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David Beerling
David J. Beerling, born 1965, is a British biogeochemist and Sorby Professor at the University of Sheffield, known for research on plant and atmosphere co-evolution.
David Beisel
David Beisel is an American venture capitalist who co-founded NextView Ventures in 2010, a seed-stage firm for internet-enabled startups, after earlier careers as an entrepreneur and investor.
David Bek
David Bek (Դավիթ Բեկ), who died in 1728, was an Armenian military commander who led the armed struggle in Syunik against Iranian and Ottoman forces from 1722.
David Beljonne
David Beljonne (born 1969) is a Belgian theoretical chemist at the University of Mons and Georgia Tech who models conjugated organic materials for solar cells, LEDs, and transistors.
David Bell (research forester)
David M. Bell is an American research forester at the USDA Forest Service in Corvallis, Oregon, who received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
David Bellamy
David Bellamy (1933-2019), English botanist, peatland ecologist and BBC nature broadcaster famous for Torrey Canyon coverage and the Conservation Foundation, whose climate-change skepticism ended his TV career.
David Bellavia
David Bellavia (born 1975), retired U.S. Army staff sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient for single-handedly clearing an insurgent house at Fallujah on November 10, 2004; first living Iraq War recipient, awarded June 25, 2019; author of House to House.
David Belle
David Belle (born 1973, Fécamp, France) is the French founder of parkour, developed in Lisses with the Yamakasi, and an actor and stunt coordinator known for District B13, Brick Mansions, and Dying Light 2.
David Bellwood
David R. Bellwood is an Australian marine ecologist at James Cook University in Townsville, a leading expert on the evolution and ecology of coral reef fishes.
David Ben-Gurion (דוד בן-גוריון)
David Ben-Gurion, born David Gruen in Poland in 1886, proclaimed Israel's independence on 14 May 1948 and served as its first prime minister until 1963.
David Benatar
David Benatar is a South African philosopher and emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town, the leading contemporary proponent of anti-natalism, the view that procreation is always wrong.
David Benavidez
David Benavidez, "El Bandera Roja" or "The Mexican Monster", is an undefeated American boxer (32-0, 26 KOs) from Phoenix and a three-weight world champion: WBC super middleweight, WBC light heavyweight, and WBA/WBO cruiserweight titles.
David Benioff
David Benioff (born David Friedman) is an American novelist and screenwriter, co-creator with D.B. Weiss of HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and Netflix's 3 Body Problem (2024), author of The 25th Hour and City of Thieves, with 6 Emmy wins.
David Benoit (musician)
David Benoit (born 1953, Bakersfield, California) is an American contemporary jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, a GRAMMY nominee known for Freedom at Midnight, Peanuts/Guaraldi tributes, and conducting the Asia America Symphony; distinct from Yes singer Benoit David.
David Bentley
David Bentley (born 1984, Peterborough), English right-sided midfielder; Arsenal trainee, Blackburn Rovers (133 apps, 21 goals), £15m Tottenham signing 2008, seven England caps 2007–08; retired June 2014 aged 29.
David Bercovici
David Bercovici is a geophysicist, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor at Yale University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for grain-damage theory of plate boundaries.
David Berg
David Berg, known as Moses David, was an American preacher who founded the Children of God in 1968 in California and led it until his death in 1994.
David Bergelson
David Bergelson (דוד בערגעלסאָן, 1884–1952) was a Yiddish novelist, dramatist, and literary editor, considered the first and most important Yiddish modernist prose writer of the twentieth century.
David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz (born 1953), the "Son of Sam" and ".44 Caliber Killer," murdered six and wounded seven in New York City, 1976-1977; arrested August 10, 1977 via a parking ticket, imprisoned at Shawangunk, repeatedly denied parole.
David Berlinski
David Berlinski is an author and critic trained in philosophy, known for popular books on mathematics, The Devil's Delusion against the New Atheism, and a critique of Darwinian evolution.
David Berman (musician)
David Berman, also known as David Cloud Berman, was an American songwriter and poet who founded the indie rock band Silver Jews in 1989 and died in 2019.
David Berry (actor)
David Berry (born 1984, Toronto) is a Canadian-born Australian actor, NIDA 2010 graduate, known for James Bligh in A Place to Call Home and Lord John Grey in Outlander; distinct from other David Berrys.
David Betz
David J. Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King's College London, studies insurgency, urban warfare, fortification, and information war; author of Carnage and Connectivity (2015) and The Guarded Age (2024), and of the 2023 Civil War Comes to the West thesis.
David Beyer
David Beyer is an American venture capital investor and Partner at Amplify Partners, investing in infrastructure, developer tools, and machine learning companies after co-founding the data-visualization startup Chartio.
David Bilder
David Bilder is a developmental biologist at UC Berkeley who studies how epithelial tissues are built and how they suppress tumors, using the fruit fly Drosophila.
David Birney
David Birney (1939–2022), American stage and TV actor, starred with Meredith Baxter in Bridget Loves Bernie, played Serpico and St. Elsewhere's Dr. Ben Samuels, and won 1968 Theatre World and Clarence Derwent Awards for Summertree.
David Bisbal
David Bisbal Ferre (born 1979, Almería) is a Spanish Latin pop singer, runner-up of Operación Triunfo 2001, known for Ave María and Bulería, Latin Grammy winner, and the 2026 crooner album Eternos.
David Blackwell
David Blackwell (1919–2010) was an American statistician and mathematician at UC Berkeley who in 1965 became the first African American elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
David Blaine
David Blaine (born David Blaine White, 1973) is an American magician and endurance performer whose 1997 ABC special Street Magic reinvented televised magic, followed by stunts like Buried Alive, Frozen in Time, and 44 days above the Thames.
David Blatt
David Blatt, Israeli-American basketball coach born in Boston, won the 2014 EuroLeague with Maccabi Tel Aviv and EuroBasket 2007 with Russia, coached the Cavaliers to the 2015 NBA Finals, and holds both EuroLeague and NBA championship rings.