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David Misch

David Emery Misch (born 1961) is a California convicted murderer, imprisoned since 1990 for the killing of Margaret Ball, convicted in 2024 of the 1986 Xavier and Duey murders, and charged in the 1988 Michaela Garecht kidnapping.

David Mitchell (author)

David Mitchell (born 1969) is the English novelist of Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, and Utopia Avenue, twice Booker-shortlisted and known for genre-hopping interlinked novels sharing one universe. Not the comedian of the same name.

David Mitchell (comedian)

David Mitchell (born 1974, Salisbury) is a British comedian, actor, and writer, one half of Mitchell and Webb with Robert Webb. Known for Peep Show's Mark Corrigan, That Mitchell and Webb Look (BAFTA 2007), Would I Lie to You? team captain since 2007, Upstart Crow, and the BBC hit Ludwig (2024).

David Mitlin

David Mitlin is an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for supercapacitor electrodes made from hemp waste and sodium battery anodes.

David Moehring

David Moehring is an American experimental quantum physicist who entangled trapped-ion qubits a meter apart at Michigan, managed IARPA's LogiQ program, and led IonQ as CEO from 2016.

David Moher

David Moher is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, known for leading the CONSORT and PRISMA reporting guidelines.

David Mokwa

David Mokwa (David Ngabi Mokwa Ntusu), French striker born 2004 in Bagnolet; ex-Sochaux and Hoffenheim, plays for SV Elversberg in the Bundesliga, France youth international also eligible for Cameroon.

David Molyneux

David Molyneux, born in 1943, is a British parasitologist and emeritus professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine known for pioneering work on neglected tropical diseases.

David Montgomery (American football)

David Montgomery is an American football running back for the Houston Texans, drafted by the Chicago Bears in 2019 after playing college football at Iowa State.

David Mooney (bioengineer)

David J. Mooney is a bioengineer, the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor at Harvard SEAS and a Wyss Institute founding core faculty member, known for the first implantable biomaterial cancer vaccine.

David Morales

David Morales (born 1961, Brooklyn) is an American house DJ, producer, and Def Mix co-founder with Frankie Knuckles and Judy Weinstein; Grammy-winning Remixer of the Year (1999) with 500-plus remixes for Mariah Carey, U2, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston.

David Moravec

David Moravec (born 1973, Opava) is a Czech former ice hockey left wing, 1998 Nagano Olympic gold medalist, two-time world champion (1999, 2001), and scorer of the 2001 final overtime goal against Finland; distinct from the younger defenseman born 2003.

David Morens

David M. Morens, epidemiologist and NIAID senior advisor 2006-2022 under Anthony Fauci, co-authored landmark pandemic influenza papers with Jeffery Taubenberger; in 2026 he pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. by hiding COVID-19 grant records on personal Gmail to evade FOIA.

David Morgenthaler

David Morgenthaler (1919–2016) was an American venture capitalist who founded Morgenthaler Ventures in Cleveland in 1968 and led the NVCA during the 1978–1979 policy changes that opened pension money to venture investing.

David Morrison (astronomer)

David Morrison (born 1940) is an American planetary astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center, Carl Sagan's first doctoral student, who led the 1991 study recommending the Spaceguard Survey.

David Morrissey

David Morrissey (born 1964) is an English actor from Liverpool, trained at the Everyman Youth Theatre and RADA, known for The Deal, State of Play, Blackpool, and the Governor in The Walking Dead; also a director and producer, married to Esther Freud.

David Morse

David Morse (born 1953, Massachusetts) is an American character actor known for St. Elsewhere's Dr. Jack Morrison, The Green Mile, House (Emmy nomination), John Adams, and a Tony-nominated stage career.

David Moscow

David Moscow (David Raphael Moscow, born 1974, New York City) is an American actor, producer, and director known for Big (1988), Newsies (1992), Honey (2003), and the reality series From Scratch.

David Moss (photonics researcher)

David J. Moss is a photonics researcher and Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, known for pioneering integrated optical microcombs and a 2021 optical neural network accelerator.

David Mott

David Mott is a biotechnology investor and former MedImmune CEO who led its $15.6 billion sale to AstraZeneca and headed healthcare investing at NEA from 2008 to 2020.

David Mouillot

David Mouillot (born 1970) is a French marine ecologist and professor at the Université de Montpellier, known for his 2016 Nature paper on coral reef bright spots.

David Mount

David Mount is an American venture capitalist who co-founded G2 Venture Partners in 2017, a Menlo Park firm investing in technology for traditional industries like energy and agriculture.

David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven

David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven (1919-1970), British businessman and naval officer, first cousin of Prince Philip, grandson of the first Marquess, married Janet Bryce in 1960.

David Moyes

David Moyes, Scottish football manager and former player; manager of Everton since January 2025. Led West Ham to the 2023 Europa Conference League; earlier managed Preston, Everton (2002-13), Manchester United, Real Sociedad, and Sunderland.

David Muir

David Muir (born 1973, Syracuse, New York) is an American broadcast journalist, anchor and managing editor of ABC World News Tonight, the most-watched U.S. newscast, and co-anchor of 20/20; joined ABC in 2003, succeeded Diane Sawyer in 2014, co-moderated the 2024 Trump-Harris debate, and won the 2024 Walter Cronkite Award.

David Mumford

David Mumford, born 1937 in England, is a British-born mathematician who won the 1974 Fields Medal for algebraic geometry and later helped build Pattern Theory in computer vision.

David Mundell (fighter)

David "Redneck" Mundell (born 1991) is an American bare-knuckle boxer and former BKFC middleweight champion, 10-3 in BKFC, who earlier fought MMA at 10-5 in Bellator, CFFC, and Titan FC; he lost the title to Jack Cullen at BKFC 94 in 2026.

David Munrow

David Munrow (1942–1976) was a British recorder player and early-music pioneer who founded the Early Music Consort of London in 1967, hosted BBC Radio 3's Pied Piper (655 editions), arranged music for The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R, and recorded over 50 albums before his death at 33.

David Munson

David Curtiss Munson (1884-1953), American middle-distance runner and lawyer; 1904 St. Louis Olympic gold medalist in the four mile team race for the New York Athletic Club; fourth in the 1,500 m; IC4A mile champion 1904-1905.

David Murdoch

David Murdoch, Scottish curler from Lockerbie; two-time world men's champion skip (2006, 2009), Olympic silver at Sochi 2014 for Great Britain; later British Curling Olympic head coach and Curling Canada's High Performance Director from 2023.