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Danny Minton

Danny Minton is an American politician and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Texas's 6th congressional district, having previously identified as a Republican.

Danny Norber

Danny Norber is an American Republican politician who represented New York's 16th Assembly district in Nassau County from 2025, the first Republican there in over 50 years.

Danny Parkins

Danny Parkins is an American sports talk host, co-host of FS1's First Things First: OT since 2024, formerly of the Parkins & Spiegel Show on Chicago's 670 The Score and 610 Sports in Kansas City, and co-author of Pipeline to the Pros.

Danny Porush

Danny Porush, American former stockbroker, co-founder and president of Stratton Oakmont with Jordan Belfort; pump-and-dump frauds, guilty pleas, four-year prison term, and the real Donnie Azoff in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Danny Rimer (Index Ventures)

Danny Rimer, born 1970, is a British-based venture capitalist and partner at Index Ventures, where he led the early investment in Figma and backs Dropbox, Discord, and Etsy.

Danny Rolling

Danny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who pled guilty to murdering five college students in Gainesville, Florida, in 1990 and was executed in 2006.

Danny Verdin

Daniel B. "Danny" Verdin III is an American Republican politician, a South Carolina senator from the 9th district since 2000 who chairs the Senate Medical Affairs Committee.

Danny Wolfe

Danny Wolfe (Daniel Richard Wolfe, 1976-2010) was a Canadian gangster who co-founded the Indian Posse street gang in Winnipeg in 1988 with his brother Richard, served a life sentence for a double murder, joined the Hells Angels, and was killed in prison.

Danny Yeung

Danny Yeung is a Hong Kong entrepreneur who co-founded the diagnostics company Prenetics in 2014, led it to a NASDAQ listing in 2022, and remains its CEO.

Danny Yong

Danny Yong (Yong Ming Chong) is a Singapore investor who co-founded Dymon Asia Capital in 2008, a hedge fund manager that grew to about $7.5 billion.

Dano-Swedish War (1813–1814)

Dano-Swedish War 1813–1814: final Danish-Swedish war, fought in Holstein and Schleswig. Sweden under Karl Johan (Bernadotte) defeated Napoleonic ally Denmark, forcing the Treaty of Kiel (14 January 1814) and the cession of Norway.

Danske Bank

Danske Bank is a Danish bank, the dominant bank in Denmark and second-largest in the Nordic region, known for the Estonian money-laundering scandal of 2007 to 2015.

Dantakumāra

Dantakumāra (दन्तकुमार) is, in Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicle tradition, the prince of Ujjain who with his wife Hemamālā brought the Buddha's Tooth Relic to Ceylon.

Danu (Irish goddess)

Danu is the reconstructed name of the presumed ancestral mother-goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology; only the genitive Danann is attested, and scholars largely treat her as a modern construction distinct from the attested goddess Anu.

Danube Commission

The Danube Commission is an intergovernmental body, set up by the Belgrade Convention of 1948, that works to secure and expand free navigation on the Danube for merchant ships of any flag.

Danube Steam Navigation Company

The Danube Steam Navigation Company (Erste Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, DDSG) was an Austrian shipping company founded in Vienna in 1829, by 1880 the world's largest inland shipper.

Danubian Sich

The Danubian Sich (Задунайська Січ) was a community of exiled Zaporozhian Cossacks founded in the Danube delta on Ottoman territory after Russia destroyed their Sich in 1775, lasting until 1828.

Danuhepa

Danuhepa, also Tanuhepa, was a Hittite Great Queen known from seal impressions found at the capital Hattusa and from a court case that ruined her.

Dany Bébel-Gisler

Dany Bébel-Gisler (1935–2003) was a Guadeloupean sociolinguist, essayist, and novelist who fought for recognition of Antillean Creole, directed a Creole-language school, worked on UNESCO's Slave Route project, and wrote Léonora.

Danylo Apostol

Danylo Apostol, a Ukrainian Cossack military leader and statesman, served as colonel of the Myrhorod regiment until 1727 and later as Hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine until his death in 1734.

Dao administration (Dao and phu divisions)

Dao administration (dao thua tuyen) was the territorial system of local government in Dai Viet, reformed by King Le Thanh Tong through the Hieu dinh quan che of 1471.

Dao Duy Tu

Dao Duy Tu (Đào Duy Từ, 1572–1634) was a Vietnamese scholar and strategist who served the Nguyen lord and built the Luy Thay defensive walls.

Dao'an (Eastern Jin monk, 312–385)

Dao'an (道安, 312–385) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Eastern Jin period, called a father of Chinese Buddhism for his scripture catalog, monastic rules, and translation bureau in Chang'an.

Dao'an (Tang dynasty Vinaya master, 654–717)

Dao'an (道岸, 654–717) was a Tang dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk and Nanshan Vinaya master who spread the Four-Part Vinaya through Jiangnan and taught Jianzhen, who later carried Buddhist ordination to Japan.

Daochuo

Daochuo (道綽, known in Japan as Dōshaku) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, 562–645, who transmitted Tanluan's Pure Land teaching, wrote the Anle ji, and is counted as the second Pure Land patriarch.

Daodu

Daodu (道度, 462–526) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liang dynasty who transmitted the bodhisattva precepts to 170 believers and died by self-immolation while reciting the Lotus Sutra.

Daofa

Daofa (道法) was a fifth-century Chinese Buddhist monk, reportedly dead by 474, who lived through the Northern Wei persecution of Buddhism from 445 to 453 and its later restoration.

Daofu

Daofu (道怤), also known as Jingqing Daofu, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the late Tang and Five Dynasties period, a Dharma heir of Xuefeng Yicun.

Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)

Daoguang Emperor (道光帝, Minning, temple name Xuanzong) was the Qing emperor from 1820 to 1850, known for fiscal austerity, the 1824 Grand Canal crisis, opium prohibition, and the First Opium War.

Daoism (Daoist school)

Daoism (道家) was a school of thought of China's Warring States period, grouped under one name by Han historians and politically influential in the early Western Han.