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David Wagner (soccer)
David Wagner is a German-born American soccer manager and former striker, best known for leading Huddersfield Town to Premier League promotion in 2017 and a longtime friend of Jürgen Klopp.
David Wain
David Wain (born 1969, Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American director, writer, actor and comedian of The State and Stella, known for Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models, Childrens Hospital and Netflix Wet Hot series.
David Walker (geologist)
David Walker is an American experimental petrologist, Higgins Professor Emeritus at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for experiments on lunar samples, planetary interiors, and the Walker-type multi-anvil apparatus.
David Walker (linebacker)
David Walker (born 2000) is a Tampa Bay Buccaneers outside linebacker, 121st overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft from Central Arkansas. Won the 2024 Buck Buchanan Award; school's all-time leader in sacks (31.0) and TFL (63.0); missed rookie year with ACL tear.
David Wallace (The Office)
David Wallace is a fictional executive in The Office, played by Andy Buckley, CFO of Dunder Mifflin from 2005 to 2009, founder of Suck It (sold to the US Military for $20 million), and CEO after buying the company from Sabre in 2012.
David Wallach
David Wallach, born 1946, is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for work on tumor necrosis factor and death receptor signaling.
David Walliams
David Walliams (born David Edward Williams, 1971) is an English comedian, actor, and children's author, co-creator of Little Britain with Matt Lucas, a former Britain's Got Talent judge, and author of over 60 million children's books, dropped by HarperCollins in 2025.
David Walt
David Walt is an American chemist, scientific founder of Illumina and Quanterix, and Harvard professor whose fiber-optic microwell arrays won the 2023 Russ Prize and the 2025 National Medal of Technology.
David Warner (actor)
David Warner (1941–2022), English stage and screen actor, RSC Hamlet of 1965; known for villains in The Omen, Time Bandits, Tron, and Titanic; Emmy winner for Masada. Not the Australian cricketer of the same name.
David Warner (cricketer)
David Warner (born 1986, Sydney), Australian left-handed opening batter; debuted 2009 without first-class cricket; 8,786 Test and 6,932 ODI runs; World Cup wins 2015, 2023; retired internationally 2024, plays T20 franchises.
David Warren (inventor)
David Ronald de Mey Warren (1925–2010) was an Australian research scientist who invented the 'black box' flight recorder in Melbourne in the 1950s; recorders are now mandatory worldwide.
David Warrington
David A. Warrington, White House Counsel since January 20, 2025 in the second Trump administration; former Dhillon Law Group partner, Marine Corps veteran, and Trump 2024 campaign general counsel, succeeding announced pick William McGinley.
David Wasinger
David G. Wasinger (born 1963, Hannibal, Missouri) is the 49th lieutenant governor of Missouri, a Republican attorney elected November 5, 2024 with 57.4% of the vote; former Wasinger Daming business-law attorney and 2018 auditor primary candidate.
David Watson (psychologist)
David Watson is an American clinical and personality psychologist, professor emeritus at Notre Dame, known for the PANAS mood scales, negative affectivity research, and co-founding HiTOP.
David Watson Taylor
David Watson Taylor (1864–1940) was an American naval architect and rear admiral who built the first US ship-model testing basin and served as Chief Constructor of the Navy in World War I.
David Wayne
David Wayne (Wayne James McMeekan, 1914–1995), American stage, film, and TV character actor; two-time Tony winner for Finian's Rainbow and Teahouse of the August Moon; Mad Hatter on Batman; distinct from the country singer and younger filmmakers of the same name.
David Weatherall
Sir David Weatherall (1933–2018) was a British haematologist who showed that thalassaemia results from imbalanced globin chain synthesis, founded Oxford's Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, and was knighted in 1987.
David Weber bibliography
David Weber bibliography: complete works of David Mark Weber (born 1952, Cleveland), American military SF author of the Honor Harrington/Honorverse series (Baen, 1993–2024) and the ten-book Safehold series (Tor, 2007–2019), plus Dahak, War God, Empire of Man, and Starfire collaborations.
David Weiden
David Weiden is a founding partner and managing director at Khosla Ventures, where since 2006 he has backed Okta, RingCentral, and Upstart, earning ten Forbes Midas List appearances.
David Weil
David N. Weil is an American macroeconomist, the James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University, best known for the 1992 Mankiw-Romer growth empirics paper.
David Weinstein
David E. Weinstein is an American economist specializing in international trade and the Japanese economy; he is the Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University.
David Weiss Halivni (דוד וייס הלבני)
David Weiss Halivni (דוד וייס הלבני; 1927–2022) was a Czechoslovakia-born Talmudic scholar and Auschwitz survivor who taught at JTS and Columbia and wrote the source-critical commentary Mekorot u-Mesorot.
David Weld
David Weld is an American experimental AMO physicist and professor at UC Santa Barbara who studies quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in driven optical lattices and won a PECASE award.
David Wells
David Lee "Boomer" Wells, born 1963, American MLB left-handed pitcher, 1987-2007, nine teams; 239-157, 4.13 ERA, 2,201 strikeouts; threw the 15th perfect game, May 17, 1998, Yankees; two World Series titles.
David Wenham
David Wenham names a British New Testament scholar (born 1945), Wycliffe Hall and Trinity College Bristol, author of Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity?, and an Australian actor (born 1965) who played Faramir in The Lord of the Rings.
David Weprin
David I. Weprin is an American Democratic politician representing Queens in the New York State Assembly, elected in 2010 to the seat once held by his father.
David Werring
David J. Werring is a British neurologist and Professor of Clinical Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for research on cerebral microbleeds and intracerebral hemorrhage.
David West (basketball)
David Moorer West Sr. (born 1980), American power forward, 15 NBA seasons with Hornets, Pacers, Spurs, Warriors; two-time All-Star, 2003 AP National Player of the Year at Xavier, two-time NBA champion (2017, 2018).
David Westaway
David Westaway is a Canadian prion disease researcher who co-discovered the prion gene encoding PrPC, co-created the TgCRND8 Alzheimer's mouse model, and directed the University of Alberta's Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases.
David Weyhe Smith
David Weyhe Smith (1926–1981) was an American pediatrician at the University of Washington who founded dysmorphology, the study of congenital malformation patterns, and co-described fetal alcohol syndrome in 1973.