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David M. Solomon

David M. Solomon, also known as DJ D-Sol, is an American investment banker who has led Goldman Sachs as CEO since 2018 and chairman since 2019.

David M. Studdert

David M. Studdert is an Australian-born health law scholar at Stanford University, a professor of health policy and law who was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

David M. Tarlinton

David M. Tarlinton is an Australian immunologist who heads Immunology and Pathology at Monash University in Melbourne, known for showing that Mcl-1 is essential for B cell memory.

David M. Tobin

David M. Tobin is a molecular geneticist at Duke University who uses zebrafish and Mycobacterium marinum to find host genes governing tuberculosis susceptibility, showing genotype-tailored therapy may help.

David M. Underhill

David M. Underhill is an immunologist, professor, and chair of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, known for defining how the innate immune receptor Dectin-1 detects fungi.

David M. Villeneuve

David M. Villeneuve is a Canadian experimental physicist who led the Attosecond Science Group at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa until retiring in 2020.

David M. Virshup

David M. Virshup is an American physician-scientist and cancer biologist known for research on Wnt signaling, and a professor at Duke University School of Medicine.

David M. Weinstock

David M. Weinstock is a physician-scientist in hematologic oncology who led a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute laboratory from 2008 to 2022 and created the PRoXe leukemia model repository.

David M.J. Lilley

David M.J. Lilley (born 1948) is a British biochemist at the University of Dundee known for his work on branched nucleic acids, especially the Holliday junction.

David Mabey

David Mabey is a British physician and Professor of Communicable Diseases at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine whose research shaped trachoma treatment.

David Mabuza

David Dabede "DD" Mabuza (1960–2025), South African politician: Deputy President of South Africa 2018–2023, ANC Deputy President from December 2017, and Premier of Mpumalanga 2009–2018; kingmaker of Ramaphosa's 2017 Nasrec victory.

David MacAdam

David Lewis MacAdam (1910–1998) was an American physicist and color scientist at Eastman Kodak, known for the MacAdam ellipses of 1942 measuring sensitivity to color differences.

David MacDonald (businessman)

David MacDonald is a Scottish businessman and chief executive of Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging, a Glasgow packaging manufacturer, named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 UK Transformational Leader.

David Mack (police officer)

David Anthony Mack, former LAPD officer and NCAA 800-meter champion, staged the 1997 $722,000 Bank of America robbery near USC with his girlfriend Errolyn Romero; his conviction helped trigger the Rampart scandal.

David Mackenzie (director)

David Hugh Mackenzie (born 1966, Corbridge, England) is a Scottish director and Sigma Films co-founder; known for Young Adam, Starred Up, Oscar-nominated Hell or High Water, Outlaw King, Relay, and Fuze.

David MacMillan

David MacMillan is a Scottish chemist and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton who shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.

David Madson (architect)

David Madson, also known as David Jon Madson, was a Minneapolis-based architect whose master's thesis proposed an original AIDS memorial design. Andrew Cunanan murdered him in Minnesota in 1997.

David Magerman

David Magerman is an American computer scientist and quantitative trading researcher who spent about 22 years at Renaissance Technologies, then co-founded the seed-stage venture firm Differential Ventures.

David Mahlon Bonner

David Mahlon Bonner (1916–1964) was an American biochemical geneticist whose work on Neurospora crassa helped establish the one gene–one enzyme view; he was professor of microbiology at Yale and founding chair of biology at UCSD.

David Malan (computer scientist)

David J. Malan is an American computer scientist and Harvard professor best known as lead instructor of CS50, Harvard's introductory computer science course, its largest.

David Malin Roodman

David Malin Roodman is an economist and replication specialist who worked at the Center for Global Development, GiveWell, and Open Philanthropy, and wrote Due Diligence (2012) on microfinance.

David Malo

David Malo, also known as Davida Malo, was a Native Hawaiian scholar and minister whose Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi is a principal record of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture.

David Malouf

David Malouf (1934–2026) was an Australian novelist, poet, and essayist known for Johnno and Remembering Babylon; he won the Miles Franklin Award twice and the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

David Malpass

David Malpass is an American economist who served as President of the World Bank Group from 2019 to 2023, after serving in the Trump Treasury Department.

David Mamet

David Mamet is an American playwright and director known for his stylized use of vernacular speech. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross.

David Mandrus

David Mandrus is an American materials scientist at the University of Tennessee who designs and synthesizes new quantum materials, with a joint appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland

David Charles Robert Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland (born 1959), British hereditary peer and landowner; succeeded 4 January 1999, seat Belvoir Castle, married Emma Watkins 1992, separated 2012, five children, UKIP supporter.

David Mant

David Mant is a British public-health physician and emeritus Professor of General Practice at the University of Oxford, known for research on early diagnosis in primary care.

David Marciano

David Marciano (born 1960, Newark, NJ) is an American character actor known as Ray Vecchio in Due South, Steve Billings in The Shield, and Virgil in Homeland.

David Mareček

David Mareček is a Czech natural language processing researcher and assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, known for unsupervised dependency parsing and neural network interpretation.