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David Levens
David Levens is a Senior Investigator and head of the Gene Regulation Section at the National Cancer Institute, studying how c-Myc and DNA topology control transcription.
David Levine
David K. Levine is an economist working in game theory and behavioral economics, a professor at Royal Holloway, London, and a leading critic of patents and copyrights.
David Levy Yulee
David Levy Yulee (born David Levy, 1810-1886), first U.S. senator from Florida and first Jewish member of the Senate, founder of the Florida Railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key, slaveholder, and Confederate supporter imprisoned at Fort Pulaski.
David Lewis (philosopher)
David Kellogg Lewis (1941–2001) was an American philosopher at Princeton University, best known for his modal realism, the thesis that possible worlds are concrete entities as real as our own.
David Leys
David Leys is a British-based structural biologist and biochemist, Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Manchester, known for determining the first reductive dehalogenase structure and the prenylated FMN cofactor.
David Lidington
David Lidington (born 1956), British Conservative MP for Aylesbury 1992–2019; longest serving UK Minister for Europe (2010–16), later Lord Chancellor and May's de facto deputy as Cabinet Office minister; now RUSI former chair and security author.
David Lindley (musician)
David Lindley (1944-2023), American multi-instrumentalist and session guitarist from San Marino, California; Jackson Browne's sideman on Running On Empty, founder of Kaleidoscope and El Rayo-X, died March 3, 2023.
David Lisnard
David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes since 2014 and president of France's mayors' association (AMF) since 2021, founded Nouvelle Énergie, left Les Républicains on 31 March 2026, and declared his 2027 presidential candidacy; liberal right program: deep spending cuts, immigration divided by eight, retirement at 65.
David Littmann
David Littmann (1906–1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who patented the lightweight two-sided Littmann stethoscope in 1966, sold by 3M from 1967.
David Live
David Live: David Bowie's first officially released live album, a 1974 RCA double LP recorded 8–12 July at Philadelphia's Tower Theatre on the Diamond Dogs Tour, peaking at UK No. 2, documenting his shift from glam to Philadelphia soul.
David Livingston
David Livingston is an American Republican politician serving in the Arizona House of Representatives from District 28 in Peoria, where he chairs the House Appropriations Committee; he was first elected in 2012.
David Livingstone
Dr. Livingstone, David Livingstone (1813–1873), was a Scottish missionary and explorer who reached Victoria Falls and Lake Nyasa and campaigned to end the East African slave trade.
David Lloyd (cricketer)
David 'Bumble' Lloyd, Lancashire opener 1965-83, nine England caps 1974-75 with 214 v India, England coach 1996-99, Sky Sports commentator for 22 years until December 2021; distinct from the younger Glamorgan-Derbyshire namesake.
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George (1863–1945), Welsh Liberal statesman, Chancellor behind the 1909 People's Budget, Prime Minister 1916–1922 leading Britain in WWI, and signatory of the Treaty of Versailles, the only Welsh and Welsh-speaking PM.
David Loman (大尾鲈鳗)
David Loman (大尾鱸鰻) is a 2013 Taiwanese gangster comedy directed by Chiu Li-Kwan, starring Chu-Ko Liang as photographer-turned-crime-boss Zhu Dade; it earned NT$413 million in Taiwan and spawned a 2016 sequel.
David Long (chemist)
David Long is a research chemist at NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory who builds laser-based instruments for gas spectroscopy, winning a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award.
David Lonsdale
David Lonsdale, born in 1973, is an English actor recognized for his role as David Stockwell in the television series Heartbeat, which aired from 1993 to 2009.
David Lordkipanidze
David Lordkipanidze (Davitʻ Lortʻkʻipʻaniże) is a Georgian paleoanthropologist, General Director of the Georgian National Museum, who leads the Dmanisi excavations that yielded the earliest well-dated hominin remains outside Africa, about 1.8 million years old.
David Louapre
David Louapre is a French theoretical physicist and science communicator, creator of the blog and YouTube channel Science étonnante, and winner of the CNRS science-mediation medal in 2023.
David Loveall
David Loveall II is an American digital-forensics scientist with the FBI since 2000, a PECASE recipient who serves as senior advisor on digital forensics at Quantico.
David Lovelock
David Lovelock (born 1938, Bromley, London) is a British mathematician who proved Lovelock's theorem and introduced the Lovelock tensor, generalizing Einstein's field equations to higher dimensions.
David Lovering
David Lovering (born 1961, Burlington, Massachusetts) is the drummer of the alternative rock band the Pixies (1986–1993, reunited 2004) and a professional magician performing as the Scientific Phenomenalist with the Unholy Three at the Magic Castle.
David Lowe (private equity investor)
David L. Lowe is a private equity investor who co-founded Friedman Fleischer & Lowe in 1997, led ADAC Laboratories as its youngest Baldrige Award CEO, and later founded Insignia Capital Group.
David Lowe (Texas politician)
David Lowe is an American politician serving as the Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 91, first elected in 2024 by defeating incumbent Stephanie Klick.
David Lowery (director)
David Lowery (born 1980) is a Wisconsin-born, Dallas-based American film director and editor; features include St. Nick, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon, A Ghost Story, The Green Knight, Peter Pan & Wendy, and Mother Mary.
David Lucas (Georgia politician)
David Lucas is an American politician and Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate from the 26th district, a Macon legislator of five decades known for introducing Medicaid expansion bills.
David Luck
David Luck (1929–1998) was an American molecular geneticist and cell biologist at Rockefeller University who used the alga Chlamydomonas to dissect the genetics of mitochondria and flagella.
David Luenberger
David Luenberger was an American mathematical scientist in optimization and control theory, a longtime Stanford professor who originated the Luenberger observer and wrote six major textbooks.
David Luiz
David Luiz (David Luiz Moreira Marinho) is a Brazilian professional footballer, a center-back for clubs including Chelsea and Arsenal who won the Champions League in 2012 and earned 57 caps for Brazil.
David Lyden
David Lyden is a physician-scientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who defined the pre-metastatic niche, showing how tumor exosomes prepare distant organs for metastasis.