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David K. Lam
David K. Lam (林杰屏) is a China-born American engineer and entrepreneur who founded semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research in 1980, introducing the first fully automated plasma etching system.
David K. Matlock
David K. Matlock is an American metallurgical engineer at the Colorado School of Mines, a National Academy of Engineering member known for advanced high-strength steels.
David Kabakoff
David Kabakoff is an American life-sciences venture investor who has been an Executive Partner at Sofinnova Investments since 2007 and a founding Partner of HealthQuest Capital since 2012.
David Kabat
David Kabat is a virologist and Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at Oregon Health & Science University, known for work on Friend murine erythroleukemia virus and retroviral receptors.
David Kabiller
David Kabiller is an American investment executive who co-founded the quantitative investment firm AQR Capital Management in 1998 and co-authored the award-winning 2013 study "Buffett's Alpha."
David Kaczynski
David Kaczynski is an American social worker and anti-death penalty activist who identified his brother Ted as the Unabomber in 1996, then led New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty from 2001 to 2012 and wrote the memoir Every Last Tie.
David Kakabadze
David Kakabadze (დავით კაკაბაძე, 1889–1952) was a Georgian avant-garde painter, set designer, and inventor, a leading figure of Georgian modernism who patented a glassless 3D film projector.
David Kang
David Kang is an Australian Sydney barrister who, as a Macquarie University student, fired two blank shots from a starter pistol at Prince Charles on 26 January 1994 to protest Cambodian refugee detention; he received 500 hours community service and was admitted to the NSW Bar in 2004.
David Kaplan (philosopher)
David Benjamin Kaplan (born 1933) is an American philosopher at UCLA, best known for his character and content framework for indexicals and demonstratives, and for work on reference and quantifying into belief contexts.
David Kappos
David J. Kappos (born 1961) is an American IP lawyer, former IBM chief IP counsel, and USPTO Director 2009-2013 who implemented the America Invents Act, cut the patent backlog, and now co-chairs Cravath's IP practice.
David Karger
David R. Karger is an American computer scientist and MIT professor since 1995, known for inventing consistent hashing, co-authoring the Chord distributed hash table, and randomized min-cut algorithms.
David Karl
David Karl, also known as David M. Karl, is an American microbial oceanographer at the University of Hawaiʻi who co-founded the Hawaii Ocean Time-series program in 1988.
David Karp
David Karp (born 1986) is an American web developer who founded the microblogging platform Tumblr in 2007 and served as its chief executive until 2017.
David Kaufman (physician-scientist)
David Kaufman is an American physician-scientist and life-science venture investor, a partner at Third Rock Ventures since 2022 after leading the Gates Medical Research Institute.
David Kawānanakoa
David Kawānanakoa (David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawānanakoa) was a Hawaiian prince, titled by Kalākaua in 1883, who never reigned after the 1893 overthrow of the monarchy.
David Kaye (voice actor)
David Kaye (David V. Hope, born 1964, Peterborough, Ontario) is a Canadian voice actor in Los Angeles, known as Megatron (Beast Wars through Cybertron) and Optimus Prime in Transformers, Clank in Ratchet & Clank, and Sesshomaru in InuYasha.
David Kazhdan
David Kazhdan, born 1946 in Moscow, is a Soviet-born mathematician in representation theory, known for Kazhdan's property (T) and Kazhdan–Lusztig theory, who taught at Harvard and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
David Keighley
David Keighley (1948-2025), Canadian IMAX executive and first Chief Quality Officer, oversaw post-production of 500+ IMAX films, founded DKP/IMAX Post with wife Patricia, and partnered with Christopher Nolan on The Odyssey.
David Keilin
David Keilin (1887–1963) was a British scientist, born in Moscow to a Polish family, who discovered cytochrome at Cambridge in 1925 and identified carbonic anhydrase as the first zinc-containing enzyme.
David Keith (actor)
David Keith (David Lemuel Keith, born 1954, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American actor and director, not the scientist or Keith David. Known for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Firestarter, Daredevil, and directing The Curse.
David Keith (Canadian physicist)
David Keith is a Canadian climate scientist known for solar geoengineering research and for founding Carbon Engineering, a direct air capture company sold to Occidental Petroleum for $1.1 billion in 2023.
David Kelly (actor)
David Kelly (1929–2012) was an Irish character actor known for Rashers Tierney in Strumpet City, Mr O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers, Waking Ned Devine, and Grandpa Joe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); distinct from David E. Kelley and Dr David Kelly.
David Kelly (weapons expert)
David Christopher Kelly (1944–2003) was a British microbiologist who led UN biological weapons inspections in Iraq and died in July 2003 after being named as the source of a BBC report.
David Kendal Stevenson
David Kendal Stevenson is an American neonatologist and physician-scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for neonatal jaundice research and multiomics prediction of pregnancy complications.
David Kenyon Webster
David Kenyon Webster (1922-1961), Harvard-educated Easy Company rifleman of the 101st Airborne in Normandy and Market Garden, author of the posthumous memoir Parachute Infantry, portrayed in Band of Brothers by Eion Bailey; lost shark fishing in 1961.
David Kershenobich
David Kershenobich is a Mexican physician and public official who has served as Secretary of Health of Mexico since 2024, appointed by President Claudia Sheinbaum; he was known for hepatitis C research.
David Khabie-Zeitoune
David Khabie-Zeitoune (born 1974) is a quantitative finance executive who has served as chief executive officer and partner of London systematic trading firm GSA Capital Partners since 2009.
David Kim (Hong Kong businessman)
David Kim is a Hong Kong-based technology executive who co-founded Animoca Brands, the blockchain gaming group, with Yat Siu in 2014, chairing it from its 2015 ASX listing until 2018.
David Kimelman
David Kimelman is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Washington whose laboratory defined how FGF and TGF-β induce mesoderm and how Wnt signaling builds the vertebrate body axis.
David Kinley
David Kinley was a Scottish-born American economist and authority on money and banking who served as president of the University of Illinois from 1920 to 1930.