List of Famous people named Daniel

Name Daniel is among the most common names in USA, Brazil, France, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, England, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Portugal, Austria. Shortened forms: Dan, Danny, Dani. Similar names: Dan, Danny, Dani, Daniela, Danielle, Daniele, Danilo, Daniella, Daniil, Danelle, Danneel, Dannel, Danell, Danila, Danylo, Danniella, Danyelle. Here are some famous Daniels:

Daniel C. Tsui

First Name Daniel
Last Name Tsui
Born on February 28, 1939 (age 87)

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.

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Daniel Benítez

Daniel Eduardo Benítez Pernía
First Name Daniel
Last Name Benítez
Born on September 23, 1987
Died on April 9, 2021 (aged 33)
Born in Venezuela, Tachira
Height 189 cm | 6'2

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.

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Daniel M. Tani

First Name Daniel
Last Name Tani
Born on February 1, 1961 (age 65)

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.

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Daniel Edwin Rutherford

First Name Daniel
Last Name Rutherford
Born on July 4, 1906
Died on November 9, 1966 (aged 60)

Daniel "Dan" Edwin Rutherford FRSE was a Scottish mathematician, known for his work on the representation theory of symmetric groups.

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Daniel Monzón

First Name Daniel
Last Name Monzón
Born on January 1, 1968 (age 58)

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.

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Daniel Loss

First Name Daniel
Last Name Loss
Born on February 25, 1958 (age 68)

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.

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Daniel Junge

First Name Daniel
Last Name Junge
Born on November 30, 1949 (age 76)

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.

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Daniel Miller

Daniel Otto Joachim Miller
First Name Daniel
Last Name Miller
Born on February 14, 1951 (age 75)

Daniel Otto Joachim Miller is a British music producer and founder of Mute Records.

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Daniel Woodrell

First Name Daniel
Last Name Woodrell
Born on March 4, 1953 (age 73)

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.

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Daniel Widlöcher

Daniel Jean Florent Henri Widlöcher
First Name Daniel
Last Name Widlöcher
Born on June 8, 1929
Died on December 14, 2021 (aged 92)

Daniel Widlöcher was a French psychiatrist and academic. He served as president of the International Psychoanalytical Association in 2001.

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