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David Byrne

David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician and artist, frontman and principal songwriter of new wave band Talking Heads (founded 1975), later a nine-album solo artist, Oscar, Grammy, and Tony winner, and author of How Music Works.

David Byron

David Byron (born David Garrick, 1947–1985), English rock singer and original frontman of Uriah Heep 1970–1976; later Rough Diamond, solo albums Take No Prisoners and Baby Faced Killer, and the Byron Band.

David C. Auth

David C. Auth is an American bioengineer and medical-device inventor known for the Rotablator coronary atherectomy device, who holds about 100 patents and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.

David C. Bramlette

David C. Bramlette, born in 1939, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.

David C. Burr

David C. Burr, also known as David Burr, is an Australian and Italian vision neuroscientist, emeritus professor at the University of Florence, born in Zimbabwe in 1952.

David C. Bury

David C. Bury, born 1942, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Arizona, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.

David C. Catling

David C. Catling is a professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington who studies Earth's ancient atmosphere and the search for life on Mars and exoplanets.

David C. Chan

David C. Chan, also published as David Chan, is a molecular biologist at Caltech known for the HIV gp41 core structure and for showing mitochondrial fusion protects mitochondrial DNA.

David C. Christiani

David C. Christiani is a physician-scientist in molecular epidemiology at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for studies of lung cancer, ARDS, and occupational lung disease.

David C. Clary

David C. Clary, born 1953, is a British theoretical chemist, Emeritus Professor at Oxford, known for quantum theories of chemical reaction dynamics and water cluster structures.

David C. Dale

David C. Dale is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Washington since 1976, known for neutropenia research and G-CSF trials.

David C. Dunand

David C. Dunand is a materials scientist and metallurgist who has been a professor at Northwestern University since 2003, studying metallic alloys, composites, and foams.

David C. Fajgenbaum

David C. Fajgenbaum is a University of Pennsylvania physician who researches Castleman disease and cytokine storm, and discovered sirolimus, a repurposed drug that has kept him in remission since 2012.

David C. Gadsby

David C. Gadsby (1947–2019) was a British physiologist at Rockefeller University known for work on the sodium–potassium pump and CFTR, the chloride channel behind cystic fibrosis.

David C. Glasser

David C. Glasser (David Clayton Glasser, born 1971) is an American film executive and producer, CEO and co-founder of 101 Studios, producer of Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone.

David C. Godbey

David C. Godbey (born 1957) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Northern District of Texas, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.

David C. Grabowski

David C. Grabowski is an American health economist and Harvard Medical School professor known for research on nursing home quality, long-term care, and Medicare payment reform.

David C. Guaderrama

David C. Guaderrama, born David Campos Guaderrama in 1954, is an American jurist appointed by Barack Obama in 2012 to the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

David C. Hooper

David C. Hooper is an infectious diseases physician and Harvard Medical School professor who led Massachusetts General Hospital's infection control unit and studies quinolone antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

David C. Joseph

David C. Joseph, born David Cleveland Joseph, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Louisiana since 2020.

David C. Klein

David C. Klein is an American neuroscientist who spent his career at NIH studying the pineal gland and melatonin, including cloning the rhythm enzyme AANAT in 1995.

David C. Linch

David C. Linch, also known as David Linch, is a British haematologist and Emeritus Professor at University College London known for leading UK trials in lymphoma and leukemia.

David C. Lindberg

David C. Lindberg (David Charles Lindberg) was an American historian of science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who specialized in medieval optics and wrote The Beginnings of Western Science.

David C. Noone

David C. Noone is an Australian-born climate physicist known for tracking the water cycle through stable water isotopes; he has held posts at Colorado Boulder, Oregon State, and Auckland.

David C. Norton

David C. Norton (born 1946) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in South Carolina since 1990, appointed by President George H.W. Bush.

David C. Novak

David C. Novak, born 1952, is an American business executive who co-founded Yum! Brands and led it as chief executive from 1999 to 2015, growing its market value to about $31 billion.

David C. Nye

David Charles Nye is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Idaho since 2017, appointed by President Donald Trump.

David C. Page

David C. Page is an American human geneticist at MIT and the Whitehead Institute known for sequencing the Y chromosome and showing it is not disappearing.

David C. Poskanzer

David C. Poskanzer was an American neurologist and epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his 1971 paper linking DES exposure to vaginal cancer.

David C. Powers

David C. Powers (born 1983) is an American chemist who is a professor at Texas A&M University, known for catalysis and hypervalent iodine oxidants generated from oxygen.