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David Patrick Kelly
David Patrick Kelly (born 1951, Detroit) is an American character actor known as Luther in The Warriors (1979), Jerry Horne in Twin Peaks, T-Bird in The Crow, and an Obie-winning stage actor.
David Patterson (computer scientist)
David Andrew Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the Berkeley RISC project, co-invented RAID, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.
David Paul (actor)
David Paul (1957–2020) was an American actor and bodybuilder who starred with his identical twin Peter Paul as the Barbarian Brothers, in films such as The Barbarians.
David Paulides
David Paulides, former San Jose police officer and founder of North America Bigfoot Search, author of the Missing 411 books claiming unusual disappearances in North American national parks, a contested conspiracy-adjacent phenomenon.
David Paymer
David Paymer (born 1954, Oceanside, New York), American character actor and TV director; Oscar-nominated for Mr. Saturday Night (1992); known for Quiz Show, Nixon, Amistad, The Good Wife, and the 2022 Broadway musical.
David Pelletier
David Pelletier, full name David Jacques Pelletier, is a Canadian pairs figure skater who won Olympic gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics with Jamie Salé.
David Pellman
David Pellman is an American cell biologist and cancer geneticist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for explaining how cell division errors generate the chromosome abnormalities that drive cancer.
David Peñaloza Alanís
David Peñaloza Alanís (born 1974) is a Mexican businessman who leads Pinfra, a toll road and infrastructure operator, and is worth an estimated $2.7 billion.
David Penny
David Penny (1938–2024) was a New Zealand molecular evolutionist at Massey University who developed mathematical methods for phylogenetic trees and tests of Darwin's theory of evolution.
David Perdue
David Perdue (David Alfred Perdue, Jr.), Republican former U.S. senator from Georgia 2015–2021 and ex-CEO of Reebok and Dollar General; lost the 2021 Ossoff runoff and the 2022 governor primary, later U.S. ambassador to China.
David Perkins (geneticist)
David Dexter Perkins (1919–2007) was an American fungal geneticist who spent his career at Stanford University, characterizing about 350 chromosome rearrangements in the bread mold Neurospora crassa.
David Petraeus
David Petraeus, full name David Howell Petraeus, is a retired United States Army general who commanded the 2007 Iraq surge and led the CIA from 2011 to 2012.
David Pettijohn
David Pettijohn is an American biophysicist who co-discovered DNA repair replication with Philip Hanawalt at Stanford in 1964, work the Nobel Committee credits as an early step toward nucleotide excision repair.
David Phelps (musician)
David Phelps, American Christian singer, songwriter, and keyboardist; lyric tenor for the Gaither Vocal Band (1998–2005, 2009–2017) and solo artist behind Journey to Grace, Revelation, Freedom, Hymnal, and Speak Of Love, known for classically trained high tenor passages.
David Phillips (chemist)
David Phillips (born 1939) is a British photochemist who spent most of his career at Imperial College London and was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 to 2012.
David Picasso
David Picasso, born Alan David Picasso Romero, is a Mexican boxer from Naucalpan who challenged Naoya Inoue for the undisputed super bantamweight title in 2025.
David Pilbeam
David Pilbeam (David Roger Pilbeam, born 1940) is an English-born paleoanthropologist and Harvard emeritus professor known for fieldwork on Miocene apes in Pakistan's Siwalik fossil beds.
David Pines
David Pines (1924–2018) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Illinois whose work with David Bohm underpinned BCS superconductivity theory and who co-founded the Santa Fe Institute.
David Pingree
David Pingree (1933–2005) was an American historian of the exact sciences at Brown University who traced how astronomy, astrology, and mathematics passed between Mesopotamia, Greece, India, and the Islamic world.
David Piwnica‐Worms
David Piwnica-Worms is an American physician-scientist in molecular imaging who chairs the Department of Cancer Systems Imaging at MD Anderson in Houston, known for genetically encoded reporters imaging enzyme activity in living mice.
David Platt
David Platt (born 1966, Chadderton) is an English former attacking midfielder, 62 caps and 27 goals for England, famous for the 119th-minute volley against Belgium at Italia 90; he played for Aston Villa, Bari, Juventus, Sampdoria and Arsenal, then managed Nottingham Forest.
David Platt (Coronation Street)
David Platt is a fictional Coronation Street character born on screen on Christmas Day 1990 to Martin Platt and Gail Tilsley, played by Jack P. Shepherd since 2000; known for the Richard Hillman canal ordeal, teenage villainy, the 2018 male rape storyline, and later life with Kylie and Shona.
David Platt (pastor)
David Platt is an American evangelical pastor and author whose book Radical sold 1 million copies; he led the Southern Baptist International Mission Board and later McLean Bible Church.
David Plouffe
David Plouffe (born 1967) is the Democratic strategist who managed Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, later White House senior adviser, Uber executive, and senior adviser to Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign.
David Plummer
David Plummer (born 1985, Norman, Oklahoma) is a retired American backstroke swimmer, 2016 Rio Olympian who won 100m backstroke bronze and 4x100m medley relay gold after missing the 2012 team by 0.12 seconds.
David Pocock
David Pocock (born 1988, Messina, South Africa), Zimbabwe-born Australian former Wallabies openside flanker and captain, 83 tests, three World Cups, two John Eales Medals; now independent ACT senator elected 2022, re-elected 2025.
David Poeppel
David Poeppel is a cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, who studies how the brain turns sound into speech and language.
David Pointcheval
David Pointcheval is a French cryptographer, a CNRS researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris known for the forking lemma and repairing the RSA-OAEP security proof.
David Pollack
David Pollack (born 1982), Georgia Bulldogs three-time All-American defensive end, 2005 Bengals first-round pick whose NFL career ended with a broken neck in 2006, later ESPN College GameDay analyst until 2023.
David Pollard (climate scientist)
David Pollard is a climate scientist and emeritus researcher at Pennsylvania State University, known for modeling Antarctic ice-sheet collapse and the 2016 Nature paper projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea-level rise.