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Diafra Sakho
Diafra Sakho, born 1989 in Guédiawaye, Senegal, is a retired striker; Ligue 2 winner with Metz 2014, West Ham forward, 2018 World Cup squad member, now Génération Foot assistant manager.
Diagonals (2002)
Diagonals (2002) is Walter Joris's two-player pencil-and-paper abstract game on a 5x10 board: drop stones along diagonal lines of sight or turn enemy stones into walls; most stones wins.
Diagonals (ludii 1803)
Diagonals (ludii 1803) is a two-player abstract placement game on an 8x8 board: players drop stones, and completing a full diagonal scores its friendly stones; most points when the board fills wins.
Diamond Court
Diamond Court (钻石球场), also Shouchuang Diamond Court, is the 15,000-seat center court of the China National Tennis Center in Beijing; opened 2011, hard court, 12-minute retractable roof, main stadium of the China Open.
Diamond Dallas Page
Diamond Dallas Page (Page Joseph Falkinburg), WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, three-time WCW world champion, and creator of DDP Yoga, a low-impact fitness program combining yoga, calisthenics, rehab, and dynamic resistance.
Diamond Dixon
Diamond Dixon (born 1992, El Paso, Texas) is an American 400m sprinter, 2012 London Olympic gold medallist in the 4x400m relay heats runner, Kansas Jayhawks alumna, 50.88 personal best.
Diamond League
The Wanda Diamond League is athletics' elite one-day meeting series, launched in 2010 to replace the Golden League. It runs 14 meetings plus a final across 32 disciplines, with 9.24 million USD prize money in 2026.
Diamond Rush
Diamond Rush (Gameloft, 2006) is a Java mobile action-puzzle game where an explorer collects diamonds in Angkor Wat, Bavaria, and Tibet temples while dodging boulders; distinct from Famobi's match-3 and REANIM's Windows games of the same name.
Diamond Stone
Diamond Stone (born 1997) is an American center from Milwaukee who starred briefly at Maryland, was drafted 40th overall in 2016 by the Pelicans, played 7 NBA games for the Clippers, and spent his career in the G League.
Diana Armstrong (world record holder)
Diana Armstrong is an American woman from Minneapolis whose record fingernails, measured at 42 ft 10.4 in in 2022, earned her two Guinness World Records.
Diana Bianchedi
Diana Bianchedi, born 1969 in Milan, is an Italian foil fencer and sports executive: two Olympic team golds (Barcelona 1992, Sydney 2000), five world team titles, first female CONI vice president, and Milano Cortina 2026 strategy chief.
Diana Hart
Diana Hart (Diana Joyce Hart, born 1963) is a Canadian author, bodybuilder, and member of the Hart wrestling family; daughter of Stu and Helen Hart, ex-wife of Davey Boy Smith, author of Under the Mat and the Cauliflower Heart trilogy.
Diana Igaly
Diána Igaly (1965–2021) was a Hungarian skeet shooter: Olympic gold at Athens 2004, bronze at Sydney 2000, four-time world champion, later Hungarian Shooting Federation vice-president; died of COVID-19.
Diana Loginova
Diana Loginova names two Russians: a luger (Диана Валерьевна Логинова, born 2003) who won bronze and gold at the 2020 Youth Olympics, and the Stoptime singer Naoko jailed in 2025 and exiled in 2026.
Diana Mocanu
Diana Iuliana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer born 1984 in Brăila; double Olympic backstroke champion at Sydney 2000, Romania's first swimming gold medalist, 2001 world 200 m backstroke champion, retired 2004, later a coach and federation vice president.
Diana Nyad
Diana Nyad, born 1949, is an American long-distance swimmer who in 2013 became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, at age 64.
Diana Taurasi
Diana Taurasi, American basketball guard (born 1982, Chino, California), UConn star and Phoenix Mercury legend; WNBA all-time leading scorer (10,646 points), three-time champion, six-time Olympic gold medalist; retired February 25, 2025.
Diana Wiesner
Diana Wiesner, German barebow archer of BSV Ulm, multiple German champion in women's barebow; 2022 title with German record 597, European team record 1612 (2023). Also the name of a Colombian architect.
Diane Bui Duyet
Diane Bui Duyet (Bui-Duyet), born 1979 in Nouméa, is a French butterfly swimmer who set the short-course 100m butterfly world record of 55.05 in Istanbul in 2009, won European silver, seven French titles, and later became a deputy mayor of Nouméa.
Diane Gentry
Diane Gentry (nee Bussa), born 1961, American distance runner; first Indiana girl under 5:00 for the mile (4:58.2, 1977), 1987 USA 25K champion, and three-time Bolder Boulder masters women's winner; distinct from other people named Diane Gentry.
Diane Johannigman
Diane Johannigman, Cincinnati-born University of Houston swimmer 1978-81, won four AIAW butterfly titles including three straight 200-yard butterfly crowns, set American records, and entered the UH Hall of Honor in 2006.
Diane Leather
Diane Leather (Diane Charles, 1933–2018), British middle-distance runner and first woman to run a mile under five minutes (4:59.6, 29 May 1954, Birmingham); mile best 4:45.0; ratified 800m world record 2:09.0.
Diann Roffe Steinrotter
Diann Roffe Steinrotter, American alpine skier (born 1967, Warsaw, New York); 1994 Lillehammer Olympic Super-G gold, 1992 Albertville giant slalom silver, 1985 Bormio world giant slalom champion; retired March 1994.
Dianne Bowering Burge
Dianne Bowering Burge (Dianne Marie Bowering-Burge, 1943-2024), Australian sprinter; three golds at 1966 Kingston Commonwealth Games; dual Olympian Tokyo 1964 and Mexico City 1968; Athletics SA Athlete of the Century.
Dianne Holum
Dianne Holum (Dianne Mary Holum, born 1951, Chicago) is an American speed skater and coach: four Olympic medals (gold 1500m, silver 3000m, 1972 Sapporo; silver 500m, bronze 1000m, 1968 Grenoble), later first woman to coach US women Olympic speed skaters and coach of Eric Heiden.
Dibaba family
The Dibaba family is an Ethiopian distance-running family from Chefe near Bekoji, in the Arsi region; sisters Ejegayehu, Tirunesh, Genzebe, Anna, and Melat have won Olympic and world medals.
Dice
Dice: small polyhedral randomizers for games and gambling, from Native American dice over 12,000 years old and Ur's 2600 BC tetrahedra to NdX notation, bell-curve totals, and fair-dice design.
DICE (company)
DICE (EA Digital Illusions CE AB), Swedish studio founded 1992, creator of Battlefield, Mirror's Edge, and Star Wars Battlefront, EA-owned since 2006, Frostbite engine developer.
Dick Advocaat
Dick Advocaat (Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat, born 1947), Dutch football manager nicknamed the Little General; coached the Netherlands three times, won titles with PSV, Rangers, and Zenit, and led Curaçao, the smallest nation ever to qualify, at the 2026 World Cup as its oldest coach.
Dick Allen
Dick Allen (Richard Anthony Allen, 1942-2020), American MLB first baseman/outfielder for the Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox, and Athletics; 1964 NL Rookie of the Year, 1972 AL MVP, .292 with 351 home runs; posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2024, inducted July 27, 2025.