List of Famous people named David

David Andrew Miller is a South African international cricketer.

General David John Hurley, is an Australian former senior officer in the Australian Army who is the 27th Governor-General of Australia, in office since 1 July 2019. He was previously the 38th Governor of New South Wales, serving from 2014 to 2019.

David Ochoa is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. Born in the United States, he represented the Mexico national under-21 team.

David Wright Miliband is a British public policy analyst who is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the International Rescue Committee. A former British Labour Party politician, who was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields from 2001 to 2013, he and his brother, Ed Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Lord Edward Stanley and Oliver Stanley in 1938.

David Schneider is an English actor, comedian and director.

David Leinail Richmond was a civil rights activist for most of his life, but he was best known for being one of the Greensboro Four. Richmond was a student at North Carolina A&T during the time of the Greensboro protests, but never ended up graduating from A&T. He felt pressure from the residual celebrity of being one of the Greensboro Four; his life was threatened in Greensboro and he was forced to move to Franklin, NC. Eventually, he moved back to Greensboro to take care of his father. Richmond was awarded the Levi Coffin Award for leadership in human rights by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce in 1980. Richmond seemed to be haunted by the fact that he could not do more to improve his world, and battled alcoholism and depression. He died in 1990 and was awarded a posthumous honorary doctorate degree from North Carolina A&T

David Michael Carr was an American columnist, and author. He wrote the Media Equation column and covered culture for The New York Times.

David Michael Bentley is an English former professional footballer who played primarily as a winger, but also played as a central midfielder or as a second striker.

David Benjamin Rakoff was a Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry based in New York City, who wrote humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff was an essayist, journalist, and actor, and a regular contributor to WBEZ's This American Life. Rakoff described himself as a "New York writer" who also happened to be a "Canadian writer", a "mega Jewish writer", a "gay writer", and an "East Asian Studies major who has forgotten most of his Japanese" writer.

Michael David Cobham was a British film and TV producer and director, best known for the film Tarka the Otter. He was also a first-class cricketer.