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David Horsley
David Horsley (1873-1933), English-born American film producer, founded Centaur Film in Bayonne, New Jersey, and the Nestor Film Company, which opened Hollywood's first permanent studio at Sunset and Gower in 1911; later a Universal founder, he died bankrupt.
David Howard Thornton
David Howard Thornton (born 1979, Huntsville, Alabama) is an American actor who plays the silent serial killer Art the Clown in Terrifier, Terrifier 2, Terrifier 3, and the planned Terrifier 4; also a musical theater performer and voice actor.
David Howden
David Howden is a British insurance entrepreneur who founded the Howden Group in 1994 with six employees and built it into one of the world's largest insurance brokers, known for employee ownership.
David Hsia
David Hsia is an American pharmaceutical executive and Purdue-trained pharmacist who co-founded Watson Pharmaceuticals in 1985, a generics company that later became Actavis and then Allergan.
David Hsieh
David Hsieh is an experimental condensed matter physicist at Caltech, known for identifying the first topological insulator by ARPES and for ultrafast light-based control of materials.
David Huang
David Huang is an American ophthalmologist and biomedical engineer at Oregon Health & Science University who co-invented optical coherence tomography, the standard eye imaging method, earning the 2023 Lasker Award.
David Huddleston
David Huddleston (1930–2016), American character actor from Vinton, Virginia, played the title millionaire in The Big Lebowski (1998), Mayor Olson Johnson in Blazing Saddles, and Santa Claus in Santa Claus: The Movie.
David Hume
David Hume (1711–1776), Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, and essayist, author of A Treatise of Human Nature, the two Enquiries, and The History of England; empiricist science of man, skepticism about causation, and influence on Kant, Bentham, and Darwin.
David Hungate
David Hungate (born 1948) is an American session bassist, founding bassist of Toto, and player of the "Lowdown" bass line on Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees; he played on Toto's first four albums including Toto IV, then built a Nashville session career and rejoined Toto in 2014.
David Hunt (actor)
David Hunt (born 1953, Covent Garden, London) is an English actor, director, and producer; Harlan Rook in The Dead Pool (1988), husband of Patricia Heaton, and co-founder of FourBoys Entertainment; distinct from West End musical actor David Hunter.
David Hunt (gangster)
David Charles Hunt, the 'Long Fella' (born 1961), East London organised crime figure of the Hunt Syndicate; found in the 2013 libel case Hunt v Times Newspapers to head a network involved in extreme violence and fraud.
David Hurley
David Hurley (born 1953), retired Australian Army general, Chief of the Defence Force 2011–2014, 38th Governor of New South Wales 2014–2019, and 27th Governor-General of Australia 2019–2024; known for the Morrison secret ministries controversy and the Order of Australia backlog in his office.
David Hurst Thomas
David Hurst Thomas (born 1945) is an American archaeologist, Senior Curator in Residence at the American Museum of Natural History, known for Gatecliff Shelter and St. Catherines Island.
David Hurwitz (endocrinologist)
David Hurwitz was an American endocrinologist who chaired medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and whose placebo-controlled studies of the first oral diabetes drugs, published in 1961 and 1967, remain methodological standards.
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce (born 1959) is an American actor and director, Emmy winner as Dr. Niles Crane on Frasier and Tony winner for Curtains, with Broadway roles in Spamalot, Hello, Dolly!, Here We Are, and Pirates! The Penzance Musical.
David I of Scotland
David I (1084–1153), King of Scots 1124–1153, youngest son of Malcolm III and St Margaret, brother of Alexander I, husband of Matilda of Huntingdon; introduced feudal tenure, burghs, reformed monasticism, and Scotland's first coinage, the Davidian Revolution.
David I. Friedman
David I. Friedman is an American bacterial geneticist at the University of Michigan known for identifying integration host factor and the boxA antitermination signal in bacteriophage λ.
David I. Meyer
David I. Meyer is an American molecular cell biologist, Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry at UCLA, who identified the ER docking protein in 1982 and led The Lundquist Institute from 2009.
David I. Stuart
David I. Stuart is a British structural biologist who determines the atomic structures of viruses, is MRC Professor of Structural Biology at Oxford, and was knighted in 2021.
David I. Watkins
David I. Watkins is an American virologist and immunologist who studies killer T cell responses to HIV and SIV, and is a professor of pathology at George Washington University.
David Icke
David Icke is an English conspiracy author and self-published esoteric teacher who was a professional footballer, BBC sports presenter, and Green Party spokesman before a 1990 spiritual conversion.
David Ige
David Ige, Democratic engineer-politician and eighth governor of Hawaii (2014-2022), first US governor of Okinawan descent; unseated Neil Abercrombie in the 2014 primary and led the state through Kilauea's eruption, the TMT protests, and COVID-19.
David II of Kakheti
David II of Kakheti (დავით II), also known by his Muslim name Imam Quli Khan, was king of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1703 to 1722, whose reign was marked by destructive Dagestani raids.
David II of Scotland
David II (1324–1371), son of Robert the Bruce, was King of Scots 1329–1371. Distinguished from David I: exiled in France 1334–1341, captured at Neville's Cross 1346, ransomed for 100,000 merks by the Treaty of Berwick 1357, died childless, succeeded by Robert II.
David Ikard
David Ikard is an American scholar of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, author of four books on race, including Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs (2017).
David in Islam
David in Islam, known as Dawud (Dāwūd), regards David as a prophet, king, and recipient of the revealed Zabur (Psalms), named sixteen times in the Quran.
David Irving
David Irving, British author of The Destruction of Dresden and Hitler's War, lost his 2000 London libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin, was judged an active Holocaust denier, and was convicted in Austria in 2006.
David Isenberg
David Isenberg, also known as David A. Isenberg, is a British rheumatologist and Emeritus Professor at University College London known for research on systemic lupus erythematosus.
David Ish‐Horowicz
David Ish-Horowicz, known as D. Ish-Horowicz, was a British molecular and developmental biologist who worked mainly at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and died in 2024.
David Isom
David L. Isom is a U.S. Navy SEAL and the 6th Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since June 2025; also a Georgetown law librarian and folk musician of the same name.