Dave Dowding : Bass guitar in The Cousin Jacks and The Falcons

Dave Chambers : Tailor.
» He made some of Freddie's formal suits

Dave Dilloway : Drummer
» Member of 1984
» Also a member in un-named (or unknown) school group pre-1984.
» School friend of Brian May's.

Dave Geffen : Owner of Geffen Records.
» Offered Freddie an open cheque to sign to his label. Freddie declined.

Dave Gilmour : Guitarist (Pink Floyd)
» Was one of many famous guitarists who performed on the release of 'Smoke On The Water'
» ...for the Armenian earthquake appeal in 1990.
» Also played on the Comic Releif song 'The Stonk' in 1991, along with Brian and Tony Iommi.

Dave Thomas : Co-Manager (with Jack Neslon).
» Co-managed Queen whilst they were signed to Trident.

David 'Dawn' Nutter : Photographer.
» Friend of Tony King (a friend of Freddie's).

Dave Hill : Moving Light Operator - Freddie Mercury AIDS Benefit show at Wembley in (1992). ⁽¹⁾

David Hodo : Singer.
» The Construction Worker in The Village People.
» Friend of Freddie's

David Mallet : Video producer.

Dave Parr : Editor of QFN - the Queen Fan Newsletter (1990 - 1998).

David Richards : Engineer at Mountain Studios when Queen bought it in 1979.
» Co-produced many later Queen albums.

David Williams : Member of New Opposition 1967.

David Wigg: Journalists.
» One of the few journalists who Freddie considered a friend.
» The inclusion of the David Wigg interview CD on the 'Freddie Mercury Boxed Set' is testament to...
» ... Freddie's admiration of David and his loyalty.

Deacon Played a one-off college gig 21 November 1970.

Debbie Leng : Actress (Cadbury's Flake girl).
» Ex-partner (1991-2002) of Roger Taylor's.
» Can be seen in 'Breakthru' video.

Dee Anthony : Manager who turned Queen down.

Derek Burbridge : Producer.
» Produced the 'We Are The Champions' video.
» Bob Harris recorded the video shoot for the documentary he was making at the time.

Debbie Bishop : Actress. Friend Of Freddie's.

Derek Dane : Principal dancer at the Royal Ballet (London).
» Freddie Mercury performed witht the Royal Ballet on 7th October 1979.

Derek Ridge : Art School friend of Freddie's (can be seen in 'The Untold Story' DVD).

Dennis De Lavance : Producer
» Produced 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' video in 1979.

Den Dennis : Bassist (character) in the spoof group Bad News.
» Played by Nigel Planner (Pop in London cast 'We Will Rock You' musical).

Denise Morse : Lukimia sufferer.
» Raised money for the 'British Bone Marrow Donor Appeal'.
» Denise had 'Who Wants To Live Forever' played at her funeral (this came to the attention of Brian).
» Brian rewrote the song to raise money for the charity with Ian Meeson & Belinda Gillet singing.
» Brian got actively involved in the 'BBMDA' and became president of the charity.

Denni Godber : Hairdresser.
» Freddie flew him from London to Wurtzburg in Germany for a haircut on 9th May 1982.
» Denni still (2004) works privately in Fulham London.

Dean S Crathern : Assistant co-producer (with Josh Macrae).
» Co-produced Roger Taylor's Electric Fire album (1998).

Diana Rigg : Actress.
» Someone on Freddie's 'A-list' of movie stars (see Tony King's entry for those in the 'B-list').
» Others on Freddie's list include Maggie Smith, Ava Gardner and Honor Blackman.

Diana Moseley : Freddie's costume designer.

Dieter Briet : Freddie's physiotherapist.

Dick Clarke : Queen won a 'Dick Clark Award' in 1980.

Dick Marx : Arranger.
» Arranged the strings on the single 'Foreign Sand' from Roger Taylor's 'Happiness?' album (1994).

Dino De Laurentiis : Producer of Flash Gordon in 1980.

Diego Maradona Argentinian footballer.
» Brian and Maradona swapped shirts on the South American tour in 1981.

Doug Bogie : Bassist in Queen in 1971.

Doug Ewood : Bassist in Queen (January - February 1971) .

Don Cater : Drummer with the group Deacon.

Donald McKensie : Presented Freddie with the now famous 'cat' waistcoat.
» The cats were of Freddie's actual cats.
» The waistcoat is silk and special watercolor paints were used.

Doug Puddifoot : Photographer.
» Responsible for first album cover - back and front.
» Responsible for some photographs in the 'Lover of Life, Singer of Songs' DVD booklet.
» Doug has now left the BBC after 38 years where he become head cameraman. (1964 - 2002).
» Doug is now a freelance television cameraman.

Don Arden : Queen's American business manager.

Dominique Beyrand : Girlfriend of Roger Taylor.
» They met when she was PA to Richard Branson in 1976.

Don Kirschener : Rock Award (USA).
» Queen awarded one for best procuded album of 1976 (ANATO).

D-ROK : Brian May plays on their album 'Oblivion' on 2 songs...
» ...'Red Planet Blues' & 'Get Out Of My Way' from 1991.

Drew Brown : Menu design on the Freddie Mercury 'Lover of Life, Singer of Songs' DVD.

Duran Duran : Didn't get to support Queen in 1980 as planned (Straight Eight did instead).

Dustin Hoffman : Actor.
» Visited Garden Lodge to see the work of Robin Moore-Ede (interior designer).
» Freddie asked Dustin to sign a birthday card for Peter Freestone (Phoebe)⁽²⁾, which he duly obliged.

References
1 - Addition by Charlie 'Cosmo' Wilson
2 - Correction by Norbert Muller