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David of Sassoun
David of Sassoun (Armenian: Sasuntsi Davit) is the central hero of the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sassoun, defeating the Arab ruler Msra-Melik in single combat.
David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers (1942-2018), American actor and conductor, Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H (1977-1983), voice of Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Jumba in Lilo & Stitch, and Resident Conductor of the Newport Symphony Orchestra.
David Ogilvy (businessman)
David Ogilvy was a British-born advertising executive who founded the New York agency Ogilvy & Mather in 1948 and championed a research-driven, brand-image approach to advertising.
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie (1926–2023), was a Scottish peer, Scots Guards officer, and merchant banker who chaired Schroders from 1977 to 1984, then served as Lord Chamberlain.
David Okrent
David Okrent (1922–2012) was an American nuclear engineer and physicist, a UCLA professor and pioneer of fast reactor safety and probabilistic risk assessment elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.
David Olive (British theoretical physicist)
David Ian Olive (1937–2012) was a British theoretical physicist at Cambridge, CERN, Imperial College, and Swansea, known for the GSO projection and the 1977 Montonen–Olive duality conjecture.
David Olusoga
David Olusoga, British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster, and professor of public history at the University of Manchester; author of Black and British: A Forgotten History and presenter of A House Through Time, Civilisations, and Union.
David Onama
David Onama (born 1994) is a Ugandan UFC featherweight at Factory X, 14-3 pro, 6-3 in the UFC; only Ugandan on the roster, lost to Steve Garcia by first-round TKO in November 2025.
David Ortiz
David Ortiz (Big Papi), Dominican designated hitter and first baseman for the Twins and Red Sox, 1997–2016; 541 home runs, three World Series titles, first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2022.
David Osborne (Kentucky politician)
David Osborne is an American Republican politician who has represented Kentucky's 59th House District since 2005 and has served as Speaker of the Kentucky House since 2019.
David Osmond
David Osmond (born 1979) is an American singer, fourth son of Alan Osmond; lead singer of the Osmonds 2nd Generation, 1998-99 Joseph tour star, 2009 American Idol contestant, and MS advocate, distinct from his uncle Donny Osmond.
David Ospina
David Ospina Ramírez (born 1988, Medellín) is a Colombian goalkeeper, Colombia's most-capped player with 134 caps, who played for Atlético Nacional, Nice, Arsenal, Napoli, Al-Nassr, and Atlante.
David Otorbi
David Otorbi (David Otorbi Ejededawe), born 2007 in Valencia, is a Spanish-Nigerian right winger for Valencia CF and the club's youngest-ever official debutant at 16 years, 2 months and 19 days.
David Ott (investor)
David C. Ott is an investor who co-founded Viking Global Investors, a large Tiger Cub hedge fund, in 1999 and served as its chief investment officer until 2010.
David Otto Francke
David Otto Francke (1825–1892) was a Swedish industrialist and financier from Gothenburg, nicknamed the King of Mölndal, who co-founded AB Atlas, today's Atlas Copco, in 1873.
David Otunga
David Otunga, American lawyer and former WWE wrestler (2009–2019); Harvard Law graduate, ex-Sidley Austin attorney, "I Love New York 2" contestant, Nexus member, two-time WWE Tag Team Champion, actor in "The Call."
David Overton (restaurateur)
David Overton is an American restaurateur who co-founded The Cheesecake Factory with his parents, opening the first restaurant in Beverly Hills in 1978, and has been Chairman and CEO since 1992.
David Owen
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Lord Owen (born 2 July 1938), British physician-politician; Labour Foreign Secretary 1977-79, co-founder and leader of the SDP 1983-87 and 1988-90, EU peace envoy to former Yugoslavia 1992-95.
David Owen Brooks
David Owen Brooks (born 1955, died 2020) was a teenage accomplice of Houston serial killer Dean Corll in the 1970-73 Houston Mass Murders, luring victims for $10-$200 each; convicted of one murder, he served 45 years of a life sentence before dying of COVID-19 in prison.
David Owen Meltzer
David Owen Meltzer is an American physician and health economist at the University of Chicago, a member of the National Academy of Medicine known for the Comprehensive Care Physician model.
David Owerbach
David Owerbach is a molecular geneticist who localized the human insulin gene to chromosome 11 in 1980 and studied DNA variants predisposing people to type 1 diabetes.
David Oyedepo
David Olaniyi Oyedepo, born 1954, is a Nigerian Pentecostal preacher who founded Living Faith Church Worldwide, known as Winners' Chapel, and leads the prosperity gospel in Africa.
David Oyelowo
David Oyelowo (born 1976, Oxford) is a British Nigerian actor, director, and producer; RSC Henry VI, Danny Hunter in Spooks, Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Nightingale Emmy nominee, Yoruba Saxon founder.
David P. Arnold
David P. Arnold is a University of Florida electrical engineer working on magnetic microsystems, MEMS sensors, and miniaturized power systems; he received a PECASE award in 2008.
David P. Barash
David P. Barash (born 1946 in New York) is an American evolutionary biologist and psychologist at the University of Washington, an early sociobiology contributor who co-authored The Myth of Monogamy.
David P. Bartel
David P. Bartel, also known as David Bartel, is a molecular biologist at MIT, the Whitehead Institute, and HHMI known for discovering animal microRNAs and how they repress targets.
David P. Billington
David P. Billington (1927–2018) was an American engineer and historian of engineering who taught at Princeton for fifty years and originated the discipline of structural art.
David P. Carbone
David P. Carbone is an American thoracic oncologist who directs the James Thoracic Oncology Center at Ohio State and won the IASLC Scientific Award in 2021.
David P. Corey
David P. Corey is an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who studies how inner-ear hair cells convert sound into electrical signals and develops gene therapies for hereditary deafness.
David P. Dearnaley
David P. Dearnaley is a British radiation oncologist and Emeritus Professor of Uro-Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for prostate cancer radiotherapy trials.