List of Famous people named David

David Batty is an English retired professional footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder.

David Chokachi is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role in the TV series Witchblade, Baywatch, and Beyond The Break.

David Paul Cooley was a Lockheed test pilot and retired United States Air Force (USAF) officer, responsible for developmental flight testing of the F-117 Nighthawk. He was killed while flying a test mission in an F-22 Raptor jet fighter over the high desert of Southern California.

David Jacobs was an American personal trainer, convicted steroid dealer and informant.

David Vanterpool is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He is the assistant coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). During his playing career, he earned an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection during the 2003–04 season, while playing with Montepaschi Siena.

David Njoku is an American football tight end for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Miami, and was drafted by the Browns in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft.

David M. Sabatini is an American scientist and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2002 to 2021, he was a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He was also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2008 to 2021 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. He is known for his important contributions in the areas of cell signaling and cancer metabolism, most notably the discovery and study of mTOR, a protein kinase that is an important regulator of cell and organismal growth that is deregulated in cancer, diabetes, as well as the aging process. In August 2021, Sabatini was fired from the Whitehead Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and placed on administrative leave from MIT following an investigation related to sexual harassment during his work at the Whitehead Institute.

David Yates is an English film director who has directed films, short films, and television productions. He is best known for directing the later four films in the Harry Potter series. His work on the series brought him critical and commercial success along with accolades, such as the British Academy Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing.

David Stephen Caruso is an American retired actor and producer, best known for his roles as Detective John Kelly on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue, and Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the CBS series CSI: Miami (2002-2012). He also appeared in the films An Officer and a Gentleman, First Blood, Twins (1988), Kiss of Death (1995) and Proof of Life (2000).

David John Leckie was an Australian media executive who was the chief executive officer of Seven West Media from 2003 to 2012. He previously worked at Nine Network for almost a quarter of a century.