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David D. Alger
David D. Alger was an American mutual fund investor who ran Fred Alger Management as chief executive, growing it to $20 billion before dying in the September 11 attacks.
David D. Chang
David D. Chang is an American physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy who co-founded and leads Allogene Therapeutics and, at Kite Pharma, led development of Yescarta, the first CAR T-cell therapy approved for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
David D. Clark
David D. Clark is an MIT computer scientist who served as Chief Protocol Architect for the Internet from 1981 to 1989 and chaired the Internet Activities Board.
David D. Friedman
David D. Friedman, born 1945, is an American economist and legal scholar at Santa Clara University, son of Milton Friedman and author of The Machinery of Freedom.
David D. Ginty
David D. Ginty is an American neurobiologist who studies touch, chair of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and an HHMI investigator elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
David D. Moore
David D. Moore is an American molecular biologist whose laboratory discovered the nuclear receptors CAR and SHP, and who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
David D. Pollard
David D. Pollard is a structural geologist and emeritus Stanford professor known for bringing continuum and fracture mechanics into the quantitative analysis of faults, joints, dikes, and veins.
David D. Roberts
David D. Roberts is an American cancer biologist who spent over 40 years at the National Cancer Institute, where he identified CD47 as the key receptor for thrombospondin-1.
David D. Sabatini
David D. Sabatini is an Argentine-born American cell biologist, born in 1931, at NYU, known for the 1971 signal hypothesis and work on intracellular protein trafficking.
David D. Waters
David D. Waters is a Canadian-born cardiologist known for clinical trials of lipid-lowering therapy and as former Chief of Cardiology at San Francisco General Hospital.
David D. Yao
David D. Yao is a Chinese-American operations researcher at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for research on stochastic systems.
David Dacko
David Dacko was a Central African politician who served twice as President of the Central African Republic, 1960–65 and 1979–81, overthrown in coups both times.
David Dahan
David Dahan is an Israeli semiconductor executive who co-founded and led Habana Labs, the AI chip startup Intel bought for about $2 billion in 2019.
David Dastmalchian
David Dastmalchian is an American character actor and comics writer from Kansas, known for The Dark Knight, the Ant-Man films, Dune, Oppenheimer, and the lead in Late Night with the Devil; he writes Count Crowley and Creature Commandos and plays M. Bison in Street Fighter.
David Datro Fofana
David Datro Fofana, Ivorian attacker born 2002 in Ouragahio; Molde product, Chelsea signing of January 2023 with loans to Burnley, Union Berlin, Goztepe, Karagumruk, Strasbourg; Servette from August 2026.
David Davis (British politician)
David Davis, British Conservative MP since 1987 (Boothferry, Haltemprice and Howden, Goole and Pocklington), Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union 2016–2018; resigned July 2018 over May's Chequers Brexit plan; 2005 leadership runner-up.
David Dawson (actor)
David Robert Dawson (born 1982, Widnes, Cheshire) is an English RADA-trained actor, King Alfred in The Last Kingdom and Patrick in My Policeman; distinct from David S. Dawson and the choreographer.
David Dawson (Iowa politician)
David Dawson is an American Democratic politician and former Iowa House member who is the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Iowa's 4th congressional district.
David de Gea
David de Gea Quintana (born 1990, Madrid), Spanish goalkeeper; Atlético Madrid, then Manchester United 2011–2023 with club-record 545 appearances and 190 clean sheets; now Fiorentina.
David Deamer
David Deamer is an American biochemist and emeritus professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz who conceived nanopore sequencing in 1989, his patents licensed to Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
David Dees
David Eugene Dees (1957-2020), American commercial illustrator for Sesame Street Magazine, Disney, and Sea-Monkeys packaging, later known for layered conspiracy-themed digital collages on 9/11, chemtrails, and anti-Semitic themes.
David Dellinger
David Dellinger (1915-2004), American radical pacifist, World War II draft resister, editor of Liberation, and oldest defendant in the 1969 Chicago Seven conspiracy trial.
David DeLuise
David DeLuise (David Dominick DeLuise, born 1971, Burbank, California) is an American actor and director, son of Dom DeLuise; known as Jerry Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place, Pete Shanahan on Stargate SG-1, and Bug Pollone on 3rd Rock from the Sun.
David DeMille
David DeMille is an American atomic physicist known for laser cooling of molecules and precision searches for new particles, now a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins.
David Deming (economist)
David J. Deming, American labor and education economist; Danoff Dean of Harvard College, Bloomberg Professor of Economics, Black Professor at HKS; known for social-skills, decision-making, and generative-AI labor market research; Kershaw (2018) and Rosen (2022) prizes.
David Dencik
David Dencik (Karl David Sebastian Dencik, born 1974, Stockholm) is a Swedish-Danish actor; breakthrough as Veronica in En soap (2006), later Gorbachev in Chernobyl and a Bond villain in No Time to Die.
David Denlinger
David Denlinger is an American insect physiologist at Ohio State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, known for defining how insects enter and exit diapause.
David Denman
David Denman (born 1973) is an American actor, a Juilliard-trained character player known as Roy Anderson on The Office, and for Mare of Easttown, Brightburn, Rebel Ridge, and Peacemaker's Keith Smith.
David Denniston
Dave Denniston, American breaststroke swimmer, three-time NCAA champion at Auburn, 2002 world-record 400m medley relay, 2008 Beijing Paralympian after a 2005 sledding paralysis, now Wyoming head coach.
David DeRosier
David J. DeRosier is a structural biologist who, with Aaron Klug, computed the first 3D structure from electron micrographs in 1968, then spent his career at Brandeis University.