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Dangchang

Dangchang (宕昌) was a Qiang state in northwest China, founded by the chief Liang Qin and recognized by the Northern Wei in 424; it lasted until its destruction in 566.

Danggeun Market

Danggeun Market, known abroad as Karrot (당근마켓), is a South Korean hyperlocal secondhand marketplace founded in Seoul in 2015 and valued at $2.7 billion in 2021.

Dangote Cement

Dangote Cement is a Nigerian cement manufacturer and the largest producer in sub-Saharan Africa, with about 55 million tonnes of annual capacity across 11 African countries.

Dangote Group

Dangote Group is a Nigerian industrial conglomerate built by Aliko Dangote from a Lagos trading business started in 1977, spanning cement, sugar, salt, fertilizer, and oil refining.

Dangote Petroleum Refinery

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is a petroleum refinery in the Lekki Free Trade Zone near Lagos, Nigeria, the largest in Africa at 650,000 barrels per day.

Dangun (단군)

Dangun (단군, 檀君), legendary founder and first king of Gojoseon in 2333 BCE, son of Hwanung and the bear-woman Ungnyeo; recorded in the Samguk yusa, basis of Gaecheonjeol and the Dangi calendar.

Dani Isaacsohn

Dani Isaacsohn is an American Democratic politician representing Ohio House District 24, a Cincinnati district including Downtown and Over-the-Rhine, and serving as Minority Leader of the Ohio House.

Dani Molina Carmona

Dani Molina Carmona is a Spanish technology entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Postpay, a leading Gulf buy-now-pay-later fintech founded in Dubai in 2019, and served as its chief technology officer.

Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik is a Turkish-American economist at Harvard Kennedy School, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, known for the globalization trilemma and his 2016 work on premature deindustrialization.

Dani Sterbinsky

Dani Sterbinsky is an American politician, Navy veteran, and 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Arizona's 9th district, running in the November 2026 general election.

Danica ilirska

Danica ilirska was the first Croatian literary magazine, published by Ljudevit Gaj in Zagreb from 1835 as the central organ of the Croatian National Revival, or Illyrism.

Danica Roem

Danica Roem (born 1984) is a Democratic Virginia state senator for District 30, former Prince William County journalist and thrash metal vocalist, and the first openly transgender person elected and seated in a U.S. state legislature, in 2017.

Daniel (biblical figure)

Daniel, also known as Belteshazzar, is the hero of the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible, a Judean exile who interprets dreams and receives apocalyptic visions in Babylon.

Daniel (rival of David b. Judah)

Daniel was a rival claimant, an "anti-exilarch," who contested David b. Judah for the Babylonian exilarchate in a dispute arbitrated by caliph al-Maʾmūn in 825.

Daniel A. Bress

Daniel A. Bress is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Daniel A. Dailey

Daniel A. Dailey, 15th Sergeant Major of the Army (January 2015 to August 2019), career infantryman and combat veteran of Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom who drove NCO development reforms including STEP and the Basic Leader Course, later an AUSA vice president.

Daniel A. Levinthal

Daniel A. Levinthal is a management scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, known for absorptive capacity, the exploration–exploitation trade-off, and rugged-landscape models of organizational adaptation.

Daniel Akaka

Daniel Kahikina Akaka (1924–2018), Hawaii Democrat, first Native Hawaiian U.S. senator; House 1977–1990, Senate 1990–2013; sponsor of the unpassed Akaka Bill and the 1993 Apology Resolution.

Daniel Alders

Daniel Alders is an American politician serving as the Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 6, entirely within Smith County including Tyler.

Daniel Andrews

Daniel Andrews, known as Dan Andrews, is an Australian Labor politician who was Premier of Victoria from December 2014 to his September 2023 resignation, leading through long COVID lockdowns.

Daniel arap Moi

Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was a Kenyan politician who served as its second president from 1978 to 2002, the longest-serving head of state in Kenya's history.

Daniel b. Hasdai (Daniel b. Solomon) of Baghdad

Daniel b. Hasdai (Hebrew: דניאל הנשיא הגדול) was the Exilarch, or Resh Galuta, of Babylonian Jewry at Baghdad in the later 12th century, dying around 1174–75.

Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Berrigan, also known as Father Dan Berrigan, was an American Jesuit priest, poet, and antiwar activist who burned draft files at Catonsville, Maryland in 1968.

Daniel Blank

Daniel Joseph Blank (born 1962) is a Louisiana serial killer who confessed to six River Parishes home-invasion murders in 1996-97; distinct from Daniel Arthur Blank of the Zizians.

Daniel Bomberg

Daniel Bomberg (דניאל בומברג) was a Christian printer from Antwerp who ran the largest Hebrew press in Venice from 1516, printing the first Talmuds and the Rabbinic Bible that fixed the Hebrew Bible's standard text.

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (1734–1820) was an American frontiersman and pioneer who settled Kentucky, carved the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in 1775, and became a folk hero in his own lifetime.

Daniel C. Hallin

Daniel C. Hallin is Distinguished Professor of Communication Emeritus at UC San Diego, known for The Uncensored War (1986) and Comparing Media Systems (2004), co-written with Paolo Mancini.

Daniel Camargo Barbosa

Daniel Camargo Barbosa (1930–1994), "El Sádico del Chanquito," a Colombian serial killer and rapist who murdered girls in Colombia and Ecuador; escaped Gorgona prison in 1984, confessed 71 Ecuadorian killings, drew Ecuador's 16-year maximum sentence, and was killed in prison by a victim's relative.

Daniel Cameron (American politician)

Daniel Cameron, Kentucky attorney general 2020–2024 and 2023 Republican gubernatorial nominee, lost to Andy Beshear, handled the Breonna Taylor grand jury case, and is a 2026 U.S. Senate candidate.

Daniel Castanho

Daniel Castanho is a Brazilian entrepreneur who cofounded Ânima Educação in 2003, led it as CEO for 15 years, and has chaired its board since 2018.