Dias

You may be looking for the article on "dais," a raised platform on which guest speakers, honoured guests or expert panels are seated, possibly on a throne or similar seat.

Dias may mean:

• Direct Internet Access System
• Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
• Detaşamentul de Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale, a Romanian police rapid response unit
• Destruction in Art Symposium
• Transparency slides, sometimes known as dias film
• Dias, a steam trawler built in 1906 as the Viola and renamed Dias
• Dias is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It is cognate to the Spanish language surname Díaz. It is a name associated with :
  • Albertina Dias, Portuguese long-distance runner
  • Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer
  • Dinis Dias, Portuguese explorer
  • Diogo Dias, Portuguese explorer
  • Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Angolan politician
  • Fernando Dias van Dúnem, Angolan politician
  • Filipe Oliveira Dias, Portuguese architect
  • Gaspar Dias (ca. 1560-1590), Portuguese Mannerist painter
  • Gonçalves Dias, Brazilian poet
  • Luisa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique
  • Maria Berenice Dias, Brazilian judge
  • Paulo Dias de Novais, Portuguese colonizer of Africa
  • Pêro Dias, Portuguese explorer
  • Rui Jorge de Sousa Dias Oliveira, Portuguese football player
  • Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician
  • Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician
  • Virna Dias, Brazilian volleyball player
  • Dias Gomes, Brazilian writer

• Dias is also the name of the one of the sons of Pelops in Greek mythology.

See also

• Diaz (a name article)
• Diaz (disambiguation)

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