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Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky (born 1969, Brooklyn) is an American director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah, Mother!, The Whale, and Caught Stealing; Golden Lion winner and Oscar-nominated Best Director.

Darren Barnet

Darren Barnet (Darren Charles Barnet) is an American actor born 1991 in Los Angeles, known for Paxton Hall-Yoshida in Never Have I Ever, Dr. John Frost in Chicago Med, and voice roles in Blue Eye Samurai and Godzilla Minus One's English dub.

Darren Boyd

Darren Boyd (born 1971, Hastings, England) is an English actor, BAFTA winner in 2012 for the Sky1 sitcom Spy, also known for Killing Eve, Luther, Trying, The Outlaws, Four Lions, and as C in Apple TV+'s Down Cemetery Road (2025).

Darren Criss

Darren Criss (Darren Everett Criss, born 1987, San Francisco) is an American actor-singer known as Blaine Anderson on Glee, Emmy winner for Versace, and 2025 Tony winner for Maybe Happy Ending.

Darren Cross

Darren Cross (Darren Agonistes Cross), aka Yellowjacket, is a Marvel Comics industrialist villain who debuted in Marvel Premiere #47 (1979) and is the Ant-Man antagonist M.O.D.O.K. in the MCU, played by Corey Stoll.

Darren Day

Darren Day, born Darren Graham (born 1968), is a British actor and singer known for West End leads in Joseph, Chicago, and Les Misérables, TV presenting, Celebrity Big Brother 2016, and Sam Phillips in Million Dollar Quartet. Distinct from golfer Jason Day and other namesakes.

Darren Espanto

Darren Espanto (Darren Lyndon Espanto), "Asia's Pop Heartthrob," is a Filipino-Canadian singer from Calgary, runner-up of The Voice Kids Philippines season 1 (2014), with platinum albums Darren and Be With Me, the 2025 album Ikaw Pa Rin, and hosting on It's Showtime.

Darren Goldstein

Darren Goldstein (born 1974) is an American character actor, known for TV roles as Charles Wilkes in Ozark, Oscar Hodges in The Affair, and Jackie Bennett in Impeachment: American Crime Story, plus Broadway work in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and The Little Foxes; husband of Katie Finneran.

Darren Hayes

Darren Hayes (born 1972, Brisbane) is an Australian singer, former Savage Garden frontman, and solo artist whose five albums run from Spin (2002) to Homosexual (2022); out since 2005, Order of Australia 2019.

Darren Le Gallo

Darren Le Gallo (born 1974, Landstuhl, Germany) is an American surrealist-expressionist painter, actor, and filmmaker, husband of actress Amy Adams; directed the 2022 feature debut Sam & Kate with Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek.

Darren McGavin

Darren McGavin (1922–2006) was an American character actor best known as Carl Kolchak in The Night Stalker and the Old Man in A Christmas Story.

Darren McMullen

Darren McMullen (born 1982) is a television and radio presenter and actor, born in Glasgow and raised in Melbourne, who hosted five seasons of The Voice Australia from 2012.

Darren O'Shaughnessy

Darren O'Shaughnessy (b. 1972, London), Irish author known as Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak, The Demonata, Zom-B) and Darren Dash for adult novels; 60+ books, over 25 million copies sold.

Darren Robinson (rapper)

Darren Robinson (1967-1995), aka Buff Love or Buffy the Human Beat Box, beatboxer of the Fat Boys; Tin Pan Apple contest win, gold debut, 'Crushin'' No. 8 with the Beach Boys, died 1995.

Darren Shahlavi

Darren Shahlavi (Darren Majian Shahlavi, 1972-2015), English martial artist, actor, and stuntman from Stockport; Hong Kong and Hollywood action films; played The Twister in Ip Man 2 and Kano in Mortal Kombat: Legacy.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979), American producer and studio head, co-founded Twentieth Century-Fox in 1935, won three Best Picture Oscars and a record three Thalberg Awards, and was dismissed from Fox in 1971.

Darryl Hickman

Darryl Hickman (1931–2024), American child actor of 1940s Hollywood, played Winfield Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and Danny in Leave Her to Heaven; later a Broadway performer, CBS daytime executive, and acting teacher, older brother of Dwayne Hickman.

Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones, Chicago-born bassist (born 1961), nicknamed The Munch; played with Miles Davis 1983-1988 (Decoy, You're Under Arrest) and Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles band, Rolling Stones bassist since 1993 replacing Bill Wyman.

Darryl McDaniels

Darryl "DMC" McDaniels (born 1964) is an American rapper, co-founder of Run-DMC with Joseph Simmons and Jam Master Jay; known for Walk This Way, Rock Hall 2009 induction, memoirs, and mental health advocacy.

Darshan (ದರ್ಶನ್ ತೂಗುದೀಪ) (Kannada actor)

Darshan Thoogudeepa (ದರ್ಶನ್ ತೂಗುದೀಪ), born 1977, is a Kannada film actor, producer, and distributor, son of villain actor Thoogudeepa Srinivas, known as the Challenging Star, D-BOSS, and leader of fan group D Company; jailed since 2024 as an accused in the Renukaswamy murder case.

Darshan Jariwala (દર્શન જરીવાલા)

Darshan Jariwala (દર્શન જરીવાલા), born 1958, is an Indian actor in Hindi films, television, and Gujarati theatre, known for Gandhi in Gandhi, My Father (2007), which won him the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Darshan Raval

Darshan Raval (दर्शन रावल) is an Indian singer and songwriter born in Ahmedabad in 1994 who rose from India's Raw Star to Bollywood and independent pop hits.

Darsheel Safary

Darsheel Safary (born 1997, Mumbai) is an Indian actor famous as Ishaan in Taare Zameen Par (2007); Filmfare and Zee Cine Critics' Best Actor winner, later in theatre, Tibba, Phule, and Gamerlog.

dArtagnan

dArtagnan is a German folk rock band from Nuremberg, formed in 2015, whose "Musketier-Rock" with bagpipes and mandolin has produced three German top 5 albums and a Wacken appearance.

Darth Bane

Darth Bane, Star Wars Sith Lord and creator of the Rule of Two, born Dessel the cortosis miner; subject of Drew Karpyshyn's Legends trilogy and a Clone Wars Force vision voiced by Mark Hamill.

Darth Maul

Darth Maul, the Zabrak Sith apprentice from Dathomir in Star Wars, introduced in The Phantom Menace (1999), cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi, later revived in The Clone Wars, Crimson Dawn leader in Solo, and lead of the 2026 series Maul – Shadow Lord.

Darth Plagueis

Darth Plagueis, also known as Hego Damask II, is a fictional Dark Lord of the Sith in Star Wars, master of Darth Sidious, who could create life and cheat death.

Darth Vader

Darth Vader, once Anakin Skywalker, is the cybernetically enhanced Sith Lord and Imperial enforcer of the Star Wars saga, scarred by defeat on Mustafar, revealed as Luke Skywalker's father in The Empire Strikes Back, and redeemed at the end of Return of the Jedi.

Darude

Darude, stage name of Finnish DJ and producer Ville Virtanen (born 1975), creator of the 1999 trance hit "Sandstorm"; five albums, Eurovision 2019 for Finland, 25th-anniversary STORM25 tour.

Daruvu

Daruvu is a 2012 Telugu action comedy fantasy film directed by Siva, starring Ravi Teja as Bullet Raja, a crook killed prematurely who returns to Earth in a home minister's body; Taapsee Pannu co-stars, music by Vijay Antony.