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David Blei
David M. Blei is a machine learning researcher and Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University, known for latent Dirichlet allocation and probabilistic topic models.
David Blondel
David Blondel (1590 or 1591 – 1655) was a French Calvinist theologian and church historian who first showed systematically that the Pseudo-Isidorian decretals were forgeries.
David Bloor
David Bloor (born 1942) is a British sociologist, emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, and founder of the Strong Programme, set out in his 1976 book Knowledge and Social Imagery.
David Blough
David Blough (born 1995) is a former NFL quarterback, Purdue record-holder, and the Washington Commanders' offensive coordinator since January 2026, promoted after two seasons as assistant quarterbacks coach.
David Blumenthal
David Blumenthal, born 1948, is an American physician and health policy researcher who served as US National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011.
David Blunkett
David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett (born 1947), British Labour politician, first blind UK cabinet minister; Education and Employment Secretary 1997-2001, Home Secretary 2001-2004, Work and Pensions Secretary 2005; MP for Sheffield Brightside 1987-2015; resigned twice, in 2004 and 2005; Lords peer since 2015.
David Bodian
David Bodian (1910–1992) was an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins whose research laid the groundwork for the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines, and who created the Bodian nerve stain.
David Boettiger
David Boettiger was an American microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who helped discover reverse transcriptase and showed that integrins transduce mechanical force into chemical signals.
David Bohm
David Joseph Bohm (1917–1992) was an American-born theoretical physicist known for Bohmian mechanics, his 1952 hidden-variables interpretation of quantum mechanics, the Aharonov–Bohm effect, and Wholeness and the Implicate Order.
David Boies
David Boies (born 1941, Sycamore, Illinois) is an American trial lawyer, founding partner of Boies Schiller Flexner, DOJ Special Trial Counsel in United States v. Microsoft, Gore's counsel in Bush v. Gore, and co-lead counsel against California's Proposition 8.
David Bond
David John Were Bond (1922–2013), British sailor from Falmouth, Cornwall; won 1948 London Olympic gold in the Swallow class as crew to Stewart Morris aboard Swift, the class's only Olympic appearance, and was the last surviving British 1948 champion.
David Bonderman
David Bonderman (1942 to 2024) was an American private equity investor who co-founded Texas Pacific Group (TPG), built its reputation on the 1993 Continental Airlines turnaround, and brought the Seattle Kraken to the NHL.
David Bonior
David Bonior (born 1945) is a Michigan Democrat who served 26 years in the U.S. House (1977-2003) and was House Democratic whip 1991-2002, defeating Steny Hoyer 160-109 in 1991 before an unsuccessful 2002 Michigan governor run.
David Boon
David Boon (born 1960), 'Boonie', Tasmanian cricketer: 107 Tests, 7422 runs at 43.65, 1987 World Cup final Man of the Match; later Australian selector and ICC match referee until 2025.
David Boreanaz
David Boreanaz, American actor-director (born Buffalo, NY; birth year reported as 1969 or 1971), starred as Angel (Buffy/Angel), Seeley Booth (Bones), Jason Hayes (SEAL Team), and will lead NBC's Rockford Files reboot in 2027.
David Borenstein
David Borenstein, American documentary filmmaker based in Copenhagen, directed Dream Empire (2016), Can't Feel Nothing (2024), and the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025), co-directed with Pavel Talankin.
David Borrero
David Borrero is an American Republican politician who has represented District 111 in the Florida House of Representatives since 2020, after serving as a Sweetwater commissioner.
David Borwein
David Borwein (1924–2021) was a Canadian mathematician who specialized in summability theory, headed mathematics at the University of Western Ontario for 22 years, and led the Canadian Mathematical Society.
David Botstein
David Botstein (1942–2026) was a Swiss-born American geneticist whose 1980 proposal for a DNA linkage map of the human genome became a foundation of the Human Genome Project.
David Boudia
David Boudia, born in 1989 in Abilene, Texas, is a retired American platform diver who won four Olympic medals across three Games, including 2012 gold.
David Bowie
David Bowie, born David Robert Jones in 1947, was an English rock musician and actor famed for reinvention through personas such as Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke; hits include Space Oddity, Fame, and Heroes, and he died of cancer in 2016 after releasing Blackstar.
David Bowie (1967 album)
David Bowie (1967) is David Bowie's debut studio album, released 1 June 1967 on Deram, produced by Mike Vernon, a 14-track UK music hall and baroque pop record that failed commercially and is distinguished from his second self-titled 1969 album.
David Bowie (1969 album)
David Bowie (1969), also known as Space Oddity and Man of Words/Man of Music, is Bowie's second studio album, released 14 November 1969 on Philips, led by the top-five UK single Space Oddity and reissued by RCA in 1972.
David Bowie discography
David Bowie discography: the catalog of English singer-songwriter David Bowie (born 1947), from the 1967 Deram debut through Ziggy Stardust, the Berlin trilogy, Let's Dance, The Next Day, and Blackstar (2016), plus compilations and reissues.
David Bowie filmography
David Bowie filmography: the singer's screen career from The Virgin Soldiers (1969) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) to Labyrinth, Basquiat, and Bandslam (2009), plus TV, cameos, soundtracks, and posthumous appearances.
David Bowtell
David Bowtell is an Australian cancer researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne who identified molecular subtypes of ovarian cancer and led the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study.
David Bradley (English actor)
David John Bradley (born 1942, York) is an English character actor; Argus Filch in Harry Potter and Walder Frey in Game of Thrones, Olivier Award-winning stage veteran and the third actor to play Doctor Who's First Doctor.
David Braff
David L. Braff is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher at the University of California, San Diego, known for work on prepulse inhibition and neurophysiological endophenotypes of schizophrenia.
David Brainerd
David Brainerd (1718–1747) was an American Presbyterian missionary to Native Americans whose 1749 biography, built from his diary by Jonathan Edwards, became the first popular biography published in America.
David Branch (astronomer)
David Branch is an American astronomer at the University of Oklahoma known for interpreting supernova spectra and using Type Ia supernovae to measure the universe's expansion.