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David Coote (referee)
David Coote, English Premier League referee from Nottinghamshire (first PL match April 2018), sacked by PGMOL in December 2024 after a viral video insulting Jurgen Klopp; later UEFA-banned, FA-sanctioned, and given a suspended sentence for an indecent image.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield is Charles Dickens's 1849–50 first-person novel, partly autobiographical, following David from harsh childhood to literary fame; illustrated by Phiz, adapted in 1935 and 2019 films.
David Copperfield (1999 film)
David Copperfield (1999) is a two-episode BBC/WGBH television miniseries of Dickens's novel, directed by Simon Curtis from Adrian Hodges's screenplay, first shown 25 December 1999, starring Daniel Radcliffe as young David, Maggie Smith, and Bob Hoskins.
David Copperfield (illusionist)
David Copperfield, stage name of David Kotkin (born 1956), American illusionist famous for CBS television specials vanishing the Statue of Liberty and a Lear jet, and a 25-year MGM Grand Las Vegas residency ending April 2026.
David Corenswet
David Packard Corenswet (born 1993, Philadelphia) is an American actor and Juilliard graduate who plays Clark Kent/Superman in James Gunn's 2025 DC Studios film Superman, after roles in The Politician, Hollywood, Pearl, and Twisters.
David Cortez
David Cortez is an American molecular biologist who studies how cells protect and repair DNA during replication, and chairs the Department of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
David Cory (chemist)
David G. Cory is a Canadian-based physical chemist known for NMR quantum computing, quantum control, and neutron interferometry, a professor at Waterloo since 2010 after MIT.
David Costabile
David Costabile (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) is an American character actor known as Wags on Billions, Gale Boetticher on Breaking Bad, Daniel Hardman on Suits, and Klebanow on The Wire; Tufts and NYU Tisch MFA trained.
David Coulthard
David Coulthard, also known as David Marshall Coulthard, is a Scottish former Formula One driver who won 13 Grands Prix with Williams, McLaren, and Red Bull.
David Coverdale
David Coverdale, known as Dave Coverdale, is an English rock vocalist who fronted Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976, then founded Whitesnake in 1978 and retired in 2025.
David Cox (statistician)
Sir David Roxbee Cox (1924–2022) was a British statistician at Imperial College London and Oxford whose 1972 proportional hazards model transformed survival analysis in medicine.
David Craik
David J. Craik is an Australian chemist at the University of Queensland who discovered the cyclotides, ultra-stable circular plant peptides, and applies them to peptide-based drug design.
David Crane (video game designer)
David Crane is an American video game designer who co-founded Activision in 1979, the first independent game publisher, and designed Pitfall!, which sold over 4 million copies.
David Crawshay
David Crawshay (born 1979, Melbourne) is an Australian rower, Mercantile RC, who won Olympic gold in the men's double sculls with Scott Brennan at Beijing 2008 and later chaired the Rowing Australia Athletes' Commission.
David Crews
David Crews (1947–2025) was a behavioral endocrinologist and evolutionary biologist, the Ashbel Smith Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for his 1988 Nature paper on reptile incubation temperature.
David Crich
David Crich is a British-born carbohydrate chemist and chemical biologist who has been a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the University of Georgia since 2019.
David Crisafulli
David Crisafulli is an Australian politician and Queensland's 41st premier, leading a Liberal National Party government since its October 2024 election win after serving as the party's leader since 2020.
David Croft (TV producer)
David Croft (1922-2011), born David John Sharland, was a British comedy writer and producer who co-created BBC sitcoms Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo 'Allo! with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd; OBE 1978, BAFTA Special Award 2008. Not the Sky Sports F1 commentator of the same name.
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg (born 1943, Toronto) is a Canadian director and novelist, principal originator of body horror, director of Shivers, The Fly, Crash, A History of Violence, and Crimes of the Future, Companion of the Order of Canada.
David Crosby
David Crosby (1941–2023), American singer-songwriter and guitarist; founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash; two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee known for harmonies, Deja Vu, and Woodstock.
David Cross
David Cross is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer born in 1969 in New Jersey, known for co-creating Mr. Show and playing Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development.
David Crowley (Wisconsin politician)
David Crowley is an American Democratic politician, Milwaukee County Executive, and the 2026 Democratic nominee for Governor of Wisconsin, facing Republican Tom Tiffany in November.
David Crystal
David Crystal (born 1941, Lisburn, Northern Ireland) is a British linguist and author of 100+ books on language, known for the Cambridge encyclopedias of language and English, the LARSP clinical profiling system, original pronunciation work at Shakespeare's Globe, and honorary professorship at Bangor.
David Cullen (electron microscopist)
David A. Cullen is an electron microscopist and electrocatalysis researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a 2019 PECASE recipient known for visualizing single-atom fuel cell catalysts.
David Culley
David Culley (born 1955, Sparta, Tennessee) is a retired American football coach: first Black quarterback at Vanderbilt, 27-season NFL assistant coach, and one-season Houston Texans head coach (4-13 in 2021, fired January 2022).
David Cumming (actor)
David Cumming is an English actor, writer, and composer. He is known for his work with the comedy company SpitLip and his role in the musical Operation Mincemeat.
David Cunningham (medical oncologist)
David Cunningham is a British medical oncologist who heads the Gastrointestinal and Lymphoma Unit at The Royal Marsden, specializing in colorectal, pancreatic, and esophageal cancer.
David Cushman
David W. Cushman was an American biochemist at the E.R. Squibb Institute who, with Miguel Ondetti, co-discovered captopril, the first orally active ACE inhibitor drug.
David Cutcliffe
David Cutcliffe, American college football coach, head coach at Ole Miss (1998-2004) and Duke (2008-2021), career record 121-126, 2013 ACC Coastal champion and National Coach of the Year, mentor of Peyton and Eli Manning.
David Cutler
David M. Cutler is an American health economist who has been the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard since 2005, studying health care spending and policy.