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David Hanson (statistician)
David Lee Hanson (1935–2020) was an American statistician and probabilist who taught at SUNY Binghamton and created the Hanson–Koopmans tolerance-limit method, still used for aerospace material allowables.
David Harbour
David Harbour, American actor born in New York, plays Jim Hopper in Stranger Things and Red Guardian in Marvel films; second casting choice after Billy Crudup, Tony-nominated stage actor, ex-husband of Lily Allen.
David Harding (British businessman)
Sir David Winton Harding is a British quantitative investor who co-founded the trend-following firm AHL in 1987, then founded and chairs Winton Group in London, which manages nearly $20 billion.
David Hare (playwright)
Sir David Hare (born 1947) is a British playwright and director known for post-war political drama: Portable Theatre co-founder, Plenty, the Racing Demon trilogy, Skylight, Stuff Happens; knighted 1998, Oscar-nominated for The Hours.
David Harel
David Harel is an Israeli computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute, known for inventing statecharts and serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2021.
David Harewood
David Harewood (born 1965) is a British actor from Birmingham, RADA graduate, first Black Othello at the National Theatre (1997), Homeland's David Estes, Supergirl's Martian Manhunter, OBE, and RADA president.
David Harker
David Harker (1906–1991) was an American X-ray crystallographer who devised the Harker section and Harker–Kasper inequalities and led the first US protein structure determination, completed in 1967.
David Hart (actor)
David Hart (born 1954, Marianna, Florida) is an American actor, also credited as Dave Hart, best known as Officer Parker Williams in all 146 episodes of In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995) and for Silver Bullet (1985); distinct from the fashion designer and other namesakes.
David Hartley (the Younger)
David Hartley the Younger (circa 1731–1813), British MP for Kingston upon Hull and son of the philosopher David Hartley, signed the Treaty of Paris for Great Britain on September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War.
David Hartman (TV personality)
David Hartman (born 1935, Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is an American actor-broadcaster, inaugural host of ABC's Good Morning America (1975-1987), later a documentary producer and host of Discovery's Rediscovering America.
David Harvey
David Harvey (born 1935, Gillingham, Kent) is a British Marxist geographer and urban theorist, Distinguished Professor at CUNY, author of Social Justice and the City and A Brief History of Neoliberalism; not the astrophysicist or mathematician of the same name.
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff, also known as The Hoff, American actor and singer born 1952 in Baltimore; star of Knight Rider (1982–86) and Baywatch (1989–2000), and a pop star in Germany with the 1989 hit Looking for Freedom.
David Haussler
David Haussler is an American computational biologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Cruz, whose team posted the first public human genome assembly in 2000 and built the UCSC Genome Browser.
David Haye
David Haye, "The Hayemaker" (born 1980, Bermondsey, London), British two-weight world champion boxer who unified the cruiserweight titles in 2008 and won the WBA heavyweight title from Nikolai Valuev in 2009; retired 2018, record 28-4 with 26 KOs.
David Hayman
David Hayman (born 1948, Bridgeton, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and director, Jimmy Boyle in A Sense of Freedom, DCS Mike Walker in Trial & Retribution, and director of Silent Scream (1990).
David Hays (chemist)
David Hays is an American industrial chemist and inventor, a Senior Staff Scientist at 3M in Minnesota elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
David Hayter
David Hayter, also known as David Bryan Hayter, is a Canadian actor and screenwriter who voices Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid and wrote X-Men and Watchmen.
David Headley (داؤد سید گیلانی)
David Coleman Headley (Daood Sayed Gilani, داؤد سید گیلانی), American LeT operative and former DEA informant who scouted Mumbai targets for the 2008 attacks, plotted against Jyllands-Posten, pleaded guilty in 2010, and is serving 35 years.
David Healy (footballer)
David Jonathan Healy (born 1979), Northern Irish striker, all-time record scorer with 36 goals in 95 caps; record 13 goals in EURO 2008 qualifying; later Linfield manager.
David Hedison
David Hedison (1927-2019), American actor born Albert David Hedison Jr., played Andre Delambre in The Fly (1958), Captain Lee Crane in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Felix Leiter in two Bond films.
David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson, known as DHH, is a Danish programmer who created Ruby on Rails and is co-founder and CTO of 37signals, maker of Basecamp and HEY.
David Helfgott
David Helfgott (born 1947, Melbourne) is an Australian pianist whose breakdown and comeback inspired the 1996 Oscar-winning film Shine; known for Rachmaninov's Third Concerto and his chart-topping recording of it.
David Helgason
David Helgason is an Iceland-born entrepreneur who co-founded the game-engine company Unity Technologies in Copenhagen in 2004, led it as CEO until 2014, and later became a climate-focused venture investor.
David Hemingson
David Hemingson, American screenwriter and TV writer-producer born 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut; wrote Oscar-nominated The Holdovers, created Kitchen Confidential and Whiskey Cavalier, won the WGA Original Screenplay Award.
David Hemmings
David Hemmings (David Leslie Edward Hemmings), English actor, director and producer (1941–2003); boy soprano for Britten, star of Blow-Up (1966), director of The A-Team episodes, Cassius in Gladiator.
David Henrie
David Henrie (born 1989) is an American actor, director, and producer known for playing Justin Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place and Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, and the son in How I Met Your Mother.
David Herman
David Herman (born 1967), also known as Dave Herman, is an American actor, comedian, and voice actor: original MADtv cast member, Michael Bolton in Office Space, and voice of Scruffy in Futurama and Mr. Frond in Bob's Burgers.
David Herold
David Edgar Herold (1842-1865), Maryland pharmacy student and Lincoln assassination conspirator, guided Lewis Powell to Seward's home, fled with John Wilkes Booth for twelve days, surrendered at the Garrett farm, and was hanged July 7, 1865.
David Hesser
David A. Hesser (January 1884 – 13 February 1908), American swimmer and water polo player of the New York Athletic Club; won gold in men's water polo at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics and placed fourth in the 4 x 50 yards freestyle relay.
David Hewlett
David Hewlett (David Ian Hewlett, born 1968) is an English-born Canadian actor known for Dr. Rodney McKay in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis (2004–2009), David Worth in Cube (1997), and A Dog's Breakfast, which he wrote and directed.