All articles starting with D

David Deutsch

David Deutsch, also known as David Elieser Deutsch, is a British theoretical physicist at the University of Oxford who pioneered quantum computation and champions the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

David DeWitt

David DeWitt is an American computer scientist known for parallel database systems and benchmarking, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

David Dhawan

David Dhawan, born Rajinder Dhawan in 1955, is an Indian film director known as Bollywood's top comedy director, with hits like Aankhen and Coolie No. 1.

Oct 10, 2026

David Dickey

David A. Dickey (born 1945, Ohio) is an American statistician at North Carolina State University, best known as co-creator with Wayne Fuller of the Dickey–Fuller unit-root test.

David Dickinson

David Dickinson (born David Gulesserian, 1941) is an English antiques dealer and TV presenter, original host of BBC's Bargain Hunt (2000-2004) and ITV's Dickinson's Real Deal (from 2006), known for catchphrases like "cheap as chips".

Oct 21, 2026

David Dickson

David Gavin Dickson (born 1941, Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is an Australian swimmer who won three Olympic relay bronzes at Rome 1960 and Tokyo 1964, four Commonwealth relay golds, and set a 4x200 m freestyle world record in 1960.

David Dilcher

David L. Dilcher, born in 1936, is an American paleobotanist who studies the origin and evolutionary success of flowering plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.

David Dimbleby

David Dimbleby (born 1938) is a British BBC broadcaster, election-night anchor from 1979 to 2019 and Question Time chairman 1994-2018, son of Richard Dimbleby, later presenter of What's the Monarchy For?.

David Dinkins

David Dinkins (1927–2020), 106th mayor of New York City and its first and only Black mayor (1990–1993), Harlem Democrat, Manhattan borough president, defeated Koch in 1989 and Giuliani in 1993, known for Safe Streets, Safe City and the 'gorgeous mosaic.'

David Diop

David Diop is the name of two French-language writers tied to Senegal: a Négritude poet (1927–1960) and a novelist who won the 2021 International Booker Prize.

David Dixon (actor)

David Dixon (born 1947, Derby, England) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as Ford Prefect in the 1981 BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; also Ariel in The Tempest (1980), distinct from other David Dixons.

David Dobrik

David Dobrik (Dávid Julián Dobrík), Slovak-born American vlogger born 1996 in Košice, rose from Vine to the Vlog Squad's four-minute-20-second sitcom-vlogs, peaked near 75 million followers, then lost sponsors and Dispo's board in 2021.

Oct 10, 2026

David Dorn

David Dorn is a labor economist at the University of Zurich, best known for the China Shock research showing that Chinese import competition caused large, persistent US manufacturing job losses.

David Douglas Duncan

David Douglas Duncan (1916–2018) was an American photojournalist best known as the signature photographer of the Korean War and a close friend of Pablo Picasso.

Oct 20, 2026

David Douillet

David Douillet, born 1969 in Rouen, French heavyweight judoka, double Olympic champion (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000), four-time world champion 1993–1997, later French Sports Minister 2011–2012.

David Draiman

David Draiman (born 1973, Brooklyn) is the American baritone frontman of Chicago metal band Disturbed, cantor-trained, Loyola triple major, also of Device and producer of Trivium's Vengeance Falls.

David Drake

David Drake, known in his lifetime as Dave the Potter, was an enslaved African American potter and poet in Edgefield, South Carolina, active from about 1801 to the 1870s.

David Dranove

David Dranove is an American health economist, the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

David Drew (biochemist)

David Drew is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Stockholm University, known for determining the structures of SLC solute transporters, including the fructose transporter GLUT5 and mammalian Na+/H+ exchangers.

David Driskell

David Driskell (1931–2020) was an American artist and art historian known as the founding father of African American art history, curator of the 1976 exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art.

David Dubnau

David Dubnau is an American microbiologist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, known for his work on genetic competence and natural transformation in Bacillus subtilis.

David Duchovny

David William Duchovny (born 1960, New York City) is an American actor, novelist, and singer-songwriter known for Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication, with two Golden Globes, four novels, and four albums.

David Duke

David Duke (born 1950) is an American white supremacist and former Klans leader who served one term in the Louisiana House (1989-1992), ran for Senate and governor, and was later convicted of mail fraud and tax fraud.

Oct 21, 2026

David Dunlop

David Dunlop was a Scottish shipping agent and sailor, a crew member aboard Hera, which won gold in the 12-meter class at the 1908 London Olympics.

David Dunson

David B. Dunson is a statistician and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Duke University, known for Bayesian methods for complex, high-dimensional data and the COPSS President's Award.

David Dupret

David Dupret is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford, leading an MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit group studying the brain network physiology of memory.

David Duval

David Duval, American golfer, world No. 1 in 1999 and 2001 Open champion at Royal Lytham & St Annes; won 13 PGA Tour titles 1997-2001, shot a 59 at the 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, then declined sharply from injuries.

David Dwight Baldwin

David Dwight Baldwin was an American businessman, educator, and biologist on Maui, Hawaii, known for naming and describing Hawaiian land snails and for collecting hundreds of mollusk specimens.

David E. Aspnes

David E. Aspnes is an American condensed-matter physicist known for spectroscopic ellipsometry, who worked at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore before joining North Carolina State University in 1992.