D
- Carlton Ridenhour (Chuck D)
- Hamid Dabashi
- Robert Lewis Dabney
- Harry Dacre
- Idi Amin Dada
- Roald Dahl
- Edward Dahlberg
- Heidi Dahles
- Daily Express
- David Dale
- Edgar Dale
- Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert
- Richard Daley
- Salvador Dali
- E. S. Dallas
- Robert Dallek
- Charles Dalmon
- Theodore Dalrymple
- John Dalton
- James G. Daly
- Jeff Daly
- Mary Daly
- Tyne Daly
- Stewart Dalzell
- Damascius
- Bertha Damon
- Steely Dan
- Benjamin Dana
- Bill Dana
- Charles Anderson Dana
- Richard Henry Dana
- Dandemis
- Franklin K. Dane
- Anthony D'Angelo
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Samuel Daniel
- Anthony Daniels
- Eric Daniels
- Josephus Daniels
- Steven Daniels
- George E. Danielson
- Ted Danson
- Georges Jacque Danton
- Georges-Jacques Danton
- Louis Danz
- R. Lacey and D. Danziger
- Huanchu Daoren
- Joseph Dare
- Bobby Darin
- Alvin Dark
- Clarence Darrow
- Charles R. Darwin
- Erasmus Darwin
- Tom Daschle
- Tamar Datan
- Dale Dauten
- Walter Davenant
- Hal David
- Francis Davidson
- James Dale Davidson
- John Davidson
- Pete Davidson
- Mary Carolyn Davies
- Ray Davies
- Raymond Douglas Davies
- Robertson Davies
- Samuel Davies
- William H. Davies
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Angela Davis
- Bette Davis
- David Davis
- Elmer Davis
- Evan Davis
- Geena Davis
- H. L. Davis
- Jefferson Davis
- Jim Davis
- John W. Davis
- Kathy Davis
- Miles Davis
- Ossie Davis
- Patti Davis
- Richard Harding Davis
- Todd Davis
- William H. Davis
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Richard Davisson
- Charles G. Dawes
- Richard Dawkins
- Christopher Dawson
- Roger Dawson
- Clarence Day
- Doris Day
- Vox Day
- Moshe Dayan
- David Daye
- Dizzy Dean
- James Byron Dean
- James Dean
- Eugene O'Neill, deathbed
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Dorothy DeBolt
- Edward de Bono
- Eugene Victor Debs
- Claude Debussy
- Stephen Decatur
- Midge Decter
- Charles F. Deems
- Madame Marie du Deffand
- Marie Ann du Deffand
- Daniel Defoe
- Frank Deford
- Edgar Degas
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Carl N. Degler
- Thomas Dekker
- Delacroix
- Eugene Delacroix
- Julien Offroy de La Mettrie
- Gayle Delaney
- Shelagh Delaney
- Tom DeLay
- Daniel DeLeon
- Jacques Delille
- Don DeLillo
- Floyd Dell
- Ron Dellums
- J. Bradford DeLong
- Vine Deloria Jr.
- A UFO enthusiast, on the Air Force's report of the Roswell delusion
- Dorothe Deluzy
- Paul Delvaux
- Tom DeMarco
- Lloyd deMause
- Lee Dembart
- William C. Dement
- Agnes DeMille
- Cecil B. DeMille
- W. Edwards Deming
- Democritus
- Demodocus
- Demosthenes
- Judi Dench
- Catherine Deneuve
- John Denham
- Sidney Denham
- Leila Denmark
- Daniel Dennett
- James Dent
- Marie Dentiere
- Bill Danoff and John Denver
- Joe Henry and John Denver
- John Denver
- Gerard Depardieu
- Bobbi Deporter
- Charles Derber
- John Derbyshire
- Alan Dershowitz
- Rene Descartes
- Antoinette Deshoulieres
- Valerie Desmond
- Camille Desmoulins
- Robert Desnos
- Jeanette Desor
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- Philippe Destouches
- Adolf Deutsch
- Stephen Devore
- Richard M. DeVos
- Peter DeVries
- Thomas Robert Dewar
- Duane Dewel
- John Dewey
- Thomas E. Dewey
- Lewis DeWitt
- Arthur Freeman and Rose DeWolf
- Timothy Dexter
- The Dhammapada
- Collin d'Harleville
- Farrukh Dhondy
- Al Diamond
- Jared Diamond
- Neil Diamond
- Comtesse Diane
- Cameron Diaz
- Porfirio Diaz
- Mehdi Dibaj
- Charles Dibdin
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Philip Kindred Dick
- "Little" Jimmy Dickens
- Charles Dickens
- Emily Dickenson
- James Dickey
- Jay Dickey
- Emily Dickinson
- Gordon R. Dickson
- Lester Jesse Dickson
- Paul Dickson
- Denis Diderot
- Francois Diderot
- Joan Didion
- James Bond (Tomorrow Never Dies)
- Marlene Dietrich
- Howard Dietz
- Ani DiFranco
- Deborah Diggers
- Taye Diggs
- Edgar W. Dijkstra
- Anne Dillard
- Annie Dillard
- Irving Dillard
- Phyllis Diller
- Matt Dillon
- Wentworth Dillon
- Joe DiMaggio
- Diane DiMassa
- Ernest Dimnet
- Isak Dinesen
- J. E. Dinger
- Diodicus
- Diogenes
- Philippe Diole
- Dionysus
- Christian Dior
- Diplo
- Paul Dirac
- Michael Dirda
- Everett Dirksen
- "Dirty Dancing"
- Thomas Disch
- Walt Disney
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Isaac D'Israeli
- Vlade Divac
- Dorothy Dix
- William C. Dix
- Missy Dizick
- Carl Djerassi
- Milovan Djilas
- J. Frank Dobie
- James Frank Dobie
- Arthur Dobrin
- attributed to John Dobson
- James Dobson
- E. L. Doctorow
- John Dodderidge
- E. R. Dodds
- (letter to his last illustrator, Emily Gertrude Thomson) Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Anonymous Dog
- Dogen
- Snoop Dogg
- Henry Doherty
- Henry L. Doherty
- Robert Doisneau
- John Terry Dolan
- Thomas Dolby
- Bob Dole
- Micky Dolenz
- Fats Domino
- Phil Donahue
- Arthur Donan
- Aelius Donatus
- Angelo Donghia
- J. P. Donleavy
- Sean Donlon
- John Donne
- R. S. Donnell
- Ignatius Donnelly
- James H. Donovan
- Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley)
- Thomas Dooley
- Hilda Doolittle
- Julia C. R. Dorr
- Thomas A. Dorsey
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
- Francis Douce
- Alfred Douglas
- Ann Douglas
- George Douglas
- George Norman Douglas
- Kirk Douglas
- Norman Douglas
- Stephen A. Douglas
- William O. Douglas
- Frederick Douglass
- Rita Dove
- Maureen Dowd
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Hugh Downs
- Robert Downs
- Ernest Dowson
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Drake
- Milton Drake
- Thomas Draxe
- William Drayton
- Rod Dreher
- Theodore Dreiser
- Marie Dressler
- Daniel Drew
- Elizabeth Drew
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Rabbi Chaim Drizin
- Peter Drucker
- Henry Drummond
- William Drummond
- John Dryden
- Phyllis Campbell Dryden
- Dinesh D'Souza
- Liz Dubey
- Simon M. Dubnow
- W. E. B. DuBois
- Rene Dubos and Jean Dubos
- Marcel Duchamp
- Ducharme
- Mikhail Dudan
- Louis Dudek
- Madame Dudevant
- Charles Duell
- Hilary Duff
- James Duffecy
- Charles Duffy
- Jo Duffy
- Augustine J. Duganne
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexandre Dumas the Younger
- Isadora Duncan
- Raymond Duncan
- Paul Duncun
- Barrows Dunham
- David Dunham
- Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
- Stephen Dunn
- John J. Dunphy
- Felix A. Dupanloup
- Dupins
- Champion Jack Dupree
- Will and Ariel Durant
- Will Durant
- Jimmy Durante
- Henry Durbanville
- Albrecht Durer
- Thomas D'Urfey
- Emile Durkheim
- Alan Durning
- Leo Durocher
- Lawrence Durrell
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
- Will Durst
- Ian Dury
- Eric Duthie
- John C. Dvorak
- John Sullivan Dwight
- Walter Dwight
- Andrea Dworkin
- Wayne Dyer
- Wayne W. Dyer
- Dykes
- John Dykes
- Bob Dylan
