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David E. Lilienthal

David Eli Lilienthal was an American lawyer and public official who led the Tennessee Valley Authority and served as the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1946.

David E. Longnecker

David E. Longnecker is an American physician-anesthesiologist who chaired Anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania, led Penn Medicine as corporate chief medical officer, and held national AAMC roles.

David E. Manolopoulos

David E. Manolopoulos (born 1961) is a British theoretical chemist, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Oxford and a Royal Society Fellow, known for ring-polymer molecular dynamics.

David E. Meyer

David E. Meyer is an American mathematical psychologist and cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan, known for the EPIC architecture of human multitasking and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.

David E. Muller

David E. Muller, born in 1924, was an American theoretical physicist who constructed the Reed–Muller error-correcting codes and designed the Muller C-element, a building block of asynchronous circuits.

David E. Neal

David E. Neal, born 1951, is a British surgical oncologist and urologist who led the ProtecT and CAP trials that shaped prostate cancer treatment, holding chairs at Cambridge and Oxford.

David E. Newby

David E. Newby, also published as David Ernest Newby, is a British cardiologist at the University of Edinburgh who led the SCOT-HEART trial of CT coronary angiography.

David E. Poswillo

David Ernest Poswillo (1927–2003) was a New Zealand-born oral and maxillofacial surgeon and teratologist, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, from 1983 to 1992.

David E. Pritchard

David E. Pritchard, born 1941, is an American atomic physicist who was a professor at MIT from 1970 to 2022, known for atom optics, laser cooling, and precision mass measurements.

David E. Richardson

David E. Richardson is an American NOAA fishery biologist known for his 2016 discovery of an Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning ground in the Slope Sea.

David E. Salt

David E. Salt is a British plant biologist who founded ionomics, the high-throughput study of mineral composition of organisms, known for phytoremediation and work at Nottingham.

David E. Shaw

David E. Shaw is an American computer scientist who founded the quantitative hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co. in 1988 and later built the Anton supercomputer.

David E. Sugden

David E. Sugden, also known as David Edward Sugden, is a British glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh known for research on Antarctic and Patagonian ice.

David E. Trentham

David E. Trentham is an American rheumatologist and Harvard Medical School associate professor in Boston, known for collagen autoimmunity research and the 1993 oral type II collagen rheumatoid arthritis trial.

David E. Wennberg

David E. Wennberg is an American cardiologist and health-services researcher known for a 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study linking surgical death rates to hospital volume.

David Eagleman

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, and inventor who teaches at Stanford University, works on synesthesia and time perception, founded Neosensory, and wrote the book Livewired.

David Earl (actor)

David Earl (David Geoffrey Earl), British actor-comedian known as Brian Gittins; played Kev in Derek and Brian in After Life; co-wrote and starred in Brian and Charles (Sundance 2022, BAFTA-nominated).

David Eby

David Robert Eby, 37th Premier of British Columbia since November 18, 2022, BC NDP leader, MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey since 2013, former Attorney General and Housing Minister, called a snap election for October 24, 2026.

David Écija

David Écija is a Spanish condensed matter physicist and Research Professor at IMDEA Nanociencia in Madrid, known for on-surface synthesis of molecular nanostructures and a 2018 ERC Consolidator Grant.

David Eckstein

David Eckstein (born 1975, Sanford, FL) is a former MLB shortstop, 2002 Angels and 2006 Cardinals World Series champion, 2006 World Series MVP (.364, 8 H, 4 RBI), two-time All-Star, and first Heart & Hustle Award winner.

David Eddings

David Eddings (1931-2009), American fantasy author of The Belgariad and The Malloreon, written with wife Leigh Eddings; also The Elenium, The Tamuli, and The Dreamers; first novel High Hunt (1973).

David Edgerton

David Edgerton (1927–2018) was an American businessman who co-founded Burger King in Miami in 1954, invented its continuous-chain flame broiler, and sold the chain to Pillsbury in 1967.

David Edward Hughes

David Edward Hughes (1831–1900) was a British-American inventor and experimental physicist whose type-printing telegraph dominated European telegraphy for decades and whose 1878 microphone and 1879 wireless experiments anticipated radio.

David Ehrlich

David Ehrlich (born 1984) is an American film critic and chief film critic at IndieWire, previously at Rolling Stone and Time Out New York; known for annual video countdowns, the Fighting in the War Room podcast, and a 2022 Best Film Critic award.

David Eichler

David Eichler (1951–2021) was a theoretical astrophysicist at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, known for his 1989 prediction that coalescing neutron stars produce short gamma-ray bursts and heavy elements.

David Eidelberg

David Eidelberg is an American neurologist and neuroimaging researcher, professor and neuroscience center director at the Feinstein Institutes, known for network imaging biomarkers in Parkinson's disease.

David Eigenberg

David Eigenberg (born 1964, Manhasset, New York) is an American character actor; played Steve Brady on Sex and the City and firefighter Christopher Herrmann on NBC's Chicago Fire since 2012.

David Einhorn (hedge fund manager)

David Einhorn is an American hedge fund manager who co-founded Greenlight Capital in 1996, rising to prominence through public short campaigns against Allied Capital and Lehman Brothers.

David Eisenberg

David S. Eisenberg is an American biochemist and structural biologist at UCLA known for determining atomic structures of amyloid fibrils and designing inhibitors of toxic protein aggregation.

David Eisenbud

David Eisenbud is an American mathematician at UC Berkeley, a leading commutative algebraist known for free resolutions, syzygies, and the Eisenbud–Goto regularity conjecture, and a former MSRI director.