List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
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- Diabelli, Anton, (1781-1858), music publisher, editor and composer
- Diaconis, Persi, statistician
- Diaghilev, Serge, (1872-1929), ballet impresario
- Diamond, Bob
- Diamond, David, (born 1915), composer
- Diamond, Jim, musician
- Diamond, King, musician
- Diamond, Neil, (born 1941), US musician, singer-songwriter
- Diana, Princess of Wales, (1961-1997), Princess of the United Kingdom
- Dias, Bartolomeu, (1450-1500), Portuguese explorer
- Diaz Alfaro, Abelardo, (1916-1999), writer
- Diaz, Cameron, (born 1972), Hollywood star, half Cuban
- Diaz, Hicliff, (born 1981), Printing Supplies Manager, Hilliard Farber & Co., Inc
- Diaz, Edgardo, Creator of Menudo
- Diaz, Porfirio, (1830-1915), Mexican President
- Dicaearchus, (circa 350 BC-circa 290 BC), geographer
- DiCaprio, Leonardo, (born 1974), US actor
- Dickens, Charles, (1812-1870), British author
- Dicke, Robert, (USA, 1916-1997), astronomer
- Dickey, Bill, (1907-1993), baseball star, coach, manager, scout
- Dickey, James, (1923-1997), poet
- Dickinson, Angie, (born 1931), US actress
- Dickinson, Bruce, (born 1958), British musician of Iron Maiden
- Dickinson, David, television presenter
- Dickinson, Emily, (1830-1886), American poet
- Dick, Magic, (born 1945), musician ("The J. Geils Band")
- Dick, Philip K, (1928-1982), US science fiction writer
- Dickson, Gordon R, (1923-2001), US science fiction author
- Dickson, W.K, motion picture camera
- Diddley, Bo, (born 1928), musician
- Diderot, Denis, (1713-1784), French composer
- Didion, Joan, (born 1934), writer
- Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor
- Dido, (born 1971), singer
- Didring, Ernst, (1868-1931), swedish writer
- Diefenbaker, John George (1895-1979), 13th Prime Minister of Canada
- Diels, Rudolf, (1900-1957), first head of the Gestapo
- Diem, Carl, (1882-1962), sports scientist
- Diemberger, Kurt, (born 1932), climber - first ascents of Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri
- Dies, Albert Christoph, (born 1755), composer
- Diesel, Rudolf, (1858-1913), German inventor
- Dies, Martin, (died 1972), American politician
- Dieskau, Jean Erdman, Baron, (1701-1767), French General in America
- Diestro, Lucio, (born 1913), composer
- Dietrich, Marlene, (1901-1992), German-born actress
- Dietrich, Sepp, (1892-1966), SS general
- DiFranco, Ani, (born 1970), US musician
- Diggs, Taye, (born 1972), actor
- Dijkstra, Edsger, (1930-2002), early programmer, later a computer scientist
- Dijkstra, Sjoukje, (born 1942), figure skater
- Diktonius, Elmer, poet
- Dillard, Annie, (born 1945), poet, essayist, novelist
- Diller, Phyllis, (born 1917), comedienne
- Dillinger, John, (1902-?1934?), US gangster
- Dillon, John, (1851-1927), Irish Home Rule leader
- Dillon, Kevin, (born 1965), US actor
- Dillon, Matt, (born 1964), US actor
- Dilthey, Wilhelm, (1833-1911), philosopher
- Dilworth, Thomas, (died 1780), British cleric & writer
- Dimaggio, Joe, (1914-1999), US Baseball Hall of Famer
- Dimas, Pyrros
- DiMeola, Al, (born 1954), musician
- Dimitrijevic, Dragutin, (1877-1917), founder and leader of Black Hand society
- Dimitrios II of Alexandria, (1862-1870), Coptic Pope
- Dinesen, Isak, (1885-1962), (aka Karen Blixen), Danish writer
- Dingle, Herbert, (USA, 1890-1978), astronomer, astrophysicist
- Dinh, Khai, (died 1925), Emperor of Vietnam
- Dio Cassius, Roman historian
- Diocletian, (245-313), Roman Emperor
- Diogenes, (114-129), Greek patriarch of Constantinople
- Dionne, Marcel, (born 1951), professional ice hockey player
- Dionysius Exiguus, (c. 470-c. 540), "the little" "Dionysious Pseudo-Areopagite"
- Dionysius, Metropolitan of Moscow, (1581-1587)
- Dionysius of Alexandria, (248-264), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Dionysius, Pope, (260-268)
- Diophantus, (circa 298 BC-214 BC), mathematician
- Dior, Christian, (1905-1957), French fashion designer
- Dioscoros II of Alexandria (Coptic Patriarch), (516-517), Coptic Pope
- Dioscorus of Alexandria, (444-451), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice, (1902-1984), French quantum physicist
- Dirichlet, Peter, (died 1859), mathematician
- Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune, (1805-1859), mathematician
- Dirkhising, Jesse, (1986-1999), young victim of crime
- Dirksen, Everett, (1896-1969), former Senator from Illinois
- Di Rupo, Elio, Minister-President of Wallonia
- Disch, Thomas M, US science fiction author
- Disney, Doris Miles, (born 1907), writer
- Disney, John, barrister and archaeologist
- Disney, Walt, (1901-1966), US animator & producer
- Disraeli, Benjamin, (1804-1881), UK prime minister
- D'Israeli, Isaac, (1766-1848), English author, father of Benjamin Disraeli
- Ditka, Mike, (born 1939), American football player, coach, commentator
- Ditko, Steve, (born 1927), US comic artist
- Divine (Glen Milstead), (1945-1988), actor, transvestite
- Divine, Dreuxilla, Puerto Rican actor, drag queen
- Divis, Vaclav Prokop, (1698-1765), inventor of the lightning rod
- Dix, Dorothea, (1802-1887), US pioneer of nursing
- Dix, Dorothy, (1861-1951), journalist, activist
- Dixit, Madhuri, (born 1967), actor
- Dix, Matthias, (born 1982), German story writer.
- Dix, Otto, (1891-1969), German painter
- Dixon, Jeane, (1904-1997), US astrologer
- Dixon, Thomas, US novelist and racist
- Dixon, Willie, (died 1992), musician