Society and history

Damien Lapray

Damien Lapray is a French-trained neuroscientist turned diagnostics executive who co-founded the Swiss liquid-biopsy company Hedera Dx in 2021 and serves as its Chief Commercial Officer, after leading commercial operations at SOPHiA GENETICS.

Daming Baochao

Daming Baochao (大明宝钞), the "Great Ming Precious Note," was the Ming dynasty's inconvertible paper currency, issued from 1375, the largest paper money in Chinese history, which collapsed by the mid-1400s.

Daming calendar

The Daming calendar (大明曆) was the official calendar promulgated by the Liao dynasty in 994; a Jin revision served the Jin dynasty and early Mongol Empire until the Shoushi calendar replaced it.

Sep 24, 2026

Daming Tuhuan

Daming Tuhuan (大明土断) was a land-registration reform issued by Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song in 457, moving émigré households from tax-exempt white registers onto taxable yellow registers.

Damiq-ilishu

Damiq-ilishu, also written Damiq-ilišu, was the last king of the First Dynasty of Isin, a Mesopotamian city-state, reigning about 1814–1792 BC until Rim-Sin of Larsa conquered Isin and ended the dynasty.

Sep 25, 2026

Damjing

Damjing (曇徵) was a Goguryeo monk who went to Japan in 610, recorded as a scholar of the Five Classics and a maker of paper, ink, and colors.

Damming of the Tigris by Abi-eshuh

The damming of the Tigris by Abi-ešuh was a hydraulic military operation in which the Babylonian king tried to defeat Ilī-ma-ilu of the Sealand by drying up the southern marshes.

Damnatio ad bestias

Damnatio ad bestias, Roman capital punishment by wild animals in the amphitheater, also called condemnation to the beasts. Applied to coiners, murderers, traitors, and Christians; not open to pardon; evidenced by York lion-bite skeleton and Perge terracottas.

Damnatio memoriae

Damnatio memoriae, the modern term for Roman memory sanctions against condemned emperors and traitors: name erasure, statue destruction, coin recall; coined in 1689, never used in antiquity.

Damnation

Damnation is the fate of the damned at death or the Last Judgment in Christian teaching, chiefly understood as eternal separation from God after dying in mortal sin.

Damnum iniuria datum

Damnum iniuria datum is the Roman-law delict of wrongful damage to property, created by the lex Aquilia of about 287 BCE and ancestor of civil-law tortious liability.

Damocles

Damocles (Δαμοκλῆς), courtier of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius, subject of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations 5.61 parable of a sword hanging by a horsehair; source of the idiom "sword of Damocles" for an imminent, ever-present threat, first recorded in English in 1747.

Damodar Agarwal

Damodar Agarwal, born in 1955, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Bhilwara, Rajasthan, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after decades as a BJP organizer.

Damodar Raja Narasimha

Damodar Raja Narasimha is an Indian Congress politician who serves as Telangana's health minister, appointed in December 2023, having earlier been Deputy Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh from 2011 to 2014.

Damodar Rawat

Damodar Rawat is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician serving as Minister of Transport in the Government of Bihar, first elected from Jhajha in 2000 and now a six-time legislator.

Oct 10, 2026

Damodara Ashrama II

Damodara Ashrama II is the name used for holder no. 71 of the Shankaracharya office at the Dwarka Sharada Peetham in Gujarat, with 1928 given in the official list.

Oct 10, 2026

Damodara Tirtha

Damodara Tirtha was the 141st Shankaracharya of the Govardhan Matha at Puri, holding the office from 1883 to 1898, between Loknath Tirtha and Madhusudan Tirtha.

Damodaragupta

Damodaragupta (दामोदरगुप्त) was a Sanskrit poet and chief minister of King Jayapida of Kashmir in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, known for the satirical poem Kuttanimata.

Damodardeva

Damodardeva (দামোদৰদেৱ), born in 1488, was a Brahmin disciple of Sankaradeva who, after Sankaradeva's death in 1568, founded the Brahma-samhati, one of the four main divisions of Assamese Vaishnavism.

Damodargupta

Damodargupta (दमोदरगुप्त) was a Kashmiri poet and minister at the court of King Jayapida in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, author of the Sanskrit verse novel Kuttanimata.

Damodarpur Copper-plates

The Damodarpur copper-plates (दमोदरपुर ताम्रपत्र) are copper-plate land-sale charters from North Bengal under the Gupta emperors Kumaragupta I and his successors, first edited in 1919-20.

Damola Adamolekun

Damola Adamolekun, born 1989 in Nigeria, is an American restaurant executive who led P.F. Chang's from 2019 and became Red Lobster's youngest CEO in 2024.

Damon Buffini

Sir Damon Buffini is a British financier and founding partner of the private equity firm Permira, which he led from 1997 to 2010, later chairing the National Theatre and the BBC's deputy chair.

Damon Connolly

Damon Connolly is an American Democratic politician representing California's 12th Assembly district since 2022, previously a Marin County Supervisor and Vice Mayor of San Rafael.

Damon Galdo

Damon Galdo is an American Republican politician and construction worker who hosts a conservative podcast, running for New Jersey's 1st congressional district seat in 2026.

Damon R. Leichty

Damon R. Leichty, born 1971, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Indiana since 2019, appointed by President Trump.

Sep 24, 2026

Damrong Rajanubhab

Damrong Rajanubhab, born Prince Diswarakumar, was a Siamese prince and historian, Minister of the Interior from 1892 to 1915, who rebuilt Siam's provincial government and is called the father of Thai history.

Damsel in distress

Damsel in distress: a stock character and narrative trope of a young woman in danger rescued by a male hero, from Andromeda and medieval romance to King Kong, Super Mario, and Zelda, and a long-standing target of feminist media criticism.