Duran Çetin is a Turkish author of stories and novels. He was born in 1964 in the village of Apasaraycık in the Cumra district of Konya Province, Turkey. He is married and has two children.

Durandus of Saint-Pourçain was a French Dominican, philosopher, theologian, and bishop.

Durjoy Datta is an Indian author and screenwriter.

Durnyam Mashurova is a Uyghur writer and poet from Kazakhstan. She wrote lyrics to songs performed by Dervishi, a Uyghur music band in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Durnyam Mashurova is best known for her memoirs "A Life Lived Not in Vain" describing life of her husband Azat Mashurov which were published in Uyghur in 2005. This book was translated into Russian in June, 2007. In 2009, she published a new surrealistic novel "Ana Mirasi".

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Dušan J. Popović (1894–1985) was a Serbian historian, a professor at the University of Belgrade.

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Dustin Thomason is an American writer and producer who co-authored the New York Times bestselling historical fiction novel The Rule of Four with Ian Caldwell.

Virgil Riley Runnels Jr., better known as "the American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who most notably worked for the National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wrestling Federation, later known as the WWE. Rhodes is considered as one of the greatest wrestlers and talkers in the history of professional wrestling.

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