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David Robert Nelson
David Robert Nelson, born 1951 in Stuttgart, Germany, is an American theoretical physicist at Harvard who developed the theory of two-dimensional melting and its hexatic phase with Bertrand Halperin.
David Robertson (baseball)
David Alan Robertson (D-Rob), born 1985, American MLB relief pitcher; 2009 World Series champion Yankees, 2011 All-Star, 175 saves, 2.93 ERA over 15 seasons; cutter-curveball reliever, 2021 Olympic silver medalist.
David Robinson
David Robinson, "The Admiral," NBA center for the San Antonio Spurs (1989-2003), 1995 MVP, 1994 scoring champion with a 71-point game, two-time NBA champion, and Hall of Famer class of 2009.
David Rocastle
David 'Rocky' Rocastle (1967–2001), English midfielder for Arsenal 1984–1992, two league titles and the 1987 League Cup, 14 unbeaten England caps; died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma aged 33.
David Roche (runner)
David Roche is an American ultrarunner and coach in Boulder, Colorado, who won his 100-mile debut at the 2024 Leadville Trail 100, breaking Matt Carpenter's 19-year-old course record.
David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller (1915–2017) was an American banker who rose from assistant manager to chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, led its global expansion, and died at 101.
David Roger Jones Owen
David Roger Jones Owen (1942–2020) was a Welsh computational mechanician at Swansea University known for finite and discrete element methods, who founded Rockfield Software and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.
David Romer
David H. Romer is an American macroeconomist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the narrative approach to policy shocks developed with Christina Romer and for the graduate textbook Advanced Macroeconomics.
David Romero (footballer)
José David Romero, Argentine forward born 2003 in Corrientes; Talleres academy product, loan at Unión La Calera, breakout at Tigre in 2026, signed by Parma Calcio in August 2026 until 2031.
David Ron
David Ron, born 1955 in Israel, is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Cambridge known for defining the unfolded protein response and identifying PERK, CHOP, and mammalian IRE1.
David Rose (Schitt's Creek)
David Rose is the pansexual eldest Rose child in Schitt's Creek (2015–2020), played by co-creator Dan Levy, famous for the wine analogy, Rose Apothecary with Patrick Brewer, and the show's 2020 Emmy sweep.
David Rose (songwriter)
David Rose (1910-1990), London-born American composer, arranger, and orchestra leader; wrote "Holiday for Strings" and "The Stripper", won four Emmys for Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie, and was Judy Garland's first husband.
David Rosner
David Rosner was an American historian of public health at Columbia University whose research on silicosis and lead poisoning was used in litigation over lead paint.
David Ross (baseball)
David Wade Ross (born 1977), American MLB catcher 2002-2016 with the Dodgers, Reds, Braves, Red Sox, and Cubs; two-time World Series champion (2013, 2016), homered in Game 7 of the 2016 Series as Jon Lester's personal catcher, then managed the Cubs 2020-2023.
David Rossi
David Stephen Rossi, BAU senior profiler on Criminal Minds (2007– ), played by Joe Mantegna, introduced to replace Jason Gideon; named for the real LAPD sergeant of the Simpson trial.
David Rouzer
David Rouzer, born 1972, is an American Republican politician, the U.S. Representative from North Carolina's 7th district since 2015 and a former state senator.
David Rubadiri
David Rubadiri (James David Rubadiri, 1930–2018) was a Malawian poet, novelist, academic, and diplomat who served as Malawi's first permanent representative to the United Nations before decades of exile.
David Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein is a Baltimore-born American private equity investor who co-founded The Carlyle Group in 1987, bought the Baltimore Orioles in 2024, and is a noted philanthropist.
David Rudisha
David Lekuta Rudisha, Kenyan 800m runner born 1988, two-time Olympic champion (2012, 2016) and world record holder at 1:40.91 set in the London 2012 final; coached by Brother Colm O'Connell in Iten.
David Ruelle
David Ruelle, born 1935 in Ghent, Belgium, is a Belgian mathematical physicist, professor at IHÉS since 1964, known for the Ruelle–Takens turbulence proposal and SRB states.
David Ruffin
David Ruffin (Davis Eli Ruffin, 1941–1991), American soul singer, lead vocalist of the Temptations' Classic Five on "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," later a solo hitmaker with "Walk Away From Love"; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, 1989.
David Rumelhart
David Rumelhart (1942–2011) was an American cognitive psychologist who, with Geoffrey Hinton and Ronald Williams, published the 1986 back-propagation paper that became the training method for deep learning.
David Ruprecht
David Ruprecht (born 1948, St. Louis) is an American actor, writer, and game show host, best known as host of Supermarket Sweep on Lifetime and PAX; also Dan Ryan on Days of Our Lives and a Small Wonder writer.
David Russ
David Russ is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Oregon's 6th Congressional District, and a former mayor of Dundee, Oregon.
David Russel
David Russel, or David William Russell, is an American physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington known for hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy and gene targeting.
David S. Alberts
David S. Alberts, also known as David Alberts, was an American oncologist at the University of Arizona whose 1996 trial established intraperitoneal cisplatin for advanced ovarian cancer.
David S. Baldwin
David S. Baldwin (1921–2013) was an American physician-scientist in nephrology at NYU School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital, known for studies of glomerular disease, drug-induced interstitial nephritis, and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.
David S. Bredt
David S. Bredt is an American molecular neuroscientist who discovered neuronal nitric oxide synthase, defined PSD-95's scaffolding role at synapses, and later led neuroscience drug discovery at Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson.
David S. Celermajer
David S. Celermajer is an Australian cardiologist and Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney, known for developing a non-invasive ultrasound technique for measuring arterial endothelial function and leading Australia's congenital heart disease registry.
David S. Cercone
David Stewart Cercone, born 1952 in Pittsburgh, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.