Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Concise biographies of noteworthy people in history, sports, politics, business and entertainment from the respected American Heritage Dictionary — when the people flourished, what they accomplished and why they're famous.
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d'Amboise, Jacques (American dancer)
D'Annunzio, Gabriele (Italian poet, novelist, dramatist & military leader)
Da Ponte, Lorenzo (Italian poet & musician)
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé (French painter, physicist, inventor & photographer)
Dahl, Roald (Writer)
Daimler, Gottlieb (German engineer & inventor)
Daladier, Édouard (French politician & statesman)
Dale, Sir Henry Hallett (English scientist)
Dale, Sir Thomas (American statesman)
Daley, Richard Joseph (American politician)
Dalton, John (Scientist)
Dalton, Robert (American outlaw)
Dam, (Carl Peter) Henrik (Danish biologist & chemist)
Damien de Veuster, Joseph (Hawaiian Catholic missionary)
Damocles (Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder)
Damrosch, Leopold (German musician)
Dan (in the Old Testament)
Dana, Richard Henry (American poet & writer)
Daniel (World Artist)
Danilova, Alexandra (Russian-American ballet dancer)
Danton, Georges Jacques (French statesman & politician)
Darío, Rubén (Nicaraguan poet)
Darius I (Persian king)
Darius III (Persian king)
Darlan, Jean Louis Xavier François (French military leader)
Darnley, Lord (Country Artist)
Darwin, Charles Robert (Naturalist / Writer)
Darwin, Erasmus (English physician & poet)
Daudet, Alphonse (French writer)
Daudet, Léon (French writer)
Daumier, Honoré (French cartoonist, painter & sculptor)
Davenport, John (American theologian)
David (in the Bible)
David I (king of Scotland)
David, Gerard (Flemish painter)
David, Saint (Welsh theologian)
Davidson, Jo(seph) (Rock Artist)
Davies, Arthur Bowen (American painter & artist)
Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (English musician)
Dávila y Padilla, Agustín (Mexican prelate and historian)
Davis, Benjamin Oliver (American military leader)