Society and history

Daniel M. Traynor

Daniel M. Traynor, born 1970 in Devils Lake, North Dakota, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2026.

Daniel Mas

Daniel Mas Valdés is a Chilean politician and business executive serving as Minister of Economy and Minister of Mining since March 2026 under President José Antonio Kast.

Daniel Maté

Daniel Maté is a Spanish former commodity trader who ran worldwide zinc and lead marketing at Glencore, retiring in 2020 with a stake worth about $1 billion.

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 Mulino

Daniel Mulino is an Australian Labor Party politician who serves as Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, and has been the Member for Fraser since 2019.

Daniel Noboa

Daniel Noboa Azin is an Ecuadorian businessman and politician, president of Ecuador since November 2023 and reelected in 2025 to a full term running until 2029.

Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847), 'the Liberator', Irish barrister and nationalist leader who won Catholic Emancipation in 1829 via the Catholic Association and Clare by-election, sat as first Catholic MP in modern times, and led the Repeal campaign until 1847.

Daniel Och

Daniel S. Och is an American investor who founded Och-Ziff Capital Management in 1994, built it to $50 billion in assets, and now runs Willoughby Capital.

Sep 24, 2026

Daniel of Galicia

Daniel of Galicia (Данило Романович), also called Daniel Romanovich or Danylo Romanovych, was a Rurikid prince who unified Volhynia and Galicia, ruling until his death in 1264.

Sep 24, 2026

Daniel of Moscow

Daniil Alexandrovich (Даниил Александрович), 1261 to 1303, was the youngest son of Alexander Nevsky and the first prince of Moscow, founding the dynasty that later produced the tsars of all Rus.

Daniel Oros

Daniel Oros is an American venture capital investor and founding partner of G2 Venture Partners, a Menlo Park firm investing in late-stage companies reducing industry's carbon impact.

Daniel Ortega

Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Sandinista leader and president of Nicaragua since 2007 (previously 1985–1990), rules with co-president Rosario Murillo; abolished term limits, canceled elections in 2026.

Daniel P. Collins

Daniel P. Collins, born 1963 in Brooklyn, is a United States circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit, appointed by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in 2019.

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.

Daniel P. Jordan III

Daniel P. Jordan III, also known as Daniel Porter Jordan III, is an American jurist serving as a federal district judge in Mississippi since 2006.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, known as Pat Moynihan, was an American social scientist, diplomat, and four-term Democratic US senator from New York, serving from 1977 to 2001.

Daniel Pearl

Daniel Pearl (1963-2002), American Wall Street Journal South Asia bureau chief, kidnapped and murdered by militants in Karachi in January 2002 while reporting on Islamic radicals; his case led to the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the 2009 press-freedom act.

Daniel Pfeiffer

Dan Pfeiffer, Obama White House deputy communications director (2009), communications director, and senior adviser (2013–2015), last senior 2008 campaign aide to leave; later CNN contributor, author, and podcast host.

Daniel R. Scoggin

Daniel R. Scoggin, known as Dan Scoggin, is an American restaurant executive who licensed TGI Friday's for the South and Southwest in 1971 and led it as chief executive.

Daniel Remeta

Daniel Eugene Remeta, American spree killer who murdered five people in Florida, Arkansas, and Kansas during a February 1985 crime spree with accomplices Lisa Dunn and James C. Hunter, drew multiple death sentences and was executed in Florida on March 31, 1998.

Daniel Roberts (Australian businessman)

Daniel Roberts is an Australian finance and infrastructure executive who co-founded IREN, a Sydney-headquartered, Nasdaq-listed AI cloud and data center company, serving as Co-CEO alongside his brother Will Roberts.

Oct 10, 2026

Daniel Rock

Daniel Rock is an economist and Wharton School professor who studies the economics of artificial intelligence, known for the "GPTs are GPTs" paper and the Productivity J-Curve.

Sep 21, 2026

Daniel S. Lehrman

Daniel S. Lehrman (1919–1972) was an American comparative psychologist and behavioral endocrinologist known for ring dove experiments, a 1953 critique of Konrad Lorenz, and founding Rutgers's Institute of Animal Behavior.

Daniel S. Loeb

Daniel S. Loeb, known as Dan Loeb, is an American investor who founded the New York hedge fund Third Point in 1995 and leads its activist campaigns.

Oct 22, 2026

Daniel Salamanca

Daniel Salamanca Urey was a Bolivian politician who served as president from 1931 to 1934 and led Bolivia into the Chaco War against Paraguay, being deposed in 1934.

Daniel Sazonov

Daniel Sazonov (born 1993) is a Finnish National Coalition Party politician and lawyer, Mayor of Helsinki since June 2025 and its youngest ever, previously Deputy Mayor for Social Services, Health Care and Rescue Services 2021–2025, of Ingrian-Finnish descent.

Daniel Scandian

Daniel Scandian is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded the online furniture retailer MadeiraMadeira in Curitiba in 2009, a former Formula 3 champion who made the company a unicorn in 2021.

Daniel Siad

Daniel Siad, also recorded as Amar Siad, was an Algerian-born Swedish model scout who recruited women for Jeffrey Epstein, appeared in roughly 2,000 Epstein files records, faced French rape and trafficking complaints, and was found dead in Colombes in July 2026.

Daniel Sickles

Daniel Sickles, Tammany Hall Democrat and Union major general, shot Philip Barton Key in 1859 and won the first US temporary-insanity acquittal; at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863 he moved III Corps to the Peach Orchard against Meade's orders, lost a leg, feuded with Meade, and helped create Gettysburg National Military Park.