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David Popovici
David Popovici, Romanian freestyle swimmer (born 2004, Bucharest), Olympic 200m freestyle champion and 100m bronze medalist at Paris 2024; first swimmer to win the 100m and 200m freestyle world titles twice (2022, 2025).
David Porter (naval officer)
David Porter (1780–1843) was an American naval officer who led the frigate Essex on a Pacific raid against British whalers in the War of 1812.
David Portnoy
David (Dave) Portnoy, "El Presidente", founded Barstool Sports (2003, Boston print weekly) and hosts One Bite Pizza Reviews, scoring pizzerias 1-10; Penn sold Barstool back to him in 2023 amid misconduct allegations.
David Porubskỳ
David Porubský is a computational genomics researcher at EMBL who maps structural variation in human genomes, known for a 2022 Cell catalog of inversions and a 2025 Nature mutation-rate study.
David Potter (British businessman)
David Edwin Potter (1943–2026) was a South African-born British physicist and entrepreneur who founded Psion in London in 1980, maker of the Organiser handheld computer.
David Prain
Sir David Prain (1857–1944) was a Scottish botanist and physician who directed the Botanical Survey of India and then Kew from 1905 to 1922, and wrote Bengal Plants.
David Preiss
David Preiss (born 1947 in Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society, known for his 1987 density theorem for rectifiable measures and work on Fréchet differentiability of Lipschitz functions.
David Pressman
David Pressman (1916–1980) was an American immunochemist known for experimental work on the antibody combining site and the 1970 monograph Structural Basis of Antibody Specificity.
David Price (baseball)
David Price (David Taylor Price), born 1985 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, American left-handed pitcher; first overall 2007 draft pick, 2012 AL Cy Young winner with Tampa Bay Rays, 2018 World Series champion with Boston Red Sox.
David Price (boxer)
David Price (born 1983, Liverpool) is a retired British heavyweight, 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medalist and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, former British and Commonwealth champion, 25-7 (20 KOs) as a professional.
David Prowse
David Prowse (1935–2020), British weightlifting champion and actor, played Darth Vader's body in the original Star Wars trilogy (voice by James Earl Jones) and the Green Cross Code Man, earning an MBE.
David Puczka
David Puczka, Austrian left-back born 2005, ex-Admira Wacker and Juventus Next Gen (MVP season, 10 Serie C goals), signed by Genoa CFC in July 2026; Austria U21 international with 9 caps and 2 goals.
David Puentez
David Puentez, born Benjamin Beyer in Heilbronn in 1985, is a German house DJ and producer best known for the Gold-certified single "Superstar" and his Warner debut "LaLaLife".
David Purpura
David J. Purpura is an American developmental researcher and Purdue University professor who studies how young children learn mathematics, and a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
David Pye (zoologist)
David Pye (John David Pye, born 1932) is an English zoologist known for work on how bats echolocate and how animals detect the polarization of light.
David Quantick
David Quantick (born 1961) is an English novelist, comedy writer and broadcaster, formerly of NME, who wrote for The Day Today, Brass Eye, The Thick of It and the Emmy-winning Veep, and authored novels including The Mule and Night Train.
David Quéré
David Quéré, born 1963, is a French physicist, CNRS research director at ESPCI Paris and professor at École Polytechnique, known for work on capillarity, wetting, and superhydrophobic surfaces.
David R. Beier
David R. Beier is a physician-scientist in mammalian developmental genetics, a University of Washington pediatrics professor and director at Seattle Children's Research Institute since 2013.
David R. Blake
David R. Blake is a British rheumatologist and physician-scientist who proposed that exercise-induced hypoxic-reperfusion injury and reactive oxygen species sustain inflammation in the rheumatoid joint, and explained arthritis's symmetry neurologically.
David R. Boulware
David R. Boulware is an infectious disease physician and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for trials of COVID-19 outpatient treatments and cryptococcal meningitis therapy.
David R. Challoner
David R. Challoner is an American physician-executive who served as vice president for health affairs at the University of Florida from 1982 to 1998, growing Shands into an eight-hospital system.
David R. Clemmons
David R. Clemmons was an American endocrinologist and Sarah Graham Kenan Professor at UNC Chapel Hill who made IGF-I the standard diagnostic test for acromegaly.
David R. Copenhagen
David R. Copenhagen is an American retinal neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on retinal synaptic transmission.
David R. Corey
David R. Corey, born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center known for work on antisense oligonucleotides and allele-selective inhibition of mutant huntingtin.
David R. Davies
David R. Davies (1927–2016) was an American X-ray crystallographer at the National Institutes of Health who helped determine the first protein structure and pioneered structures of antibodies, DNA, and HIV-1 integrase.
David R. Engelke
David R. Engelke is an American molecular biologist known for three decades of work on RNA polymerase III transcription and tRNA genes at the University of Michigan.
David R. Flum
David R. Flum is an American general surgeon and surgical outcomes researcher at the University of Washington, known for leading the CODA trial of antibiotics versus appendectomy.
David R. Fraser
David R. Fraser is a New Zealand-born nutritional biochemist and veterinarian known for co-discovering that the kidney makes 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, vitamin D's active hormone form.
David R. Gandara
David R. Gandara is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for phase III trials and biomarker development in thoracic cancers.
David R. Garrod
David R. Garrod, also known as David Garrod, is a British cell biologist at the University of Manchester known for research on desmosomes, the junctions holding cells together.