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David Theile
David Theile (born 1938) is an Australian backstroke swimmer and surgeon who won Olympic 100 m backstroke gold at Melbourne 1956 and Rome 1960, the first Australian to win Olympic backstroke gold.
David Thewlis
David Thewlis (born David Wheeler, 1963, Blackpool) is an English actor, writer, and director; Cannes best actor winner for Naked (1993), Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter films, Emmy-nominated for Fargo, and author of two novels.
David Thomas (Ohio politician)
David Thomas is an American Republican politician serving his first term in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 65th district, previously elected Ashtabula County Auditor in 2018.
David Thomas Allen
David Thomas Allen is an American chemical and environmental engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
David Thompson (basketball)
David Thompson, "Skywalker" (born 1954, Shelby, NC), NC State star and 1974 NCAA champion, ABA Rookie of the Year with Denver, 73-point game in 1978, Hall of Fame 1996.
David Thompson (electrical engineer)
David A. Thompson is an American electrical engineer who led IBM research on thin-film and magnetoresistive recording heads underlying modern hard-disk drives, from 1968 to 2000.
David Thompson (explorer)
David Thompson (1770-1857), British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer of the Hudson's Bay and North West Companies; mapped western North America, surveyed the 1,250-mile Columbia River, served the International Boundary Survey 1817-1827, married Charlotte Small, and authored the Narrative published in 1916.
David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet
David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet, is a Canadian businessman who chairs Thomson Reuters, Woodbridge, and The Globe and Mail, and is Canada's richest person.
David Thornalley
David Thornalley is a British paleoceanographer and Professor of Ocean and Climate Science at University College London who studies Atlantic Ocean circulation, reconstructing its history from sediment cores.
David Thorstad
David Thorstad (1941–2021), American gay liberation activist, co-author of The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864–1935), SWP critic, Gay Activists Alliance president, and NAMBLA founding member; distinct from the contemporary philosopher of the same name.
David Threlfall
David Threlfall (born 1953, Burnage, Manchester) is an English actor and director, Olivier and RTS Award winner, famed as Smike in the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby and as Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless.
David Tillerson Smith
David Tillerson Smith (born 1898) was an American bacteriologist and pathologist at Duke University School of Medicine, known for research on tuberculosis, lung abscess, and fungal infections.
David Tilman
David Tilman is an American ecologist at the University of Minnesota, known for resource competition theory and Cedar Creek grassland experiments showing that plant diversity drives productivity and stability.
David Titley
David W. Titley is a retired US Navy rear admiral and meteorologist who, as the Navy's Oceanographer and Navigator, led Task Force Climate Change and later became chief operating officer of NOAA.
David Tiva Kapu
Sir David Tiva Kapu (GCMG) is a Solomon Islands Anglican priest and the 8th Governor-General of Solomon Islands since 7 July 2024, elected unopposed by Parliament on 17 June 2024, succeeding Sir David Vunagi; knighted by King Charles III in 2025.
David Todd Wilkinson
David Todd Wilkinson (1935–2002) was an American experimental cosmologist at Princeton who spent his career measuring the cosmic microwave background and was the driving force behind the WMAP satellite.
David Tollervey
David Tollervey is an RNA biologist and Professor of RNA Biology at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on ribosome synthesis and the exosome, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.
David Tom
David Tom (Charles David Tom, born 1978) is an American actor, Emmy-winning Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless (1999–2002, 2014), twin of Nicholle Tom, brother of Heather Tom, also of Pleasantville and Swing Kids.
David Tománek
David Tománek, born 1954 in Prague, is a Czech-born theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Michigan State University known for predicting high thermal conductivity in carbon nanotubes.
David Tomlinson
David Tomlinson (1917-2000), English character actor, George Banks in Disney's Mary Poppins, also The Love Bug and Bedknobs and Broomsticks; RAF veteran, Disney Legend 2002, distinct from the Canadian actor of the same name.
David Torgerson
David J. Torgerson is a British health economist and trials methodologist at the University of York, who directed the York Trials Unit from 2002 to 2023.
David Toro
David Toro, born José David Toro Ruilova, was a Bolivian colonel who served as president of Bolivia from 1936 to 1937 after seizing power in a coup.
David Torrence
David Scott Torrence (1985-2017), Peruvian-American middle-distance runner; American indoor 1000 m record holder, 2016 Rio Olympian in the 5000 m for Peru, 2015 Pan American Games 5000 m silver medalist; died in Scottsdale, Arizona.
David Traver
David Traver is a stem cell biologist at UC San Diego who showed that blood-forming stem cells arise directly from the zebrafish dorsal aorta, winning a 2018 NIH award.
David Trezeguet
David Trezeguet, French striker born 1977 in Rouen, raised in Buenos Aires; 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winner whose golden goal beat Italy in the final; 71 caps, 34 goals; 171 goals for Juventus 2000-2010.
David Trimble
David Trimble (William David Trimble, 1944-2022), Northern Irish unionist politician, UUP leader 1995-2005 and first First Minister of Northern Ireland; signed the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume.
David Trone
David Trone, Democratic former U.S. Representative for Maryland's 6th District (2019-2025) and co-founder of Total Wine & More; lost the 2024 Senate primary to Angela Alsobrooks after $62 million in self-funding and lost a 2026 comeback primary to April McClain Delaney.
David Troughton
David Troughton (born 1950, London), English RSC actor and son of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton; known for Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice, Richard III, and The Archers.
David Tse
David Tse is an information theorist and electrical engineer who holds a professorship at Stanford University. He invented the proportional-fair scheduling algorithm used in 3G and 4G cellular networks.
David Tua
David Tua, known as "The Tuamanator", is a New Zealand former professional heavyweight boxer who won bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and later challenged Lennox Lewis for the world heavyweight title.