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Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst, also associated with YBA (Young British Artists), is a British conceptual artist born 1965 in Bristol, known for formaldehyde vitrine works such as the 1991 shark piece, the Spot paintings, the 1995 Turner Prize, the 2012 Tate retrospective, and the 2024 dating controversy.

Damien Molony

Damien Molony (born 1984, Johnstown Bridge, Kildare) is an Irish actor known as Hal in Being Human, Dylan in Brassic, and Jim Bergerac in the 2025 Bergerac reboot, plus stage roles with Ian McKellen.

Damien Rice

Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter from Celbridge, ex-Juniper frontman; albums O (2002), 9 (2006), My Favourite Faded Fantasy (2014); known for The Blower's Daughter, Cannonball, 9 Crimes, and the 2027 O 25th-anniversary tour.

Damien Thorn

Damien Thorn is the fictional Antichrist of The Omen franchise, introduced in the 1976 film as the adopted son of diplomat Robert Thorn, born of a jackal, bearing a 666 scalp birthmark, and played across films and TV by Harvey Spencer Stephens, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Sam Neill, and others.

Damien: Omen II

Damien: Omen II (1978), also Omen II or The Inheritance, is Don Taylor's horror sequel to The Omen, starring William Holden and Jonathan Scott-Taylor as teenage Damien Thorn in Chicago; Mike Hodges was the original director.

Damini (actress)

Damini is a name given in online film listings to a supporting Hindi film actress and, more prominently, to Meenakshi Sheshadri's character in the 1993 Hindi film Damini.

Damini (दामिनी)

Damini (दामिनी) is a 1993 Hindi courtroom drama directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, starring Meenakshi Sheshadri, Rishi Kapoor, Sunny Deol, and Amrish Puri, about a woman fighting her in-laws for justice after witnessing a rape; it won Sunny Deol a National Film Award.

Damita Jo (album)

Damita Jo is Janet Jackson's eighth studio album, released March 2004 on Virgin Records and named for her middle name; produced with Jam & Lewis, Dallas Austin, Babyface, and Kanye West, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum amid the post-Super Bowl blacklist.

Dammu (ధమ్ము)

Dammu (ధమ్ము) is a 2012 Telugu action film starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Trisha, and Karthika Nair, released on 27 April 2012 with an adults-only certificate for its graphic action.

Damn (Kendrick Lamar album)

DAMN. (2017) is Kendrick Lamar's fourth studio album, a 14-track record built on a wickedness-versus-weakness theme, playable in reverse track order. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first for a rapper, and Best Rap Album at the 2018 Grammys.

Damn Daniel

Damn Daniel: 2016 viral catchphrase and video meme created by Josh Holz, praising friend Daniel Lara's white Vans. Tweeted February 15, 2016; Ellen appearance, Vans lifetime supply, hacking, and swatting followed.

Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover is Sophie B. Hawkins's 1992 debut single from Tongues and Tails, a Top 5 Billboard Hot 100 hit, UK No. 14, known for homoerotic overtones, a rejected MTV video, and 90210 use.

Damn the Torpedoes (album)

Damn the Torpedoes is the 1979 third album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, produced by Jimmy Iovine on Backstreet/MCA after Petty's bankruptcy fight; it peaked at Billboard number 2 and went RIAA triple platinum.

Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees: 1955 Broadway musical by Adler and Ross, book by Abbott and Wallop from the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant; Faust story about a fan selling his soul so the Senators beat the Yankees; 1,019 performances, seven Tonys, 1958 film, 1994 and 2027 revivals.

Damn Yankees (1958 film)

Damn Yankees (1958) is a Warner Bros. musical comedy directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, adapting the 1955 Broadway Faust-style baseball hit, with Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, and Bob Fosse choreography.

Damn Yankees (band)

Damn Yankees: American hard rock supergroup formed 1989 by Tommy Shaw (Styx), Jack Blades (Night Ranger), Ted Nugent, and Michael Cartellone; 1990 debut went platinum with the hit "High Enough"; disbanded mid-1990s.

Damnation (1988 film)

Damnation (Kárhozat) is a 1987–1988 black-and-white Hungarian drama by Béla Tarr, co-written with László Krasznahorkai, about Karrer's doomed affair with a Titanik bar singer; it began Tarr's long-take Black Series style.

Damnation (TV series)

Damnation is a 2017 American period drama on USA Network, created by Tony Tost, set in 1930s Iowa where fake preacher Seth Davenport (Killian Scott) incites a farmer uprising against strikebreaker Creeley Turner (Logan Marshall-Green). Ten episodes, canceled after one season in January 2018.

Damnation Alley

Damnation Alley (1977), also released as Survival Run, is a Jack Smight post-apocalyptic sci-fi film starring Jan-Michael Vincent and George Peppard, adapted loosely from Roger Zelazny's 1969 novel, featuring the Landmaster vehicle and Sound 360 audio, and a box-office failure overshadowed by Star Wars.

Damned Whores and God's Police

Damned Whores and God's Police is a 1975 feminist history of Australia by Anne Summers, arguing women were cast as either "damned whores" or "God's police."

Damo Suzuki (ダモ鈴木)

Damo Suzuki (ダモ鈴木), born Kenji Suzuki, 1950–2024, Japanese vocalist fronting German krautrock band Can 1970–73 on Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, and Future Days, then led the Damo Suzuki's Network improvising Never Ending Tour with local sound carriers until his 2024 death.

Damodar Das Arora

Damodar Das Arora, also known as Damodar Gulati, was a Punjabi qissa poet of the Jhang district whose Heer, completed in 1605, is the earliest known Punjabi qissa.

Damodaram Pillai

Damodaram Pillai, also known as C. W. Thamotharam Pillai, was a Tamil scholar born near Jaffna in 1832 who recovered and printed ancient Tamil works from palm-leaf manuscripts.

Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn, English musician, Blur frontman and Gorillaz co-founder with Jamie Hewlett; solo albums Everyday Robots and The Nearer the Fountain, plus Africa Express and Dr Dee opera.

Damon Dash

Damon "Dame" Dash: Harlem-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records with Jay-Z and Kareem "Biggs" Burke (Reasonable Doubt, 1996); diversified into Rocawear, films, Armadale vodka, and Tiret watches; later known for the 2004-05 split, the $800,000 Dear Frank judgment, and the Reasonable Doubt NFT lawsuit.

Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut, South African novelist and playwright born 1963 in Pretoria, author of The Good Doctor, In a Strange Room, Arctic Summer, and the 2021 Booker Prize winner The Promise.

Damon Herriman

Damon Herriman (born 1970, Adelaide) is an Australian actor known as Dewey Crowe in Justified, Charles Manson in both Mindhunter and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Punch in Judy & Punch, for which he won the 2019 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor.

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, formerly the SFWA Grand Master Award, is a lifetime achievement prize given by SFWA to one living science fiction or fantasy writer yearly since 1975; first recipient Robert A. Heinlein, renamed 2002 after SFWA founder Damon Knight.

Damon Lindelof

Damon Lindelof (born 1973, Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American showrunner and Emmy winner who co-created Lost, created The Leftovers and Watchmen, and co-created HBO's Lanterns.

Damon Runyon

Damon Runyon (born Alfred Damon Runyan, Manhattan, Kansas; died 1946) was an American sportswriter, Hearst columnist, and short-story writer of Broadway gamblers and gangsters, creator of Guys and Dolls and the Runyonese dialect.