List of Famous people named Daniel
Daniel C. Tsui
Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist, Nobel laureate, and the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Tsui's areas of research include electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics.
Daniel Benítez
Daniel Eduardo Benítez Pernía was a Venezuelan professional footballer. A defender, he played for seven club sides and made one appearance for the Venezuela national team.
Daniel M. Tani
Daniel M. Tani is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. He was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, but widely considers Lombard, Illinois, to be his hometown.
Daniel Edwin Rutherford
Daniel "Dan" Edwin Rutherford FRSE was a Scottish mathematician, known for his work on the representation theory of symmetric groups.
Daniel Monzón
Daniel Monzón Jerez, better known as Daniel Monzón is a Spanish film writer and director. He is known for his work in mystery, action and science fiction films, such as Celda 211, El Niño, The Kovak Box, Heart of the Warrior and Yucatán.
Daniel Loss
Daniel Loss is a Swiss theoretical physicist and a professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Basel and RIKEN. With David P. DiVincenzo, he proposed the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer in 1997, which would use electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.
Daniel Junge
Daniel Junge is an American documentary filmmaker. On February 26, 2012, he won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film Saving Face, which he co-directed along with Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Daniel Miller
Daniel Otto Joachim Miller is a British music producer and founder of Mute Records.
Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell is an American novelist and short story writer, who has written nine novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks, and one collection of short stories. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing.
Daniel Widlöcher
Daniel Widlöcher was a French psychiatrist and academic. He served as president of the International Psychoanalytical Association in 2001.