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David Schwimmer
David Lawrence Schwimmer (born 1966) is an American actor and director, Ross Geller on Friends (234 episodes, 1994–2004), co-founder of Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre, director of Run Fatboy Run and Trust, and Robert Kardashian in The People v. O.J. Simpson.
David Sedaris
David Sedaris, American humorist and essayist, author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, and Calypso; NPR Santaland Diaries; diarist since 1977; lives in West Sussex with Hugh Hamrick; 14 bestselling books.
David Selby
David Selby (born 1941, Morgantown, West Virginia) is an American actor and writer known as Quentin Collins on Dark Shadows (1968-71) and Richard Channing on Falcon Crest (1982-90), with Broadway credits and repeated Abraham Lincoln portrayals.
David Shields (actor)
David Shields is a British actor (distinct from the writer of Reality Hunger) known for Masters of the Air (Cpt. Everett Blakely), Black Mirror's Demon 79, The Crown, Doctor Who, and starring as Jacob Dunne in James Graham's Punch, winning a 2024 UK Theatre Award and a 2026 Olivier nomination.
David Shire
David Shire (born July 3, 1937, Buffalo, NY) is an American composer, also known as David Lee Shire, who won the 1980 Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae and Grammys for Saturday Night Fever, and with Richard Maltby Jr. wrote Baby, Big, Starting Here Starting Now, and Closer Than Ever.
David Shore
David Shore (born 1959, London, Ontario) is a Canadian television writer, producer, and former lawyer, creator of House (2004-2012) and showrunner of The Good Doctor (2017-2024); Emmy winner for the House episode "Three Stories".
David Silveria
David Randall Silveria (born 1972) is an American drummer, original drummer of nu metal band Korn from 1993 to 2006, playing on Korn through See You on the Other Side; later Infinika, Core 10, Breaking In A Sequence; distinct from the People v. Silveria defendant.
David Simon
David Simon (born 1960) is an American journalist-turned-showrunner, creator of The Wire, Treme, and The Deuce; former Baltimore Sun police reporter, author of Homicide and The Corner, two-time Emmy winner.
David Slade
David Slade (born 1969) is a British film and TV director behind Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, Twilight: Eclipse, Breaking Bad, Hannibal, American Gods, and Black Mirror's Bandersnatch and Metalhead; distinct from Slade Wilson, David Spade, and the band Slade.
David Soul
David Soul (David Richard Solberg, 1943–2024) was an American-British actor and singer, Hutch in Starsky & Hutch (1975–79) and the voice of "Don't Give Up on Us" and "Silver Lady", later a London stage and TV performer.
David Spade
David Spade (born 1964), American comedian and actor, SNL cast member 1990-1996, star of Tommy Boy, Joe Dirt, and Grown Ups, co-host of the Fly on the Wall podcast with Dana Carvey.
Davíð Stefánsson
Davíð Stefánsson (1895–1964), known as Davíð Stefánsson frá Fagraskógi, was an Icelandic poet, playwright, and novelist whose 1919 debut Svartar fjaðrir made him famous almost overnight.
David Steinberg
David Steinberg (born 1942, Winnipeg) is a Canadian comedian, director, and Order of Canada member known for Smothers Brothers sermons, Tonight Show guest hosting, and directing Seinfeld, Friends, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
David Strathairn
David Strathairn (born 1949, San Francisco) is an American character actor, Oscar-nominated as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck., an Emmy winner for Temple Grandin, and a longtime John Sayles collaborator.
David Strickland
David Strickland (1969-1999), American actor, also known as Todd Stities on NBC's Suddenly Susan; played Steve Montgomery in Forces of Nature; distinct from voice actor David L. Strickland of Poppy Playtime.
David Suchet
Sir David Suchet (born 1946) is a British actor, LAMDA-trained and an RSC alumnus, famous for playing Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in 70 ITV episodes from 1989 to 2013, plus stage roles like Iago and Lady Bracknell.
David Sutcliffe
David Sutcliffe (born 1969, Saskatoon) is a Canadian former actor, best known as Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls (2001–2007) and in Cracked and Proof; he retired from acting in 2019 to practice somatic psychotherapy.
David Sylvian
David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 1958) is an English singer and composer, frontman of Japan (Tin Drum, "Ghosts"), known for solo albums Brilliant Trees and Secrets of the Beehive, collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Robert Fripp, and his SamadhiSound label.
David Teniers the Younger
David Teniers the Younger (David Teniers II, 1610–1690), Flemish genre painter of Antwerp and Brussels, son of David Teniers the Elder, court painter and curator to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, and publisher of the Theatrum Pictorium (1660).
David Tennant
David Tennant, born David John McDonald in 1971 in Bathgate, Scotland, is a Scottish actor known as the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who, DI Alec Hardy in Broadchurch, Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, and Crowley in Good Omens.
David Thewlis
David Thewlis (born David Wheeler, 1963, Blackpool) is an English actor, writer, and director; Cannes best actor winner for Naked (1993), Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter films, Emmy-nominated for Fargo, and author of two novels.
David Threlfall
David Threlfall (born 1953, Burnage, Manchester) is an English actor and director, Olivier and RTS Award winner, famed as Smike in the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby and as Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless.
David Tom
David Tom (Charles David Tom, born 1978) is an American actor, Emmy-winning Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless (1999–2002, 2014), twin of Nicholle Tom, brother of Heather Tom, also of Pleasantville and Swing Kids.
David Tomlinson
David Tomlinson (1917-2000), English character actor, George Banks in Disney's Mary Poppins, also The Love Bug and Bedknobs and Broomsticks; RAF veteran, Disney Legend 2002, distinct from the Canadian actor of the same name.
David Troughton
David Troughton (born 1950, London), English RSC actor and son of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton; known for Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice, Richard III, and The Archers.
David Unaipon
David Unaipon (Ngunaitponi), 1872–1967, Ngarrindjeri preacher, inventor, and first published Aboriginal author from Point McLeay Mission, South Australia; patented a 1909 sheep-shearing handpiece, wrote Native Legends (1929), and appears on the Australian $50 note.
David Vases
The David Vases are a pair of blue-and-white porcelain altar vases dated by inscription to 1351, held in the British Museum's Sir Percival David Collection.
David Viñas
David Viñas was an Argentine novelist, essayist, playwright, and literary critic who co-founded the review Contorno in 1953 and read Argentine literature through its political history.
David Visentin
David Visentin (born 1965, Toronto) is a Canadian realtor and HGTV personality, co-host of Love It or List It since 2008 with Hilary Farr and later Page Turner; licensed agent since 1987.
David Wain
David Wain (born 1969, Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American director, writer, actor and comedian of The State and Stella, known for Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models, Childrens Hospital and Netflix Wet Hot series.