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David White (actor)
David White (Daniel David White, 1916–1990) was an American character actor and WWII Marine veteran, trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, famous as Larry Tate on ABC's Bewitched (1964–1972). Distinct from actor-producer David A.R. White.
David White (paleobotanist)
David White, full name Charles David White (1862–1935), was an American paleobotanist and geologist who spent his forty-nine-year career with the United States Geological Survey.
David Whitmer
David Whitmer (1805–1888) was an American early Latter Day Saint leader from Fayette, New York, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon who never denied his testimony.
David Wilcock
David Wilcock was an American author, lecturer, and YouTuber who taught a New Age system of Ascension, claimed to be the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce, and appeared on Ancient Aliens.
David Wilkerson
David Wilkerson was an American Assemblies of God pastor and evangelist who founded the Teen Challenge drug rehabilitation network and Times Square Church in Manhattan.
David Wilkie
David Wilkie (1954-2024), Scottish breaststroke swimmer; won 200m breaststroke gold at Montreal 1976 in world record 2:15.11, first British male Olympic swimming gold in 68 years; popularized cap and goggles.
David Willey (cricketer)
David Jonathan Willey (born 1990), English left-arm fast-medium all-rounder, son of Peter Willey; played 70 ODIs and 43 T20Is for England 2015-2023, won 2022 T20 World Cup, retired after 2023 World Cup with 100 ODI wickets.
David Williams (astronomer)
David Arnold Williams, born 1937, is a British astrochemist and Emeritus Perren Professor of Astronomy at University College London who won the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2009.
David Williams (card game player)
David Williams (born 1980, Dallas, Texas) is an American pro card player, ex-Magic: The Gathering star, 2004 WSOP Main Event runner-up ($3.5M), 2006 WSOP stud bracelet winner, and 2010 WPT champion; distinct from the English player of the same name.
David Williamson
David Williamson (born 1942) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter, widely described as Australia's most commercially successful playwright, whose plays include The Removalists and Don's Party.
David Wilmot (actor)
David Wilmot is an Irish actor from Dublin, Tony-nominated as Padraic in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, IFTA winner for Intermission, known for The Guard, Calvary, Ripper Street, Black Sails, Station Eleven, and Hamnet; distinct from the 1929–2022 American actor of the same name.
David Wiman
David Wiman (David Lepold Wiman, 1884-1950), Swedish gymnast from Göteborgs GF who won gold in the men's team all-around, Swedish system, at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; later ran an insurance agency.
David Wise
David Wise was an economist at Harvard Kennedy School who directed the NBER Economics of Aging program from 1985 and led research on retirement incentives and pensions.
David Woiwod
David Woiwod is an Australian television presenter and journalist who co-hosts Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network, after five years as 7NEWS US Bureau Chief.
David Wolpe
David Wolpe, born 1958, is an American Conservative rabbi who led Los Angeles's Sinai Temple from 1997 to 2023 and was named Newsweek's Most Influential Rabbi in America.
David Wood (Christian apologist)
David Wood (born 1976) is an American evangelical Christian apologist who heads Acts 17 Apologetics, a YouTube ministry critical of Islam, and has debated more than 60 times.
David Woodard
David Woodard (David James Woodard, b. 1964 Santa Barbara per California Birth Index; he claims 1969) is an American composer and conductor of the Los Angeles Chamber Group, known for the 2001 McVeigh 'prequiem' Ave Atque Vale, Dreamachines, and a 2021-2025 Wikipedia self-promotion operation.
David Woodhouse
David Woodhouse is a biotechnology executive who became Chief Executive Officer of Nuvig Therapeutics in 2025, after serving as CEO of NGM Biopharmaceuticals and co-heading biotechnology investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
David Wotton
David Wotton is a molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Virginia, known for identifying the TGIF corepressors in TGF-beta signaling and linking TGIF mutations to holoprosencephaly.
David Wright
David Wright, Mets third baseman and captain (2004–2018), 7-time All-Star, 1,777 hits, 242 HR, 49.2 WAR; career ended by spinal stenosis; No. 5 retired 2025.
David X. Cohen
David X. Cohen (born David Samuel Cohen, 1966) is an American TV writer, Harvard physics graduate and UC Berkeley computer science master's, co-creator of Futurama with Matt Groening and former Simpsons writer; four-time Emmy winner who adopted the initial X for Writers Guild registration.
David Y. Curtin
David Yarrow Curtin (1920–2011) was an American physical organic chemist and University of Illinois professor, namesake of the Curtin–Hammett principle of product selectivity in organic reactions.
David Y. Mason
David Y. Mason (1941–2008) was a British immunopathologist and hematologist at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital whose 1983 study established monoclonal-antibody staining as a reliable test for lymphoma.
David Yaffe (molecular biologist)
David Yaffe (1929–2020) was an Israeli molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who helped found the study of muscle cell formation and developed the widely used C2C12 muscle cell line.
David Yaras
David Yaras (Dave Yaras), Chicago Outfit figure the FBI assessed as the Chicago family's chief representative in Miami; Rogers Park gambling boss; charged with murder, robbery, extortion, never convicted; died of a heart attack playing golf, Miami, January 1974.
David Yates
David Yates (born 1963, St Helens, Merseyside) is a British director of the final four Harry Potter films and all three Fantastic Beasts films, after acclaimed British television work including State of Play and Sex Traffic.
David Yi‐Yung Hsia
David Yi-Yung Hsia (1925–1972) was an American pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, born in Shanghai, who developed the phenylalanine tolerance test and newborn blood screening for phenylketonuria and studied galactosemia.
David Yonggi Cho (조용기)
David Yonggi Cho, also known as Paul Yonggi Cho (조용기), was a South Korean Pentecostal pastor who founded the world's largest church, Yoido Full Gospel Church.
David Yosef
David Yosef (דוד יוסף), born 1957, is an Israeli rabbi elected Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and Rishon LeZion in 2024, the third Yosef to hold the office after his father Ovadia and brother Yitzhak.
David Yost
David Harold Yost (born 1969, Council Bluffs, Iowa) is an American actor and producer, the original Blue Ranger Billy Cranston in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, who left citing harassment, later produced TV, and returned for 2023's Once & Always and Cosmic Fury.