Howard Dwaine "Howie D." Dorough (born August 22, 1973) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and dancer. He is best known as a member of American music group Backstreet Boys.
Howard Dwaine Dorough was born in Orlando, Florida, where he met future friend and bandmate AJ McLean through a mutual vocal coach. His mother, Paula Flores, is Puerto Rican, and his father, Hoke Dwaine Dorough (1938–2008), was Irish American. He is the youngest of five siblings, older brother, John, and three sisters, Pollyanna, also a singer, Angela "Angie" and Caroline, who died from lupus in 1998.