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Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952–2001), British comic writer, creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy across radio, novels, TV, games and film; also Dirk Gently novels, Last Chance to See, Doctor Who scripts, and tech ventures.
Douglas Booth
Douglas John Booth (born 1992, London) is an English actor known for Worried About the Boy, Romeo and Juliet (2013), Jupiter Ascending, The Dirt, The Sandman, Young Werther, and ITV's The Blame.
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland, born 1961, is a Canadian novelist and visual artist whose debut novel Generation X (1991) named a generation and coined the term "McJob".
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939), born Douglas Elton Ulman, American silent film star of swashbucklers like The Mark of Zorro and The Thief of Bagdad; cofounder of United Artists (1919) and first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000), son of silent star Douglas Fairbanks Sr., American actor in The Prisoner of Zenda, Gunga Din, and Sinbad the Sailor, decorated WWII Navy Beach Jumpers officer, honorary knight, and television producer.
Douglas Gresham
Douglas Gresham (born 1945, New York City) is C. S. Lewis's stepson, author of Lenten Lands and Jack's Life, co-producer of the 2005 Narnia film, and a custodian of the Lewis estate.
Douglas Henshall
Douglas Henshall, born 1965 in Glasgow, is a Scottish actor known as DI Jimmy Perez in BBC's Shetland (2013-2022), Nick Cutter in Primeval, and stage roles in The Coast of Utopia, Betrayal, and Mary.
Douglas Hodge
Douglas William Hodge (born 1960, Plymouth) is an English actor, director, and composer; Tony and Olivier winner as Albin in La Cage aux Folles, originator of Willy Wonka at Drury Lane, and Alfred Pennyworth in Joker.
Douglas Is Cancelled
Douglas Is Cancelled is a 2024 four-part ITV1/ITVX British comedy drama by Steven Moffat, starring Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan, about a news anchor facing backlash over an alleged sexist joke.
Douglas Kenney
Douglas C. Kenney (1946-1980), American comedy writer, Harvard Lampoon editor, co-founder of National Lampoon with Henry Beard, co-wrote Animal House and Caddyshack; died in a Kauai cliff fall at 33.
Douglas Livingstone (poet)
Douglas Livingstone (1932–1996) was a South African poet, playwright, and marine bacteriologist, often cited as South Africa's leading twentieth-century poet; his major late work was A Littoral Zone (1991).
Douglas Mawson
Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) was an Australian geologist and polar explorer who led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1914 and survived a solo trek back after both companions died.
Douglas Rain
Douglas Rain (1928–2018), Canadian Shakespearean stage actor and founding member of the Stratford Festival, best known as the voice of HAL 9000 in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel.
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk (Hans Detlef Sierck, 1897–1987), German-born Hollywood director of 1950s Universal melodramas such as All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life, rediscovered by auteur criticism and a major influence on Fassbinder, Almodóvar, and Haynes.
Douglas Smith (actor)
Douglas Smith (Douglas Alexander Smith) is a Canadian American actor recognized for his roles in Big Love, The Alienist, and films like The Bye Bye Man.
Dougray Scott
Dougray Scott (Stephen Dougray Scott, born 1965, Glenrothes, Scotland) is a Scottish actor, star of Mission: Impossible 2's villain Sean Ambrose and Ever After's Prince Henry, who lost X-Men's Wolverine to Hugh Jackman and won an Emmy for Crime.
Doujin (同人)
Doujin (同人) is Japanese self-published, largely non-commercial creative work; doujinshi are its self-published books. Covers Meiji literary origins, manga fan culture, Comiket (founded 1975), derivative-creation copyright practice, doujin games, and digital platforms.
Doujin soft (同人ソフト)
Doujin soft (同人ソフト), also called doujin game, is self-published software within Japanese doujin culture, covering games and hardware, sold mainly at events like Comic Market.
Doujinshi (同人誌)
Doujinshi (同人誌, dōjinshi) are Japanese self-published magazines or books, also called coterie magazines, produced by individuals or circles outside commercial publishing and sold mainly at sale events such as Comic Market, founded 1975; most manga doujinshi are derivative fan works in a tolerated copyright gray zone.
Doukissa
Doukissa (Δούκισσα), full name Doukissa Fotara, was a Greek laiko singer born in Piraeus in 1941, known for 1967 duets with Tolis Voskopoulos and gold discs in 1975 and 1984.
Doums
Doums, born Mamadou Coulibaly in 1992, is a French rapper from Paris, a founding member of L'Entourage and 2Fingz, and an artist known for the Pilote series and his 2022 album.
Dour Festival
Dour Festival: annual five-day eclectic music festival at the Plaine de la Machine à Feu in Dour, Belgium, held every July since 1989; founded by Carlo Di Antonio and Marc de Fays; about 250,000 attendees across six stages.
Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes (born 1985, Eastermar, Friesland) is a Dutch supermodel and former Victoria's Secret Angel (2008–2014), also known as a L'Oréal Paris ambassador and elephant-conservation activist.
Dove Cameron
Dove Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman, 1996) is an American actress and singer known for Disney's Liv and Maddie, the Descendants franchise, the 2022 hit 'Boyfriend', and the 2023 album Alchemical: Volume 1.
Dove Ellis
Dove Ellis is the stage name of Thomas O'Donoghue, an Irish singer-songwriter born around 2002 in Galway and based in Manchester, whose 2025 debut album Blizzard drew wide acclaim and a Mercury Prize nomination.
Dover (band)
Dover, a Spanish rock band from Madrid founded in 1992 by sisters Cristina and Amparo Llanos with Jesús Antúnez, sang in English; its 1997 album Devil Came to Me sold around 800,000 copies before the 2016 dissolution. Not the London Britainicana band of the same name.
Dover Beach
Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold's most celebrated lyric poem, published 1867 in New Poems but likely written around his 1851 honeymoon at Dover; four irregular stanzas mourning the retreating Sea of Faith and ending with the darkling plain image.
Dover Publications
Dover Publications (Dover Books), founded 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker, is an American paperback publisher of public-domain reprints and originals: Thrift Editions classics, math and science books, coloring books; Courier acquired it for $39M in 2000, later LSC Communications.
Doves (band)
Doves are a Manchester indie rock band formed in 1998 by Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams, formerly dance act Sub Sub. Three UK No. 1 albums, Mercury nominations, and 2025's Constellations for the Lonely.
Dovzhenko Film Studios (Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка)
Dovzhenko Film Studios (Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка), also called the Kyiv Film Studio, is Ukraine's state feature-film studio in Kyiv, founded 1928 under VUFKU, named after Oleksandr Dovzhenko in 1957, producer of Zemlya and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.