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David McCloskey
David McCloskey, American spy novelist and former CIA analyst (eight years, Syria desk, Arab Spring) and McKinsey consultant; author of Damascus Station, Moscow X, The Seventh Floor, The Persian, and London Station; co-host of The Rest is Classified podcast.
David McCollum
David L. McCollum is an energy and climate policy researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, known for integrated assessment modeling, his 2018 Nature Energy analysis of Paris Agreement investment needs, and IPCC roles.
David McCormack
David McCormack (born 1969, Brisbane) is an Australian musician, frontman of 1990s indie rock band Custard, voice of Bandit Heeler in Bluey, and screen composer with the Polaroids and TRS80 projects.
David McCullough
David McCullough (1933–2022) was an American popular historian, author of Truman, John Adams, 1776, The Great Bridge, and The Pioneers, two-time Pulitzer and National Book Award winner and narrator of The Civil War.
David McGoldrick
David James McGoldrick (born 1987, Nottingham) is an Irish centre-forward for Mansfield Town. Former Notts County, Southampton, Ipswich, Sheffield United, and Derby striker; 14 Republic of Ireland caps, 1 goal.
David McGuinty
David J. McGuinty, Liberal MP for Ottawa South since 2004, is Canada's Minister of National Defence under Mark Carney, after serving as Public Safety minister and chairing NSICOP.
David McIntosh (Gladiators)
David McIntosh (Gladiators), born 1985 in Wigan, England, is a former Royal Marines Commando who played Gladiator Tornado on the 2008-2009 Sky 1 revival, later appearing on Celebrity Big Brother, Bromans, and completing the 250 km Desert Ultra.
David Mckenzie
David McKenzie is a development economist at the World Bank known for field experiments on microenterprises and migration and for co-founding the Development Impact blog.
David Mechanic
David Mechanic is an American medical sociologist, the René Dubos University Professor at Rutgers and a National Academy of Sciences member known for research on illness behavior and health policy.
David Mendenhall
David Mendenhall (born 1971, Oceanside, California) is an American actor and attorney; a 1980s child star of General Hospital, Over the Top, and The Transformers: The Movie (Daniel Witwicky), later a producer.
David Merage
David Merage is an Iranian-born American businessman who co-founded Chef America, maker of Hot Pockets, with his brother Paul, selling it to Nestlé for $2.6 billion in 2002.
David Merritt
David Merritt is an astrophysicist known for work on supermassive black holes and the dynamics of elliptical galaxies, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology until 2017.
David Mervyn Blow
David Mervyn Blow (1931–2004) was a British biophysicist who helped found protein crystallography, developing isomorphous replacement and molecular replacement, and was professor of biophysics at Imperial College London from 1977.
David Messerschmitt
David Messerschmitt, born 1945, is an American electrical engineer and Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley who won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1999.
David Mestre
David Mestre was the pen name of Luís Filipe Guimarães da Mota Veiga, an Angolan poet, journalist, and literary critic born in Portugal in 1948.
Dávid Mészáros
Dávid Mészáros (Mészáros Dávid) is a Hungarian internet entrepreneur who founded ingatlan.com in 1997 as an architecture student and built it into Hungary's dominant property portal.
David Meyers
David Meyers was an American family physician and health services researcher who served as Deputy Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality until his death in 2023.
David Meyler
David Meyler (born 1989, Cork) is a retired Irish midfielder who played for Sunderland and Hull City (191 appearances), won 26 Ireland caps, appeared at EURO 2016, retired in 2019 through knee injury, and now coaches and works as a pundit.
David Michôd
David Michôd (born 1972, Sydney) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for Animal Kingdom, The Rover, War Machine, The King, and the 2025 Christy Martin biopic Christy.
David Middleton (physicist)
David Middleton (1920–2008) was an American physicist who founded statistical communication theory, developed the matched filter, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
David Milch
David Milch (born 1945) is an American TV writer and creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, an Emmy-winning Hill Street Blues writer known as Milchspeak, now writing with Alzheimer's.
David Milgaard
David Milgaard (1952–2022), Canadian man wrongfully convicted of the 1969 rape-murder of Gail Miller in Saskatoon; served 23 years, exonerated by DNA in 1997; Larry Fisher was the real killer; namesake of Canada's 2024 Milgaard's Law.
David Miliband
David Miliband, British Labour politician, 74th UK Foreign Secretary 2007–2010, lost the 2010 Labour leadership to brother Ed, and since 2013 President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, a $1 billion humanitarian agency in over 40 countries.
David Millar
David Millar (born 1977), Scottish former pro cyclist 1997-2014 with Cofidis and Garmin, EPO ban 2004, first Brit to lead all three Grand Tours, later anti-doping advocate and Factor Bikes brand director.
David Miller
David Miller refers to several sports figures: David Engelbert Miller (1925–1996), Canadian ice hockey gold medallist at Oslo 1952 with the Edmonton Mercurys, and David Miller (1935–2026), British Olympic journalist and IOC official historian who received the Pierre de Coubertin medal.
David Miller (South African cricketer)
David Miller, "Killer Miller" (born 1989), South African left-handed middle-order finisher; ODI and T20I only, no Tests; 35-ball T20I hundred 2017, Gujarat Titans' 2022 IPL title, Delhi Capitals from 2026.
David Milman
David Pinhusovich Milman (Ukrainian: Давид Пінхусович Мільман; 1912–1982) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician in functional analysis, co-prover of the Krein–Milman theorem and the Milman–Pettis theorem, and a Tel Aviv University professor.
David Milstein
David Milstein, born 1947, is an Israeli chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot known for pincer complexes operating by metal–ligand cooperation and for acceptorless dehydrogenation releasing hydrogen as the only byproduct.
David Miranda (politician)
David Miranda (1985-2023) was a Brazilian federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro, PSOL then PDT, first openly gay Rio councilor, husband of Glenn Greenwald, Snowden-leaks figure, died 2023.
David Miscavige
David Miscavige, also known as Dave Miscavige, is the Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center, the Scientology corporation holding ultimate ecclesiastical authority, since 1987.