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Dion and the Belmonts

Dion and the Belmonts, Bronx doo-wop quartet (Dion DiMucci, D'Aleo, Milano, Mastrangelo) formed 1957, named for Belmont Avenue; hits "I Wonder Why," "A Teenager in Love," "Where or When"; Dion left in 1960.

Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault, born Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, was an Irish actor and playwright of the nineteenth century, known for the melodramas London Assurance, The Colleen Bawn, and The Shaughraun.

Dion DiMucci

Dion DiMucci (born July 18, 1939, Bronx, New York), known as Dion, American singer of Dion and the Belmonts and solo star of "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer"; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1989) and later blues recording artist.

Dion Timmer

Dion Timmer is a Dutch-born electronic music producer, born in 1999, who has released dubstep and bass music since 2014 on labels including Monstercat, Deadbeats, and Subsidia.

Diona Reasonover

Diona Reasonover (born 1992, Detroit) is an American actor and writer, the Kasie Hines forensic scientist on CBS's NCIS since Season 15, also a WGA-nominated writer and Periodic Talks podcast co-host.

Dionela

Dionela (Timothy Dionela, born 1999) is a Filipino R&B singer-songwriter from Guiguinto, Bulacan whose 2024 hits "Sining" with Jay R and "Marilag" topped the Billboard Philippines Hot 100; he married Meizy Mendoza in 2026.

Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand (born 1953) is a Trinidadian-Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and filmmaker based in Toronto since 1970, whose work centers on diaspora, Black experience, and gender.

Dionne Bromfield

Dionne Bromfield, full name Dionne Julia Bromfield, is a London-born soul and R&B singer-songwriter who was the first artist signed to Amy Winehouse's label Lioness Records.

Dionne Farris

Dionne Farris (Dionne Yvette Farris), American R&B singer born 1969 in Plainfield, New Jersey; featured vocalist on Arrested Development's "Tennessee", solo hit "I Know" (No. 4 Hot 100, 1994), Grammy-nominated, founder of Free & Clear Records.

Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick, born Marie Dionne Warrick in 1940, is an American singer whose collaboration with Burt Bacharach and Hal David produced 1960s pop classics like "Walk On By."

Dionysia (Διονύσια)

Dionysia (Διονύσια), the Attic festivals of Dionysus: the deme-level Rural Dionysia in Poseideon and the City or Great Dionysia in Elaphebolion, whose dramatic and dithyrambic competitions staged most surviving Greek drama.

Dionysiaca

The Dionysiaca (Διονυσιακά) is a fifth-century Greek epic in 48 books by Nonnus of Panopolis recounting the life, Indian war, and deification of Dionysus; at over 21,000 lines it is the longest extant ancient epic.

Dionysios Solomos

Dionysios Solomos (Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1798–1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, regarded as Greece's national poet and the founder of modern Greek poetry in the demotic language.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀλικαρνασσεύς) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric who moved to Rome after 30 BC and wrote the Roman Antiquities, a history of early Rome in 20 books.

Dior

Dior (House of Dior, Christian Dior Couture): French luxury fashion house founded in 1946 at 30 Avenue Montaigne, Paris, by Christian Dior; famous for the 1947 New Look, now under Jonathan Anderson within the LVMH-controlled Christian Dior group.

Dior (大颖) (singer)

Dior 大颖 (陈大颖) is a Malaysian singer-songwriter from Batu Pahat, Johor, known for 《在加纳共和国离婚》 with Firdhaus and her KAMPUNG GIRL 普通人 world tour; distinct from the fashion house Dior.

Dior Saddle bag

The Dior Saddle bag is a curved, saddle-shaped flap bag designed by John Galliano in 1999 for Dior's spring/summer 2000 collection, halted in 2007, and revived by Maria Grazia Chiuri in 2018; distinct from the Lady Dior by its equestrian asymmetry, D stirrup clasp, and Oblique canvas.

Diora Baird

Diora Baird, American actress and former model born 1983 in Miami, known for Wedding Crashers, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Playboy August 2005 cover, and Cobra Kai's Shannon.

Diorama

Diorama: a 3D reduced-scale representation of a real-life scene, coined by Daguerre in 1822 as a light-effect Paris theater, later the glass-cased habitat display form of natural history museums.

Diorama (Silverchair album)

Diorama (2002) is the fourth studio album by Australian band Silverchair, produced by David Bottrill with Van Dyke Parks orchestrations. It broke from grunge toward piano-based orchestral art rock, debuted at ARIA No. 1, and touring was curtailed by Daniel Johns's reactive arthritis.

Diorsman (屌丝男士)

Diorsman (屌丝男士, Diors Man) is a Sohu Video web sitcom created by and starring Da Peng, running four seasons 2012–2015, adapted from Germany's Knallerfrauen, with about 1.7 billion views and a 2014 censorship takedown.

Dios Bendiga

Dios Bendiga, Spanish for "God Bless," is the eleventh studio album by American hip-hop group Cypress Hill, released on July 24, 2026, and their first entirely in Spanish.

Dipannita Sharma

Dipannita Sharma (दीपानिता शर्मा), Assamese-Indian supermodel and actor from Duliajan, Assam; Miss India 1998 finalist and Miss Photogenic; film debut in 16 December (2002); roles in War, Ladies vs Ricky Bahl; award-winning Assamese film and web series work.

Dipika Chikhlia

Dipika Chikhlia, also credited Deepika Chikhalia Topiwala, is an Indian actress born 1965 in Mumbai, famous as Sita in Ramanand Sagar's 1987 Doordarshan Ramayan; later a 1991 member of Parliament and producer of Dhartiputra Nandini.

Dipika Kakar

Dipika Kakar Ibrahim (Faiza), born 1986 in Pune, is an Indian TV actress known as Simar in Sasural Simar Ka (2011-2017), winner of Bigg Boss 12 (2018), lead of Kahaan Hum Kahaan Tum, and diagnosed with stage 2 liver cancer in 2025.

Diplo

Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz, born 1978, Tupelo, Mississippi) is an American DJ and producer behind Major Lazer, Jack Ü, Silk City, and LSD, with three Grammy wins from 13 nominations.

Dipo Ola

Dipo Ola (born 1994, Ibadan, Nigeria) is a British actor, writer, and director trained at the Oxford School of Drama, known for DI Russell Carter in Ludwig, Baba in We Hunt Together, and Douglas Hylton in Landscapers.

Dipper Pines

Dipper Pines (Mason "Dipper" Pines) is the boy protagonist of Disney's animated Gravity Falls, twin of Mabel, voiced by Jason Ritter, who solves the Oregon town's paranormal mysteries using Journal 3.

Dippin' Dots

Dippin' Dots: beaded ice cream, yogurt, sherbet, and flavored ice invented by microbiologist Curt Jones in 1988, flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen at about -320 °F and stored near -40 °F, sold at theme parks and stadiums.

Dipping tobacco

Dipping tobacco (dip, moist snuff) is smokeless tobacco placed between lip and gums. Contains 4.4-25.0 mg nicotine per gram; causes mouth, esophageal, and pancreatic cancer; used by 2.1% of US adults.