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Derek Longmuir
Derek Longmuir (born 1951, Edinburgh) is a Scottish drummer who co-founded the Bay City Rollers with brother Alan, played on all nine studio albums, then qualified as a nurse; in 2000 he received 300 hours community service for possessing child pornography.
Derek Luke
Derek Luke, American actor born 1974 in Jersey City, New Jersey; film debut as Antwone Fisher (2002) won him an Independent Spirit Award; known for Friday Night Lights, Glory Road, Catch a Fire, 13 Reasons Why.
Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon (1941–2020) was an Irish poet from Belfast, regarded as one of the most innovative Irish poets of the late 20th century, known for "A Disused Shed in Co Wexford".
Derek Mears
Derek Mears (born 1972, Bakersfield, California) is an American actor and stuntman known for Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th (2009), Swamp Thing (2019), Predators, and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
Derek Paravicini
Derek Paravicini, born 1979, is a British blind, autistic musical savant and pianist who learns entirely by ear, with a repertoire of tens of thousands of pieces.
Derek Ramsay
Derek Ramsay is a Filipino-British film and television actor in the Philippines, first known as an MTV VJ, who won the Metro Manila Film Festival Best Actor award twice, in 2014 and 2017.
Derek Sharp
Derek Sharp (born 1965) is a Canadian rock and blues singer-guitarist, lead vocalist and guitarist of The Guess Who from 2008 to 2024, now leading Derek Sharp & The Champagne Jam; distinct from DJ Derek, Elliott Sharp, and the Sabre executive of the same name.
Derek Shepherd
Derek Shepherd, nicknamed McDreamy, is the fictional neurosurgeon played by Patrick Dempsey on Grey's Anatomy from the 2005 pilot, Meredith Grey's love interest, killed in a 2015 season 11 truck crash and later revived in dream sequences.
Derek Sherinian
Derek Sherinian (born 1966, Santa Cruz, California) is an American rock and fusion keyboardist, ex-Dream Theater (1994-1999), founder of Planet X, member of Black Country Communion and Sons of Apollo, known for a guitaristic Hammond-and-Moog style and solo albums such as Planet X and The Phoenix.
Derek Theler
Derek Theler, American actor and model, best known as Danny Wheeler on Baby Daddy (2012-2017, 100 episodes); also 68 Whiskey, American Gods, and the unaired Marvel New Warriors pilot as Mister Immortal.
Derek Thompson (actor)
Derek Thompson (born 1948, Belfast) is a Northern Irish actor who played nurse Charlie Fairhead in BBC's Casualty from 1986 to 2024, appeared in The Long Good Friday, and sang with twin sister Elaine as Elaine and Derek.
Derek Trucks
Derek Trucks, Jacksonville-born slide guitarist and nephew of Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, leads the Tedeschi Trucks Band with Susan Tedeschi and played in the Allman Brothers Band from 1999 to 2014.
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott (1930–2017) was a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, and essayist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, best known for the Homeric long poem Omeros (1990).
Derek Waters
Derek Waters (born 1979, Baltimore) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, co-creator and host of Comedy Central's Drunk History with Jeremy Konner; also known for Derek & Simon and roles in Hall Pass.
Derek Webb
Derek Webb (born 1974, Memphis) is an American singer-songwriter, founding member of Caedmon's Call and co-founder of NoiseTrade, known for provocative solo albums from She Must and Shall Go Free (2003) to Survival Songs (2025) and a self-described agnostic faith journey.
Dergâh
Dergâh was an Istanbul idea, art, and literature magazine published every fifteen days from 1921 to 1923, centered on Yahya Kemal and influential in Turkish literature.
Deric Augustine
Deric Augustine (born 1990) is an American actor from New Orleans known as Muhammad Ali in Godfather of Harlem and Officer Miles Penn on The Rookie, promoted to series regular in Season 8; also author of the YA fantasy novel Nawlins.
Dérive
The dérive (drift) is a Situationist practice of aimless urban wandering defined by Guy Debord in 1956, tied to psychogeography, group drifts of two or three, and later walking-art and digital uses.
Derk Cheetwood
Derk Cheetwood (born 1973, Bowling Green, Ohio) is an American actor, Max Giambetti on General Hospital from 2002, brother of Drew Cheetwood, films The Postman, U-571, Frailty.
Dermot Crowley
Dermot Joseph Crowley, Irish actor born 1947 in Cork, known as General Madine in Return of the Jedi, Martin Schenk in Luther and Luther: The Fallen Sun, and Kaganovich in The Death of Stalin.
Dermot Kennedy
Dermot Kennedy (born 1991) is an Irish singer-songwriter from Rathcoole, Dublin, who busked on Grafton Street before a Spotify breakthrough with 'An Evening I Will Not Forget' (2015). Albums Without Fear, Sonder, and The Weight of the Woods all reached UK number one.
Dermot Morgan
Dermot Morgan (1952–1998), Irish comedian, satirist and actor, star of Channel 4's Father Ted as Father Ted Crilly; earlier famous in Ireland for Father Trendy on The Live Mike and the radio satire Scrap Saturday.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney, American actor and cellist from Alexandria, Virginia, known for My Best Friend's Wedding, Young Guns, Longtime Companion, and Chicago Fire's Chief Dom Pascal.
Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary (Seán Dermot Fintan O'Leary, born 1973) is a British-Irish broadcaster known for hosting The X Factor (2007–2018), Big Brother's Little Brother, BBC Radio 2's Saturday show, and This Morning Fridays with Alison Hammond.
Derniers vers
Derniers vers (Last Verses) is a posthumous 1890 collection of poems by the French writer Jules Laforgue, generally regarded as the first full-length volume of free verse in French poetry.
Derpy Hooves
Derpy Hooves, also called Ditzy Doo, Muffins, or Bubbles, is a fan-named cross-eyed gray pegasus background character from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, named on 4chan in 2010, given a speaking role in The Last Roundup, and edited after an ableism controversy.
Derren Brown
Derren Brown (born 1971, Croydon) is a British psychological illusionist and mentalist who debuted on Channel 4's Mind Control in 2000, won two Olivier Awards, and currently tours Only Human.
Derren Nesbitt
Derren Nesbitt, born Derren Michael Horwitz in 1935, is a British actor best known for playing the Gestapo officer Major von Hapen in Where Eagles Dare (1968).
Derrick (TV series)
Derrick: German ZDF crime series (1974–1998), 281 episodes starring Horst Tappert as Munich chief inspector Stephan Derrick with Fritz Wepper as Harry Klein; written by Herbert Reinecker, produced by Helmut Ringelmann, sold to over 100 countries, withdrawn from ZDF airings after Tappert's 2013 Waffen-SS disclosure.
Derrick Green
Derrick Leon Green, born 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American vocalist, frontman of Brazilian metal band Sepultura since 1998 after Max Cavalera's exit; also of Maximum Hedrum and Musica Diablo.