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David C. Queller
David C. Queller is an American evolutionary biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on kin selection and cooperation in social insects and social amoebas.
David C. Rubinsztein
David C. Rubinsztein is a South African-born clinician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics at Cambridge who pioneered autophagy upregulation as a therapy for neurodegenerative disease.
David C. Sabiston Jr.
David C. Sabiston Jr., also known as David Coston Sabiston Jr., was an American cardiac surgeon who performed the first recorded coronary artery bypass in 1962 and led Duke's surgery department for 30 years.
David C. Spray
David C. Spray is a neuroscientist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for research on gap junctions, connexins, and pannexins.
David C. Van Essen
David C. Van Essen is an American neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis known for co-leading the Human Connectome Project and mapping 180 cortical areas per hemisphere in 2016.
David C. W. Fowlkes
David Clay Wilkerson Fowlkes is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Arkansas since 2026, appointed by President Trump.
David C. Wilbur
David C. Wilbur is an American cytopathologist, Professor of Pathology, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who led clinical trials of the first FDA-approved automated cervical cytology screening systems.
David C. Wisler
David C. Wisler is an American aerospace engineer known for turbomachinery aerodynamics at GE Aircraft Engines and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
David C. Wraith
David C. Wraith is a British immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham, best known for his work on autoimmunity and antigen-specific peptide immunotherapy.
David C.S. Huang
David C.S. Huang, also known as David Ching Siang Huang, is a physician-scientist and laboratory head at WEHI in Melbourne whose Bcl-2 and apoptosis research underpinned the anti-cancer drug venetoclax.
David Cage
David Cage (David De Gruttola), French game designer and CEO of Quantic Dream (founded 1997), creator of Omikron, Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human, and the in-development Star Wars Eclipse.
David Cahen
David Cahen is an Israeli chemist and materials scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for work on halide perovskite solar cells and protein bioelectronics.
David Cahn
David Cahn is a partner at Sequoia Capital who joined its growth team in 2023 from Coatue, known for AI investing and the essay "AI's $600B question".
David Cal
David Cal (David Cal Figueroa), Spanish sprint canoeist born 1982 in Cangas, Pontevedra; first Spanish canoer to win Olympic gold (C-1 1,000 m, Athens 2004) and Spain's most medaled Olympian with one gold and four silver across 2004, 2008, and 2012.
David Callaham
David Elias (Dave) Callaham, born 1977, Fresno, California, is an American screenwriter known for Doom, The Expendables, Godzilla, Wonder Woman 1984, Shang-Chi, and Across the Spider-Verse, and creator of Jean-Claude Van Johnson.
David Camarillo
David Camarillo is an American bioengineer and associate professor at Stanford University who studies concussion biomechanics, known for instrumented mouthguards that measure head impacts and brain strain.
David Cameron
David Cameron (Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton), British Conservative politician: MP for Witney 2001-2016, party leader from 2005, Prime Minister 2010-2016 leading the coalition then a majority government, resigned after losing the 2016 EU referendum, later Foreign Secretary 2023-2024.
David Campbell (composer)
David R. Campbell (born 1948, Toronto) is a Canadian-American arranger, orchestrator, conductor and film composer with arrangements on 425 gold or platinum albums, film credits on Brokeback Mountain and Tarzan, and is Beck's father.
David Canary
David Canary, born David Hoyt Canary, was an American actor recognized for playing the twins Adam and Stuart Chandler on All My Children and for winning five Daytime Emmys.
David Card
David Card, born in Guelph, Canada in 1956, is a Canadian-American labor economist at UC Berkeley who won half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
David Carpenter
David Carpenter, known as the "Trailside Killer," is an American serial killer who murdered hikers in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980 and 1981.
David Carr (American football)
David Carr (born 1979) is a former NFL quarterback, first overall pick of the 2002 draft by the expansion Houston Texans, brother of Derek Carr; sacked a record 76 times as a rookie, now an NFL Network analyst.
David Carradine
David Carradine (1936–2009), American actor, eldest son of John Carradine; starred as Kwai Chang Caine in Kung Fu (1972–75) and as Bill in Tarantino's Kill Bill films; died in Bangkok.
David Caruso
David Caruso (born 1956) is a retired American actor known as Det. John Kelly on NYPD Blue and Lt. Horatio Caine on CSI: Miami (2002-2012, 232 episodes); he left NYPD Blue for a failed film career and now works as an art dealer.
David Cassidy
David Cassidy (1950-2017), American singer and actor, Keith Partridge on ABC's The Partridge Family 1970-1974; early-1970s teen idol whose fan club exceeded Elvis's and the Beatles'; died of organ failure in Fort Lauderdale.
David Castañeda
David Castañeda (born 1989, Los Angeles) is a Mexican-American actor known for Diego Hargreeves in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024), Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Most Dangerous Game, and Ballerina.
David Caves
David Caves is a Northern Irish actor from Belfast, best known as forensic scientist Jack Hodgson in BBC's Silent Witness since 2013; trained at St Andrews and LAMDA, with stage roles for the RSC and films Jackie and Ironclad: Battle for Blood.
David Cella
David Cella is a clinical psychologist at Northwestern University known for building the science of patient-reported outcomes and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
David Chalmers
David John Chalmers, born 1966, is an Australian philosopher at New York University known for naming the hard problem of consciousness, the question of why physical processes give rise to subjective experience.
David Chandler (private equity investor)
Dave Chandler is a Chicago-based private equity investor who spent 17 years building William Blair Capital Partners, then co-founded Chicago Growth Partners in 2004 and later advised ParkerGale.