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Dinges is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

David F. Dinges is an American sleep researcher and teacher.

Erich Dinges Holocaust perpetrator

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Dinger may refer to:

John Dinges was special correspondent for Time, Washington Post and ABC Radio in Chile. With a group of Chilean journalists, he cofounded the Chilean magazine APSI. Since 1996 he has been associate professor and director of radio at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Ding may refer to:

Dingé Commune in Brittany, France

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Ring-dinge-ding, or Ring-dinge for short as it stands the Eurovision official website, ("Ring-Ding-A-Ding") was the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, performed in Dutch by Thérèse Steinmetz.

Dinge von denen 2003 single by Die Ärzte

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Vance George Dinges was an American professional baseball player. He appeared in 159 Major League games as a first baseman and outfielder for the 1945–1946 Philadelphia Phillies. The native of Elizabeth, New Jersey, threw and batted left-handed; he stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg).

Thérèse Steinmetz Dutch singer

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<i>Herr Gott, Beherrscher aller Dinge</i>, BWV 120a

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Robert Scherrer was an FBI agent posted in Latin America in the 1970s. Named by journalist John Dinges as an "intelligence centre all by himself", he had extensive sources in the intelligence communities and military across the countries of the Southern Cone, and was one of the agents transmitting information from local intelligence sources to the United States as part of Operation Condor. He later participated in investigations relating to Condor's international killings, and is one of John Dinges' sources. He was the person who, in 1979, revealed the existence of "phase 3" of Operation Condor, the programme of international assassinations.