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Douglas Higgs

Douglas Higgs (Douglas R. Higgs) is a British clinician-scientist at Oxford who directed the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and is known for unraveling the molecular genetics of alpha-thalassaemia.

Douglas Hodge

Douglas William Hodge (born 1960, Plymouth) is an English actor, director, and composer; Tony and Olivier winner as Albin in La Cage aux Folles, originator of Willy Wonka at Drury Lane, and Alfred Pennyworth in Joker.

Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter is an American cognitive scientist, physicist, and writer, Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach and for computational models of analogy-making.

Douglas Houghton Campbell

Douglas Houghton Campbell (1859–1953) was an American botanist who studied the morphology of mosses, liverworts, and ferns, and headed Stanford University's botany department from 1891 to 1925.

Douglas Hsu

Douglas Hsu, also known as Hsu Hsu-tung (徐旭东), is a Taiwanese business executive who chairs Far Eastern Group, a conglomerate of over 200 companies with assets of about US$104 billion.

Douglas Hyde

Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde, 1860–1949), Irish scholar, founder and first president of the Gaelic League, author of the 1892 'Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland' lecture, and first President of Ireland 1938–1945.

Douglas Is Cancelled

Douglas Is Cancelled is a 2024 four-part ITV1/ITVX British comedy drama by Steven Moffat, starring Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan, about a news anchor facing backlash over an alleged sexist joke.

Douglas J. Futuyma

Douglas J. Futuyma (born 1942) is an American evolutionary biologist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, known for research on speciation in herbivorous insects and the textbook Evolution.

Douglas J. Winton

Douglas J. Winton is a British cancer biologist at the University of Cambridge who studies intestinal stem cells and the earliest steps of bowel cancer.

Douglas James Scalapino

Douglas James Scalapino is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at UC Santa Barbara, known for work on superconductivity, magnetism, and strongly correlated electron models.

Douglas James Shearman

Douglas James Shearman (1918–2003) was a British geologist at Imperial College London who challenged deep-basin evaporite theory, showing from Arabian Gulf fieldwork that evaporites grow in sabkha sediments.

Douglas Jardine

Douglas Jardine (1900–1958), English amateur cricketer and Surrey and England captain, led the 1932–33 Bodyline Ashes tour won 4–1; 22 Tests, 1,296 runs at 48; Harlequin cap trademark.

Douglas K Owens

Douglas K Owens is an American physician and health economist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for cost-effectiveness analyses of HIV screening and implantable defibrillators.

Douglas K. Bishop

Douglas K. Bishop is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Chicago who studies homologous recombination and discovered the meiosis-specific protein Dmc1 in 1992.

Douglas K. Lilly

Douglas K. Lilly (1929–2018) was an American meteorologist known for numerical simulation of severe storms and for founding the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms.

Douglas K. Rex

Douglas K. Rex is an American gastroenterologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for colonoscopy quality measurement and colorectal cancer screening.

Douglas Kauffman

Douglas Kauffman is an American chemist and Federal Staff Scientist at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, known for electrocatalysis research converting carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.

Douglas Kenney

Douglas C. Kenney (1946-1980), American comedy writer, Harvard Lampoon editor, co-founder of National Lampoon with Henry Beard, co-wrote Animal House and Caddyshack; died in a Kauai cliff fall at 33.

Douglas Koshland

Douglas E. Koshland is an American molecular biologist and UC Berkeley professor known for identifying cohesins and for work on chromosome structure and segregation in budding yeast.

Douglas L. Arnold

Douglas L. Arnold is a neurologist and MRI researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute known for imaging research in multiple sclerosis and drug development, including ocrelizumab trials.

Douglas L. Black

Douglas L. Black is an American RNA biologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA, known for research on alternative pre-mRNA splicing by the Rbfox and PTB protein families.

Douglas L. Brutlag

Douglas L. Brutlag (born 1946) is an American molecular and computational biologist, emeritus professor of biochemistry at Stanford University who developed protein motif methods and co-founded IntelliGenetics.

Douglas L. Coleman

Douglas L. Coleman (1931–2014) was a Canadian-born scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, whose mouse parabiosis experiments predicted the hormone leptin, earning him the 2010 Lasker Award.

Douglas L. Mann

Douglas L. Mann is an American cardiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on inflammation in heart failure and for leading the RENEWAL and RENAISSANCE anticytokine trials.

Douglas L. Rayes

Douglas L. Rayes, born 1952 in Globe, Arizona, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona since 2024.

Douglas Lee Miller

Douglas Lee Miller is an American economist and professor at Cornell University, best known for co-authoring the standard references on cluster-robust inference and for applied research on how social policy and recessions affect health.

Douglas Leone

Douglas Leone is an Italian-born American venture capitalist who joined Sequoia Capital in 1988, led the firm from 1996 to 2022, and returned as chairman in 2026.

Douglas Lima

Douglas "The Phenom" Lima, born 1988 in Brazil, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former three-time Bellator welterweight champion who now fights at middleweight for the PFL.

Douglas Lin

Douglas N. C. Lin (林潮), born 1949, is a UC Santa Cruz theoretical astrophysicist who co-developed the theory of planetary migration and won the 2015 Bruce Gold Medal.

Douglas Livingstone (poet)

Douglas Livingstone (1932–1996) was a South African poet, playwright, and marine bacteriologist, often cited as South Africa's leading twentieth-century poet; his major late work was A Littoral Zone (1991).