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Daniel Daly
Daniel Joseph Daly (1873-1937), USMC sergeant major, only enlisted Marine with two Medals of Honor, for Peking 1900 and Haiti 1915; famous Belleau Wood battle cry.
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023), American RAND analyst and whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971; his Espionage Act trial was dismissed for government misconduct, and the case shaped US press-freedom and whistleblower law.
Daniel Hodges (police officer)
Daniel Hodges, D.C. Metropolitan Police Civil Disturbance Unit 42 officer, was crushed in the Capitol tunnel on January 6, 2021, testified to the House Select Committee, received the Presidential Citizens Medal, and campaigned for Kamala Harris in 2024.
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan (c. 1735/1736–1802) was an American Revolutionary War general, rifle corps commander at Saratoga, and victor over Banastre Tarleton at Cowpens (1781) using three-line defense in depth; not the murdered journalist or the historian.
Daniel P. Driscoll
Daniel P. Driscoll, American former Army officer and venture capitalist from Boone, North Carolina; 26th Secretary of the Army (confirmed February 25, 2025), Yale Law graduate, Iraq War armor officer, launched the Army Transformation Initiative, resigned August 31, 2026.
Daniela Klette
Daniela Klette (born 1958), German Red Army Faction third-generation member, lived underground over 30 years as 'Claudia' in Berlin, arrested February 2024, sentenced to 13 years in 2026 for 1999–2016 armed robberies; terrorism charges pending.
Daniyal Mirza
Daniyal Mirza (دانیال میرزا), also known as Sultan Daniyal Mirza, was a Mughal prince, the third son of Akbar, who served as viceroy of the Deccan from 1601.
Danny Dietz
Danny Phillip Dietz Jr. (1980–2005), U.S. Navy SEAL Gunner's Mate 2nd Class of SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 2, killed in Operation Red Wings, Kunar Province, Afghanistan; posthumous Navy Cross recipient commemorated in Littleton, Colorado.
Darrell Powers
Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (1923–2009), Easy Company sharpshooter, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; Foy sniper, tree-spotting at Bastogne, Band of Brothers veteran from Clinchco, Virginia.
Daryl Gates
Daryl Gates was an American police officer and 49th Chief of the LAPD from 1978 to 1992; his tenure ended amid political pressure following the 1992 riots.
Dato' Bahaman
Dato' Bahaman, born Abdul Rahman, was the district chief of Semantan in Pahang who led the Pahang Uprising, also called the Semantan Rebellion, against British rule from 1891 to 1895.
Dave Toschi
Dave Toschi (1931-2018), San Francisco homicide inspector and lead Zodiac Killer investigator from 1969 to 1978; removed after fake fan letters to Armistead Maupin, exonerated of forging the 1978 Zodiac letter, model for Bullitt.
David Barnea
David Barnea (born 1965, Ashkelon), also known as Dadi, was the 13th director of Israel's Mossad from 2021 to June 2, 2026, overseeing the Fakhrizadeh assassination, the Hezbollah pager operation, Iran airstrikes, and Gaza hostage negotiations.
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871–1936), British Admiral of the Fleet; battlecruiser commander at Jutland, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet 1916–1919, First Sea Lord 1919–1927, Washington Naval Treaty negotiator.
David Bellavia
David Bellavia (born 1975), retired U.S. Army staff sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient for single-handedly clearing an insurgent house at Fallujah on November 10, 2004; first living Iraq War recipient, awarded June 25, 2019; author of House to House.
David Brown (police officer)
David Brown, Dallas police chief 2010-2016 and Chicago police superintendent 2020-2023; led Dallas through the July 2016 attack that killed five officers; known for de-escalation reforms and a robot killing of the suspect.
David Farragut
David Glasgow Farragut (1801–1870), first admiral of the U.S. Navy, won Civil War victories at New Orleans (1862) and Mobile Bay (1864), source of the famous 'Damn the torpedoes' order.
David Greenglass
David Greenglass (1922-2014), Los Alamos army machinist and atomic spy, passed implosion-bomb sketches to Julius Rosenberg's Soviet ring; his recanted testimony against sister Ethel Rosenberg sent her to the electric chair.
David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims
David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims: 2022 ICIG complaint and July 2023 House testimony by a former USAF major alleging secret UAP crash-retrieval programs; Pentagon and AARO found no supporting evidence.
David Hackworth
David Haskell Hackworth (1930-2005), U.S. Army colonel and one of America's most decorated soldiers of Korea and Vietnam, who denounced the war on TV in 1971, wrote About Face, and became a military journalist.
David Herold
David Edgar Herold (1842-1865), Maryland pharmacy student and Lincoln assassination conspirator, guided Lewis Powell to Seward's home, fled with John Wilkes Booth for twelve days, surrendered at the Garrett farm, and was hanged July 7, 1865.
David Hicks
David Hicks, Australian detainee held over five years at Guantanamo Bay; first person convicted by US military commissions (2007, material support for terrorism); conviction vacated by the Court of Military Commission Review in 2015.
David Isom
David L. Isom is a U.S. Navy SEAL and the 6th Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since June 2025; also a Georgetown law librarian and folk musician of the same name.
David J. Rush
David J. Rush, former CIA senior executive in the Directorate of Science and Technology, pleaded guilty in October 2026 to a $194 million fraud using a fabricated Special Access Program, fake credentials, gold bars, and Florida real estate.
David Kenyon Webster
David Kenyon Webster (1922-1961), Harvard-educated Easy Company rifleman of the 101st Airborne in Normandy and Market Garden, author of the posthumous memoir Parachute Infantry, portrayed in Band of Brothers by Eion Bailey; lost shark fishing in 1961.
David L. Goldfein
David L. Goldfein, also known as David Lee Goldfein, is a retired U.S. Air Force four-star general who served as the 21st Chief of Staff from 2016 to 2020.
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (1601–1682), Scottish Covenanter general; cavalry colonel under Gustavus Adolphus, victor of Philiphaugh 1645, commander defeated at Dunbar 1650, captured at Worcester, ennobled 1661.
David Mack (police officer)
David Anthony Mack, former LAPD officer and NCAA 800-meter champion, staged the 1997 $722,000 Bank of America robbery near USC with his girlfriend Errolyn Romero; his conviction helped trigger the Rampart scandal.
David Packouz
David Mordechai Packouz, American entrepreneur and former arms dealer; AEY Inc. vice president on the $298 million 2007 Afghan ammunition contract, pleaded guilty to fraud, later founded Singular Sound and the BeatBuddy; portrayed by Miles Teller in War Dogs (2016).
David Petraeus
David Petraeus, full name David Howell Petraeus, is a retired United States Army general who commanded the 2007 Iraq surge and led the CIA from 2011 to 2012.