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David Corenswet

David Packard Corenswet (born 1993, Philadelphia) is an American actor and Juilliard graduate who plays Clark Kent/Superman in James Gunn's 2025 DC Studios film Superman, after roles in The Politician, Hollywood, Pearl, and Twisters.

David Costabile

David Costabile (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) is an American character actor known as Wags on Billions, Gale Boetticher on Breaking Bad, Daniel Hardman on Suits, and Klebanow on The Wire; Tufts and NYU Tisch MFA trained.

David Coverdale

David Coverdale, known as Dave Coverdale, is an English rock vocalist who fronted Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976, then founded Whitesnake in 1978 and retired in 2025.

David Croft (TV producer)

David Croft (1922-2011), born David John Sharland, was a British comedy writer and producer who co-created BBC sitcoms Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo 'Allo! with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd; OBE 1978, BAFTA Special Award 2008. Not the Sky Sports F1 commentator of the same name.

David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg (born 1943, Toronto) is a Canadian director and novelist, principal originator of body horror, director of Shivers, The Fly, Crash, A History of Violence, and Crimes of the Future, Companion of the Order of Canada.

David Crosby

David Crosby (1941–2023), American singer-songwriter and guitarist; founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash; two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee known for harmonies, Deja Vu, and Woodstock.

David Cross

David Cross is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer born in 1969 in New Jersey, known for co-creating Mr. Show and playing Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development.

David Cumming (actor)

David Cumming is an English actor, writer, and composer. He is known for his work with the comedy company SpitLip and his role in the musical Operation Mincemeat.

David Dastmalchian

David Dastmalchian is an American character actor and comics writer from Kansas, known for The Dark Knight, the Ant-Man films, Dune, Oppenheimer, and the lead in Late Night with the Devil; he writes Count Crowley and Creature Commandos and plays M. Bison in Street Fighter.

David Dawson (actor)

David Robert Dawson (born 1982, Widnes, Cheshire) is an English RADA-trained actor, King Alfred in The Last Kingdom and Patrick in My Policeman; distinct from David S. Dawson and the choreographer.

David Dees

David Eugene Dees (1957-2020), American commercial illustrator for Sesame Street Magazine, Disney, and Sea-Monkeys packaging, later known for layered conspiracy-themed digital collages on 9/11, chemtrails, and anti-Semitic themes.

David DeLuise

David DeLuise (David Dominick DeLuise, born 1971, Burbank, California) is an American actor and director, son of Dom DeLuise; known as Jerry Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place, Pete Shanahan on Stargate SG-1, and Bug Pollone on 3rd Rock from the Sun.

David Dencik

David Dencik (Karl David Sebastian Dencik, born 1974, Stockholm) is a Swedish-Danish actor; breakthrough as Veronica in En soap (2006), later Gorbachev in Chernobyl and a Bond villain in No Time to Die.

David Denman

David Denman (born 1973) is an American actor, a Juilliard-trained character player known as Roy Anderson on The Office, and for Mare of Easttown, Brightburn, Rebel Ridge, and Peacemaker's Keith Smith.

David Dhawan

David Dhawan, born Rajinder Dhawan in 1955, is an Indian film director known as Bollywood's top comedy director, with hits like Aankhen and Coolie No. 1.

David Dickinson

David Dickinson (born David Gulesserian, 1941) is an English antiques dealer and TV presenter, original host of BBC's Bargain Hunt (2000-2004) and ITV's Dickinson's Real Deal (from 2006), known for catchphrases like "cheap as chips".

David Diop

David Diop is the name of two French-language writers tied to Senegal: a Négritude poet (1927–1960) and a novelist who won the 2021 International Booker Prize.

David Dixon (actor)

David Dixon (born 1947, Derby, England) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as Ford Prefect in the 1981 BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; also Ariel in The Tempest (1980), distinct from other David Dixons.

David Dobrik

David Dobrik (Dávid Julián Dobrík), Slovak-born American vlogger born 1996 in Košice, rose from Vine to the Vlog Squad's four-minute-20-second sitcom-vlogs, peaked near 75 million followers, then lost sponsors and Dispo's board in 2021.

David Douglas Duncan

David Douglas Duncan (1916–2018) was an American photojournalist best known as the signature photographer of the Korean War and a close friend of Pablo Picasso.

David Draiman

David Draiman (born 1973, Brooklyn) is the American baritone frontman of Chicago metal band Disturbed, cantor-trained, Loyola triple major, also of Device and producer of Trivium's Vengeance Falls.

David Drake

David Drake, known in his lifetime as Dave the Potter, was an enslaved African American potter and poet in Edgefield, South Carolina, active from about 1801 to the 1870s.

David Driskell

David Driskell (1931–2020) was an American artist and art historian known as the founding father of African American art history, curator of the 1976 exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art.

David Duchovny

David William Duchovny (born 1960, New York City) is an American actor, novelist, and singer-songwriter known for Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication, with two Golden Globes, four novels, and four albums.

David E. Kelley

David E. Kelley, born 1956 in Waterville, Maine, is an American TV writer-producer and former Boston lawyer behind L.A. Law, Picket Fences, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, and Big Little Lies.

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 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 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 Ellefson

David Ellefson, American heavy metal bassist, longtime Megadeth bass player later forced out by Dave Mustaine; Altitudes & Attitude with Frank Bello; Jackson signature Concert Bass and Kelly Bird; pick playing.

David Ellison

David Ellison (born 1983) is an American media executive, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison. He founded Skydance, produced Top Gun: Maverick, acquired Paramount in 2025 and Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026.