List of Famous people named David

David A. Prior was an American director, screenwriter, producer and co-founder of the Action International Pictures (AIP). Prior started his career with the horror film Sledgehammer (1983), and the action film Killzone (1985), both of them with his brother Ted in lead roles. Shortly after he went into a partnership with veteran producer David Winters, and started directing film many of them with his brother as the star, some of these cult classics includes Deadly Prey, Aerobicide, and Mankillers.

David Douglas, 7th Earl of Angus was a Scottish nobleman.

David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool was a Church of England Bishop of Liverpool who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth. Sheppard remains the only ordained minister to have played Test cricket, though others such as Tom Killick were ordained after playing Tests.

Rear-Admiral David Charles Cairns, 5th Earl Cairns,, was Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1971.

David Edgari Tonoyan is an Armenian political figure and the former Defence Minister of Armenia.

David Gosset is a global affairs analyst, expert in international relations and sinologist.