All articles starting with D

David Chang

David Chang, Korean-American chef, founded Momofuku (Noodle Bar, NYC, 2004), won James Beard Awards, two Michelin stars for Ko, hosted Ugly Delicious, wrote Eat a Peach.

David Chao

David Chao is an American venture capitalist, co-founder and general partner of DCM Ventures since 1997, known for early investments in SoFi, Bill.com, Fortinet, and Musical.ly.

David Chaplin

David D. Chaplin is an American immunologist known for work on lymphotoxin signaling and lymphoid organ development, and chair of microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 2001.

David Charbonneau

David Charbonneau is a Canadian astronomer at Harvard known for the first detection of an exoplanet transiting a Sun-like star and the first detection of an exoplanet atmosphere.

David Charvet (David Franck Guez), French-born actor and singer born 1972 in Lyon, played Matt Brody on Baywatch and Craig Field on Melrose Place, then recorded three French pop albums including David Charvet (1997), selling over 2.5 million albums.

David Chase

David Chase (born David Henry DeCesare, 1945) is the American writer-producer-director who created HBO's The Sopranos (1999-2007), after a long network career on The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure.

David Chen

David Chen, legal name Chen Jingye, is a Singapore-based technology entrepreneur who co-founded Sea Limited in 2009 and serves as Chief Product Officer of its Shopee marketplace.

David Cheriton

David Cheriton is a Canadian-born computer scientist and Stanford professor emeritus who co-founded Arista Networks and whose $100,000 angel investment in Google in 1998 grew into a multibillion-dollar fortune.

David Chilton Phillips

David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere (1924–1999), was a British structural biologist who determined the first three-dimensional structure of an enzyme, lysozyme, and founded molecular biophysics at Oxford.

David Choe

David Choe, also known as Dave Choe, is an American painter and muralist of Korean descent whose Facebook mural stock was reportedly worth about $200 million by 2012.

David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley

David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley (born 1960), also known as David Rocksavage, is a British peer, owner of Houghton Hall, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England from 1990 to 2022, one of only two hereditary peers seated as of right under the 1999 Act.

Oct 10, 2026

David Christian (historian)

David Christian is a historian and Professor Emeritus at Macquarie University who founded the field of "big history," spanning the universe from the Big Bang to the present.

David Chu (fashion designer)

David Chu is a Taiwanese-born American designer who founded the Nautica clothing brand in 1983, built it past $1 billion in sales, and sold it to VF Corporation in 2003.

David Cicilline

David N. Cicilline (born 1961) is an American Democratic politician, former mayor of Providence, former U.S. Representative for Rhode Island's 1st district (2011–2023), House impeachment manager in Trump's second impeachment, lead sponsor of the Equality Act, and since June 2023 president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation.

Sep 27, 2026

David Clarinval

David Clarinval is a Belgian liberal politician, a member of the Mouvement Réformateur who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Employment, Economy and Agriculture in the federal government.

David Clark (rehabilitation scientist)

David J. Clark is an American rehabilitation scientist who studies the neural control of walking in older adults and stroke survivors at the University of Florida.

David Clarke (sheriff)

David A. Clarke Jr. (born 1956) is a former Milwaukee County, Wisconsin sheriff (2002-2017), appointed by a Republican but elected as a Democrat, known for conservative rhetoric, a plagiarized Naval Postgraduate School thesis, an unconfirmed 2017 DHS appointment, and later super PAC work.

Oct 10, 2026

David Clay Heath

David Clay Heath (1943–2011) was an American mathematician and applied probabilist who co-authored the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework for interest rate term structure and worked on coherent measures of risk.

David Clayton

David Clayton, also known as David G. Clayton, is a British statistician and genetic epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge known for generalized linear mixed models and genome-wide association studies.

David Clayton-Thomas

David Clayton-Thomas (David Henry Thomsett, 1941–2026), Canadian singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Blood, Sweat & Tears 1968–1972 and later; sang "Spinning Wheel"; died Toronto 2026.

David Cleevely

David Cleevely CBE (born 1953) is a Cambridge entrepreneur who co-founded the antibody company Abcam, sold to Danaher in 2023 for about $5.7 billion, and founded the telecoms consultancy Analysys.

David Clowes

David Clowes is an English property developer and football club owner who chairs the Derbyshire-based firm Clowes Developments and has owned Derby County Football Club since July 2022.

David Cobden

David H. Cobden is a British-born condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Washington, known for measuring the first accurate solid-state triple point in vanadium dioxide.

David Coggon

David Coggon is a British epidemiologist of occupational and environmental disease, Emeritus Professor at the University of Southampton, known for linking metal fume to pneumonia.

David Collins (lieutenant governor)

David Collins (1756–1810), Royal Marines officer, deputy judge advocate of New South Wales with the First Fleet, author of An Account of the English Colony, and founding lieutenant-governor who established Hobart in 1804 after abandoning Port Phillip.