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Douglas Robert Worsnop

Douglas Robert Worsnop is an American atmospheric chemist, Senior Vice-President of Aerodyne Research and professor at the University of Helsinki, known for the aerosol mass spectrometer.

Douglas Ross (Scottish politician)

Douglas Ross, Scottish Conservative leader 2020-2024, MP for Moray 2017-2024, MSP for Highlands and Islands, and part-time football assistant referee; resigned as leader after the 2024 general election.

Douglas S Kim

Douglas S Kim is a neuroscientist known for co-authorship on genetically encoded calcium indicators, including the GCaMP6 family, and for a 2015 study of ultraviolet vision in mouse visual cortex.

Douglas S. Kwon

Douglas S. Kwon, also cited as Douglas Kwon, is a physician-scientist in mucosal immunology at the Ragon Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies HIV acquisition.

Douglas S. Lee

Douglas S. Lee is a Canadian cardiologist and clinician-scientist at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre in Toronto, a University of Toronto professor known for heart failure risk prediction tools including EHMRG.

Douglas S. Robinson

Douglas S. Robinson is a physician-scientist in asthma immunology and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, known for a landmark 1992 New England Journal of Medicine paper on TH2 cells in asthma.

Douglas Santos

Douglas Santos (Douglas dos Santos Justino de Melo), Brazilian left-back born 1994 in João Pessoa; 2016 Olympic gold with Brazil, Zenit Saint Petersburg defender with six Russian titles, and 2026 World Cup squad member.

Douglas SBD Dauntless

The Douglas SBD Dauntless was an American carrier-based dive bomber, built by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 to 1944, best known for sinking four Japanese carriers at Midway.

Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk (Hans Detlef Sierck, 1897–1987), German-born Hollywood director of 1950s Universal melodramas such as All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life, rediscovered by auteur criticism and a major influence on Fassbinder, Almodóvar, and Haynes.

Douglas Smith (actor)

Douglas Smith (Douglas Alexander Smith) is a Canadian American actor recognized for his roles in Big Love, The Alienist, and films like The Bye Bye Man.

Douglas Souza

Douglas Souza (Douglas Correia de Souza), born 1995, is a Brazilian volleyball outside hitter, Rio 2016 Olympic champion, Tokyo 2020 fourth-place finisher, and 2026 national-team returnee.

Douglas squirrel

Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii), also called chickaree or pine squirrel, a small vocal tree squirrel of Pacific Northwest conifer forests from British Columbia to the Sierra Nevada, feeding mainly on conifer seeds and fungi and larder-hoarding cones in middens.

Douglas T. Fearon

Douglas T. Fearon, born in 1942, is an American medical immunologist who showed that complement C3 links innate and adaptive immunity, and later studied tumor immunology at Cambridge.

Douglas T. Golenbock

Douglas T. Golenbock is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who leads the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for defining the TLR4/MD-2 endotoxin receptor.

Douglas T. Prehn

Douglas T. Prehn, also known as Douglas Theodore Prehn, was an American United States Navy urologist who described Prehn's sign, used to distinguish testicular torsion from epididymitis.

Douglas TBD Devastator

The Douglas TBD Devastator, or TBD-1, was a three-seat US Navy carrier torpedo bomber in service from 1937, nearly wiped out at Midway in June 1942.

Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins (1943-2015), American co-founder of The North Face and Esprit, became a conservationist who bought and rewilded about 2.2 million acres in Chilean and Argentine Patagonia, creating Pumalín and Patagonia national parks before dying in a 2015 kayaking accident.

Douglas Treaties

Douglas Treaties (Vancouver Island Treaties): fourteen 1850–1854 land agreements between James Douglas of the Hudson's Bay Company and Vancouver Island First Nations, covering about 927 km² around Victoria, Saanich, Sooke, Nanaimo, and Port Hardy.

Douglas W. Burbank

Douglas W. Burbank is an American geologist and professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, known for Nature papers on Himalayan erosion and the textbook Tectonic Geomorphology.

Douglas W. Diamond

Douglas W. Diamond, born 1953, is an American financial economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Douglas W. Dockery

Douglas W. Dockery is an American environmental epidemiologist at Harvard, best known as Principal Investigator of the Harvard Six Cities Study on air pollution and mortality.

Douglas W. Fuerstenau

Douglas W. Fuerstenau (born 1928) is an American mineral engineer, P. Malozemoff Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Douglas W. Losordo

Douglas W. Losordo is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular regenerative medicine who led pioneering CD34+ stem cell trials for refractory angina and later held biotech chief medical officer roles.

Douglas W. Stephan

Douglas W. Stephan is a Canadian inorganic chemist at the University of Toronto who founded frustrated Lewis pair chemistry, enabling metal-free hydrogenation catalysis, and won the 2026 Davy Medal.

Douglas W. Wilmore

Douglas W. Wilmore is an American surgeon-scientist who directed the Nutrition Support Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for work on surgical metabolism and clinical nutrition.

Douglas Wiens

Douglas A. Wiens is an American seismologist, the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for studying deep earthquakes and Antarctic seismology.

Douglas Wilder

Douglas Wilder, born Lawrence Douglas Wilder in 1931, is an American politician and Democrat who became the first elected African American governor in US history, leading Virginia from 1990 to 1994.

Douglas Wilson (theologian)

Douglas Wilson, born 1953, is an American Reformed pastor in Moscow, Idaho, who founded Christ Church, the CREC denomination, and several schools, colleges, and a publishing house.

Douglas Wilson Johnson

Douglas Wilson Johnson (1878–1944) was an American geomorphologist at Columbia University, known for Shore Processes and Shoreline Development (1919) and Stream Sculpture on the Atlantic Slope (1931).

Douglas Woodall

Douglas Robert Woodall, born 1943, is a British mathematician who worked at the University of Nottingham from 1969 to 2007, known for graph colorings and electoral theory.