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David Alvarez
David Alvarez is an American Democratic politician who represents the 80th district in the California State Assembly after eight years on the San Diego City Council.
David Alvarez (actor)
David Alvarez (born 1994, Montreal) is a Canadian dancer-actor, one of the three original Billys of Broadway's Billy Elliot and a joint 2009 Tony winner, later Bernardo in Spielberg's West Side Story (2021), Isaac English in American Rust, and Gael Rodriguez in Étoile (2025).
David Amaral
David Amaral is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at UC Davis, founding research director of the MIND Institute, founder of the Autism Phenome Project, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
David Amess
Sir David Amess (1952–2021), British Conservative MP for Basildon 1983–97 and Southend West 1997–2021, animal welfare and Southend city-status campaigner, knighted 2015, murdered by Islamist terrorist Ali Harbi Ali at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October 2021.
David Amiel
David Amiel is a French politician who serves as Minister of Public Action and Public Accounts, described by La Tribune as a close associate of President Emmanuel Macron.
David and Catherine Birnie
David and Catherine Birnie, an Australian couple, murdered four females aged 15 to 31 in the 1986 Moorhouse murders in Willagee, Perth. Kate Moir's escape ended the spree; David died in prison in 2005, Catherine remains jailed.
David and Frederick Barclay
David and Frederick Barclay, identical twin British businessmen born 1934, built a £7bn empire in shipping, hotels, retail, and newspapers, owning the Ritz and the Daily Telegraph before losing it to Lloyds receivers in 2023.
David and Jonathan
David and Jonathan are the biblical pair whose bond in 1 Samuel 18–20 joins the future king David to Jonathan through love and a formal covenant.
David and Simon Reuben
David and Simon Reuben, known as the Reuben brothers, are British billionaire investors born in Bombay who made their first fortune trading metals in the former Soviet Union.
David Anders
David Anders (David Anders Holt, born 1981, Grants Pass, Oregon) is an American TV and stage actor known for Julian Sark in Alias, Adam Monroe in Heroes, Blaine DeBeers in iZombie, and Dr. Whale in Once Upon a Time.
David Andrews (actor)
David Andrews (Stanley David Andrews, born 1952, Baton Rouge) is an American character actor and former Stanford Law-trained lawyer, known for Apollo 13, Terminator 3, Fair Game, JAG, and The Boys.
David Andrews (American football)
David Andrews, undrafted Georgia center for the New England Patriots (2015–2024), two-time Super Bowl champion (LI, LIII), eight-time captain, 121 starts, overcame a 2019 pulmonary embolism, retired June 2025.
David Angell
David Lawrence Angell (April 10, 1946 or 1947 – September 11, 2001), American TV writer and producer; co-creator of Cheers, Wings, and Frasier with Peter Casey and David Lee; died aboard Flight 11.
David Anthony Higgins
David Anthony Higgins (Dave Higgins), American actor and writer born 1961 in Des Moines, Iowa; Craig Feldspar on Malcolm in the Middle, Harry on Mike & Molly, Joe on Ellen, and co-writer of The Wrong Guy.
David Apirion
David Apirion was a molecular biologist at Washington University who showed how E. coli cuts its rRNA and tRNA transcripts, defining RNase III, E, and P.
David Arana
David Arana Ley is a Mexican fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Konfío in 2013, a digital lender to small businesses that reached a $1.3 billion valuation in 2021.
David Archuleta
David James Archuleta (born 1990, Miami; raised in Sandy, Utah) is an American pop singer, American Idol season 7 runner-up to David Cook, gold debut album, "Crush" No. 2 Hot 100, LDS mission in Chile, came out 2021.
David Argente
David Argente is an economist and Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Management who studies how firms grow through new products and how people adopt payment technologies.
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (born 1961), styled Viscount Linley until 2017 and known as David Linley, is a British furniture maker, founder of Linley, former Christie's UK chairman, and nephew of Queen Elizabeth II.
David Arnold
David Arnold (born 1962, Luton, England) is a British film and TV composer, Grammy winner for Independence Day, composer of five James Bond scores from Tomorrow Never Dies to Quantum of Solace, and co-composer of Sherlock with Michael Price.
David Arora
David Arora (born about 1952) is an American self-taught mycologist and writer, author of Mushrooms Demystified (1979; 2nd ed. 1986) and All That the Rain Promises and More (1991), founder of the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair and Wasson Award recipient.
David Arquette
David Arquette (born 1971, Winchester, Virginia) is an American actor, Dewey Riley in Scream, and briefly the 2000 WCW World Heavyweight Champion, a stunt fans reviled; he later returned to indie wrestling and Scream 7.
David Artis
David Artis is an immunologist and Michael Kors Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, known for work on innate lymphoid cells and neuro-immune research.
David Asseo
David Asseo (1914–2002) was a Turkish rabbi, born in Istanbul, who served as the second chief rabbi of Turkey from 1961 until his death in 2002, for 41 years.
David Atlas
David Atlas (1924–2015) was an American radar meteorologist regarded as a founding figure of radar meteorology whose research influenced the design of the NEXRAD Doppler radar network.
David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough (born 8 May 1926, Leicester) is an English broadcaster and naturalist, BBC controller of BBC2, creator of Zoo Quest and Life on Earth, and record-holding narrator of wildlife documentaries who turned 100 in 2026.
David Attenborough filmography
David Attenborough filmography: the natural history documentaries presented, produced, or narrated by Sir David Attenborough from 1952 to the present, including Zoo Quest (1954), the Life series from Life on Earth (1979), Planet Earth (2006), Blue Planet II (2017), and Ocean (2025).
David Attwell
David Attwell (born 1953) is a British neuroscientist and Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London, known for work on glial cells, brain energy budgets, and stroke.
David Autor
David Autor is an American labor economist at MIT known for the "China shock" research on import competition and for work on automation and job polarization.
David Avnir
David Avnir (born 1947) is an Israeli chemist and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for molecularly doped metals, sol–gel entrapment, and fractal geometry in chemistry.