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David B. Sykes
David B. Sykes is a hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for differentiation therapy in acute myeloid leukemia and for defining the TEMPI syndrome.
David B. Wake
David B. Wake (1936–2021) was an American evolutionary biologist and herpetologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on salamander diversification, evo-devo, and the salamander ring species Ensatina.
David B. Weiner
David B. Weiner is an American immunologist known as the father of DNA vaccines, who led the first clinical trials of DNA vaccines against HIV, MERS, and Zika.
David b. Zakkai
David b. Zakkai (דוד בן זכאי) was the exilarch, or secular head, of Babylonian Jewry in Baghdad from 917 to 940, remembered for his feud with Saadiah Gaon.
David Badawi
David Badawi is an American ophthalmologist who co-founded Sight Sciences, a Menlo Park, California medical-device company, with his brother Paul in 2010 and co-invented its OMNI and TearCare systems.
David Baddiel
David Baddiel (born 1964, Troy, New York) is a British comedian, author and TV presenter, half of Newman and Baddiel, the first comedy act to sell out Wembley Arena, co-writer of Three Lions, and author of Jews Don't Count.
David Bailey
David Bailey (born 1938) is a British photographer famous for 1960s Vogue fashion and portrait work, Box of Pin-Ups (1965), the Black Trinity with Duffy and Donovan, and inspiring Blow-Up.
David Baird
Sir David Baird (1757 to 1829) was a British army officer who led the storming of Seringapatam in 1799 and lost an arm at Corunna.
David Bairstow
David Leslie Bairstow (1951-1998), Yorkshire wicketkeeper-batsman and county captain 1984-86, four Tests and 21 ODIs for England, father of Jonny Bairstow; died by suicide in 1998.
David Bakalar
David Bakalar was an American physicist and semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded Transitron Electronic Corporation with his brother Leo in 1952, pioneering the gold-bonded germanium diode and silicon rectifiers.
David Baker (biochemist)
David Baker, born 1962, is an American biochemist at the University of Washington who won half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design.
David Bakhtiari
David Bakhtiari, Green Bay Packers All-Pro left tackle (2013-2023), five-time AP All-Pro, four-year $92M extension in 2020; career derailed by ACL tear Dec 31, 2020 and femur cartilage damage; later released.
David Baldacci
David Baldacci (born 1960) is an American thriller novelist, author of Absolute Power (1996), 54 adult novels in series such as Amos Decker and Will Robie, and founder of the Wish You Well Foundation.
David Bale
David Bale (David Charles Howard Bale, 1941-2003), English entrepreneur, environmentalist, and animal rights activist; father of actor Christian Bale and third husband of Gloria Steinem, whom he married in 2000; died of brain lymphoma.
David Ball (electronic musician)
David James Ball (Dave Ball, 1959–2025) was the English electronic musician and producer of Soft Cell, whose Tainted Love was 1981's best-selling UK single, and co-founder of The Grid (Swamp Thing, UK number 3 in 1994).
David Baltimore
David Baltimore (1938–2025), American biologist, co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase, 1975 Nobel laureate, creator of the Baltimore virus classification, Whitehead founding director, Rockefeller and Caltech president, exonerated in the Baltimore case.
David Bamber
David Bamber (born 1954, Walkden, Lancashire) is an English RADA-trained actor, Olivier Award winner for My Night with Reg, best known as Mr Collins in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice, Cicero in Rome, and Hitler in Valkyrie.
David Banner
David Banner is the stage name of Lavell Crump (born 1973 or 1974), an American rapper, record producer, actor, and activist from Jackson, Mississippi who rose with Southern hip-hop in the early 2000s.
David Barby
David Barby (1943-2012), English auctioneer and antiques expert from Rugby, partner at Locke & England, star of Bargain Hunt, Flog It!, and Antiques Road Trip, nicknamed The Master.
David Barford
David Barford, born 1963, is a structural biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for structures of the kinetochore and APC/C.
David Barksdale
David Barksdale (1947-1974), called King David, led Chicago's Devil's Disciples and Black Disciples and in 1969 merged them with Larry Hoover's Supreme Gangsters into the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, ancestor of the Gangster Disciples and Black Disciples.
David Barnea
David Barnea (born 1965, Ashkelon), also known as Dadi, was the 13th director of Israel's Mossad from 2021 to June 2, 2026, overseeing the Fakhrizadeh assassination, the Hezbollah pager operation, Iran airstrikes, and Gaza hostage negotiations.
David Barnes (poultry scientist)
David M. Barnes is an American nutritional biologist and poultry scientist, an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas honored with a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
David Baszucki
David Baszucki, also known as Builderman, is a technology executive who co-founded Roblox in 2004 with Erik Cassel and has served as its CEO since.
David Bates (physicist)
Sir David Robert Bates (1916–1994) was a Northern Irish physicist at Queen's University Belfast who gave the first realistic description of the ionosphere and identified dissociative recombination.
David Batty
David Batty (born 1968, Leeds) is an English retired midfielder, 42 England caps, who won titles with Leeds United (1992) and Blackburn Rovers (1995), played for Newcastle, and retired in 2004.
David Baulcombe
Sir David Charles Baulcombe, born in 1952, is a British plant scientist who discovered small interfering RNAs, won the Lasker and Wolf Prizes, and became Biological Secretary of the Royal Society in 2024.
David Beach (cell cycle biologist)
David Beach is a British-born cell cycle biologist who trained with Paul Nurse, led a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, and discovered the CDK inhibitors p21 and p16.
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871–1936), British Admiral of the Fleet; battlecruiser commander at Jutland, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet 1916–1919, First Sea Lord 1919–1927, Washington Naval Treaty negotiator.
David Beckham
David Beckham (born 1975, London) is an English former midfielder known for crossing and free kicks; Manchester United and Real Madrid star, 115 England caps, LA Galaxy MLS Cup winner, UNICEF ambassador, and Inter Miami co-owner.