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David Young
David King Young (1907–1988), American swimmer from Atlanta, Georgia; 1927 NCAA 150-yard backstroke champion for Georgia Tech and heat swimmer for the gold-medal, world-record US 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.
David Yuan (袁文达)
David Yuan (袁文达) is a Shanghai-based venture capitalist who joined Redpoint in 2005 and became a managing partner of Redpoint China Ventures, known for early investments in APUS, Yixia, and iDreamSky.
David Z. Rudner
David Z. Rudner is a microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School since 2003, known for work on chromosome segregation and spore formation in Bacillus subtilis.
David Z.I. Cherney
David Z.I. Cherney (David Zev Isaac Cherney) is a Canadian nephrologist and University of Toronto professor who directs the Renal Physiology Laboratory and studies SGLT2 inhibitors in diabetic kidney disease.
David Zaizar
David Záizar was a Mexican ranchera singer born around 1930 in Tamazula, Jalisco, celebrated for his falsetto on songs such as 'Cielo rojo' and 'La basurita'.
David Zaslav
David Zaslav (born 1960) is the American media executive who led Discovery Communications from 2007, created Warner Bros. Discovery by merging with WarnerMedia in 2022, ran it through cost cuts, and sold it to Paramount Skydance in 2026 for a roughly $600 million payout.
David Zayas
David Zayas (born 1962, Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-American actor, ex-NYPD officer and Air Force veteran, known as Angel Batista in Dexter and Enrique Morales in Oz, later in Gotham, The Bear, and Dexter: Resurrection.
David Zeisberger
David Zeisberger (1721–1808) was a Moravian missionary, born in Moravia, who worked among the Delaware Indians for sixty-two years and left grammars, dictionaries, and diaries still basic to studying their languages.
David Zepeda
David Zepeda (David Anastasio Zepeda Quintero), Mexican actor, singer, model, and lawyer born 1973 in Nogales, Sonora; telenovela lead in Sortilegio, Abismo de pasión, Mi fortuna es amarte, and Tan cerca de ti, nace el amor.
David Zhang
David Yu Zhang is an American bioengineer known for nucleic acid diagnostics and liquid biopsy for cancer; formerly a Rice University professor, he received a PECASE award in 2019.
David Zhang (张颖) (investor)
David Zhang, also known as David Ying Zhang (张颖), is a Chinese venture capitalist who co-founded Matrix Partners China in 2008, known for early-stage investments including Li Auto.
David Zilberman (agricultural economist)
David Zilberman, born 1947 in Jerusalem, is an Israeli-born agricultural economist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for research on water, pesticide regulation, and biotechnology.
David Zimmern
David Zimmern is a molecular virologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, who showed in 1975 that tobacco mosaic virus RNA carries a methylated cap.
David Zini (דוד זיני)
David Zini (דוד זיני), born 1974, is a retired IDF major general and 16th head of Israel's Shin Bet since October 2025; former Sayeret Matkal soldier, Golani Battalion 51 commander, and founding commander of the Commando Brigade.
David Zucker
David Zucker (born 1947, Milwaukee) is an American comedy filmmaker of the ZAZ trio; with Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams he made Airplane! (1980), The Naked Gun films, and Scary Movie 3 and 4, and teaches the MasterCrash comedy course.
David, Chiriquí
David, Chiriquí (San José de David), capital of Chiriquí province, western Panama; founded 1602 or 1732-1736; district of 156,498 people (2023); services-based economy, 58.7% tertiary.
David's Sling (קלע דוד)
David's Sling (קלע דוד, Kela David) is an Israeli–American medium-range air and missile defense system, co-developed by Rafael and Raytheon and declared operational in 2017.
Davide Ancelotti
Davide Ancelotti (born 1989, Parma) is an Italian football coach, son of Carlo Ancelotti; former assistant at Bayern, Napoli, Everton, Real Madrid, and Brazil; Botafogo head coach 2025; Lille OSC head coach from June 2026.
Davide Astori
Davide Astori (1987–2018), Italian central defender; Milan youth product, Cagliari mainstay, Roma loanee, Fiorentina captain; 14 Italy caps, 2013 Confederations Cup bronze; died of cardiac arrest in Udine.
Davide Bonifazi
Davide Bonifazi (born 1975) is an Italian organic and supramolecular chemist, Chair Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Vienna since 2020, known for heteroatom-doped nanographenes.
Davide Calabria
Davide Calabria (born 1996, Brescia) is an Italian right-back, AC Milan youth product and former captain, 210 Serie A appearances, Scudetto 2022, Supercoppa 2016 and 2024, 7 Italy caps, later Bologna on loan and Panathinaikos from August 2025.
Davide F. Robbiani
Davide F. Robbiani is a Swiss immunologist who directs the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona and is a full professor at USI since 2020.
Davide Gaiotto
Davide Gaiotto is a theoretical and mathematical physicist holding the Krembil Galileo Galilei Chair at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, known for the AGT correspondence and generalized global symmetries.
Davide Ghiotto
Davide Ghiotto, Italian long-track speed skater (born 1993, Vicenza), 10,000 m world record holder (12:25.69, Calgary 2025), Beijing 2022 bronze medalist, triple world 10,000 m champion, and Milano Cortina 2026 team pursuit Olympic gold medalist.
Davide Marenduzzo
Davide Marenduzzo is a theoretical biophysicist and Professor of Computational Biophysics at the University of Edinburgh, known for polymer-physics models of chromosome organization and transcription.
Davide Moscardelli
Davide Moscardelli, born 1980 in Mons, Belgium, is an Italian retired forward, a Serie B journeyman who reached Serie A with Chievo and Bologna and became a cult figure for his famous beard.
Davide Ruggero
Davide Ruggero is a cancer biologist at the University of California, San Francisco who co-founded eFFECTOR Therapeutics in 2012, a biotech targeting selective mRNA translation in cancer.
Davide Santon
Davide Santon, Italian retired full-back (born 1991, Portomaggiore): Inter treble winner 2009-10, Newcastle United and Roma defender, 8 Italy caps; career ended by knee injuries, retired September 2022.
Davide Scaramuzza
Davide Scaramuzza is an Italian roboticist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for his group's drone beating FPV racers in 2023 and automotive vision research.
Davide Sorrenti
Davide Sorrenti (1976–1997) was an Italian-born photographer who documented 1990s New York youth culture, shooting for Interview and i-D before his death linked him to "heroin chic".