| John William Dunne | British soldier, aeronautical… | 1875–1949 |
| Dorothy Dunnett | British writer | 1923–2001 |
| Jake Dunning | researcher | |
| Lord Dunsany | Irish writer and dramatist | 1878–1957 |
| Kirsten Dunst | American actress | 1982 |
| Ann E. Dunwoody | U.S. Army, first four-star ge… | 1953 |
| Duo Duo | Poet | 1951 |
| Charles Dupin | French mathematician | 1784–1873 |
| Maurice Duplessis | former Premier of Quebec | 1890–1959 |
| Jeanne DuPrau | American writer | 1944 |
| Jules Dupré | French painter | 1811–1889 |
| Lon Milo DuQuette | American occult writer | 1948 |
| Roberto Durán | Panamanian boxer | 1951 |
| Isabel Durant | Australian actor and dancer | 1991 |
| Will Durant | American historian, philosoph… | 1885–1981 |
| Jimmy Durante | American jazz singer, pianist… | 1893–1980 |
| Marguerite Duras | French writer and film direct… | 1914–1996 |
| Richard Durbin | U.S. senior senator from Illi… | 1944 |
| Albrecht Dürer | German painter, printmaker, m… | 1471–1528 |
| Émile Durkheim | French sociologist (1858-1917) | 1858–1917 |
| Pavel Durov | Russian entrepreneur | 1984 |
| Nadezhda Durova | Russian Army officer | 1783–1866 |
| Detlef Dürr | German mathematician and phys… | 1951 |
| Ahmed Shah Durrani | founder of the Durrani Empire… | 1722–1772 |
| Gerald Durrell | naturalist, zookeeper, conser… | 1925–1995 |
| Lawrence Durrell | British novelist, poet, drama… | 1912–1990 |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Swiss author and dramatist | 1921–1990 |
| Buenaventura Durruti | Spanish anarchist | 1896–1936 |
| Ian Dury | English musician | 1942–2000 |
| Granville Van Dusen | American actor | 1944 |
| Eliza Dushku | American actress | 1980 |
| Rebecca Dussault | American cross-country skier | 1980 |
| Rodrigo Duterte | Filipino politician and the 1… | 1945 |
| Sunil Dutt | Hindi film actor | 1929–2005 |
| Michael Madhusudan Dutta | Bengali poet and dramatist | 1824–1873 |
| Denis Dutton | Professor and philosopher | 1944–2010 |
| Peter Dutton | Australian politician | 1970 |
| Monique Duval | Canadian journalist | 1924–2014 |
| François Duvalier | 40th President of the Republi… | 1907–1971 |
| Christian de Duve | Belgian biochemist, cytologist | 1917–2013 |
| Nguyễn Duy | | 1948 |
| Mona Van Duyn | American poet | 1921–2004 |
| August Dvorak | American scientist | 1894–1975 |
| John C. Dvorak | US journalist and radio broad… | 1952 |
| Antonín Dvořák | Czech composer | 1841–1904 |
| John Sullivan Dwight | American minister | 1813–1893 |
| Andrea Dworkin | Feminist writer | 1946–2005 |
| Ronald Dworkin | American legal philosopher | 1931–2013 |
| Edward Dyer | courtier | 1543–1607 |
| Geoff Dyer | English writer | 1958 |
| John Dyer | Welsh cleric, poet and painter | 1699–1757 |
| Wayne W. Dyer | American writer | 1940–2015 |
| Henry Van Dyke | American diplomat | 1852–1933 |
| Bob Dylan | American singer-songwriter, m… | 1941 |
| Jakob Dylan | singer and songwriter | 1969 |
| Freeman Dyson | theoretical physicist and mat… | 1923 |
| James Dyson | British inventor, industrial … | 1947 |
| Alan Dzagoev | Russian association football … | 1990 |
| Mustafa Dzhemilev | Leader of the Crimean Tatar N… | 1943 |
| Stanisław Dziwisz | Polish cardinal | 1939 |
