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David Turnbull (physical chemist)
David Turnbull (1915–2007) was an American physical chemist at General Electric and Harvard whose work on crystal nucleation and glass formation founded modern solidification science.
David Tuveson
David A. Tuveson is an American cancer biologist and medical oncologist, director of the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for the first mouse models of pancreatic cancer.
David Tyree
David Tyree (born 1980), Giants wide receiver and 2005 Pro Bowl special-teamer from Syracuse, famous for the Helmet Catch, a 32-yard reception in Super Bowl XLII that helped end the Patriots' 19-0 bid; retired 2010.
David U. Furrer
David U. Furrer is an American aerospace materials engineer at Pratt & Whitney, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for computational modeling of aerospace alloys.
David U. Himmelstein
David U. Himmelstein is an American physician and health-policy researcher, a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, known for research on medical bankruptcy and health care administrative costs.
David Unaipon
David Unaipon (Ngunaitponi), 1872–1967, Ngarrindjeri preacher, inventor, and first published Aboriginal author from Point McLeay Mission, South Australia; patented a 1909 sheep-shearing handpiece, wrote Native Legends (1929), and appears on the Australian $50 note.
David V. Anderson
David V. Anderson is an American electrical engineer and Georgia Tech professor known for embedded signal processing research and for receiving the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
David V. Schaffer
David V. Schaffer is an American bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his work on viral gene therapy vectors.
David Valadao
David Valadao (born 1977) is a Republican U.S. representative for California's 22nd District, a Portuguese-American dairy farmer from Hanford who served CA-21 from 2013 to 2019, lost in 2018, returned in 2020, and is the last House Republican impeachment voter still running for reelection.
David Valle
David Valle is an American human geneticist and physician at Johns Hopkins, where he directed the McKusick-Nathans Institute and founded the Center for Inherited Disease Research.
David Van Vactor
David Van Vactor is an American neuroscientist and Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for work on axon guidance and neuromuscular wiring in fruit flies.
David van Weel
David van Weel (born 1976) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, serving as Minister of Justice and Security in the Jetten government.
David Vanderbilt
David Vanderbilt, born in 1954, is an American condensed matter physicist at Rutgers University known for first-principles electronic-structure theory, the ultrasoft pseudopotential, and his 2009 axion electrodynamics paper.
David Vases
The David Vases are a pair of blue-and-white porcelain altar vases dated by inscription to 1351, held in the British Museum's Sir Percival David Collection.
David Veesler
David Veesler is a French-trained structural biologist, professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, whose lab determined early atomic-level structures of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
David Vélez
David Vélez is a Colombian banker and entrepreneur who founded the digital bank Nubank in São Paulo in 2013 and leads it as chief executive.
David Venturella
David J. Venturella, also called Dave Venturella, is an American immigration-enforcement official and acting director of ICE from June 1, 2026, formerly a GEO Group senior vice president and career INS/ICE detention and removal officer.
David Venzke
David Venzke is a protein biochemist and Research Specialist in Kevin Campbell's HHMI-supported laboratory at the University of Iowa, known for mapping the dystroglycan O-mannosylation pathway linked to congenital muscular dystrophies.
David Verburg
David Verburg (born 1991) is an American 400m runner and 4x400m relay specialist, Olympic champion at Rio 2016, two-time world outdoor relay champion (2013, 2015), 2014 world indoor champion, and a George Mason University alumnus.
David Vetter
David Phillip Vetter, the "Bubble Boy" (1971–1984), was an American boy with X-linked SCID who lived twelve years in sterile plastic isolators, received a 1983 sister-donor marrow transplant, and died at 12; his cells later identified the SCID gene.
David VI of Georgia
David VI Narin (დავით VI ნარინი), 1225–1293, was a Bagrationi king of Georgia who revolted against Mongol rule in 1259 and founded the separate Kingdom of Western Georgia.
David VII Ulu
David VII Ulu (Georgian: დავით VII ულუ; 1215–1270) was a Bagrationi king of Georgia who ruled from 1247 to 1270, first jointly with his cousin David VI and then over eastern Georgia alone, under Mongol overlordship.
David VIII of Georgia
David VIII of Georgia (დავით VIII, c. 1273–1310) was a Bagrationi king ruling eastern Georgia from 1293 under Mongol domination, known for rebelling against the Ilkhan Ghazan.
David Villa
David Villa, known as El Guaje, is a Spanish former striker and Spain's all-time top scorer, who won EURO 2008 and the 2010 World Cup.
David Villabona
David Villabona (David Billabona Etxaleku), Spanish midfielder born 1969 in Irún, played for Real Sociedad, Athletic Club, and Racing Santander and won football gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
David Viñas
David Viñas was an Argentine novelist, essayist, playwright, and literary critic who co-founded the review Contorno in 1953 and read Argentine literature through its political history.
David Visentin
David Visentin (born 1965, Toronto) is a Canadian realtor and HGTV personality, co-host of Love It or List It since 2008 with Hilary Farr and later Page Turner; licensed agent since 1987.
Dávid Vitézy
Dávid Vitézy (Vitézy Dávid), Hungarian transport expert and Minister of Transport and Investment in the Tisza government; former founding BKK CEO, Orbán-era state secretary, 2024 Budapest mayoral candidate, Podmaniczky Movement leader.
David Vitter
David Vitter (born 1961) is a Louisiana Republican who served in the U.S. House 1999-2005 and Senate 2005-2017; his 2007 D.C. Madam scandal survived a 2010 reelection but sank his 2015 gubernatorial bid.
David Vogan
David Vogan, born 1954, is an American mathematician at MIT who proved the Kazhdan–Lusztig conjectures and helped compute the character table of the Lie group E8.