinnati who founded Children's International Summer Villages (CISV) in 1951, a peace-education organization for children.

Doris Ying Tsao

Doris Ying Tsao, who publishes as Doris Y. Tsao, is an American neuroscientist known for discovering the macaque face patch system and decoding how the brain represents faces.

Doriskos

Doriskos (Δορίσκος, Doriscus), ancient fortified settlement on Saraya hill by the Evros delta, Thrace, Greece; Persian garrison of Darius I, site of Xerxes' 480 BC army review, occupied to Hellenistic times.

Doritos

Doritos is a PepsiCo Frito-Lay brand of triangular seasoned tortilla chips, born at Disneyland's Casa de Fritos in the early 1960s and launched nationally in 1966; it held 44.7% of the US tortilla chip market in 2022.

Dorjee Tshering Lepcha

Dorjee Tshering Lepcha is an Indian politician, a Bharatiya Janata Party member of the Rajya Sabha representing Sikkim since 2024, after earlier serving as an SDF minister.

Dork Diaries

Dork Diaries is a middle-grade diary-format series by Rachel Renée Russell, illustrated by Nikki Russell, following Nikki Maxwell at Westchester Country Day; 16 books, 55 million copies, first published June 2009.

Dorking Wanderers F.C.

Dorking Wanderers F.C., also called the Wanderers, is an English non-league club founded in 1999 by Marc White and friends, promoted 12 times from park football to the National League, playing at 3,000-capacity Meadowbank Stadium in Dorking, Surrey.

Dormammu

Dormammu, also called the Dread Lord or Lord of the Dark Dimension, is a Marvel Comics mystical supervillain created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuting in Strange Tales #126 (November 1964). A Faltine who rules the Dark Dimension, he is Doctor Strange's arch-enemy and the MCU villain of Doctor Strange (2016).

Dorman Long

Dorman Long was a British iron and steel company of Middlesbrough, England, incorporated in 1889, which fabricated the steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tyne Bridge.

Dormancy

Dormancy: reversible low-metabolic-activity state used across bacteria, plants, and animals (seed dormancy, diapause, hibernation, torpor) to survive unfavorable conditions, forming seed banks that persist for years to millennia.

Dormant black hole

A dormant black hole is a black hole in a binary system that emits little or no X-rays because it is not accreting matter from its companion star.

Dormer

A dormer, also called a dormer window, is a roofed vertical projection from the slope of a pitched roof, built to add space and daylight to an attic.

Dormer Pramet

Dormer Pramet is a cutting tool manufacturer formed by the 2014 merger of British toolmaker Dormer and Czech insert producer Pramet, owned by the Sandvik Group.