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Du Hongjian
Du Hongjian (杜鸿渐, 709–769) was a Tang dynasty official and chancellor who helped enthrone Emperor Suzong at Lingwu, served under Emperor Daizong, and yielded his Shu command to Cui Gan.
Du Ji
Du Ji (杜济, 720–777), courtesy name Yingwu, was a Tang dynasty official who rose to military governor of Jiannan East Chuan and Governor of the Capital under Emperors Xuanzong, Suzong, and Daizong.
Du Jing
Du Jing (杜婧), born 1984 in Anshan, Liaoning, is a Chinese former badminton player who won women's doubles gold with Yu Yang at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, later 2010 world champion and Liaoning team coach.
Du Jinhao
Du Jinhao (杜锦豪, born 1954) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Shanghai Allist Pharmaceuticals, an oncology company listed on the STAR Market in 2020, and has been its chairman since 2004.
Du Li
Du Li (杜丽), Chinese rifle shooter born 1982 in Yiyuan, Shandong; two Olympic golds (2004 10m air rifle, 2008 50m rifle 3 positions), silver and bronze at Rio 2016, married to shooter Pang Wei, retired after 2016 to coach China's national team.
Du Martheray (Martian crater)
Du Martheray is a large impact crater on Mars near 5.4°N, 93.5°E, about 96-102 km across, approved by the IAU in 1973 and named for Swiss astronomer Maurice Du Martheray (1892-1955).
Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve
Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve, On the Motion and Immobility of Douve, is a 1953 poetry collection, the first book by the French poet Yves Bonnefoy.
Du Mu
Du Mu (杜牧) was a Tang dynasty poet, prose writer, and official who served as prefect of Huangzhou and Chizhou and as Secretariat Drafter by 852.
Du Pont family
Du Pont family: American dynasty founded by Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771–1834), whose 1802 Brandywine Creek gunpowder mill became DuPont; dominant in Delaware politics, wealth estimated $16–22 billion.
Du Qiong
Du Qiong (杜琼) was a Ming dynasty Chinese painter, calligrapher, poet, and book collector from Suzhou who declined every official appointment, helped compile imperial records, and taught Shen Zhou.
Du Rangneng
Du Rangneng (杜让能, courtesy name Qunyi) was a Tang dynasty chancellor under Emperor Zhaozong, forced to take his own life after the warlord Li Maozhen defeated the imperial army.
Du riechst so gut
Du riechst so gut, 1995 debut single by German band Rammstein from Herzeleid, released as a scented digipak on Motor Music; re-released in 1998 with Faith No More and KMFDM remixes.
Du Ruhui
Du Ruhui (杜如晦, 585–630) was a chancellor of the early Tang dynasty who served Emperor Taizong; with Fang Xuanling he set the early Tang court's institutions, summed up as "Fang plans, Du decides."
Du Shenyan
Du Shenyan (杜审言, 645–708) was a Tang-dynasty poet and official, a master of five-character regulated verse, one of the Four Friends of Letters, and the grandfather of the poet Du Fu.
Du Shi
Du Shi (杜诗), courtesy name Jungong, was an Eastern Han official and Grand Administrator of Nanyang who built water-powered bellows for iron casting and repaired irrigation works.
Du Shoutian
Du Shoutian (杜受田) was a Qing dynasty official from Binzhou, Shandong, tutor and political mentor of the Xianfeng Emperor, who consulted him on major affairs of state.
Du Shuliang
Du Shuliang (杜叔良) was a Tang dynasty military officer who commanded the campaign against the mutinous Zhenzhou garrison, was defeated at Boye, and died in 831.
Du Toit (Martian crater)
Du Toit is an 81.82-km-wide impact crater on Mars at 71.62°S, 310.40°E in the southern highlands, IAU-approved in 1973 and named for South African geologist Alexander L. du Toit (1878-1948).
Du Val singularity
A Du Val singularity, also called a rational double point or Kleinian singularity, is a surface singularity classified by the Dynkin diagrams A, D, and E, named after Patrick Du Val.
Du Wenxiu
Du Wenxiu (杜文秀) was a Hui leader of western Yunnan who rose against the Qing dynasty in 1856 and ruled Dali as Grand Marshal until his death in 1872.
Du Xi
Du Xi (杜袭), courtesy name Zixu, was an official of the late Eastern Han dynasty and Cao Wei who served Cao Cao and resettled 80,000 people from Hanzhong.
Du Xiaoman Financial (度小满)
Du Xiaoman Financial (度小满), often shortened to Du Xiaoman, is a Chinese fintech company headquartered in Beijing, spun out of Baidu's Financial Services Group in 2018.
Du Xunhe
Du Xunhe (杜荀鹤, 846–904) was a late Tang dynasty poet from Chizhou, modern Anhui, whose plain regulated verse depicted the suffering of common people under war and heavy taxation.
Du Yan
Du Yan (杜衍, 978–1057) was a Northern Song statesman who rose to chancellor and Military Affairs Commissioner under Emperor Renzong, known for blocking irregular imperial grants of favor.
Du Yannian
Du Yannian (杜延年) was a Western Han official, son of the imperial counselor Du Zhou, who exposed a plot against the throne and was enfeoffed as Marquis of Jianping.
Du You
Du You (杜佑, 735–812), courtesy name Junqing, was a Tang dynasty statesman and historian from modern Xi'an who served as Grand Councilor, Duke of Qi, and compiled the Tongdian, a 200-juan institutional history presented in 801.
Du Yuesheng
Du Yuesheng (杜月笙, 1888–1951) was a Chinese gang leader and businessman who headed the Green Gang in Shanghai and was one of the city's "Three Great Tycoons."
Du Yuming
Du Yuming (杜聿明) was a Nationalist general of the Republic of China who retook Kunlun Pass from Japan in 1939, was captured in 1949, and later became a CPPCC member.
Du Zhongbing
Du Zhongbing is a Chinese restaurateur who founded Banu Maodu Hot Pot in Anyang, Henan, in 2001, building it into China's leading premium tripe hot pot chain.
Du Zhou
Du Zhou (杜周) was a Western Han legal official who rose from county clerk to Imperial Counselor under Emperor Wu, deciding cases by the emperor's wishes rather than by statute.