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D
D, the fourth letter of the Latin and English alphabet, from Semitic daleth (door) via Greek delta; sounds [d], flap, /dʒ/; Roman numeral 500; Unicode U+0044/U+0064.
d Card
The d Card (dカード) is a credit card issued by Japanese mobile carrier NTT Docomo, earning d Points on spending, with iD contactless payment and four tiers.
D-Company
D-Company (D Company, D-Gang) is the transnational crime syndicate founded by Dawood Ibrahim in 1970s Mumbai, now based in Pakistan, known for narcotics, extortion, the 1993 Bombay bombings, ISI ties, and U.S. Kingpin Act sanctions.
D-Day (military term)
D-Day (paired with H-Hour) is the military designation for the unnamed launch day and hour of an operation, used for planning and secrecy; the D stands for "day," first recorded in a September 1918 First Army field order, and popularly fixed to the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944.
D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm
D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm: 1944 MI5 investigation after codewords Utah, Omaha, Overlord, Mulberry, and Neptune appeared in crosswords set by Leonard Dawe; cleared as coincidence.
D-Link
D-Link (友讯科技) is a Taiwanese networking equipment maker headquartered in Taipei. Founded in 1986 as Datex Systems, it sells routers, switches, wireless LAN equipment, and IP cameras in 43 countries.
D. Brooks Smith
D. Brooks Smith, born David Brooks Smith in 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
D. C. Stephenson
D. C. Stephenson (David Curtis Stephenson, 1891–1966), Grand Dragon of the 1920s Indiana Ku Klux Klan; convicted of second-degree murder in 1925 for Madge Oberholtzer's death, his prison leaks destroyed Klan-backed Indiana politicians.
D. Damodar Rao
D. Damodar Rao, full name Divakonda Damodar Rao, is an Indian Bharat Rashtra Samithi politician representing Telangana in the Rajya Sabha since 2022, with a term to 2028.
D. Devaraj Urs (ದೇವರಾಜ ಅರಸು)
D. Devaraj Urs (ದೇವರಾಜ ಅರಸು), 1915–1982, Karnataka Chief Minister 1972–1977 and 1978–1980, first CM from a non-dominant caste; champion of backward classes via 1974 land reforms, Havanur Commission reservations, and the AHINDA coalition.
D. E. Shaw & Co.
D. E. Shaw & Co., also known as DE Shaw, is a New York quantitative investment firm founded in 1988 that manages over $115 billion and ranks among the most profitable hedge fund managers in history.
D. F. Malan
D. F. Malan, born Daniel François Malan, was a South African National Party politician who served as prime minister from 1948 to 1954 and introduced apartheid.
D. Gale Johnson
D. Gale Johnson (David Gale Johnson) was an American agricultural economist at the University of Chicago and president of the American Economic Association in 1999.
D. John Sauer
D. John Sauer, US Solicitor General since April 2025 and former Missouri solicitor general (2017–2023), lead counsel in Trump v. United States on presidential immunity.
D. K. Aruna
D. K. Aruna, born 1960, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Mahbubnagar in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after serving as a state minister from 2009 to 2014.
D. K. Shivakumar
D. K. Shivakumar (born 1962), Indian National Congress leader and Chief Minister of Karnataka from 3 June 2026 after serving as Deputy CM (2023–2026) and KPCC president (2020–2026), led Congress to 135 seats in 2023 and declared Rs 1,413.78 crore assets.
D. M. Fisher
D. Michael Fisher is an American jurist on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.
D. Raja
D. Raja, full name Doraisamy Raja, is an Indian politician who became General Secretary of the Communist Party of India in 2019, the first Dalit to hold the post.
D. S. Senanayake
Don Stephen Senanayake (1884–1952), Ceylonese statesman and Father of the Nation; first Prime Minister of independent Ceylon 1947–1952, UNP founder, agriculture and irrigation minister behind Gal Oya and the Land Development Ordinance.
D. Sarathkumar
D. Sarathkumar (Ghilli Sarath, born 1991/92) is a Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam politician, civil contractor, and first-time MLA from Tambaram, elected in 2026 with 118,967 votes; distinct from actor-politician R. Sarathkumar, he is Minister for Human Resources Management in CM Vijay's Tamil Nadu cabinet.
D. Scott Mackesy
D. Scott Mackesy is an American private equity investor and Managing Partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, which he joined in 1998 after healthcare research at Morgan Stanley.
D. Sridhar Babu
D. Sridhar Babu (Duddilla Sridhar Babu), born in 1969, is an Indian National Congress politician and Telangana minister for IT, industries, and legislative affairs, representing Manthani since 1999.
D. T. Suzuki
D. T. Suzuki, born Teitaro Suzuki and also known as Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, was a Japanese Buddhist scholar and translator who brought Zen to the West.
D. V. Gundappa
D. V. Gundappa (ಡಿ. ವಿ. ಗುಂಡಪ್ಪ), known by the pen-name DVG, was an Indian poet and journalist of Mysore who served in its Legislative Council and received the Padma Bhushan.
D. Y. Patil
D. Y. Patil (Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil, 1935–2026) was an Indian educationist, Padma Shri 1991, Governor of Tripura, Bihar, and West Bengal, and founder of the D Y Patil Group of 200+ institutions.
D.A.V. College Managing Committee
D.A.V. College Managing Committee (DAVCMC), New Delhi, executive body of the DAV College Trust and Management Society founded 1886 in Lahore; runs 900+ schools and colleges across 21 Indian states, a private unaided body under Article 12 case law.
D.C. sniper attacks
D.C. sniper attacks (Beltway sniper attacks): October 2002 shootings in which John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, killed 10 and wounded 3 around Washington, D.C. using a Bushmaster rifle from a modified Chevy Caprice; Muhammad was executed in 2009, Malvo remains imprisoned.
D.J. Swearingen
D.J. Swearingen is an American politician and attorney serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 89th district, covering Erie and Ottawa counties.
D.R. Horton
D.R. Horton, Inc. is the largest homebuilder in the United States by volume since 2002, founded by Donald R. Horton in 1978 and closing about 90,000 homes in fiscal 2024.
d'Alba
d'Alba (달바) is a premium vegan cosmetics company founded in Seoul in 2016 by Ban Sung-yeon, known for its White Truffle First Spray Serum, nicknamed the flight-attendant mist, which has sold over 50 million bottles.