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David Sumner
David P. Sumner is an American graph theorist at the University of South Carolina known for a 1974 claw-free matching theorem and a 1971 tournament conjecture.
David Sun (businessman)
David Sun (孫大衛) is a Taiwanese-born American engineer who co-founded Kingston Technology in 1987 and serves as its chief operating officer, holding a 50% stake alongside co-founder John Tu.
David Sutcliffe
David Sutcliffe (born 1969, Saskatoon) is a Canadian former actor, best known as Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls (2001–2007) and in Cracked and Proof; he retired from acting in 2019 to practice somatic psychotherapy.
David Suzuki
David Takayoshi Suzuki (born 1936, Vancouver) is a Canadian geneticist, UBC zoology professor, CBC broadcaster hosting The Nature of Things from 1979, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990.
David Svoboda
David Svoboda (born 1985, Prague) is a Czech modern pentathlete, ASC Dukla Praha member, and 2012 London Olympic champion with 5,928 points, an Olympic record; also 2010 European champion and 2008, 2009 world silver medalist.
David Sylvian
David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 1958) is an English singer and composer, frontman of Japan (Tin Drum, "Ghosts"), known for solo albums Brilliant Trees and Secrets of the Beehive, collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Robert Fripp, and his SamadhiSound label.
David Sze
David Sze is an American venture capitalist at Greylock Partners, which he joined in 2000 and led as senior managing partner from 2012 to 2017, backing Facebook, LinkedIn, Pandora, and Roblox.
David Szymanski
David Szymanski is an American indie video game developer, published by New Blood Interactive, known for short retro horror games including Dusk (2018) and Iron Lung (2022).
David T. Blackstock
David T. Blackstock, also known as David Theobald Blackstock, was an American acoustician at the University of Texas at Austin who established the mathematical foundations of nonlinear acoustics.
David T. Bonthron
David T. Bonthron is a professor of molecular medicine at the University of Leeds and consultant clinical geneticist, known for imprinting research and rare disease gene discovery.
David T. Breault
David T. Breault is an American pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for stem cell research and the 2010 PECASE award.
David T. Burke
David T. Burke is an American geneticist at the University of Michigan who studies quantitative genetics of complex traits and received the 1996 PECASE award.
David T. Denhardt
David T. Denhardt (died 2020) was an American molecular biologist and emeritus Rutgers professor known for Denhardt's solution, work on phage φX-174 DNA replication, and decades of osteopontin research.
David T. Felson
David T. Felson is an American rheumatologist and epidemiologist at Boston University and the University of Manchester, known for research on osteoarthritis and bone density.
David T. Gibson
David T. Gibson (1938–2014) was a British-born American microbiologist who showed how bacteria degrade petroleum's aromatic hydrocarbons and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
David T. Sandwell
David T. Sandwell, born 1953, is an American marine geophysicist and emeritus professor at Scripps who pioneered satellite-altimetry mapping of seafloor topography and marine gravity.
David T. Scadden
David T. Scadden is a Harvard stem cell biologist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, known for showing that niches regulate blood-forming stem cells.
David T. Yue
David T. Yue (1957–2014) was an American biophysicist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University known for showing how calmodulin regulates voltage-gated calcium and sodium channels.
David Tabor (physicist)
David Tabor (1913–2005) was a British physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, who showed that adhesion at tiny contact areas is a major source of friction between metals.
David Tai Leong
David Tai Leong (David T. Leong) is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at the National University of Singapore who works at the interface of nanotechnology and biology.
David Tangipa
David Tangipa (born 1995) is the Republican California Assemblymember for District 8 (Fresno, Yosemite, Sierra counties), elected 2024 over George Radanovich, Budget Vice Chair, minority whip, and Tangipa v. Newsom litigant.
David Taylor (Ohio politician)
David J. Taylor (born 1969), also Dave Taylor, Republican U.S. Representative for Ohio's 2nd District since January 2025; former Clermont County assistant prosecutor and owner of Sardinia Ready Mix; won a crowded 2024 primary with about $1.7 million raised; serves on Agriculture and Transportation and Infrastructure committees.
David Taylor (wrestler, born 1990)
David Taylor, "Magic Man" (born Dec. 5, 1990, Reno, Nevada), American freestyle wrestler: 2020 Olympic gold at 86 kg, world titles 2018, 2022, 2023, two NCAA titles and Hodge Trophies at Penn State, now Oklahoma State head coach.
David Taylor Model Basin
The David Taylor Model Basin is the United States Navy's ship-model testing facility at West Bethesda, Maryland, named for Rear Adm. David W. Taylor and dedicated in 1939.
David Teniers the Younger
David Teniers the Younger (David Teniers II, 1610–1690), Flemish genre painter of Antwerp and Brussels, son of David Teniers the Elder, court painter and curator to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, and publisher of the Theatrum Pictorium (1660).
David Tennant
David Tennant, born David John McDonald in 1971 in Bathgate, Scotland, is a Scottish actor known as the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who, DI Alec Hardy in Broadchurch, Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, and Crowley in Good Omens.
David Tepper
David Tepper is an American hedge fund manager who founded Appaloosa Management, known for distressed-debt investing, and owns the NFL's Carolina Panthers, bought in 2018 for $2.3 billion.
David Tevele Schiff
David Tevele Schiff (הכהן) was a Frankfurt-born rabbi who served as Rabbi of London's Great Synagogue from 1765 until his death in 1791, the first to be called Chief Rabbi.
David the Builder
David the Builder (Davit Aghmashenebeli), David IV, was king of a united Georgia from 1089 to 1125, winning the Battle of Didgori in 1121 and taking Tbilisi in 1122.
David the Invincible
David the Invincible (Armenian: David Anhaght, Դավիթ Անյաղթ) is the name given to a late antique Christian Neoplatonic philosopher, probably working in 6th-century Alexandria, whose works became foundational to Armenian philosophy.