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David Grisman

David "Dawg" Grisman (born 1945) is an American mandolinist who invented "Dawg music," a blend of bluegrass, jazz and swing, led the David Grisman Quintet, played in Old & in the Way with Jerry Garcia, and founded the Acoustic Disc label; inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2023.

David Guetta

David Guetta (Pierre David Guetta, born 1967, Paris) is a French DJ and producer, a pioneer of French house, whose 2009 crossover with 'When Love Takes Over' and 'I Gotta Feeling' made EDM mainstream; two Grammy wins and five-time DJ Mag No. 1.

David Guetta discography

David Guetta discography: catalog of the French DJ and producer (born 1967), from Just a Little More Love (2002) and Nothing But the Beat (2011) to I'm Good (Blue); 7 UK number-one singles, two Grammys, Jack Back alias.

David Gulpilil

David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM (1953–2021) was a Yolngu actor and ceremonial dancer from Arnhem Land who debuted in Walkabout (1971), starred in Storm Boy, The Tracker and Charlie's Country, and won Cannes Best Actor, Un Certain Regard.

David Guramishvili

David Guramishvili (დავით გურამიშვილი) was a Georgian poet, 1705 to 1792, a classic of Georgian poetry known for the autobiographical collection Davitiani, written largely in Ukraine.

David Gyasi

David Gyasi (David Kwaku Asamoah Gyasi), English actor born 1980 in Hammersmith, London, to Ghanaian parents; known for Cloud Atlas, Interstellar, Containment, Carnival Row, and as Austin Dennison in Netflix's The Diplomat.

David Haig

David Haig, English actor and playwright trained at LAMDA, Olivier winner for Our Country's Good (1988); wrote and starred in My Boy Jack, Pressure (D-Day weather forecaster James Stagg), and Magic about Conan Doyle and Houdini.

David Hallyday

David Hallyday, born David Smet in 1966, is a French singer-songwriter, son of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, known for "High" (1988) and for composing his father's album Sang pour sang.

David Hamilton (photographer)

David Hamilton (1933–2016) was a British photographer based in France, famous for soft-focus portraits of young women, best-selling books like Rêves de Jeune Filles, and L'Air du Temps advertising; his reputation collapsed after rape allegations and his 2016 death in Paris.

David Hammons

David Hammons (born 1943) is an American artist who transforms everyday and discarded materials into charged symbols of the Black American experience, working outside the gallery system.

David Harbour

David Harbour, American actor born in New York, plays Jim Hopper in Stranger Things and Red Guardian in Marvel films; second casting choice after Billy Crudup, Tony-nominated stage actor, ex-husband of Lily Allen.

David Hare (playwright)

Sir David Hare (born 1947) is a British playwright and director known for post-war political drama: Portable Theatre co-founder, Plenty, the Racing Demon trilogy, Skylight, Stuff Happens; knighted 1998, Oscar-nominated for The Hours.

David Harewood

David Harewood (born 1965) is a British actor from Birmingham, RADA graduate, first Black Othello at the National Theatre (1997), Homeland's David Estes, Supergirl's Martian Manhunter, OBE, and RADA president.

David Hart (actor)

David Hart (born 1954, Marianna, Florida) is an American actor, also credited as Dave Hart, best known as Officer Parker Williams in all 146 episodes of In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995) and for Silver Bullet (1985); distinct from the fashion designer and other namesakes.

David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff, also known as The Hoff, American actor and singer born 1952 in Baltimore; star of Knight Rider (1982–86) and Baywatch (1989–2000), and a pop star in Germany with the 1989 hit Looking for Freedom.

David Hayman

David Hayman (born 1948, Bridgeton, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and director, Jimmy Boyle in A Sense of Freedom, DCS Mike Walker in Trial & Retribution, and director of Silent Scream (1990).

David Hayter

David Hayter, also known as David Bryan Hayter, is a Canadian actor and screenwriter who voices Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid and wrote X-Men and Watchmen.

David Hedison

David Hedison (1927-2019), American actor born Albert David Hedison Jr., played Andre Delambre in The Fly (1958), Captain Lee Crane in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Felix Leiter in two Bond films.

David Helfgott

David Helfgott (born 1947, Melbourne) is an Australian pianist whose breakdown and comeback inspired the 1996 Oscar-winning film Shine; known for Rachmaninov's Third Concerto and his chart-topping recording of it.

David Hemingson

David Hemingson, American screenwriter and TV writer-producer born 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut; wrote Oscar-nominated The Holdovers, created Kitchen Confidential and Whiskey Cavalier, won the WGA Original Screenplay Award.

David Hemmings

David Hemmings (David Leslie Edward Hemmings), English actor, director and producer (1941–2003); boy soprano for Britten, star of Blow-Up (1966), director of The A-Team episodes, Cassius in Gladiator.

David Henrie

David Henrie (born 1989) is an American actor, director, and producer known for playing Justin Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place and Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, and the son in How I Met Your Mother.

David Herman

David Herman (born 1967), also known as Dave Herman, is an American actor, comedian, and voice actor: original MADtv cast member, Michael Bolton in Office Space, and voice of Scruffy in Futurama and Mr. Frond in Bob's Burgers.

David Hewlett

David Hewlett (David Ian Hewlett, born 1968) is an English-born Canadian actor known for Dr. Rodney McKay in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis (2004–2009), David Worth in Cube (1997), and A Dog's Breakfast, which he wrote and directed.

David Heyman

David Jonathan Heyman (born 1961, London) is a British film producer and founder of Heyday Films, producer of all eight Harry Potter films and three Fantastic Beasts films, plus Gravity, Barbie, and Paddington, now producing Bond and the HBO Harry Potter series.

David Hockney

David Hockney (1937–2026), British painter and printmaker of A Bigger Splash and the pool paintings, Polaroid joiners, Secret Knowledge optics thesis, iPad works, and the $90.3 million Portrait of an Artist record.

David Hodo

David Hodo, born Richard Davis Hodo, is an American singer best known as the original Construction Worker of the disco group Village People, from 1977 to 2013.

David Holmes (musician)

David Holmes (born 1969, Belfast) is a Northern Irish DJ, producer, and film composer known for Let's Get Killed, the Ocean's Eleven scores, Unloved, Killing Eve, and the 2023 album Blind on a Galloping Horse.

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived is a 2023 HBO/Sky documentary directed by Dan Hartley about Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter stunt double, paralyzed in a 2009 Deathly Hallows rehearsal accident; BAFTA-nominated, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

David Hood

David Hood (born 1943, Sheffield, Alabama) is an American session bassist and trombonist, co-founder of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and bassist of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (the Swampers), known for "I'll Take You There," "Kodachrome," and Bob Seger albums.