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Duane M. Ilstrup
Duane M. Ilstrup (1946–2021) was an American medical statistician who spent his career in biostatistics at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and wrote a 2004 handbook advising young biostatisticians.
Duane Martin
Duane Martin (born 1965, Brooklyn) is an American actor, producer, and writer known for All of Us, Above the Rim, Scream 2, L.A.'s Finest, and Bel-Air; distinct from the novelist Duane L. Martin and other namesakes.
Duane McRuer
Duane McRuer was an American control engineer who founded Systems Technology, Inc., made fly-by-wire controls practical at Northrop, and modeled the human pilot in control loops.
Duane Michals
Duane Michals (1932–2026) was an American photographer who, against a documentary era, staged narrative sequences on death and desire and wrote on his prints, arguing that to photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
Duane Reade
Duane Reade is a New York City drugstore chain founded in 1960 and named for Duane and Reade streets in Lower Manhattan; Walgreens has owned it since 2010.
Duane retraction syndrome
Duane retraction syndrome (Stilling-Turk-Duane syndrome) is a congenital, nonprogressive strabismus disorder with limited abduction or adduction, globe retraction, and fissure narrowing on adduction, caused by abducens nerve agenesis with aberrant oculomotor innervation of the lateral rectus.
Duane Solomon
Duane Solomon is an American 800-meter runner, born in 1984, who finished fourth at the 2012 London Olympics in 1:42.82, second fastest by an American.
Duane Swanson
Duane Alexander Swanson (1913-2000), American basketball player, UCLA and Universal Studios AAU player, won gold with the United States at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the first Olympic basketball tournament; later played NBL for Sheboygan.
Duang with You (ดวงกับคุณ)
Duang with You (ด้วงกับเธอ, Duang Kap Thoe; Duang With You Series) is a 2026 Thai BL romantic comedy series adapted from peachhplease's novel Not the Best but Still Good, airing 12 episodes on One31 and iQIYI from 31 January to 18 April 2026, starring TeeTee Wanpichit as Duang and Por Suppakarn as Qin, later released on Netflix on 17 July 2026.
Duanju (短剧)
Duanju (短剧), also called microdrama or vertical drama, is a Chinese-origin format of serialized vertical smartphone dramas with 1-3 minute episodes, monetized via in-app purchases and ads; China's 2024 market reached 50.44 billion yuan, surpassing its film box office.
Duanming dian Academician
The Duanming dian Academician (端明殿学士) was a Chinese palace academician post created under the Five Dynasties to advise the emperor, later a regular step toward executive office in the Song.
Duanping Entry into Luoyang
The Duanping Entry into Luoyang (端平入洛) was a 1234 Southern Song campaign to recover Henan, including Kaifeng and Luoyang, after Jin's fall; its failure opened the Song–Mongol war.
Duanyu
Duanyu (端裕, 1085–1150) was a Chinese Chan monk of the Linji school's Yangqi line and a dharma heir of Yuanwu Keqin, abbot of ten monasteries including Lingyin.
Duard L. Walker
Duard L. Walker is an American microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studied cytomegalovirus attenuation and JC virus, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1990.
Duars Entertainment
Duars Entertainment is a Puerto Rican independent record label and management company founded in 2009 by Eric "Duars" Pérez Rovira and based in San Juan.
Duart Castle
Duart Castle (Caisteal Dhudhairt), seat of Clan Maclean on the Sound of Mull, Scotland: 14th-century keep built for Lachlan Lubanach Maclean, lost to Argyll in 1692, abandoned 1751, restored 1911 by Sir Fitzroy Maclean; Category A listed.
Duarte Barbosa
Duarte Barbosa was a Portuguese official and writer who spent about sixteen years on the Malabar Coast and wrote one of the first global accounts of the Orient.
Duarte Coelho
Duarte Coelho, also known as Duarte Coelho Pereira, was a Portuguese noble who became donatary captain of Pernambuco in colonial Brazil, founding Iguarassu and Olinda and establishing its sugar economy.
Duarte da Costa
Duarte da Costa was a Portuguese nobleman who served as the second governor-general of colonial Brazil from 1553 to 1558, between Tomé de Sousa and Mem de Sá.
Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c. 1460 – c. 1533) was a Portuguese navigator, soldier, and cosmographer who defended Cochin in India against the Zamorin of Calicut throughout 1504.
Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
Duarte Pio de Bragança (born 1945, Bern) is the 24th Duke of Braganza, head of the Portuguese Royal House since 1976 and claimant to the abolished Portuguese throne, known for East Timor advocacy, the 1995 Herédia marriage, and the Loulé succession dispute.
Duat
Duat (dwꜣt) is the ancient Egyptian otherworld, the region of night, passage, and regeneration traversed by the dead and the nightly sun. Attested from the Pyramid Texts onward, it hosts Osiris, the solar journey, and the judgment of the heart, and resists a single fixed definition.
Duatentopet
Duatentopet, also known as Tentopet, was a queen of ancient Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a wife of Ramesses IV and probably the mother of Ramesses V, buried in tomb QV 74.
Duathathor-Henuttawy
Duathathor-Henuttawy, also written Henettawy, was an Egyptian royal woman of the early Twenty-first Dynasty, wife of the high priest Pinedjem I and mother of King Psusennes I.
Dub music
Dub music is a Jamaican genre, pioneered from the late 1960s by King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Errol Thompson, that strips reggae recordings to drums and bass and rebuilds them live at the mixing desk with echo, reverb and delay, making the mix itself the performance.
Dub poetry
Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry, usually in Jamaican Creole, in which the poem carries a built-in reggae rhythm. It emerged in Jamaica in the early 1970s.
Dub Taylor
Dub Taylor (Walter Clarence Taylor, 1907-1994) was an American character actor, a Western-film fixture from You Can't Take It With You (1938) to Maverick (1994); distinct from the Berlin electronic producer Alex Krüger who uses the same moniker.
Dubai
Dubai (دبي), second-largest emirate of the UAE on the Arabian Gulf; 4,114 km², 4.58 million people in 2025. Oil exports began 1969; economy now over 95% non-oil, centered on trade, tourism, aviation, and finance.
Dubai Airshow
The Dubai Airshow is a biennial aerospace, defense, and space trade show in Dubai, first held in 1989 and one of the industry's three major events.
Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo
Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo, an Emaar Entertainment attraction in Dubai Mall, features a 10-million-litre suspended tank with 33,000+ animals, 140+ species, sand tiger sharks, a 48-metre tunnel, and an Underwater Zoo.