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David P. DiVincenzo
David P. DiVincenzo (born 1959 in Philadelphia) is an American theoretical physicist known for the DiVincenzo criteria for quantum computing and the Loss–DiVincenzo quantum-dot qubit proposal.
David P. Earle
David P. Earle (1910–2002) was an American nephrologist who chaired medicine at Northwestern University from 1965 to 1973 and led decades-long cohort studies of poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis in South Trinidad.
David P. Fairlie
David P. Fairlie is an Australian medicinal chemist at the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience, where he heads the Centre for Drug Discovery and designs constrained peptides.
David P. Faxon
David P. Faxon is an American interventional cardiologist, a Senior Scholar at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and President of the American Heart Association in 2001.
David P. Givens
David P. Givens is an American Republican politician serving as President pro tempore of the Kentucky Senate, representing the 9th District, which includes Barren County, since 2009.
David P. Goldberg
David P. Goldberg is an inorganic and bioinorganic chemist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for synthetic models of heme and nonheme iron enzyme active sites.
David P. Hochman
David P. Hochman is a medical-device entrepreneur who co-founded Orchestra BioMed, a New Hope, Pennsylvania company developing pacemaker-based hypertension therapy, and has led it as CEO since 2018.
David P. Lane
David P. Lane is a British cancer biologist who co-discovered the p53 protein in 1979, coined "guardian of the genome," and later led Cancer Research UK and A*STAR as Chief Scientist.
David P. Lauler
David P. Lauler is an American endocrinologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studied aldosterone secretion in hypertension and primary aldosteronism, publishing from 1962 to 1976.
David P. Lloyd
David P. Lloyd, full name David Pierce Caradoc Lloyd, was an American neurophysiologist at the Rockefeller Institute who proved the knee-jerk reflex pathway has only two neurons.
David P. Morton
David P. Morton is an American operations researcher known for stochastic optimization methods, who won a Presidential Early Career Award in 1997 and is a professor at Northwestern University.
David P. Roy
David P. Roy is a remote sensing scientist, professor at Michigan State University, and director of its Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, known for Landsat and MODIS research.
David P. Ryan
David P. Ryan is an American medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, the inaugural president of the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute since 2025, and a Harvard Medical School professor.
David P. Taggart
David P. Taggart (1958–2026) was a British cardiac surgeon, Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Oxford, who led the Arterial Revascularisation Trial in coronary bypass surgery.
David P. Toczyski
David P. Toczyski is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on checkpoint adaptation in yeast and how checkpoint kinases block late replication origins after DNA damage.
David P. Williamson
David P. Williamson is an operations researcher at Cornell University who designs approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems, best known for the Goemans–Williamson maximum cut algorithm and a graduate textbook.
David Packard
David Packard, known as Dave Packard, was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Hewlett-Packard with William Hewlett in 1939 and served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1971.
David Packouz
David Mordechai Packouz, American entrepreneur and former arms dealer; AEY Inc. vice president on the $298 million 2007 Afghan ammunition contract, pleaded guilty to fraud, later founded Singular Sound and the BeatBuddy; portrayed by Miles Teller in War Dogs (2016).
David Pagliarini
David J. Pagliarini is an American biochemist and HHMI Investigator at Washington University School of Medicine known for studying mitochondrial protein function and coenzyme Q biosynthesis.
David Pagou
David Pagou, Cameroonian football coach (born records conflict: 1969 Buéa or 1972 Kaélé), PWD Bamenda title and Cup winner, appointed Cameroon national head coach 2 December 2025 after Marc Brys's dismissal; led Indomitable Lions through AFCON 2025 group stage.
David Paich
David Paich, American keyboardist, songwriter, and producer; co-founder and principal songwriter of Toto (formed 1977 with Jeff Porcaro); wrote "Hold the Line", "Rosanna", and "Africa"; six Grammys; son of arranger Marty Paich; solo debut Forgotten Toys (2022).
David Pakman
David Pakman, Argentine-born American host (born 1984), founded The David Pakman Show, originally Midweek Politics (2005, WXOJ Northampton); progressive multi-platform talk show, YouTube channel, Free Speech TV, author of The Echo Machine.
David Palmer (vocalist)
David Palmer, American singer-songwriter from Watchung, New Jersey; original Steely Dan vocalist on 'Dirty Work' and 'Brooklyn' (Can't Buy a Thrill, 1972); later co-wrote Carole King's Wrap Around Joy including 'Jazzman'. Distinct from ABC drummer David Palmer and composer David Palmer (b. 1997).
David Pan
David Pan is an American Republican candidate for the U.S. House in California's 46th district in the 2026 election, and a German professor at UC Irvine.
David Pareus
David Pareus, born David Wangler in Silesia in 1548, was a German Reformed theologian at Heidelberg whose 1614 Irenicum made him the leading advocate of Protestant church union.
David Parker Ray
David Parker Ray (November 6, 1939 – May 28, 2002), the "Toy-Box Killer", was a New Mexico kidnapper and torturer arrested in 1999 near Elephant Butte, sentenced to over 223 years, never convicted of murder, and died in prison in 2002.
David Parrillo
David Parrillo is an American chemical engineer at Dow who led development of the POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
David Pasquesi
David Pasquesi (born 1960, Chicago) is an American actor and improviser, half of the duo TJ and Dave, a Second City alumnus trained by Del Close, with roles in Groundhog Day, Veep, The Book of Boba Fett, She-Hulk, and Lodge 49.
David Pastrňák
David Pastrňák, Czech NHL right winger for the Boston Bruins, drafted 25th overall in 2014; four straight 100-point seasons, 933 career points, five All-Star Teams, named Bruins captain in September 2026.
David Paterson
David Paterson (born 1954) is the 55th governor of New York, 2008-2010, the state's first Black and first legally blind governor, who succeeded Eliot Spitzer and pioneered budget-extender tactics.