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David Santos Daiber
David Santos Daiber (David Michael Santos Daiber, born 2007 in Luxembourg) is a German-Portuguese defensive midfielder for Bayern Munich; Bayern academy player since 2016, Portugal U19 international, first pro contract to 2030.
David Sarlah
David Šarlah is a Slovenian-born organic chemist and professor of chemistry at Rice University, known for dearomative functionalization of arenes and total syntheses of complex natural products.
David Sarnoff (Давид Сарнов)
David Sarnoff (Давид Сарнов) was a Belarusian-born American media executive who rose from telegraph messenger to head of RCA and built NBC into a leading radio and television network.
David Savage
David Savage, also known as David F. Savage, is an American biochemist and genome engineer who is a professor at UC Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
David Scanlan
David Scanlan is an American Republican politician serving as Secretary of State of New Hampshire, after 20 years as deputy secretary of state and service as a state lawmaker.
David Scharfstein
David S. Scharfstein is an American finance economist who has held a professorship at Harvard Business School since 2004 and served as president of the American Finance Association in 2017.
David Scheschkewitz
David Scheschkewitz, born 1971 in Aurich, Germany, is a German inorganic chemist holding the Krupp Chair at Saarland University, known for siliconoids and all-silicon aromatic rings.
David Schimel
David S. Schimel is an American environmental scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies the terrestrial carbon cycle and shared in the IPCC's 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
David Schlessinger
David Schlessinger is a Canadian-born molecular geneticist at the National Institute on Aging known for mapping the human X chromosome and the SardiNIA aging study.
David Schmeidler
David Schmeidler (1939–2022) was an Israeli mathematical economist who, with Leonard Savage, pioneered rational decision making under uncertainty and introduced the nucleolus in cooperative game theory.
David Schofield (actor)
David Schofield (born 1951, Manchester) is an English character actor known as Falco in Gladiator, McQueen in From Hell, and Mercer in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, with RSC and National Theatre stage work.
David Schubert
David Schubert (1943–2020) was an American cell biologist and neurobiologist who founded and led the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, developing the Alzheimer's drug candidate J147.
David Schultz (professional wrestler)
David "Dr. D" Schultz (James David Schultz, born 1955), American retired professional wrestler of the AWA, Stampede, and WWF; fired after slapping John Stossel on 20/20 in 1984; later a bounty hunter; distinct from Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz.
David Schumacher (racing driver)
David Schumacher (born 2001, Salzburg), German racing driver, son of Ralf Schumacher, nephew of Michael, cousin of Mick; F4 rookie champion 2018, FIA F3 2019-2021, DTM and GT3 racing with Winward and HRT.
David Schwartz
David Schwartz (1923–2012) was an American businessman who co-founded Bio-Rad Laboratories with his wife Alice Schwartz in Berkeley, California in 1952, leading it for half a century.
David Schweikert
David Schweikert, born in 1962, is an American Republican congressman representing Arizona's 1st district since 2023, after serving its 5th and 6th districts since 2011, and is running for Arizona governor in 2026.
David Schwimmer
David Lawrence Schwimmer (born 1966) is an American actor and director, Ross Geller on Friends (234 episodes, 1994–2004), co-founder of Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre, director of Run Fatboy Run and Trust, and Robert Kardashian in The People v. O.J. Simpson.
David Scott
David Randolph Scott is a retired American Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut who commanded Apollo 15 in 1971 and became the seventh person to walk on the Moon.
David Scott Sholl
David Scott Sholl is an American chemical engineer known for computational modeling of chemical separations and carbon dioxide capture, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
David Seaman
David Seaman (born 1963, Rotherham), nicknamed "Safe Hands", English goalkeeper for Arsenal 1990-2003 and England with 75 caps; Euro 96 penalty hero, 141 Premier League clean sheets, retired 2004 aged 40.
David Sedaris
David Sedaris, American humorist and essayist, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Calypso; NPR Santaland Diaries; diarist since 1977; lives in West Sussex with Hugh Hamrick; 14 bestselling books.
David Selby
David Selby (born 1941, Morgantown, West Virginia) is an American actor and writer known as Quentin Collins on Dark Shadows (1968-71) and Richard Channing on Falcon Crest (1982-90), with Broadway credits and repeated Abraham Lincoln portrayals.
David Self
David Self is an addiction neuroscientist known for laboratory work on cocaine relapse, a PECASE award recipient, and Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
David Sessions
David Sessions is an American Republican politician elected in 2018 to the Alabama Senate from District 35, where he chairs the Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee.
David Seymour
David Seymour (born 1983), New Zealand politician, ACT Party leader since 2014 and MP for Epsom; Deputy Prime Minister from 31 May 2025. Known for the End of Life Choice Act (2020 referendum) and the defeated Treaty Principles Bill; not the photojournalist David Seymour (Chim).
David Shaffer
David Shaffer (1936-2023), South African-born Columbia child psychiatrist and Irving Philips Professor, pioneered psychological autopsy studies of teen suicide, created Columbia TeenScreen, and led development of the DISC and C-GAS; ex-husband of Anna Wintour.
David Shalloway
David Shalloway is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University who trained in theoretical physics and studies aberrant PTPalpha splicing in breast and colon cancers.
David Shanno
David Shanno, also known as David F. Shanno, is an American mathematician and operations researcher who co-discovered the BFGS quasi-Newton algorithm in 1970 and developed the LOQO interior-point solver at Rutgers.
David Sharp (mountaineer)
David Sharp (1972–2006), British mountaineer from Guisborough, died 15 May 2006 near Everest's summit on his third solo attempt; his death after some 30–40 climbers passed him sparked a lasting ethics debate.
David Shaw (American football)
David Lorenzo Shaw is an American football coach and former Stanford wide receiver who was Stanford's head coach from 2011 to 2022, its winningest coach, and later joined the Detroit Lions.