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Darragh O’Brien

Darragh O'Brien is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment and Minister for Transport since 2025.

Darrel J. Papillion

Darrel J. Papillion, born 1968 in Eunice, Louisiana, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, nominated by President Biden and confirmed in 2023.

Darrell Duffie

Darrell Duffie is a financial economist at Stanford's Graduate School of Business since 1984, known for Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory and reduced-form models of defaultable bond pricing.

Darrell Figgis

Darrell Figgis (Darghal Figes) was an Irish writer and Independent TD who served as acting chairman of the committee drafting the Irish Free State Constitution in 1922.

Darrell Gaskin

Darrell Gaskin is an American health economist and Johns Hopkins professor who directs the Center for Health Disparities Solutions and studies racial disparities in health care.

Darrell Issa

Darrell Issa is an American businessman and Republican congressman representing San Diego-area districts in the House since 2001, chaired the Oversight Committee, and earlier built a car-alarm company.

Darrell Jackson

Darrell Jackson is an American Democratic politician and member of the South Carolina Senate from District 21, first elected in 1992, and senior pastor of Bible Way Church of Atlas Road in Columbia.

Darrell Powers

Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (1923–2009), Easy Company sharpshooter, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; Foy sniper, tree-spotting at Bastogne, Band of Brothers veteran from Clinchco, Virginia.

Darren Bailey

Darren Bailey is an American Republican politician and farmer from southern Illinois, the party's nominee for Illinois governor in 2026, again facing incumbent JB Pritzker.

Darren Beattie

Darren Jeffrey Beattie, American conservative writer and Duke political theory PhD, founded Revolver News, was fired as a Trump White House speechwriter in 2018 over a white nationalist conference, and served as acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and acting USIP president.

Darren Liccardo

Darren Liccardo is a venture capital investor and engineer who co-founded Catapult Ventures, a seed-stage deep-tech fund, after leading Tesla's Autopilot engineering and DJI's Silicon Valley R&D center.

Darren Mills

Darren Mills is a British video-game executive who co-founded the Sheffield developer Sumo Digital in 2003, led its studio as director, and left when the founders stepped down in 2025.

Darren Pang

Darren Pang, former Chicago Blackhawks goaltender and longtime NHL broadcaster, is the Blackhawks' TV color analyst on CHSN and a TNT lead analyst, after 14 seasons with the St. Louis Blues and ESPN/ABC national work.

Darren R. Sherman

Darren R. Sherman is an American medical-device executive who co-founded Orchestra BioMed, a Nasdaq-listed company, and serves as its President and Chief Operating Officer, holding more than 85 U.S. patents.

Darren Soto

Darren Soto, born in 1978, is an American Democrat who has represented Florida's 9th district in the U.S. House since 2017, after serving in the Florida legislature.

Darrin Camilleri

Darrin Camilleri is an American Democratic politician, a Michigan senator from the 4th district who serves as Assistant Majority Leader after three House terms, and a former teacher.

Darrin Disley

Darrin Disley, born 1967, is a British life-science entrepreneur best known as chief executive of Horizon Discovery Group, a Cambridge gene-editing company he took to a record 2014 AIM listing.

Darrin P. Gayles

Darrin P. Gayles, born Darrin Phillip Gayles in 1966, is a United States district judge in Florida appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014, confirmed 98 to 0.

Darryl Cooper

Darryl Cooper is an American podcaster who hosts The Martyr Made Podcast and sparked wide controversy in 2024 by calling Winston Churchill the villain of World War II.

Darryl Rouson

Darryl Rouson is an American politician and Democratic member of the Florida Senate representing District 16. Born in New Orleans, he was term-limited in 2026.

Dars-i Nizami

Dars-i Nizami (درس نظامی) is a syllabus of Islamic learning compiled in the early eighteenth century by Mulla Nizam al-Din Sihalwi of Lucknow, who died in 1748.

Darshaka

Darshaka (दर्शक) was a king of Magadha named in the Puranic king-lists between Ajatashatru and Udayin, and attested in Bhasa's play Svapna-Vasavadatta, though historians dispute his place in the succession.

Darshan Singh Choudhary

Darshan Singh Choudhary, born in 1975, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and a Member of the Lok Sabha for Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, since 2024, after leading farmers' agitations.

Darshana Patel

Darshana Patel is an American Democratic politician elected to the California State Assembly's 76th district in November 2024, after serving on the Poway school board.

Darshana Singh

Darshana Singh is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha since 2022, after leading the BJP Mahila Morcha.

Darth Vader in Ukrainian politics

Darth Vader in Ukrainian politics: a legally renamed candidate (formerly Viktor Shevchenko) of the Internet Party of Ukraine who ran for president, parliament, and Odessa mayor in 2014–2015, was barred from voting for refusing to unmask, and inspired a Darth Vader Bloc of 44 same-named council candidates.

Dartmoor Zoological Park

Dartmoor Zoological Park (Dartmoor Zoo), Sparkwell, Devon: a 33-acre charitable zoo run by Dartmoor Zoological Society (charity 1158422), bought by Benjamin Mee in 2006, subject of We Bought a Zoo, BIAZA-accredited since 2026.

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College, founded by royal charter in 1769 in Hanover, New Hampshire, is an Ivy League university with about 4,715 undergraduates, a 6% acceptance rate, quarter-system D-Plan calendar, and Geisel, Thayer, and Tuck professional schools.

Dartmouth College fraternities and sororities

Dartmouth College fraternities and sororities are Greek organizations at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. In Winter 2026, 70.98% of eligible students belonged to a GLASS organization.

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 518 (1819): Supreme Court case holding Dartmouth's 1769 royal charter a contract under the Contract Clause, shielding private corporate charters from state legislative alteration.