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Dana M. Sabraw

Dana M. Sabraw, also known as Dana Makoto Sabraw, is an American jurist serving as a federal district judge in San Diego since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.

Dana Moraly

Dana Moraly is an American venture capital finance executive who has served as Partner and Chief Financial & Administrative Officer at March Capital Partners since 2014.

Dana Nessel

Dana Nessel, Michigan's 54th attorney general (Democrat, term-limited), civil rights attorney in DeBoer v. Snyder; secured $1.6B opioid settlements, sued Enbridge Line 5 and PFAS makers, charged 2020 false electors.

Dana Perino

Dana Perino, American commentator and former White House press secretary (2007-2009) under George W. Bush, first Republican woman in the role; now Fox News co-anchor of America's Newsroom and co-host of The Five.

Dana Rohrabacher

Dana Rohrabacher, Republican U.S. Representative from California 1989-2019, former Reagan speechwriter, represented districts 42nd/46th/48th, defeated in 2018 by Harley Rouda.

Dana Stalder

Dana Stalder is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Matrix, which he joined in 2008 after senior roles at PayPal, eBay, and Netscape, leading its fintech investing.

Dana Tippin Cutler

Dana Tippin Cutler, Kansas City trial lawyer, first woman of color elected president of The Missouri Bar (2016), partner at James W. Tippin & Associates, and co-judge on Cutlers Court.

Dana Trabulsy

Dana Trabulsy is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 84th district in St. Lucie County, including Fort Pierce.

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) is a Boston comprehensive cancer center founded by Sidney Farber in 1947, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center known for the Jimmy Fund and its 2026 BIDMC transition.

Danaë (Δανάη)

Danaë (Δανάη), Argive princess and daughter of King Acrisius, imprisoned for a prophecy that her son would kill him, impregnated by Zeus as a golden shower, mother of Perseus, from Homer through lost Euripides plays to Titian, Correggio, and Klimt.

Danaher Corporation

Danaher Corporation is an American life sciences and diagnostics company founded by the Rales brothers in the early 1980s, operating more than 15 companies in over 50 countries.

Danantara

Danantara, formally the Badan Pengelola Investasi Daya Anagata Nusantara, is Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund, launched by President Prabowo Subianto in February 2025 to manage state-owned enterprise assets directly.

Danasagara of Ballala Sena

The Danasagara (दानसागर) is a Sanskrit digest on ritual gifts compiled by Ballala Sena, a Sena king of Bengal, around 1168, among the earliest works of the dana-nibandha genre.

Danbal-ryeong

Danbal-ryeong (단발령, "Topknot Prohibition Decree") was an 1895 decree by the Kim Hong-jip cabinet of Joseon Korea requiring men to cut their topknots, which sparked armed uprisings.

Dancing mania

Dancing mania (choreomania), also Saint Vitus' Dance or dancing plague, was an epidemic of frenzied compulsive dancing in central Europe from the 14th to early 17th centuries, best documented in Strasbourg in 1518, variously explained as mass psychogenic illness, ergotism, or ritual behavior.

Dancing plague of 1518

The dancing plague of 1518 was an outbreak of compulsive dancing in Strasbourg, Holy Roman Empire, beginning mid-July 1518 with Frau Troffea; over 400 people were afflicted within four weeks, and authorities responded with music bans, paid dancers, and pilgrimage to St Vitus at Saverne.

Daṇḍapanī

Daṇḍapanī (दण्डपाणि) was a Sakyan layman of Kapilavatthu and kinsman of the Buddha who questioned him in the Nigrodha park, as recorded in the Madhupiṇḍika Sutta.

Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera

Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera, alias "La Quica", reputed Medellín Cartel hitman under Pablo Escobar; convicted in Brooklyn in 1994 for the Avianca Flight 203 bombing, serving ten consecutive life sentences in California while claiming innocence.

Dandin

Dandin (दण्डिन्) was a Sanskrit poet and theorist of poetics who lived at Kanchipuram, capital of the Pallava dynasty, and wrote the Dashakumaracharita and Kavyadarsha.

Dane Boersma

Dane Boersma (1954–2009) was an American dairy farmer who co-founded Dutch Bros. Coffee in Grants Pass, Oregon, in 1992 with his brother Travis, and died of ALS.

Dane Rudhyar

Dane Rudhyar, born Daniel Chennevière in Paris in 1895, was a French-born American composer and astrologer who reformulated astrology into the psychological, non-predictive humanistic astrology.

Danelaw

Danelaw (Old English Dena lagu, 'law of the Danes'): the Danish-law region of Anglo-Saxon England, traditionally from Yorkshire to Middlesex, bounded by the Alfred–Guthrum treaty, with the Five Boroughs and sokemen-based society.

Danes

Danes (dansker) are the North Germanic people of Denmark, named in Old Norse danir, Latin dani, Greek danoi. Distinct Viking Age society, sixth-century South Scandinavian hegemony, Jelling Christianization, ~6 million today.

Danevirke

Danevirke (Dannevirke, Danewerk): medieval Danish defensive wall system, about 30 km, crossing the Schleswig Isthmus in northern Germany; built from c. 450-500, reinforced in 737 and under Harald Bluetooth, brick-faced by Valdemar the Great; UNESCO World Heritage with Hedeby since 2018.

Dang Khac Vy

Đặng Khắc Vỹ (Dang Khac Vy) is a Vietnamese businessman who co-founded Vietnam International Bank (VIB) and chairs Mareven Food Holdings, a Russian instant-noodle producer.

Dang Ngoai

Dang Ngoai (Đàng Ngoài), the "outer region," was the northern polity of Dai Viet from the Gianh River northward, ruled by the Le kings and Trinh lords until 1786.

Dang Tran Con

Dang Tran Con (Đặng Trần Côn) was an eighteenth-century Vietnamese scholar and poet under the restored Le dynasty, author of the masterpiece Chinh phụ ngâm.

Dang Trong

Dang Trong (Đàng Trong), known to Westerners as Cochinchina, was the southern Vietnamese polity ruled by the Nguyen lords from 1558 to 1786, covering central Vietnam and the Mekong Delta.

Dang Yanbao

Dang Yanbao (党彦宝), born 1973 in Yanchi County, Ningxia, is a Chinese energy entrepreneur who founded and chairs Baofeng Energy, a coal-chemicals producer listed in Shanghai since 2019.

Dangal (दंगल टीवी) (TV channel)

Dangal TV (दंगल टीवी) is a free-to-air Hindi general entertainment channel owned by Enterr10 Television, launched 2009 as a Bhojpuri film channel, Hindi GEC since 2015, and India's most-viewed channel via DD Freedish reach.