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• D. Mark HegstedHarvard nutrition professor who co-directed the Sugar Research Foundation’s first heart disease project.
• Dadabhai NaorojiIndian scholar and Member of the British Parliament; the idea of a "colonial drain" from India is traced to him, in 1901.
• Dan DeMatteoAmerican retail executive; GameStop's executive chairman in 2019.
• Dan HardwayResearcher for the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977 and 1978; in 2025 he sent the House Oversight Committee a statement about the CIA and the committee.
• Dana RohrabacherU.S. representative from California.
• Daniel Ellsberg 7 Apr 1931 – 16 Jun 2023American strategic analyst who worked at the RAND Corporation and copied the Pentagon Papers.
• Daniel ElwellActing Administrator of the FAA in 2019, when the 737 MAX was grounded.
• Dariga Nazarbayeva 1963 –Politician; chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2020, and earlier a deputy speaker of the Mazhilis.
• Darren W. WoodsChairman of the Board and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation.
• Dave CalhounChief executive of Boeing from January 2020; chief executive when the 2021 deferred prosecution agreement was signed; testified to the Senate in June 2024.
• David Ben-GurionLeader of the Jewish community in Palestine and first Prime Minister of Israel.
• David DuncanLead Arthur Andersen partner on the Enron audit.
• David EllisonHead of Skydance Media; chairman and co-CEO of the combined company after 6 October 2026.
• David GrahamFDA drug-safety scientist who testified to the Senate Finance Committee on Vioxx in November 2004.
• David KesslerFDA Commissioner in the early and mid-1990s.
• David LewisHistorian; author of The Public Life of Henry Ford.
• David Lloyd George 1863–1945British Prime Minister, 1916 to 1922; wrote of Chaim Weizmann's part in the Balfour Declaration.
• David R. OlsonUniversity Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto; author of The World on Paper and of Britannica's article on writing.
• David RobargeCIA historian; author of an account of John McCone and the assassination, published in the agency’s Studies in Intelligence.
• David RockefellerBanker; vice chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank after its 1955 merger and later its chairman.
• David S. JonesHistorian of medicine; author of "Virgin Soils Revisited" (2003).
• David SacklerFormer Purdue board member, 2012 to 2018.
• David StannardHistorian; author of American Holocaust (1992).
• David Swensen c. 1954 – 5 May 2021American investor; Yale’s chief investment officer from 1985 until his death in 2021.
• Deadria Farmer-PaellmannNew York lawyer and activist who petitioned U.S. companies to apologise for links to slavery.
• Dean RuskU.S. Secretary of State, 1961 to 1969.
• Deb HaalandU.S. Secretary of the Interior from 2021 to 2025.
• Deng XiaopingChinese leader; a U.S. intelligence brief of June 1989 says he backed martial law.
• Dennis DeConciniU.S. senator (D) from Arizona in 1991; one of the Keating Five.
• Dennis MuilenburgChief executive of Boeing when both 737 MAX planes crashed; testified to the House on 30 October 2019.
• Dennis RossU.S. envoy on the Middle East peace team at the Camp David summit of 2000.
• Derrick JelliffeBritish paediatrician who studied infant feeding in the tropics and gave evidence in Bern in 1976 and in the Senate in 1978.
• Deven SharmaPresident of Standard & Poor’s in 2008.
• Dewey M. BeegleEmeritus professor of Old Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.; author of Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on Moses.
• Dianne FeinsteinDemocratic U.S. Senator from California in 2020.
• Dick CheneyU.S. Secretary of Defense in the early 1990s, chief executive of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, and Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
• Diego de AlmagroSpanish captain and partner of Pizarro; in Pedro Pizarro's account he pressed for Atahualpa's death.
• Dinara Kulibayeva 1967 –Businesswoman; chair of the board of directors of the Kazakh-British Technical University from 2004.
• Donald Douglas 1892–1981American aircraft designer who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1921.
• Donald RiegleU.S. senator (D) from Michigan in 1991; one of the Keating Five.
• Donald TrumpBusinessman; 45th and 47th President of the United States.
• Douglas Holtz-EakinU.S. economist, a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission who dissented from its report.
• Douglas LuteU.S. Army lieutenant general who coordinated Afghanistan strategy at the National Security Council from 2007 to 2013.
• Dragutin Dimitrijević 1876–1917Serbian army colonel, known as Apis.
• Duong Quynh HoaDr. Duong Quynh Hoa, a plaintiff in the Vietnamese Agent Orange suit.
• Dustin MoskovitzDonor who gave $38 million to groups backing Harris in the 2024 cycle, by 1 November 2024, according to the Brennan Center.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower 14 Oct 1890 – 28 Mar 196934th President of the United States (1953–1961).