| Isaac Disraeli (1766–1848), English man of letters |
| Ludolph Georg Dissen (1784–1837), German philologist |
| Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799), Austrian composer and violinist |
| Humphry Ditton (1675–1715), English mathematician |
| Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802–1887), American philanthropist |
| John Adams Dix (1798–1879), American soldier and political leader |
| George Dixon (1755?–1800?), English navigator |
| Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), English sporting writer |
| James Dixon (1814–1873), American public man |
| James Main Dixon (1856–1933), Scottish-American educator |
| Joseph Dixon (1799–1869), American inventor |
| Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), English poet and divine |
| William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879), English author and traveller |
| Djemal Pasha (1872–1922), Turkish politician and soldier |
| Jan Długosz (1415–1480), Polish statesman and historian |
| Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev (1760–1837), Russian statesman and poet |
| George Washington Doane (1799–1859), American churchman |
| Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765), American colonial governor |
| Sydney Dobell (1824–1874), English poet and critic |
| Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780–1849), German chemist |
| Peter Paul Dobree (1782–1825), English classical scholar and critic |
| Gábor Döbrentei (1786–1851), Hungarian philologist and antiquary |
| Martin Dobrizhoffer (1717–1791), Austrian Roman Catholic missionary |
| Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829), Hungarian philologist |
| Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), English poet and man of letters |
| William Dobson (1611–1646), English portrait and historical painter |
| William Dodd (1729–1777), English divine |
| George Bubb Doddington, Baron of Melcombe Regis (1691–1762), English politician |
| Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), English Nonconformist divine |
| Alfred Amédée Dodds (1842–1922), French general |
| Ludwig von Döderlein (1791–1863), German philologist |
| Henry Dodge (1782–1867), American soldier |
| Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton) (1833–1896), American author |
| Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905), American author |
| Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842–1909), American soldier and military writer |
| William Earl Dodge (1805–1883), American philanthropist |
| Marcus Dods (1834–1909), Scottish divine and biblical scholar |
| Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), English bookseller and miscellaneous writer |
| Roger Dodsworth (1585–1654), English antiquary |
| Edward Dodwell (1767–1832), English traveller and writer on archæology |
| Henry Dodwell (1641–1711), scholar, theologian and controversial writer |
| Johan van der Does (1545–1604), Dutch statesman, historian, poet and philologist, and the heroic defender of Leiden |
| Q. K. Philander Doesticks (1832–1875), American humorist |
| Thomas Dogget (d. 1721), English actor |
| Publius Cornelius Dolabella (c. 80–43 B.C.), Roman general |
| Amos Emerson Dolbear (1837–1910), American physicist |
| John Dolben (1625–1686), English divine |
| Ludovico Dolce (1508–1568), Italian writer |
| Carlo Dolci (1616–1686), Italian painter |
| Sanford Ballard Dole (1844–1926), President of the Republic of Hawaii |
| Étienne Dolet (1509–1546), French scholar and printer |
| Vasily Lukich Dolgoruky (1672–1739), Russian diplomatist and minister |
| Robert Radclyffe Dolling (1851–1902), English divine |
| Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890), German theologian and church historian |
| John Dollond (1706–1761), English optician |
| Déodat de Dolomieu (1750–1801), French geologist and mineralogist |
| Joseph Norton Dolph (1835–1897), American statesman |
| Jean Domat (1625–1696), French jurisconsult |
| Jan Henryk Dombrowski (1755–1818), Polish general |
| Domenichino (1581–1641), Italian painter |
| Alfred Domett (1811–1887), British colonial statesman and poet |
| Saint Dominic (1170–1221), founder of the Dominican Order of Preaching Friars |
| Domitian (51–96), Roman Emperor |
| James Donaldson (1831–1915), Scottish classical scholar, educational and theological writer |
| John William Donaldson (1811–1861), English philologist and biblical critic |
| Donatello (c. 1386–1466), Italian sculptor |
| Giovanni Battista Donati (1826–1873), Italian astronomer |
| Aelius Donatus (Fourth Century), Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric |
| Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799–1871), American politician |
| Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848), Italian musical composer |
| Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin (1773–1841), British soldier |
| Maurice Donnay (1859–1945), French dramatist |
| John Donne (1572–1631), English poet and divine |
| Juan Donoso Cortés (1809–1853), Spanish author and diplomatist |
| Edward Donovan (1768–1837), English naturalist |
| Doon de Mayence, hero of romance |
| John Doran (1807–1878), English author |
| Claude Joseph Dorat (1734–1780), French man of letters |
| Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), British general and administrator |
| Gustave Doré (1832–1883), French artist |
| Sarah Platt Doremus (1802–1877), American philanthropist |
| Andrea Doria (1466–1560), Genoese condottiere and admiral |
| Doria-Pamphilii-Landi, princely Roman family |
| Sir Antoine Aimé Dorion (1818–1891), Canadian lawyer and statesman |
| Isaac Dorislaus (1595–1649), Anglo-Dutch lawyer and diplomatist |
| Louis Dorléans (1542–1629), French poet and political pamphleteer |
| Isaac August Dorner (1809–1884), German Lutheran divine |
| Dorotheus (Sixth Century), professor of jurisprudence |
| Thomas Wilson Dorr (1805–1854), American politician |
| Earls, Marquesses and Dukes of Dorset |
| James Owen Dorsey (1848–1895), American ethnologist |
| William Dorsheimer (1832–1888), American lawyer and journalist |
| Dositheus Magister (Fourth Century), Greek grammarian |
| Dost Mahommed Khan (1793–1863), founder of the dynasty of the Barakzai in Afghanistan |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), Russian author |
| Gerard Dou (1613–1675), Dutch painter |
| Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), American soldier |
| Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), English politician and author |
| Francis Douce (1757–1834), English antiquary |
| Camille Doucet (1812–1895), French dramatic author |
| Daniel Dougherty (1826–1892), American political orator |
| Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), British explorer and writer |
| Douglas, name of a Scottish noble family |
| Sir Charles Douglas (d. 1789), British admiral |
| Gawain Douglas (c. 1474–1522), Scottish poet and Bishop |
| Sir Howard Douglas (1776–1861), British general |
| John Douglas (1721–1807), Scottish man of letters and Anglican Bishop |
| Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813–1861), American statesman |
| George Sholto Douglas-Pennant, Baron Penrhyn (1836–1907), Welsh quarry owner |
| Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895), American orator and journalist |
| Doukas (c. 1400–c. 1470), Byzantine historian |
| Sir Henry Doulton (1820–1897), English inventor and manufacturer of pottery |
| Paul Doumer (1857–1932), French politician |
| René Doumic (1860–1937), French critic and man of letters |
| Jean-Baptiste Douville (1794–1837), French traveller |
| George Agar Ellis, Baron Dover (1797–1833), English man of letters |
| Henry Jermyn, Earl of Dover (c. 1636–1708), English noble |
| Robert Dover (1575?–1641), English captain and attorney |
| Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834), American preacher |
| Neal Dow (1804–1897), American temperance reformer |
| Edward Dowden (1843–1913), Irish critic and poet |
| William Dowdeswell (1721–1775), English politician |
| John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907), founder of “Zionism,” |
| Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), English classical scholar |
| Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852), American landscape-gardener |
| Sir George Downing (c. 1623–1684), English soldier and diplomatist |
| John Downman (1750–1824), English portrait painter |
| Wills Hill, Marquess of Downshire (1718–1793), Secretary of state for the colonies |
| Gabriel François Doyen (1726–1806), French painter |
| Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), English novelist |
| Sir Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888), English man of letters |
| John Andrew Doyle (1844–1907), English historian |
| Richard Doyle (1824–1883), English artist |
| György Dózsa (c. 1470–c. 1514), Hungarian revolutionist |
| Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (1820–1883), Dutch Arabic scholar of French (Huguenot) origin |
| Holger Drachmann (1846–1908), Danish poet and dramatist |
| Draco (Seventh Century B.C.), Athenian statesman |
| Blossius Aemilius Dracontius (Fifth Century), Christian poet |
| Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov (1830–1905), Russian general and military writer |
| Domenico Dragonetti (1763–1846), Italian double-bass player |
| Charles Daniel Drake (1811–1892), American jurist |
| Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540–1596), English admiral |
| Francis Marion Drake (1830–1903), American soldier and statesman |
| Francis Samuel Drake (1828–1885), American author |
| Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820), American poet |
| Nathan Drake (1766–1836), English essayist and physician |
| Samuel Gardner Drake (1798–1875), American antiquarian |
| Arnold Drakenborch (1684–1748), Dutch classical scholar |
| Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894), English writer |
| Henry Draper (1837–1882), American scientist and physicist |
| John William Draper (1811–1882), American scientist |
| Michael Drayton (1563–1631), English poet |
| William Henry Drayton (1742–1779), American statesman |
| Charles Drelincourt (1595–1669), French Protestant divine |
| Drew, name of a family of American actors |
| Daniel Drew (1797–1879), American capitalist |
| Samuel Drew (1765–1833), English theologian |
| Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826–1893), American banker |
| John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926), Danish astronomer |
| Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), French soldier, of Jewish parentage |
| John Drinkwater (1882–1937), English poet, playwright and critic |
| Henry Drisler (1818–1897), American classical scholar |
| Samuel Rolles Driver (1846–1914), English divine and Hebrew scholar |
| Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poet |
| Clemens August Droste zu Vischering (1773–1845), German Roman Catholic divine |
| Jean-Germain Drouais (1763–1788), French historical painter |
| Jean-Baptiste, Count Drouët d’Erlon (1765–1844), Marshal of France |
| Édouard Drouyn de Lluys (1805–1881), French statesman |
| Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German historian |
| Gustave Droz (1832–1895), French man of letters |
| François-Xavier Joseph Droz (1773–1850), French writer on ethics and political science |
| Henry Drummond (1786–1860), English banker, politician and writer |
| Henry Drummond (1851–1897), Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer |
| Thomas Drummond (1797–1840), British inventor and administrator |
| William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), Scottish poet |
| Sir William Drury (1527–1579), English statesman and soldier |
| Johannes Drusius (1550–1616), Protestant divine |
| Marcus Livius Drusus (d. c. 91 B.C.), Roman statesman |
| Nero Claudius Drusus (38–9 B.C.), Roman general |
| Drusus Cæsar (c. 13 B.C.–23 A.D.), only son of the Emperor Tiberius |
| Jonas Dryander (1748–1810), Swedish botanist |
| John Dryden (1631–1700), English poet |
| William Duane (1760–1835), American journalist and politician |
| William John Duane (1780–1865), American statesman |
| Edmond Dubail (1851–1934), French general |
| Madame du Barry (1743–1793), French adventuress |
| Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590), French poet |
| Joseph Henry Dubbs (1838–1910), American clergyman and writer |
| Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey (1491–1543), French soldier and diplomat |
| Jean du Bellay (c. 1498–1560), French Cardinal and diplomat |
| Joachim du Bellay (c. 1522–1560), French poet and critic, member of the Pléiade |
| Johann Friedrich Dübner (1802–1867), German classical scholar |
| Guillaume Dubois (1656–1723), French Cardinal and statesman |
| Jean Antoine Dubois (1765–1848), French Catholic missionary in India |
| Paul Dubois (1829–1905), French sculptor and painter |
| Pierre Dubois (c. 1250–c. 1312), French publicist |
| Théodore Dubois (1837–1924), French musical composer |
| Edmond-Louis-Alexis Dubois de Crancé (1747–1814), French Revolutionist |
| Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821–1891), French writer of fiction |
| Emil Du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896), German physiologist |
| Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670–1742), French author |
| Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894), French writer |
| Charles Du Fresne, Sieur Du Cange (1610–1688), French critic and scholar |
| Victor Ducange (1783–1833), French novelist and dramatist |
| Ducas, name of a Byzantine family which supplied several rulers to the Eastern Empire |
| Albert Du Casse (1813–1893), French historian |
| Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1835–1903), traveller and anthropologist |
| Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (1806–1875), French physician |
| André Du Chesne (1584–1640), French geographer and historian |
| Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (1843–1922), French scholar and ecclesiastic |
| Jean-François Ducis (1733–1816), French dramatist and adapter of Shakespeare |
| Sir John Thomas Duckworth (1748–1817), British admiral |
| Charles Pinot Duclos (1704–1772), French author |
| Roger Ducos (1747–1816), French politician and director |
| Auguste Alexandre Ducrot (1817–1882), French soldier |
| Madame du Deffand (Marie de Vichy-Chamrond) (1697–1780), celebrated Frenchwoman |
| Barons and Earls of Dudley |
| Lady Amy Robsart Dudley (1532–1560), wife of Lord Robert Dudley, afterwards Earl of Leicester |
| Edmund Dudley (c. 1462–1510), minister of Henry VII. of England |
| Sir Henry Bate Dudley (1745–1824), British journalist and clergyman |
| Joseph Dudley (1647–1720), colonial Governor of Massachusetts |
| Paul Dudley (1675–1751), American jurist and naturalist |
| Sir Robert Dudley (1574–1649), English explorer, engineer and author |
| Thomas Dudley (1576–1653), British colonial governor of Massachusetts |
| Dudo (fl. 1030), Norman historian |
| John Duer (1782–1858), American jurist |
| William Alexander Duer (1780–1858), American jurist and educator |
| Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (1798–1881), French statesman |
| Arnaud du Ferrier (c. 1508–1585), French jurisconsult and diplomatist |
| Alexander Duff (1806–1878), Scottish missionary in India |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829–1906), British lawyer and statesman |
| Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), British diplomatist |
| Hariot Georgina Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (1843–1936), English authoress |
| Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin Sheridan (1807–1867), British poet |
| Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon (1821–1869), English woman of letters |
| Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1843–1887), American clergyman and author |
| Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816–1903), Irish journalist and statesman |
| Pierre Thomas du Fossé (1634–1698), French scholar and author |
| Wilhelm Heinrich Dufour (1787–1875), Swiss general |
| Armand Dufrénoy (1792–1857), French geologist and mineralogist |
| Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy (1611–1668), French painter and writer on his art |
| Charles Rivière Dufresny (1657–1724), French dramatist |
| Dugazon (1746–1809), French actor |
| William Dugdale (1605–1686), English antiquary |
| René Duguay-Trouin (1673–1736), French sea captain |
| Bertrand Du Guesclin, comte de Longueville (c. 1320–1380), Constable of France |
| Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel (1624–1706), French physicist |
| Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782), French botanist and engineer |
| Eugen Karl Dühring (1833–1901), German philosopher and political economist |
| Patrick Duigenan (1735–1816), Irish lawyer and politician |
| Gaius Duilius (Third Century B.C.), Roman general |
| Karl Andreas Duker (1670–1752), German classical scholar and jurist |
| Leopold Dukes (1810–1891), Hungarian critic of Jewish literature |
| Domingo Dulce y Garay, Marquis of Castell-Florite (1808–1869), Spanish soldier |
| Duleep Singh (1838–1893), Maharaja of Lahore |
| Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (1636?–1710), French explorer |
| Pierre Louis Dulong (1785–1838), French chemist and physicist |
| Dumarsais (1676–1756), French philologist |
| Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), French novelist and dramatist |
| Alexandre Dumas, Jr. (1824–1895), French dramatist and novelist |
| Mathieu, Count Dumas (1753–1837), French general |
| Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), French chemist |
| George du Maurier (1834–1896), British artist and writer |
| Marie Françoise Dumesnil (1713–1803), French actress |
| Johannes Dümichen (1833–1894), German Egyptologist |
| Ernst Dümmler (1830–1902), German historian |
| Dumont, name of a family of prominent French artists |
| André Dumont (1809–1857), Belgian geologist |
| Étienne Dumont (1759–1829), French political writer |
| François Dumont (1751–1831), French miniature painter |
| Jean Dumont (1667–1727), French publicist |
| Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville (1790–1842), French navigator |
| Charles Dumoulin (1500–1566), French jurist |
| Charles François Dumouriez (1739–1823), French general |
| Henry Dunant (1828–1910), French physician, famous as the originator of the Red Cross Society |
| Dunash, name of two Jewish scholars of the 10th century |
| George Dunbar (1774–1851), English classical scholar and lexicographer |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), American author, of negro descent |
| William Dunbar (1460?–1520?), Scottish poet |
| Duncan, name of two Scottish kings |
| Adam, Viscount Duncan (1731–1804), British naval commander |
| Peter Martin Duncan (1824–1891), English palæontologist |
| Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861–1922), British-Canadian author |
| Thomas Duncan (1807–1845), Scottish portrait and historical painter |
| Max Duncker (1811–1886), German historian and politician |
| Sir Charles Duncombe (c. 1648–1711), English politician |
| Henry Dundas (1742–1811), British statesman |
| Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), British admiral |
| Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline (1555–1622), Scottish noble |
| James Abercromby, Baron Dunfermline (1776–1858), Speaker of the House of Commons |
| William Dunlap (1766–1839), American artist and writer |
| John Colin Dunlop (1785–1842), Scottish man of letters |
| John Murray, Earl of Dunmore (1732–1809), colonial Governor of Virginia |
| Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936), American journalist and humorist |
| Jean, Comte of Dunois (c. 1403–1468), celebrated French commander |
| Lord Dunsany (1878–1957), Irish author |
| John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308), one of the foremost of the schoolmen |
| Saint Dunstan (909–988), English Archbishop |
| Henry Dunster (1609–1659), American colonial educator, first President of Harvard College |
| John Dunton (1659–1733), English bookseller and author |
| Heinrich Düntzer (1813–1901), German philologist and historian of literature |
| Félix Dupanloup (1802–1878), French ecclesiastic |
| Jacques Davy Du Perron (1556–1618), French Cardinal |
| André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1783–1865), French advocate, President of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Legislative Assembly |
| Louis Ellies Du Pin (1657–1719), French ecclesiastical historian |
| Joseph-François Dupleix (1697–1763), Governor-general of the French establishment in India |
| Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (1760–1844), Franco-American author |
| Pierre Dupont (1821–1870), French song-writer |
| Pierre Antoine, Count Dupont de l’Étang (1765–1840), French general |
| Jacques-Charles Dupont de l’Eure (1767–1855), French lawyer and statesman |
| Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), French political economist and statesman |
| Adrien Duport (1759–1798), French politician |
| James Duport (1606–1679), English classical scholar |
| Antoine Duprat (1463–1535), Chancellor of France and Cardinal |
| Jules Dupré (1811–1889), French painter |
| Charles François Dupuis (1742–1809), French scientific writer and politician |
| Jean Dupuis (1829–1912), French traveller |
| Hugh de Puiset (c. 1125–1195), Bishop of Durham |
| Charles Dupuy (1851–1923), French statesman |
| Pierre Dupuy (1582–1651), French scholar |
| Henri Dupuy de Lôme (1816–1885), French naval architect |
| Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French anatomist and surgeon |
| Diego Duque de Estrada (1589–1647?), Spanish memoir writer, soldier and adventurer |
| Abraham Duquesne (1610–1688), French naval officer |
| Duran, Jewish Provençal family of rabbis and scholars |
| Agustín Durán (1789?–1862), Spanish scholar |
| Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886), American painter and engraver |
| Guillaume Durand (c. 1230–1296), French canonist and liturgical writer |
| Guillaume Durand (d. 1334), French scholastic theologian |
| Giacomo Durando (1807–1894), Italian general and statesman |
| Henry Fowle Durant (1822–1881), American philanthropist |
| Francesco Durante (1684–1755), Italian composer |
| José de Santa Rita Durão (c. 1720–1784), Brazilian poet |
| Sir Benjamin D’Urban (1777–1849), British general and colonial administrator |
| Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), German painter, draughtsman and engraver |
| Job Durfee (1790–1847), American jurist
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