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David Sheff
David Sheff, American journalist and author of Beautiful Boy (2007), the memoir of son Nic Sheff's meth addiction, and Clean (2013); also known for the 1980 Playboy interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and the 2025 biography Yoko.
David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage
David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, the Nairobi Nursery of Kenya's Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (founded 1977 by Daphne Sheldrick), rescues and hand-raises orphaned elephants and rhinos, then reintegrates them to Tsavo; over 300 orphans raised, dozens of wild calves born to ex-orphans.
David Shemin
David Shemin (1911–1991) was an American biochemist who pioneered stable-isotope tracers in human metabolism, tracing glycine into his own hemoglobin and discovering δ-aminolevulinic acid and the heme biosynthesis pathway.
David Sherrington (physicist)
David Sherrington is a British theoretical condensed matter physicist and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Oxford, best known for the 1975 Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses and work on disordered systems.
David Shields (actor)
David Shields is a British actor (distinct from the writer of Reality Hunger) known for Masters of the Air (Cpt. Everett Blakely), Black Mirror's Demon 79, The Crown, Doctor Who, and starring as Jacob Dunne in James Graham's Punch, winning a 2024 UK Theatre Award and a 2026 Olivier nomination.
David Shire
David Shire (born July 3, 1937, Buffalo, NY) is an American composer, also known as David Lee Shire, who won the 1980 Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae and Grammys for Saturday Night Fever, and with Richard Maltby Jr. wrote Baby, Big, Starting Here Starting Now, and Closer Than Ever.
David Shoenberg
David Shoenberg (1911–2004) was a British physicist, born in St Petersburg, who pioneered using the de Haas–van Alphen effect to determine the Fermi surfaces of metals.
David Shore
David Shore (born 1959, London, Ontario) is a Canadian television writer, producer, and former lawyer, creator of House (2004-2012) and showrunner of The Good Doctor (2017-2024); Emmy winner for the House episode "Three Stories".
David Shulkin
David Jonathon Shulkin is an American physician and former healthcare executive who served as the ninth Secretary of Veterans Affairs from February 2017 until March 2018.
David Siegmund
David Siegmund is an American statistician, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for work on sequential analysis, change-point detection, and the statistical theory of genetic mapping.
David Silin
David Silin is an American software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded QuillBot, the Chicago-based AI writing company, with Anil Jason and Rohan Gupta, and serves as its Chief Science Officer.
David Sills (American football)
David Sills V (born 1996) is an American football wide receiver who committed to USC at 13 as a quarterback, starred at West Virginia, and has played for the Giants, Broncos, Falcons, and Buccaneers.
David Silva
David Silva (El Mago), Spanish midfielder born 1986 in Arguineguín; Valencia, Manchester City 2010–2020 (436 apps, 4 Premier League titles), Real Sociedad; World Cup 2010, Euros 2008 and 2012; retired July 2023.
David Silver
David Silver is a reinforcement-learning researcher and UCL professor who led DeepMind's AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero teams, then left Google DeepMind in 2026 to found the London startup Ineffable Intelligence.
David Silveria
David Randall Silveria (born 1972) is an American drummer, original drummer of nu metal band Korn from 1993 to 2006, playing on Korn through See You on the Other Side; later Infinika, Core 10, Breaking In A Sequence; distinct from the People v. Silveria defendant.
David Simon
David Simon (born 1960) is an American journalist-turned-showrunner, creator of The Wire, Treme, and The Deuce; former Baltimore Sun police reporter, author of Homicide and The Corner, two-time Emmy winner.
David Sims (critic)
David Sims (born 1986) is an American film critic, staff writer at The Atlantic since 2014, former A.V. Club critic, and co-host of the Blank Check with Griffin & David podcast; he launched the Video Village newsletter in 2026.
David Sinclair (aging researcher)
David Sinclair is an Australian-born molecular geneticist and aging biologist, a tenured professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School known for work on sirtuins and NAD+.
David Singmaster
David Singmaster (1938–2023) was an American mathematician who popularized the Rubik's Cube in the West, devised its standard notation, and wrote the first book on the puzzle.
David Sinton
David Sinton is a mechanical engineer and Canada Research Chair in Energy and Fluids at the University of Toronto, known for flow-cell electrolyzers that convert CO2 and CO into fuels and chemicals.
David Sintzheim
David Sintzheim (יוסף דוד בן יצחק זינצהיים, 1745–1812) was an Alsatian Talmudist who presided over Napoleon's Grand Sanhedrin and became the first Chief Rabbi of France.
David Sirota
David J. Sirota, American investigative journalist, Guardian US columnist, Jacobin editor at large, founder of The Lever, Sanders 2020 speechwriter, Oscar-nominated Don't Look Up co-story writer, and author of Hostile Takeover and Master Plan.
David Skok
David Skok is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Matrix Partners since 2001, formerly a software entrepreneur who founded four companies and sold JBoss to Red Hat.
David Slade
David Slade (born 1969) is a British film and TV director behind Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, Twilight: Eclipse, Breaking Bad, Hannibal, American Gods, and Black Mirror's Bandersnatch and Metalhead; distinct from Slade Wilson, David Spade, and the band Slade.
David Slepian
David Slepian (1923–2007) was an American mathematician and information theorist who spent his career at Bell Labs and formulated the Slepian–Wolf theorem on compressing correlated sources.
David Sloan (physicist)
David Sloan (David H. Sloan) was an American physicist who, as Ernest Lawrence's assistant at Berkeley, built early linear accelerators and the Sloan x-ray tube used in cancer treatment.
David Sloan Wilson
David Sloan Wilson, born 1949, is an American evolutionary biologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor emeritus at Binghamton University known for reopening the group selection debate and developing multilevel selection theory.
David Smith (American microbiologist)
David J. Smith is an American NASA microbiologist who founded the Aerobiology Laboratory at Ames Research Center and won the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
David Smith (British Labour politician)
David Smith: Labour (Co-op) MP for North Northumberland since 4 July 2024, elected with a 5,067 majority, former Oasis Community Housing chief executive, and UK Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief. Not the other Smith MPs.
David Solit
David B. Solit is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who leads the Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology and its Extraordinary Responder Initiative.