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David MacMillan
David MacMillan is a Scottish chemist and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton who shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.
David Madson (architect)
David Madson, also known as David Jon Madson, was a Minneapolis-based architect whose master's thesis proposed an original AIDS memorial design. Andrew Cunanan murdered him in Minnesota in 1997.
David Magerman
David Magerman is an American computer scientist and quantitative trading researcher who spent about 22 years at Renaissance Technologies, then co-founded the seed-stage venture firm Differential Ventures.
David Mahlon Bonner
David Mahlon Bonner (1916–1964) was an American biochemical geneticist whose work on Neurospora crassa helped establish the one gene–one enzyme view; he was professor of microbiology at Yale and founding chair of biology at UCSD.
David Malan (computer scientist)
David J. Malan is an American computer scientist and Harvard professor best known as lead instructor of CS50, Harvard's introductory computer science course, its largest.
David Malin Roodman
David Malin Roodman is an economist and replication specialist who worked at the Center for Global Development, GiveWell, and Open Philanthropy, and wrote Due Diligence (2012) on microfinance.
David Malo
David Malo, also known as Davida Malo, was a Native Hawaiian scholar and minister whose Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi is a principal record of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture.
David Malouf
David Malouf (1934–2026) was an Australian novelist, poet, and essayist known for Johnno and Remembering Babylon; he won the Miles Franklin Award twice and the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
David Malpass
David Malpass is an American economist who served as President of the World Bank Group from 2019 to 2023, after serving in the Trump Treasury Department.
David Mamet
David Mamet is an American playwright and director known for his stylized use of vernacular speech. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross.
David Mandrus
David Mandrus is an American materials scientist at the University of Tennessee who designs and synthesizes new quantum materials, with a joint appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland
David Charles Robert Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland (born 1959), British hereditary peer and landowner; succeeded 4 January 1999, seat Belvoir Castle, married Emma Watkins 1992, separated 2012, five children, UKIP supporter.
David Mant
David Mant is a British public-health physician and emeritus Professor of General Practice at the University of Oxford, known for research on early diagnosis in primary care.
David Marciano
David Marciano (born 1960, Newark, NJ) is an American character actor known as Ray Vecchio in Due South, Steve Billings in The Shield, and Virgil in Homeland.
David Mareček
David Mareček is a Czech natural language processing researcher and assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, known for unsupervised dependency parsing and neural network interpretation.
David Margulies
David Margulies (1937-2016) was an American character actor known as Mayor Lenny Clotch in Ghostbusters (1984, 1989), lawyer Neil Mink on The Sopranos, and Roy Cohn in Angels in America on Broadway.
David Marine
David Marine (1880–1976) was an American pathologist whose animal experiments and Akron, Ohio school-based iodine trial showed iodine prevents simple goiter, the finding behind iodized table salt.
David Marks
David Marks (born 1948) is an American guitarist, an original rhythm guitarist of the Beach Boys who played on their first four albums, left in a royalty dispute, and rejoined for the 1997 and 2012 reunions.
David Markson
David Markson (1927-2010), American experimental novelist from Albany, New York, author of Wittgenstein's Mistress and the Notecard Quartet (Reader's Block through The Last Novel), collage novels of fragments; also wrote the parodic Western The Ballad of Dingus Magee.
David Marshall (Singaporean politician)
David Marshall, born David Saul Marshall, was a Singaporean criminal lawyer and politician who became Singapore's first Chief Minister in 1955 and founded the Workers' Party in 1957.
David Martin (footballer, born 1986)
David Martin (born 1986, Romford), English goalkeeper, son of Alvin Martin; Liverpool 2006-2010 without a first-team game, MK Dons, West Ham debut clean sheet in 1-0 win at Chelsea aged 33 in 2019; now West Ham U21 goalkeeper coach.
David Martínez (fighter)
David "Black Spartan" Martinez (Miguel David Martinez Aceves, born 1998), Mexican UFC bantamweight, Bonebreakers MMA; 15-1 record, 4-0 UFC, ranked #9, wins over Font, Vera, and Ige; also a UNAM physician and 2022 World Games kickboxer.
David Masiello
David J. Masiello is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Washington whose research explains how light, electrons, and nanoscale materials interact, with emphasis on plasmonics and nanophotonics.
David Masopust
David Masopust is an American immunologist at the University of Minnesota known for identifying tissue-resident memory T cells, a major component of the immune system.
David Mataix‐Cols
David Mataix-Cols is a clinical psychologist and professor of child and adolescent psychiatric science at Karolinska Institutet, known for reshaping how obsessive-compulsive disorder is classified and treated.
David Mayer de Rothschild
David Mayer de Rothschild, born 1978, is a British adventurer and environmentalist, youngest son of banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, known for sailing the plastic-bottle Plastiki across the Pacific.
David Mazouz
David Mazouz (David Albert Mazouz) is an American actor born 2001 in Los Angeles, known for playing young Bruce Wayne on Fox's Gotham (2014-2019, 100 episodes) and Jake Bohm on Touch; Stanford 2023 graduate.
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli (born 1960) is an American comics artist and writer known for Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One with Frank Miller, the City of Glass adaptation with Paul Karasik, and his award-winning graphic novel Asterios Polyp (2009).
David McBride (whistleblower)
David McBride, Australian Army lawyer who leaked classified Afghanistan war-crimes documents to the ABC in 2017, prompting The Afghan Files; sentenced in 2024 to five years eight months and paroled 13 August 2026, the only person convicted over the allegations.
David McCallum
David McCallum (1933-2023), Scottish-born American actor, played Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68) and Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS (2003-23); also recorded 1960s instrumental albums and wrote a 2016 crime novel.