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David F. Hendry
David F. Hendry, born 1944, is a British econometrician knighted in 2009 who developed the LSE general-to-specific approach, co-developed cointegration's empirical use, and created Autometrics at Oxford.
David F. Horrobin
David F. Horrobin (1939–2003) was a British physiologist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur known for the prostaglandin–schizophrenia hypothesis, his essential fatty acid research, and his critique of grant peer review.
David F. Ransohoff
David F. Ransohoff, also published as David Ransohoff, is an American professor of medicine and epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill known for evaluating cancer screening tests.
David F. Sandberg
David F. Sandberg (born 1981) is a Swedish director from Jönköping, aka ponysmasher, who went from YouTube horror shorts to Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation, Shazam!, and Until Dawn, with Mommy's Home upcoming.
David Fairbanks Welch
David Fairbank Welch is an American optical communications scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Infinera and is founder and CEO of AttoTude, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
David Fairen‐Jiménez
David Fairen-Jimenez, born in Madrid in 1979, is a Spanish chemist and Professor of Molecular Engineering at Cambridge whose research applies metal–organic frameworks to hydrogen storage, carbon capture, and cancer drug delivery.
David Falk
David Falk, American sports agent and FAME founder, Michael Jordan's longtime agent, coined "Air Jordan" and brokered the 1984 Nike deal, negotiated the NBA's first $100 million contract, and sold FAME to SFX for $100 million in 1998.
David Farley (politician)
David Farley, Narrandera-born agribusiness executive and former Australian Agricultural Company CEO, won the 9 May 2026 Farrer by-election for One Nation with 39.53% first preferences, becoming the first One Nation member elected to the federal House of Representatives.
David Farragut
David Glasgow Farragut (1801–1870), first admiral of the U.S. Navy, won Civil War victories at New Orleans (1862) and Mobile Bay (1864), source of the famous 'Damn the torpedoes' order.
David Farrier
David Farrier, New Zealand journalist and documentarian (born 1982, Tauranga), directed Tickled (2016) with Dylan Reeve, hosted Netflix's Dark Tourist (2018), directed Mister Organ (2022), and runs the Webworm newsletter and Flightless Bird podcast.
David Faulkner
David Faulkner (David Andrew Vincent Faulkner), British field hockey fullback, born 1962 in Portsmouth; won 1988 Seoul Olympic gold with Great Britain, 1986 World Cup silver, later England Hockey Performance Director 2005-2012 and MBE 2021.
David Faustino
David Faustino (born 1974, Los Angeles) is an American actor best known as Bud Bundy on Married... with Children (1987–97); also a voice actor as Mako in The Legend of Korra and producer of the 2026 cast reunion.
David Feherty
David Feherty (born 1958, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland), former professional golfer with 10 worldwide wins and 1991 Ryder Cup player; later CBS, NBC, Golf Channel commentator and LIV Golf analyst.
David Feldman (American endocrinologist)
David Feldman is an American endocrinologist and Stanford professor emeritus known for showing in 1984 that the anesthetic etomidate blocks adrenal steroidogenesis, and for vitamin D receptor research.
David Ferrer
David Ferrer is a Spanish former professional tennis player who reached a career-high world No. 3 in 2013 and won 27 singles titles, including the 2012 Paris Masters.
David Ferrie
David William Ferrie (1918–1967) was a New Orleans airline pilot and Civil Air Patrol instructor linked to Lee Harvey Oswald and to organized crime leader Carlos Marcello.
David Ferrier
Sir David Ferrier (1843–1928) was a Scottish-born London neurologist whose electrical stimulation experiments on monkeys mapped the motor and sensory centers of the cerebral cortex.
David Ferster
David Ferster is a neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus in Northwestern University's Department of Neurobiology, known for studying visual cortex circuitry and developing in vivo whole-cell patch recording.
David Fialkow
David Fialkow is an American venture capitalist who co-founded General Catalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2000, after building and selling four companies, and produced the Oscar-winning documentaries Icarus and Navalny.
David Fidock
David A. Fidock is an Australian-born parasitologist and C.S. Hamish Young Professor at Columbia University, known for identifying the genetic basis of chloroquine resistance in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
David Fifita (rugby league, born 1989)
David Fifita (Tongan: Tēvita Fifita), born 1989 in Blacktown NSW, is a Tonga international rugby league prop, distinct from the younger David Fifita born 2000; played for Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Wakefield Trinity, and The Entrance Tigers, brother of Andrew Fifita.
David Filo
David Filo, born in Moss Bluff, Louisiana, is an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Yahoo! with Jerry Yang at Stanford in 1994, serving as Chief Yahoo.
David Fincher
David Fincher (born 1962, Denver) is an American director of Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, and The Social Network, a three-time Best Director Oscar nominee, and former Netflix exclusive filmmaker now directing The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.
David Fincher filmography
David Fincher filmography: 12 directed features from Alien 3 (1992) to The Killer (2023), plus House of Cards, Love Death & Robots, music videos, and Netflix-era films Mank and Cliff Booth.
David Finkelstein
David Ritz Finkelstein (1929–2016) was an American theoretical physicist at Georgia Tech whose 1958 paper first showed a black hole's event horizon is crossable, influencing Penrose and Wheeler.
David Finlay (wrestler)
David Finlay (David Stephen Finlay III, born 1993, Hannover, Germany), fourth-generation wrestler, son of Fit Finlay; Bullet Club War Dogs leader, two-time IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion, 2025 New Japan Cup winner, now AEW's The Dogs.
David Finnegan
David J. Finnegan is a molecular geneticist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, known for his work on transposable elements in Drosophila, including the I factor and mariner transposon.
David Fitzpatrick (neuroscientist)
David Fitzpatrick (born 1952) is an American neuroscientist who studies how visual cortex circuits develop, and the founding Scientific Director and CEO of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
David Fizdale
David Fizdale (born 1974, Los Angeles) is an American basketball coach, former NBA head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies and New York Knicks, two-time Miami Heat assistant champion, and head coach of Nigeria's D'Tigers.
David Flair
David Flair, born David Richard Fliehr in 1979, is an American professional wrestler best known for WCW, where he won the United States and World Tag Team Championships.