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David Eagleman

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, and inventor who teaches at Stanford University, works on synesthesia and time perception, founded Neosensory, and wrote the book Livewired.

David Earl (actor)

David Earl (David Geoffrey Earl), British actor-comedian known as Brian Gittins; played Kev in Derek and Brian in After Life; co-wrote and starred in Brian and Charles (Sundance 2022, BAFTA-nominated).

David Eby

David Robert Eby, 37th Premier of British Columbia since November 18, 2022, BC NDP leader, MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey since 2013, former Attorney General and Housing Minister, called a snap election for October 24, 2026.

David Écija

David Écija is a Spanish condensed matter physicist and Research Professor at IMDEA Nanociencia in Madrid, known for on-surface synthesis of molecular nanostructures and a 2018 ERC Consolidator Grant.

David Eckstein

David Eckstein (born 1975, Sanford, FL) is a former MLB shortstop, 2002 Angels and 2006 Cardinals World Series champion, 2006 World Series MVP (.364, 8 H, 4 RBI), two-time All-Star, and first Heart & Hustle Award winner.

David Eddings

David Eddings (1931-2009), American fantasy author of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, written with wife Leigh Eddings; also The Elenium, The Tamuli, and The Dreamers; first novel High Hunt (1973).

David Edgerton

David Edgerton (1927–2018) was an American businessman who co-founded Burger King in Miami in 1954, invented its continuous-chain flame broiler, and sold the chain to Pillsbury in 1967.

David Edward Hughes

David Edward Hughes (1831–1900) was a British-American inventor and experimental physicist whose type-printing telegraph dominated European telegraphy for decades and whose 1878 microphone and 1879 wireless experiments anticipated radio.

David Ehrlich

David Ehrlich (born 1984) is an American film critic and chief film critic at IndieWire, previously at Rolling Stone and Time Out New York; known for annual video countdowns, the Fighting in the War Room podcast, and a 2022 Best Film Critic award.

David Eichler

David Eichler (1951–2021) was a theoretical astrophysicist at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, known for his 1989 prediction that coalescing neutron stars produce short gamma-ray bursts and heavy elements.

David Eidelberg

David Eidelberg is an American neurologist and neuroimaging researcher, professor and neuroscience center director at the Feinstein Institutes, known for network imaging biomarkers in Parkinson's disease.

David Eigenberg

David Eigenberg (born 1964, Manhasset, New York) is an American character actor; played Steve Brady on Sex and the City and firefighter Christopher Herrmann on NBC's Chicago Fire since 2012.

David Einhorn (hedge fund manager)

David Einhorn is an American hedge fund manager who co-founded Greenlight Capital in 1996, rising to prominence through public short campaigns against Allied Capital and Lehman Brothers.

David Eisenberg

David S. Eisenberg is an American biochemist and structural biologist at UCLA known for determining atomic structures of amyloid fibrils and designing inhibitors of toxic protein aggregation.

David Eisenbud

David Eisenbud is an American mathematician at UC Berkeley, a leading commutative algebraist known for free resolutions, syzygies, and the Eisenbud–Goto regularity conjecture, and a former MSRI director.

David Eisenhower

David Eisenhower (Dwight David Eisenhower II, born 1948) is Dwight D. Eisenhower's grandson, Julie Nixon's husband, Camp David's namesake, and the Pulitzer-finalist historian author of Eisenhower at War 1943-1945.

David Ellefson

David Ellefson, American heavy metal bassist, longtime Megadeth bass player later forced out by Dave Mustaine; Altitudes & Attitude with Frank Bello; Jackson signature Concert Bass and Kelly Bird; pick playing.

David Ellison

David Ellison (born 1983) is an American media executive, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison. He founded Skydance, produced Top Gun: Maverick, acquired Paramount in 2025 and Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026.

David Emanuel (fashion designer)

David Emanuel (born 1952), Welsh couturier who co-designed Princess Diana's 1981 ivory silk taffeta wedding dress with a 25-foot train; later ran David Emanuel Couture, designed Virgin Atlantic uniforms, hosted Say Yes to the Dress UK, and received an MBE.

David Epel

David Epel is a marine biologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, where he worked from 1965 to 2009.

David Epstein (biotechnology executive)

David M. Epstein was a biotechnology executive and scientist who co-founded Black Diamond Therapeutics, its President and CEO from 2016 to 2023, and later led PairX Bio.

David Erickson

David Erickson is a mechanical engineer at Cornell University known for optofluidics, nanophotonic nanoparticle manipulation, and smartphone-based medical diagnostics, who directs the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

David Erlinge

David Erlinge (D Erlinge) is a Swedish cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at Lund University, and head of cardiology at Skåne University Hospital, known for leading major coronary trials.

David Essex

David Essex (David Albert Cook, born 1947) is an English singer and actor behind "Rock On", "Gonna Make You a Star", and "Hold Me Close", the films That'll Be the Day and Stardust, and the original London Evita.

David Estrada (materials scientist)

David Estrada is an American materials scientist at Boise State University who researches graphene and 2D materials and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

David Estudillo

David Estudillo, born 1973, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Washington since 2021 and chief judge since 2022.

David Evans Enterprises, Inc.

David Evans Enterprises, Inc. is the Portland, Oregon parent company of engineering firm David Evans and Associates, founded in 1976 by David F. Evans and David H. Gould.

David Evans Shaw

David Evans Shaw is an American computer scientist and financier who pioneered massively parallel supercomputing at Columbia University and founded the quantitative firm D. E. Shaw & Co.

David F. Edwards

David F. Edwards is an American solid-state physicist who worked at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, known for silicon and diamond refractive-index measurements and Handbook of Optical Constants chapters.

David F. Hamilton

David F. Hamilton is an American jurist serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2009, and a senior judge since 2022.