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Deportivo de La Coruña

Deportivo de La Coruña (Real Club Deportivo de A Coruña), Spanish football club founded 1906 in A Coruña, Galicia; one of nine La Liga champions (1999–2000, Super Dépor era), two Copas del Rey, three Supercopas, home at Estadio de Riazor since 1944, back in Primera in 2026.

Deportivo LSM

Deportivo LSM is a Uruguayan football club in Ciudad de la Costa founded by Luis Suárez in 2025, with Lionel Messi as a partner and the name from their surnames.

Deportivo Saprissa

Deportivo Saprissa (El Monstruo Morado), Costa Rican football club founded 16 July 1935 in San José and named after Ricardo Saprissa Aymá; record 40 league titles, three CONCACAF Champions Cups, 2005 Club World Cup third place, IFFHS CONCACAF team of the 20th century.

Deportivo Toluca F.C.

Deportivo Toluca F.C., the Diablos Rojos, is a Liga MX football club founded in Toluca, Mexico on 12 February 1917. Eleven league titles, two Concacaf Champions Cups (1968, 2003), home at Estadio Nemesio Diez since 1954, and Liga MX back-to-back champion in 2025.

Der Klassiker

Der Klassiker: the name for matches between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, Germany's two biggest clubs. Not a true derby; a media-popularized rivalry born of title races, the 2013 all-German Champions League final, and the earlier Bayern-Gladbach classic.

Der plumpsack geht um

Der Plumpsack geht um (also Faules Ei) is a traditional German circle chasing game: a walker secretly drops a cloth behind a seated child, who must catch the runner. Also a 1999 Reinhard Staupe memory card game by AMIGO.

Déraciné

Déraciné is a 2018 first-person VR adventure by FromSoftware, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, published by Sony for PS4 with PlayStation VR. The player is a faerie in a time-frozen boarding school; mixed reviews, about 4-5 hours long.

Derartu Tulu

Derartu Tulu (ዻራርቱ•ቱሉ, born 1972, Bekoji) is an Ethiopian distance runner, two-time Olympic 10,000 m champion (1992, 2000), first black African woman Olympic gold medallist, 2001 world champion, and later Ethiopian Athletics Federation president.

Derby County F.C.

Derby County F.C. (the Rams), English football club founded 1884 in Derby; Football League founder member 1888; First Division champions 1971-72 under Clough and 1974-75 under Mackay; FA Cup 1946; now a Championship club owned by Clowes Developments.

Derby della Madonnina

Derby della Madonnina, the Milan derby between AC Milan and Inter, shared tenants of San Siro since 1926; named for the Duomo's Madonnina statue, first played 1908, Inter lead a near-even head-to-head.

Derby Italiano

The Derby Italiano is Italy's premier flat horse race, run over 2,200 meters on turf. Historically held at Capannelle in Rome, it is known as the Blue Riband.

Derby Owners Club (ダービーオーナーズクラブ)

Derby Owners Club (ダービーオーナーズクラブ) is a 1999 Sega NAOMI arcade horse breeding and racing simulation by Hitmaker, using magnetic horse cards, with versions including 2000 and World Edition.

Derck de Vilder

Derck de Vilder, Dutch field hockey player (born 1998, Amsterdam), Netherlands men's team number 34; 113 senior caps, 9 goals; Olympic gold at Paris 2024, beating Germany in the final on shootout.

Derda

Derda is a two-player Polish jass card game, related to Clobyosh, once popular among currency traders and gamblers in communist-era Poland and played for money. It uses a 32-card deck, sequence bonuses, and a 500-point target.

Dereck Lively II

Dereck Lively II (born 2004, Philadelphia) is an NBA center for the Dallas Mavericks; Duke one-and-done, drafted 12th overall in 2023 by Oklahoma City, 2023-24 All-Rookie, 2024 NBA Finals starter-level rim protector, later limited by foot and ankle injuries.

Dereck Moncada

Dereck Alessandro Moncada Arguijo (born 2007) is a Honduran right winger for Swiss club Lugano and Honduras; son of Maynor Figueroa, €3m July 2026 signing, joint fourth in 2026/27 Super League scoring.

Derek Allhusen

Derek Allhusen (Derek Swithin Allhusen, 1914–2000), British Army officer and equestrian; won individual silver and team gold in eventing at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics on Lochinvar, and sixth in the 1948 Winter Pentathlon demonstration.

Derek Anderson (American football)

Derek Anderson (born 1983, Portland, Oregon) is a former NFL quarterback, Oregon State record-setter, 2005 Ravens sixth-rounder, 2007 Browns Pro Bowler with 29 TD passes, later Panthers backup; career 10,878 yards, 60 TD, 64 INT.

Derek Barnett

Derek Barnett, NFL defensive end for the Cleveland Browns; former Tennessee Volunteers star and 14th overall 2017 draft pick who won Super Bowl LII with Philadelphia and set the school career sack record.

Derek Boogaard

Derek Boogaard, "The Boogeyman," was a 6-foot-7 NHL enforcer for the Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers who died at 28 in 2011 of an alcohol and painkiller overdose and was posthumously diagnosed with CTE.

Derek Brunson

Derek Brunson, "The One," American middleweight MMA fighter from Wilmington, NC; three-time DII All-American wrestler, 14-7 in the UFC (2012-2023), later signed with the PFL and beat Ray Cooper III in his 2023 debut.

Derek Carr

Derek Dallas Carr is an American former NFL quarterback who played 11 seasons, nine with the Raiders, and retired in 2025 due to a shoulder injury.

Derek Chisora

Derek (Dereck) Chisora, nicknamed "War", Zimbabwe-born British heavyweight boxer, 36-14 (23 KOs) after 50 fights; British, Commonwealth and European titleholder, three-time world-title challenger, retired April 2026 then announced a comeback against Murat Gassiev.

Derek Chisora vs. Deontay Wilder

Derek Chisora vs. Deontay Wilder, also billed "100", was a 4 April 2026 heavyweight fight at London's O2 Arena, each man's 50th bout; Wilder won by split decision with an eighth-round knockdown in Chisora's billed farewell.

Derek Clayton

Derek Clayton (born 1942), Australian marathon runner, set world records of 2:09:36.4 (Fukuoka 1967, first sub-2:10) and 2:08:33.6 (Antwerp 1969, disputed); Olympian 1968, 1972.

Derek Dooley (American football)

Derek Dooley (born 1968), American football coach, son of Vince Dooley; head coach at Louisiana Tech (17-20) and Tennessee (15-21, fired 2012), later NFL assistant and 2026 Georgia Republican Senate candidate.

Derek Drouin

Derek Drouin, Canadian high jumper born 1990 in Sarnia, Ontario: Rio 2016 Olympic gold at 2.38m, London 2012 silver upgraded from bronze, 2015 world champion, Canadian record 2.40m.

Derek Fisher

Derek Fisher (Derek Lamar Fisher, born 1974) is a retired NBA point guard who won five championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, hit the famous 0.4-second shot in the 2004 playoffs, holds the record of 259 playoff games, and later coached the Knicks and Sparks.

Derek Hill (baseball)

Derek Hill (Derek Jerome Hill), born 1995, is an MLB center fielder drafted 23rd overall by Detroit in 2014 from Elk Grove HS; known for plus-plus speed and defense, cousin of Darryl Strawberry, now with the Phillies.

Derek Hinkey

Derek Hinkey (David Derek Hinkey, born 1980) is a Paiute-Shoshone actor and former pro boxer from Reno, Nevada; 9-3 record, then Red Feather in American Primeval and Shorty Bowlegs in Dark Winds.