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David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle is a New Zealand-born plant and ecosystem ecologist, professor of ecology at Umeå University since 2023, known for long-term experiments on boreal lake islands in Sweden.
David A. Warrell
David A. Warrell (D.A. Warrell), born 1939, is a British physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine at Oxford, known for snakebite and malaria research.
David A. Wassarman
David A. Wassarman is an American Drosophila geneticist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studied RNA polymerase II transcription and created a fly model of traumatic brain injury.
David A. Weitz
David A. Weitz, also known as David Weitz, is an experimental physicist and the Mallinckrodt Professor at Harvard University known for diffusing-wave spectroscopy and droplet microfluidics.
David A. Williams
David A. Williams is an American pediatric hematologist and gene therapy researcher who leads hematology at Boston Children's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.
David A. Woolhiser
David A. Woolhiser (died 2022) was an American hydrologist and USDA research hydraulic engineer known for runoff modeling on arid upland watersheds and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
David A. Yuen
David A. Yuen is a computational geophysicist, based at the University of Minnesota since 1985, known for numerical modeling of mantle convection and the core–mantle boundary.
David Aaron Kessler
David Aaron Kessler, born 1951, is an American pediatrician and lawyer who was FDA commissioner from 1990 to 1997 and later dean of the Yale and UCSF medical schools.
David Adams (cancer geneticist)
David J. Adams is a cancer geneticist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England, who studies somatic mutations driving melanoma and other skin cancers.
David Adeang
David W.R. Adeang (born 1969, Yaren district) is a Nauruan lawyer and politician, son of former president Kennan Adeang; MP for Ubenide since 2001, longtime finance and justice minister, and President of Nauru (Naoero) since 30 October 2023, re-elected unopposed in October 2025.
David Agus
David Agus is an American medical oncologist and USC professor who is founding CEO of the Ellison Medical Institute and wrote the New York Times bestseller The End of Illness.
David Aitov
David Aitov, also known as David Alexandrovich Aitov, was a Russian-born cartographer (1854–1933) who emigrated to Paris, devised the Aitoff projection in 1889, and contributed to Hachette's Atlas universel.
David Ajala
David Ajala (born 1986, Hackney, London) is an English actor known for Cleveland 'Book' Booker in Star Trek: Discovery, Manchester Black in Supergirl, Nightflyers, and Detective Theo Walker on Law & Order season 25.
David Akers
David Akers (born 1974, Lexington, KY) is a former NFL placekicker, Eagles all-time scoring leader (1,323 points), 6x Pro Bowler, 2011 49ers record holder (44 FGs, 63-yarder), Eagles Hall of Fame 2017.
David Alaba
David Alaba (David Olatukunbo Alaba), Austrian defender born Vienna 1992; Bayern Munich 2008-2021, Real Madrid 2021-2026, Udinese 2026; four Champions League titles, ten Bundesliga, captain of Austria.
David Alan Friedman
David Alan Friedman is an American structural and earthquake engineer who led Forell/Elsesser in San Francisco and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
David Alan Grier
David Alan Grier (born 1955, Detroit) is an American actor and comedian, Yale School of Drama graduate, In Living Color cast member 1990–1994, and 2020 Tony winner for A Soldier's Play; distinct from the GWU computer historian of the same name.
David Alastair Compston
David Alastair Compston, also known as David Alastair Standish Compston, is a British neurologist, Professor Emeritus at Cambridge, known for quantifying multiple sclerosis genetics and introducing alemtuzumab therapy.
David Aldous
David Aldous, born 1952 in Exeter, England, is a British probability theorist who spent his career at UC Berkeley and won the first Loève Prize.
David Aldridge
David Aldridge (born 1965, Washington, D.C.) is an American sports journalist, senior columnist at The Athletic covering the NBA, formerly Turner Sports' Insider 2004-2018 and 2016 Curt Gowdy Media Award winner. Distinct from other David Aldridges, including the British actor and the Atlanta consultant.
David Alexander (physicist)
David Alexander is a Scottish-born solar and space plasma physicist, professor at Rice University and Director of the Rice Space Institute, known for research on solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896, Chihuahua), Mexican muralist of Los Tres Grandes with Rivera and Orozco; communist militant, founder of the 1936 New York Experimental Workshop influencing Pollock, and creator of The March of Humanity at the Polyforum.
David Allan Bromley
David Allan Bromley (1926–2005) was a Canadian-American nuclear physicist known as the father of heavy-ion physics and the first Cabinet-level science adviser to a US president.
David Allan Coe
David Allan Coe (1939–2026), American outlaw country singer-songwriter from Akron, Ohio; wrote "Take This Job and Shove It" and "Would You Lay With Me," recorded "The Ride" and "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile," never a No. 1 artist.
David Alland
David Alland is an American infectious-diseases physician and researcher, professor and chief of infectious diseases at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, who led development of the Xpert MTB/RIF tuberculosis diagnostic.
David Allen Brenner
David Allen Brenner is an American hepatologist and physician-scientist, president and CEO of Sanford Burnham Prebys since 2022 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
David Allen Landgrebe
David Allen Landgrebe (1934–2020) was an American electrical engineer at Purdue University who helped originate multispectral remote sensing and led its Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing.
David Alpers
David H. Alpers is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist, emeritus William B. Kountz Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a past president of the American Gastroenterological Association.
David Alsteens
David Alsteens is a Belgian chemist and professor at UCLouvain who uses atomic force microscopy to measure molecular forces in cell adhesion, signaling, and virus entry.
David Altshuler (geneticist)
David Altshuler is an American endocrinologist and human geneticist known for diabetes genetics and genome-wide association studies, and former chief scientific officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.