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Dæmon (His Dark Materials)
Dæmon (His Dark Materials): the external animal embodiment of a person's soul in Philip Pullman's trilogies. Shapeshifts in childhood, settles at puberty, severed by intercision; absent in our world.
Daemon Targaryen
Daemon Targaryen, the Rogue Prince, is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's Fire & Blood and HBO's House of the Dragon, played by Matt Smith; brother of Viserys I, rider of Caraxes, husband of Rhaenyra.
Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen (Dany, Daenerys Stormborn) is the fictional Targaryen heroine of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, portrayed by Emilia Clarke; only living dragon-commander, Meereen queen, killed in the show finale, alive in the published books.
Daesan Literary Award
The Daesan Literary Award (대산문학상) is a South Korean comprehensive literary prize established in 1993 by the Daesan Cultural Foundation, covering poetry, fiction, drama, criticism, and translation.
Daesung (강대성)
Daesung (강대성; born Kang Dae-sung, 1989, Incheon) is the BIGBANG vocalist who performs solo in Japan as D-LITE; his 2017 EP D-Day topped Oricon and Billboard Japan, and he released his first Korean EP D's WAVE in 2025 under RND Company's D-Lable.
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck, the Looney Tunes black duck created by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett, debuted in Porky's Duck Hunt (1937), voiced by Mel Blanc, later reinvented by Chuck Jones as greedy and dethpicable.
Dafne Keen
Dafne Keen (Dafne Keen Fernández), Spanish-British actress born 2005 in Madrid; played X-23 in Logan, Lyra in His Dark Materials, and Jecki Lon in Star Wars: The Acolyte.
Daft Punk
Daft Punk, French electronic duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1993-2021), pioneers of French Touch house; albums Homework, Discovery, Random Access Memories; six Grammys; split via Epilogue video.
Daft Punk discography
Daft Punk discography: four studio albums (Homework 1997, Discovery 2001, Human After All 2005, Random Access Memories 2013) plus TRON: Legacy, Alive albums, Daft Club, by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 1993 to 2021.
Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad (1941–2025) was a Norwegian novelist, essayist, and playwright, born in Sandefjord, a central figure of postwar Norwegian literature whose eighteen novels tracked Norwegian society from the 1960s onward.
Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし)
Dagashi Kashi (だがしかし) is Kotoyama's dagashi comedy manga, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday 2014–2018 in 11 volumes, about shop heir Kokonotsu Shikada and snack fanatic Hotaru Shidare; adapted as 12-episode anime seasons in 2016 and 2018.
Dagger Kiss
Dagger Kiss is a 2016 American lesbian fantasy web series created by and starring Tucky Williams, with Amanda K. Morales and Stoya; eight roughly 10-minute episodes on Tello, later a 2020 film spinoff Dagger Kiss: Enchanted Forest.
Daggering
Daggering (also daggerin) is a Jamaican dancehall dance of intense, acrobatic simulated sexual movements between partners, tied to late-2000s daggering music by artists like Vybz Kartel and banned from Jamaican broadcast in 2009.
Dagmar (actress)
Dagmar, stage name of Virginia Ruth Egnor (1921–2001), also billed as Jennie Lewis, American TV comedienne who played the dumb blonde on NBC's Broadway Open House (1950–51) and hosted Dagmar's Canteen; namesake of Cadillac 'dagmar' bumpers.
Dagmar Krause
Dagmar Krause, born 1950 in Hamburg, German vocalist of Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, and Art Bears and leading interpreter of Brecht, Weill, and Eisler songs on Supply and Demand and Tank Battles.
Dagmar Zuniga
Dagmar Zuniga is a Nicaraguan-American experimental folk singer from Miami, based in Brooklyn, who records on a Tascam 424. Her debut album in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music, self-released in 2025 and reissued by AD 93 in 2026, earned a Pitchfork 8.0.
Dagmara Domińczyk
Dagmara Domińczyk is a Polish-American actress and writer, born in 1976 in Kielce, Poland, known for playing Mercedes in The Count of Monte Cristo and Karolina Novotney in HBO's Succession.
Dagon (short story)
"Dagon" is a short horror story by H. P. Lovecraft, written July 1917, first published in The Vagrant no. 11 (November 1919), reprinted in Weird Tales October 1923 as his first pulp appearance; it foreshadows the Cthulhu Mythos.
Dagon Taya
Dagon Taya (ဒဂုန်တာရာ), born Htay Myaing, was a Burmese poet, essayist, and peace activist who led the post-war Sar Pe Thit (New Literature) movement until his death in 2013.
Daguerreotype
Daguerreotype (daguerréotype): first commercially successful photographic process, invented by Louis Daguerre in Paris, publicly disclosed August 19, 1839. Unique direct-positive image on silver-plated copper, iodine-sensitized, mercury-developed, fixed with hypo; no negative, sealed under glass in cases.
Dagwerck
Dagwerck ("day's work") is a Dutch long poem by Constantijn Huygens, written between 1627 and 1638, describing his marriage to Suzanna van Baerle through the course of a single day.
Dagwood Bumstead
Dagwood Bumstead, fictional husband of Blondie in Chic Young's comic strip Blondie (1930), disinherited playboy turned sandwich-building commuter; source of the Dagwood sandwich, 28 films, radio and TV adaptations, public domain 2026.
Dagwood sandwich
Dagwood sandwich: a tall, many-layered American sandwich of meats, cheeses, and condiments, named for Dagwood Bumstead of the Blondie comic strip (first skyscraper sandwich 1936, recipe 1947); also called Skyscraper Special; no fixed recipe.
Dahaad (दहाड़)
Dahaad (दहाड़) is a 2023 Hindi Prime Video crime drama, created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, starring Sonakshi Sinha as sub-inspector Anjali Bhaati hunting a serial killer inspired by Cyanide Mohan; first Indian series at Berlinale.
Dahan
Dahan: Raakan Ka Rahasya (दहन), a 2022 Hindi supernatural thriller web series on Disney+ Hotstar, directed by Vikranth Pawar, starring Tisca Chopra and Saurabh Shukla; distinct from a 2010 Zee TV show, a 2026 Bengali series, and the Odia film Dahaan.
DaHeala
DaHeala, born Jason Matthew Quenneville in 1982, is a Canadian record producer and songwriter managed by SAL&CO, known for co-producing The Weeknd's Kiss Land and Beauty Behind the Madness and co-writing the Oscar-nominated "Earned It".
Dahleez (दहलीज़) (2016 TV series)
Dahleez (दहलीज़), also spelled Dehleez, is a 2016 Star Plus Hindi romantic courtroom drama starring Tridha Choudhury and Harshad Arora, airing March 14 to June 26, 2016, about 104 episodes; distinct from the Haryanvi STAGE web series and ARY Digital drama of the same name.
Dahli (entertainer)
Dahli, later The Dahli, is the stage name of Jeremy Brian Griffis, an American drag performer and musician, winner of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula season 4, and formerly Jayy Von Monroe of Blood on the Dance Floor.
Dahlia de la Cerda
Dahlia de la Cerda (born 1985, Aguascalientes) is a Mexican writer and activist, author of Perras de reserva (Reservoir Bitches), longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, and co-founder of Morras Help Morras.
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Dahlia Ravikovitch (דליה רביקוביץ'; 1936–2005) was an Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist whose 1959 debut, The Love of an Orange, made her a leading Hebrew poet; she won the Israel Prize in 1998.