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Dave Stewart (baseball)

Dave Stewart (David Keith Stewart), nicknamed "Smoke", is an American former baseball pitcher who won 20 games four consecutive seasons with Oakland and was the 1989 World Series MVP.

Dave Stewart (Eurythmics)

Dave Stewart (David Allan Stewart, born 1952, Sunderland) is the English songwriter, guitarist, and producer who co-founded Eurythmics with Annie Lennox, co-wrote Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), and later produced Tom Petty, Mick Jagger, and Stevie Nicks; distinct from the Canterbury-scene keyboardist of the same name.

Dave Stewart (musician, born 1950)

Dave Stewart (David Lloyd Stewart, born 1950, London) is the Canterbury scene keyboardist of Egg, Hatfield and the North, National Health, and Bruford, later the Stewart/Gaskin pop duo; not the Eurythmics guitarist David A. Stewart.

Dave Sunday (politician)

Dave Sunday (David W. Sunday, Jr.), Republican and former York County District Attorney and Navy veteran, has been Pennsylvania's Attorney General since January 2025 after winning the 2024 election over Eugene DePasquale.

Dave Swarbrick

Dave Swarbrick (David Cyril Eric Swarbrick, 1941-2016), known as Swarb, English folk fiddler of the Ian Campbell Folk Group, the Carthy duo, and Fairport Convention; first UK folk fiddler to electrify the violin and key figure on Liege & Lief.

Dave Syverson

Dave Syverson is an American Republican politician and financial consultant, born in Chicago and raised in Rockford, who has served in the Illinois Senate since 1993.

Dave Tabors

Dave Tabors is a private equity partner at Battery Ventures in Boston, known for later-stage software investments and buyouts including BladeLogic, Consona, Vero Software, and Forterro.

Dave Tayeh

Dave Tayeh, also known as David Tayeh, is an American private equity investor who co-founded the New York buyout firm Tayeh Capital Group in 2025.

Dave the Barbarian

Dave the Barbarian is a Disney Channel animated comedy created by Doug Langdale, premiering January 23, 2004. It follows cowardly, gourmet-cooking barbarian Dave, sisters Candy and Fang, and Udrogoth's odd foes, with meta humor and narrator Jeff Bennett.

Dave Thomas (actor)

Dave Thomas (David William Thomas, born 1949, St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian SCTV comedian, the co-creator of Bob and Doug McKenzie with Rick Moranis, star-director of Strange Brew, Emmy-winning writer, and 2020 Order of Canada appointee.

Dave Thomas (businessman)

Dave Thomas (R. David Thomas) was an American restaurateur who founded the Wendy's hamburger chain in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969 after selling his Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, and appeared in more than 800 commercials for Wendy's.

Dave Toschi

Dave Toschi (1931-2018), San Francisco homicide inspector and lead Zodiac Killer investigator from 1969 to 1978; removed after fake fan letters to Armistead Maupin, exonerated of forging the 1978 Zodiac letter, model for Bullitt.

Dave Trottier

Dave Trottier (David Trottier, 1906-1956), Canadian left winger; 1928 St. Moritz Olympic gold with 12 goals and tournament-leading 15 points; ten NHL seasons with Montreal Maroons, 1935 Stanley Cup; Hockey Hall of Fame inductee.

Dave Turner

Dave Turner (David Lindsay Turner, 1923-2015) was an American rower who won gold in the men's eight at the 1948 London Olympics for California, then a Navy and NOAA hurricane-hunter pilot holding the record for most hurricane flights.

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk (1936–2002), the "Mayor of MacDougal Street," was a Greenwich Village folk-blues singer and guitarist, mentor to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Suzanne Vega, and the model for Inside Llewyn Davis.

Dave Vella

Dave Vella is an American politician, attorney, and Democrat representing the 68th district in the Illinois House of Representatives since 2021; he practiced law in Rockford for two decades.

Dave Wallace

Dave Wallace is an American Republican politician and Maryland businessman who won his party's June 2026 primary nomination for U.S. House in Maryland's 2nd Congressional District.

Dave Walters

Dave Walters (David Walters, born 1987) is an American swimmer, 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay and 2009 Rome world record holder in the 4x200 free and 4x100 medley relays.

Dave Wannstedt

Dave Wannstedt (David Raymond Wannstedt, born 1952) is an American football coach; NFL head coach of the Chicago Bears (1993-98) and Miami Dolphins (2000-04), 84-90 overall, later Pittsburgh head coach.

Dave Ward (trade unionist)

Dave Ward, also known as David Ward, is a British trade unionist and General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union since 2015, having defeated Billy Hayes.

Dave Wharton

Dave Wharton (David Lee Wharton, born 1969) is an American swimmer, 1988 Olympic 400 m IM silver medalist, and former world record holder in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley.

Dave Wight

Dave Wight (David Henry Wight, 1934-2017), American Olympic rower born in London; won gold in the men's eights at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in the second seat of the Yale eight; later a Yale-trained architect.

Dave Williams (singer)

Dave Williams (born 1972, died August 14, 2002) was the original lead singer of nu metal band Drowning Pool, joining in 1999. He sang on Sinner (2001), which went platinum and featured "Bodies", and died of undiagnosed heart failure at age 30.

Dave Wilson

Dave Wilson is the name of several Olympic athletes, including an American backstroke swimmer who won gold and silver medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Dave Winfield

Dave Winfield (David Mark Winfield, born 1951) is a Hall of Fame outfielder (2001, 84.47% vote) with 3,110 hits and 465 home runs; first athlete drafted by MLB, NBA, ABA, and NFL; 1992 World Series hero with Toronto.

Dave Wottle

Dave Wottle (David James Wottle, born 1950, Canton, Ohio), American middle-distance runner; 1972 Munich Olympic 800m gold in 1:45.86, winning from last place by 0.03 over Arzhanov; equalled 800m world record 1:44.3; wore a golf cap.

Dave's Picks Volume 59

Dave's Picks Volume 59 (2026) is a 3-CD Grateful Dead live album of the September 26, 1991 Boston Garden show, the series' most recent-dated concert, limited to 25,000 copies, produced by David Lemieux.

Daved H. Fremont

Daved H. Fremont is a structural biologist and immunologist who is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for defining the structural basis of Zika virus antibody protection.

Daveed (ദാവീദ്) (film)

Daveed (ദാവീദ്) is a 2025 Malayalam boxing action drama, Govind Vishnu's debut, starring Antony Varghese Pepe as former boxer Ashiq Abu opposite Mo Ismail's champion; released 14 February 2025, streamed on ZEE5 from 18 April 2025.

Daveed Diggs

Daveed Diggs (born 1982) is an American actor and rapper from Oakland; Tony and Grammy winner as Lafayette/Jefferson in Hamilton, frontman of Clipping., co-writer and star of Blindspotting, and lead of Snowpiercer.