Remarkable people
Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Kirk Douglas
American actor and filmmaker
Kirk Douglaswas an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a...
Steve Douglas
Group Finance Director and Company Secretary at Arden Partners
Steve Douglasis Group Finance Director and Company Secretary at Arden Partners. Career Steve has spent 20 years in the City primarily as an adviser to small and mid cap companies. He is a Fellow of th...
Montell Douglas
British multi-sports Olympian sprinter
Montell Marcelle Douglasis a British multi-sports Olympian. Originally a sprinter and former British record holder for the 100 metres at 11.05 seconds, she competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Taking...
Garven Alexander Douglas
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of UNICEF in the United Kingdom
Douglas Garven Alexander(born 26 October 1967) is a former Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, previously Paisley South, from 1...
Michael Douglas
American actor
Michael John Douglas, known professionally asMichael Keaton, is an American actor. He is known for his leading roles in a wide variety of genre films. He has received numerous accolades, including a P...
Bar Douro
Consumer goods
Bar Douro is a showcase of Portuguese cuisine and tapas in particular. The tapas in the canopy courtyard right in front of the restaurant was a secluded and socially remote place with good views of ot
Oliver James Dowden
Chairman of the Conservative Party
Oliver James DowdenCBE (born 1 August 1978) is a British politician serving as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party alongside Ben Elliot since 2021. He also serves as Minister without Portfolio. He p...
Amy Dowden
Dancer
Amy Dowdenis a Welsh professional ballroom and Latin American dancer from Caerphilly, Wales, best known for her appearances on the BBC One television show Strictly Come Dancing. Dowden joined the seri...
Brian Dowling
Irish television presenter
Brian Patrick Robert Dowling is an Irish television presenter. He rose to fame after winning the second series of reality series Big Brother, and went on to win Ultimate Big Brother in 2010. In 2007, ...
Geoffrey Downes
English keyboardist and songwriter
Geoffrey Downesis an English keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer who gained fame as a member of the new wave group The Buggles with Trevor Horn, the progressive rock band Yes, and the supergr...
Robert Downey
American actor
Robert John Downey Jr.is an American actor. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $14 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Downey's career has been ch...
Craig Doyle
Irish television and radio presenter
Craig Doyleis an Irish television and radio presenter. To British viewers he is recognisable as working for the BBC and ITV and more recently TNT Sports; Irish viewers also know him as the host of RTÉ...
Sean Doyle
CEO of British Airways
Sean Doyle is an Irish businessman, and the chairman and CEO of British Airways. Biography Doyle was born and grew up in Cork, Ireland. He earned a bacheor's degree from University College Cork (UCC)....
Declan Doyle
American professional football coach
Declan Doyleis an American professional football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the tight ends coach for th...
Mark Drakeford
First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour
Mark Drakefordis a Welsh politician serving as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour since 2018. He previously served in the Welsh Government as Cabinet Secretary for Finance from 2016 to...
Jack Draper
English professional tennis player
Jack Alexander Draperis an English professional tennis player from England. He has been ranked as high as world No. 38 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved on 16 January 2023, and a career-high do...
Richard Drax
British Conservative Party politician
Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Draxis a British Conservative Party politician, landowner, heir to a fortune tracing back to slavery, and former journalist serving as the Member of Parliament (M...
William (Flavа Flav) Drayaton
American rapper
William Jonathan Drayton Jr., known by his stage nameFlavor Flavis an American rapper and hype man. Known for his yells of "Yeah, boyeeeeee!" when performing, he was a founding member of the rap group...
Richard Dreyfuss
American actor
Richard Stephen Dreyfussis an American actor. He emerged from the New Hollywood wave of American cinema, finding fame with a succession of leading man parts in the 1970s. He has received an Academy Aw...
Celeste Dring
English comedy writer and actress
Celeste Dringis an English comedy writer and actress, and a current cast member of Saturday Night Live UK. She is also known for her roles as Lauren Richards in the BBC TV series Wanderlust and as Pri...