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Duje Bonacic

Duje Bonačić (Дује Боначић), Croatian rower for Yugoslavia (1929–2020), won gold in the men's coxless fours at Helsinki 1952 with Valenta, Trojanović, and Šegvić, Yugoslavia's only rowing gold.

Duje Ćaleta-Car

Duje Ćaleta-Car, Croatian centre-back (born 1996, Šibenik) of Salzburg, Marseille, Southampton, Lyon, and Real Sociedad; 38 Croatia caps, 2018 and 2026 World Cup squads, 2026 Copa del Rey winner.

Duje Draganja

Duje Draganja (born 1983, Split) is a Croatian sprint swimmer, 2004 Athens Olympic silver medalist in the 50 m freestyle, two-time short-course world champion, and 2008 short-course 50 m freestyle world record holder (20.81).

Duje Krstulovic

Duje Krstulovic (Dujam Krstulović), Croatian basketball player born 1953 in Split; KK Jugoplastika forward, 203 cm, Olympic gold 1980, World Championship 1978, EuroBasket 1977 with Yugoslavia.

Dujon Sterling

Dujon Henriques Sterling (born 1999) is an English defender at Rangers, formerly a Chelsea academy player who won three FA Youth Cups and the UEFA Youth League, had EFL loans at Coventry, Wigan, Blackpool and Stoke, and joined Rangers in 2023.

Duke Blue Devils

Duke Blue Devils: athletic teams of Duke University, Durham, N.C., ACC members named for French WWI soldiers (les Diables Bleus) in 1922; football won the 2025 ACC title under Manny Diaz.

Duke Blue Devils football

Duke Blue Devils football: Duke University's ACC football program, first played 1888, home at Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium since 1929. Eight ACC titles; 2025 outright ACC champions under Manny Diaz, first since 1962.

Duke Blue Devils men's basketball

The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team is Duke University's program in Durham, North Carolina, with five NCAA championships and a record 148 AP No. 1 rankings.

Duke Hudson

Duke Hudson, real name Brendan Vink (born 1989, Adelaide), Australian wrestler; WWE NXT 2019-2025, one-time NXT Tag Team Champion with Andre Chase in Chase U; released January 2025, now wrestles as Duke Hanson.

Duke Johnson

Duke Johnson (Duke Johnson Jr.), NFL running back 2015-2022 from Miami (FL); Browns, Texans, Dolphins, Bills; Miami's all-time leading rusher, third-round 2015 pick, receiving specialist.

Duke Kahanamoku

Duke Kahanamoku (Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, 1890-1968), Native Hawaiian Olympic swimmer with three golds and two silvers, father of modern surfing, 1925 Thelma surfboard rescue, Sheriff of Honolulu and Hawaii's Ambassador of Aloha.

Duke Nukem

Duke Nukem: video game franchise starring the wisecracking action hero Duke, from the 1991 2D shooter through 1996's Duke Nukem 3D to the record-delayed Duke Nukem Forever (2011), owned by Gearbox.

Duke Nukem 3D

Duke Nukem 3D is a 1996 first-person shooter by 3D Realms on Ken Silverman's Build engine, known for real-world destructible levels, humor, an M-rated ESRB rating, and a 2003 GPL source code release.

Duke Nukem Forever

Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is a 2011 first-person shooter by Gearbox Software and 2K Games, announced by 3D Realms in 1997 and released June 2011 on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 after roughly 14 years of development, earning a Metacritic score of 48/100.

Duke Snider

Duke Snider (Edwin Donald Snider, "The Duke of Flatbush"), 1926-2011, Hall of Fame center fielder for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers; hit 407 home runs, led the 1950s in homers and RBI, won the 1955 and 1959 World Series, inducted 1980.

Dukla Prague

Dukla Prague, also known as Dukla Praha, is a Czech football club based at the Juliska stadium in Prague, founded by the Czechoslovak Army in 1948.

Duleep Trophy

Duleep Trophy: India's BCCI-run first-class domestic cricket tournament, first held 1961-62, named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji. Zonal teams (North, South, East, West, Central, North East) with repeated format changes; season opener; ICC first-class status.

Duluth Curling Club

The Duluth Curling Club, founded in 1891 in Duluth, Minnesota, is the second-largest curling club in the United States, based at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center since 1976.

Dulwich Hamlet F.C.

Dulwich Hamlet F.C., a pink-and-navy semi-professional club at Champion Hill, East Dulwich, London, founded 1893; four-time FA Amateur Cup winners and Isthmian League champions, with record Surrey Senior Cup haul and strong supporter-ownership culture.

Dumbarton

Dumbarton FC, "The Sons" (Sons of the Rock), a semi-professional Scottish club founded 21 December 1872; Scottish Cup winners 1883, first Scottish League champions shared with Rangers 1890-91, now in League Two at The Rock.

Dumitru Alexe

Dumitru Alexe (1935–1971), Romanian sprint canoeist from Mahmudia, Tulcea; Olympic gold in C2 1000 m at Melbourne 1956 with Simion Ismailciuc (4:47.4), world champion 1958 Prague, European gold 1957 Ghent.

Dumitru Paraschivescu

Dumitru Paraschivescu was a Romanian race walker who competed at the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games and set a 15,000 m walk mark in 1949.

Dumitru Pirvulescu

Dumitru Pîrvulescu (Dumitru Pârvulescu), 1933–2007, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler; flyweight ≤52 kg. Olympic gold at Rome 1960, first Romanian Greco-Roman champion, bronze Tokyo 1964, world silver 1961.

Dumitru Raducanu

Dumitru Răducanu, Romanian rowing coxswain born 1967 in Bucharest; Olympic gold (coxed fours 1992), silver (1984), bronze (1992), world champion 1996, later a coach at CS Farul Constanța.

Dummy rummy

Dummy rummy, also called 5000 Rummy, is a North American scoring rummy variant of 500 Rummy with unequal upcard-determined hands, a deal-varying wild card, 100-point aces and wilds, and a 5000-point target.

Duna Surf Lounge

Duna Surf Lounge is a surf venue and beach bar at Praia de Mira, Portugal, organizer of the Secret Surf Fest with Secret Surf School, and the name of a beginner A-frame beach break nearby.

Dunav

Dunav (Дунав), FC Dunav Ruse, Bulgarian football club founded 16 February 1949, playing at Ruse's Gradski Stadium in sky blue and white; 1962 cup finalists, 1975 UEFA Cup winners over Roma, 2025/26 Second League champions back in the First League.

Dunc Gray

Dunc Gray (Edgar Laurence Gray, 1906-1996), Australian track cyclist from Goulburn; won Australia's first Olympic cycling medal (bronze, 1928) and first cycling gold (1932 time trial, world record 1:13); Dunc Gray Velodrome named for him.

Dunc Munro

Dunc Munro (Duncan Brown Munro, 1901-1958), Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey defenseman; captained Canada to 1924 Olympic gold with 16 goals, won the 1926 Stanley Cup as Montreal Maroons captain, later coached the Maroons.

Duncan Armstrong

Duncan Armstrong, born 1968 in Rockhampton, Queensland, is an Australian swimmer who won gold in the 200 meter freestyle at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in world record time.