text: Vince Dooley – head football coach and athletic director of University of Georgia
  Art Donovan – football Hall of Famer
  Terry Downes – British former world middleweight champion boxer
  Paul Douglas – United States Senator and the oldest Marine recruit to have completed recruit training
  Buster Drayton – world champion boxer
  Ben Driebergen – reality television personality best known for competing on and winning Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers
  Adam Driver – Academy Award-nominated actor best known for playing Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
  Don Dubbins – actor (From the Earth to the Moon, Separate but Equal)
  Andre Dubus – author
  Donald Roan Dunagan – child actor best known for providing the voice of young Bambi in Bambi (1942), and also for portraying the young son of Baron Frankenstein in Son of Frankenstein (1939).
  David Douglas Duncan – photographer
  Frank Dux – Canadian-American martial artist and fight choreographer who claimed to have won a secret martial arts tournament called the Kumite in 1975. His alleged victory at the Kumite served as the inspiration for the 1988 film Bloodsport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
  Dale Dye – actor, film industry military technical advisor and historian (Platoon)
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  William A. Eddy – university professor and president, U.S. minister to Saudi Arabia (1943-1946)