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David Branch (fighter)
David Branch (born 1981) is an American retired middleweight MMA fighter, 22-7, first two-division WSOF champion (middleweight and light heavyweight), UFC veteran at 4-5, later signed to ONE Championship.
David Breashears
David Breashears (1955–2024) was an American mountaineer and filmmaker who summited Everest five times, co-directed the 1998 IMAX film Everest during the 1996 disaster, and founded GlacierWorks.
David Brenner
David Brenner (1936-2014), American stand-up comedian and former documentary filmmaker, pioneer of observational comedy and record-setting Tonight Show guest who influenced Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno.
David Brent
David Brent is the fictional office manager played by Ricky Gervais in the BBC mockumentary The Office (2001–2003), boss of Wernham Hogg's Slough branch, prototype of Michael Scott, and later star of the film Life on the Road.
David Brent: Life on the Road
David Brent: Life on the Road (2016) is a British mockumentary comedy film written, directed by and starring Ricky Gervais, reviving his Office character as a salesman funding a UK tour with his band Foregone Conclusion; Metascore 54, Netflix US release 2017.
David Brevik
David Brevik (born 1968) is an American video game designer who co-founded Condor, renamed Blizzard North, created the Diablo series, and later led Gazillion Entertainment, developer of Marvel Heroes.
David Brewster
Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) was a Scottish physicist known for experimental work in optics and polarized light, who discovered Brewster's law, founded optical mineralogy, and invented the kaleidoscope.
David Brian Johnston
David Brian Johnston is an American research food technologist at the USDA's Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, who won the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley (1920–2003), American broadcast journalist; NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report co-anchor 1956–70 and host of ABC's This Week 1981–96; ten Emmys, 1992 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
David Briones
David Briones (born 1943) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
David Britton
David Britton is a British proteomics scientist who co-founded Kinomica, a precision-oncology diagnostics company spun out of Barts Cancer Institute, and was its Chief Scientific Officer until 2023.
David Brock
David Brock, American political operative and former conservative journalist; founder of Media Matters for America (2004), American Bridge, Correct the Record, and the American Independent; turned from 1990s anti-Clinton reporter to liberal Clinton ally.
David Brock Smith
David Brock Smith is an American Republican politician from Port Orford, Oregon, serving in the Oregon State Senate since 2023 and previously in the Oregon House.
David Bromstad
David Bromstad, American artist and HGTV host, won Design Star season 1 in 2006, hosted Color Splash 2007-2012, and has hosted My Lottery Dream Home since 2015.
David Brooks (commentator)
David Brooks (born 1961), American conservative-leaning political and cultural commentator: NYT op-ed columnist 2003–2026, then Atlantic staff writer; PBS NewsHour Friday commentator; author of Bobos in Paradise and The Road to Character.
David Brooks (footballer)
David Robert Brooks (born 1997, Warrington) is a Welsh midfielder for AFC Bournemouth and Wales, ex-Manchester City academy and Sheffield United, a Hodgkin lymphoma survivor who returned to the Premier League in March 2023.
David Brower
David Ross Brower (1912–2000) was an American environmentalist and mountaineer who served as the Sierra Club's first executive director from 1952 to 1969 and founded Friends of the Earth.
David Brown (police officer)
David Brown, Dallas police chief 2010-2016 and Chicago police superintendent 2020-2023; led Dallas through the July 2016 attack that killed five officers; known for de-escalation reforms and a robot killing of the suspect.
David Bruce (microbiologist)
Sir David Bruce (1855–1931) was an Australian-born British army microbiologist who identified the organism causing Malta fever (brucellosis) and proved tsetse flies transmit trypanosomes; the genera Brucella and Trypanosoma brucei honor him.
David Bruce Dreisinger
David Bruce Dreisinger is a Canadian hydrometallurgist and professor at the University of British Columbia, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
David Bruce Wilson
David Bruce Wilson is an American researcher in combinatorics and probability, known for Wilson's algorithm for uniform spanning trees and for coupling from the past.
David Brunt
Sir David Brunt (1886–1965) was a Welsh meteorologist, Britain's first full-time professor of meteorology at Imperial College London, known for the Brunt–Väisälä frequency and the Brunt Ice Shelf.
David Bryan
David Bryan (born David Bryan Rashbaum, 1962) is Bon Jovi's founding keyboardist and a Tony-winning composer; with Joe DiPietro he wrote Memphis (four 2010 Tonys) and The Toxic Avenger.
David Brydges
David Brydges, born in England in 1949, is a mathematical physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, known for the lace expansion and rigorous renormalization group methods.
David Buchsbaum
David Buchsbaum (1929–2021) was an American mathematician at Brandeis University who helped create homological commutative algebra, proving the Auslander–Buchsbaum formula and giving his name to Buchsbaum rings.
David Buckingham (chemical physicist)
Amyand David Buckingham (1930–2021) was an Australian-born chemical physicist and first-class cricketer who became the first holder of Cambridge's Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry and made advances in intermolecular forces and nonlinear optics.
David Burke (British actor)
David Burke (1934-2026), English character actor, played Dr Watson opposite Jeremy Brett in Granada's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-85) and originated Niels Bohr in Frayn's Copenhagen; distinct from the American actor David Burke of The Tick.
David Burliuk
David Burliuk (Давид Бурлюк, 1882–1967) was a Ukrainian-born painter and poet regarded as the father of Russian Futurism; he co-wrote the 1912 manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.
David Burtka
David Burtka (David Michael Burtka), American actor and Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, husband of Neil Patrick Harris; known for How I Met Your Mother's Scooter, Gourmet M.D. catering, Life Is a Party (2019), and Drag Me to Dinner (2023).
David Buss
David Buss is an evolutionary psychologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the 1989 37-culture study of mate preferences and Sexual Strategies Theory.