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Dinesh Singh Rana
Lieutenant General Dinesh Singh Rana, Indian Army officer; Garhwal Rifles (commissioned 1987); former DG Defence Intelligence Agency (2023), 18th CINCAN (2025), 23rd Colonel of the Garhwal Rifles, and Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command.
Director of the United States Secret Service
Director of the United States Secret Service: head of the USSS, presidentially appointed without Senate confirmation, reporting directly to the DHS Secretary under 18 U.S.C. 3056. First chief William P. Wood (1865); 28th and current Director Sean M. Curran (2025).
Dmitri Polyakov (Дмитрий Фёдорович Поляков)
Dmitri Polyakov (Дмитрий Фёдорович Поляков, 1921–1988), GRU general codenamed Top Hat and Bourbon, spied for the FBI and CIA from 1961 for nearly two decades; betrayed by Hanssen and Ames, arrested 1986, executed 1988.
Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev (Дмитрий Николаевич Медведев, 1898–1954) was a Soviet state-security officer and partisan commander who led the NKVD detachments Mitya and Pobediteli behind German lines in World War II.
Dmitry Pozharsky (Дмитрий Михайлович Пожарский)
Dmitry Pozharsky (Дмитрий Михайлович Пожарский, 1577/1578–1642), Rurikid prince and commander of the Second Militia led with Kuzma Minin that liberated Moscow from the Polish garrison in October 1612.
Dmitry Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин)
Dmitry Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин), call sign 'Wagner', was a retired GRU lieutenant colonel and field commander of the Wagner Group, which took its name from his nom de guerre; he died in the August 2023 plane crash with Prigozhin.
Dmitry Yazov (Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов)
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов), 1923–2020, last Marshal of the Soviet Union and last USSR defense minister (1987–1991), appointed after the Rust affair, advocate of the defensive doctrine, and GKChP August 1991 coup member.
Dmytro Yarosh
Dmytro Yarosh (Дмитро Ярош, born 1971) is a Ukrainian nationalist politician who led Right Sector 2013–2015, commanded the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (DUK) in Donbas, ran for president in 2014, and founded the Ukrainian Volunteer Army.
Dominic Choi
Dominic H. Choi, LAPD career officer since 1995 and assistant chief from 2021, served as the department's 58th chief and first Asian American chief as interim leader from March 1 to November 2024, then continued under Chief Jim McDonnell.
Don Shipley (Navy SEAL)
Don Shipley (born 1962) is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief, BUD/S class 131, SEAL Teams ONE and TWO, who runs Extreme SEAL Experience and exposes fake Navy SEALs via his SEAL database.
Donald Maclean (spy)
Donald Maclean (1913–1983), codename HOMER, was a British Foreign Office diplomat and Cambridge Five member who spied for the USSR and defected to Moscow with Guy Burgess in May 1951.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey (1921-2017), Astoria, Oregon paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; Bronze Star at Brecourt on D-Day; portrayed by Scott Grimes in Band of Brothers.
Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau
Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (1755–1813) was a French general, son of the marshal de Rochambeau of the American Revolutionary War, and the last French captain-general of Saint-Domingue.
Dong Zhuo (董卓)
Dong Zhuo (董卓, Zhongying), Han frontier warlord from Lintao, Longxi, who seized the Luoyang court in 189, deposed Emperor Shao for puppet Emperor Xian, burned Luoyang in 190, and was assassinated in 192.
Doris Miller
Doris (Dorie) Miller, Waco, Texas-born Navy mess attendant and first African American awarded the Navy Cross for manning a machine gun on USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor; died on USS Liscome Bay in 1943.
Doug Hegdahl
Doug Hegdahl (Douglas Brent Hegdahl III, born 1946), U.S. Navy seaman apprentice and Vietnam War POW at the Hanoi Hilton, called "The Incredibly Stupid One" for feigning illiteracy, memorized about 256 fellow prisoners' names to "Old MacDonald" and disclosed them after his August 5, 1969 release.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), American five-star General of the Army, led Southwest Pacific forces in WWII, governed occupied Japan 1945–1951, commanded UN forces in Korea, and was relieved by President Truman in April 1951.
Douglas Macgregor
Douglas Macgregor, retired U.S. Army colonel, led 2nd ACR's Cougar Squadron at the 1991 Battle of 73 Easting and wrote the Army reform book Breaking the Phalanx (1997); later a Pentagon adviser under Trump and Ukraine war commentator.
Dragging Canoe
Dragging Canoe, also known as Tsiyu Gansini, was a Cherokee war chief who led armed resistance in the Tennessee Valley from 1775 until 1792, founding the Chickamauga confederacy.
Dragutin Dimitrijević (Драгутин Димитријевић)
Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis (Драгутин Димитријевић), 1876-1917, Serbian colonel and intelligence chief, organizer of the 1903 May Overthrow, Black Hand leader, executed after the 1917 Salonika Trial, rehabilitated in 1953.
Drastamat Kanayan
Drastamat Kanayan, known as General Dro, was an Armenian military commander and politician who fought in World War I, served as Minister of War, and commanded the Armenian Legion in World War II.
Draža Mihailović
Draža Mihailović (Dragoljub Mihailović, Дража Михаиловић), 1893–1946, Serbian general who led the royalist Chetnik Yugoslav Army in the Homeland in WWII, was executed for collaboration in 1946 and judicially rehabilitated in Belgrade in 2015.
Duane Chapman
Duane Chapman, "Dog the Bounty Hunter" (born 1953, Denver), is an American bail bondsman and bounty hunter who captured Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003 and starred in A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter (2004–2012).
Dương Đình Nghệ
Dương Đình Nghệ was a Vietnamese warlord who expelled Southern Han forces in 931 and ruled Tĩnh Hải quân as military governor until his assassination in 937.
Dương Văn Minh
Dương Văn Minh (Big Minh, 1916–2001), South Vietnamese general who led the 1963 coup against Diem, was chief of state in 1963–64, and as last president surrendered Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Dušan Simović
Dušan Simović (1882–1962) was a Yugoslav army general who led the 27 March 1941 coup and served as prime minister of Yugoslavia, in exile in London.
Duško Popov (Душко Попов)
Duško Popov (Душко Попов, 1912–1981), Serbian double agent codenamed Tricycle, ran a deception network for MI5 against the Abwehr, warned the FBI before Pearl Harbor, and is widely cited as Ian Fleming's inspiration for James Bond.
E. Howard Hunt
E. Howard Hunt (1918-2007), ex-CIA officer and spy novelist under pseudonyms, organized the 1972 Watergate break-in after Bay of Pigs and Guatemala work, serving 33 months in prison.
Early life and military career of John McCain
Early life and Navy career of John McCain: born 1936 to two four-star admiral fathers' line, Annapolis class of 1958, A-4 pilot shot down over Hanoi in 1967, five and a half years as POW, retired captain 1981.
Ebrahim Zolfaghari
Ebrahim Zolfaghari (ابراهیم ذوالفقاری), also spelled Ibrahim Zolfaghari, is an IRGC-affiliated Iranian officer and spokesperson of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Iran's joint military command, prominent in the 2026 US-Israel-Iran war and the subject of disproven Israeli AI-persona claims.