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David Wallace (The Office)

David Wallace is a fictional executive in The Office, played by Andy Buckley, CFO of Dunder Mifflin from 2005 to 2009, founder of Suck It (sold to the US Military for $20 million), and CEO after buying the company from Sabre in 2012.

David Walliams

David Walliams (born David Edward Williams, 1971) is an English comedian, actor, and children's author, co-creator of Little Britain with Matt Lucas, a former Britain's Got Talent judge, and author of over 60 million children's books, dropped by HarperCollins in 2025.

David Warner (actor)

David Warner (1941–2022), English stage and screen actor, RSC Hamlet of 1965; known for villains in The Omen, Time Bandits, Tron, and Titanic; Emmy winner for Masada. Not the Australian cricketer of the same name.

David Wayne

David Wayne (Wayne James McMeekan, 1914–1995), American stage, film, and TV character actor; two-time Tony winner for Finian's Rainbow and Teahouse of the August Moon; Mad Hatter on Batman; distinct from the country singer and younger filmmakers of the same name.

David Weber bibliography

David Weber bibliography: complete works of David Mark Weber (born 1952, Cleveland), American military SF author of the Honor Harrington/Honorverse series (Baen, 1993–2024) and the ten-book Safehold series (Tor, 2007–2019), plus Dahak, War God, Empire of Man, and Starfire collaborations.

David Wenham

David Wenham names a British New Testament scholar (born 1945), Wycliffe Hall and Trinity College Bristol, author of Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity?, and an Australian actor (born 1965) who played Faramir in The Lord of the Rings.

David White (actor)

David White (Daniel David White, 1916–1990) was an American character actor and WWII Marine veteran, trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, famous as Larry Tate on ABC's Bewitched (1964–1972). Distinct from actor-producer David A.R. White.

David Williamson

David Williamson (born 1942) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter, widely described as Australia's most commercially successful playwright, whose plays include The Removalists and Don's Party.

David Wilmot (actor)

David Wilmot is an Irish actor from Dublin, Tony-nominated as Padraic in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, IFTA winner for Intermission, known for The Guard, Calvary, Ripper Street, Black Sails, Station Eleven, and Hamnet; distinct from the 1929–2022 American actor of the same name.

David Woiwod

David Woiwod is an Australian television presenter and journalist who co-hosts Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network, after five years as 7NEWS US Bureau Chief.

David Woodard

David Woodard (David James Woodard, b. 1964 Santa Barbara per California Birth Index; he claims 1969) is an American composer and conductor of the Los Angeles Chamber Group, known for the 2001 McVeigh 'prequiem' Ave Atque Vale, Dreamachines, and a 2021-2025 Wikipedia self-promotion operation.

David X. Cohen

David X. Cohen (born David Samuel Cohen, 1966) is an American TV writer, Harvard physics graduate and UC Berkeley computer science master's, co-creator of Futurama with Matt Groening and former Simpsons writer; four-time Emmy winner who adopted the initial X for Writers Guild registration.

David Yates

David Yates (born 1963, St Helens, Merseyside) is a British director of the final four Harry Potter films and all three Fantastic Beasts films, after acclaimed British television work including State of Play and Sex Traffic.

David Yost

David Harold Yost (born 1969, Council Bluffs, Iowa) is an American actor and producer, the original Blue Ranger Billy Cranston in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, who left citing harassment, later produced TV, and returned for 2023's Once & Always and Cosmic Fury.

David Zaizar

David Záizar was a Mexican ranchera singer born around 1930 in Tamazula, Jalisco, celebrated for his falsetto on songs such as 'Cielo rojo' and 'La basurita'.

David Zaslav

David Zaslav (born 1960) is the American media executive who led Discovery Communications from 2007, created Warner Bros. Discovery by merging with WarnerMedia in 2022, ran it through cost cuts, and sold it to Paramount Skydance in 2026 for a roughly $600 million payout.

David Zayas

David Zayas (born 1962, Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-American actor, ex-NYPD officer and Air Force veteran, known as Angel Batista in Dexter and Enrique Morales in Oz, later in Gotham, The Bear, and Dexter: Resurrection.

David Zepeda

David Zepeda (David Anastasio Zepeda Quintero), Mexican actor, singer, model, and lawyer born 1973 in Nogales, Sonora; telenovela lead in Sortilegio, Abismo de pasión, Mi fortuna es amarte, and Tan cerca de ti, nace el amor.

David Zucker

David Zucker (born 1947, Milwaukee) is an American comedy filmmaker of the ZAZ trio; with Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams he made Airplane! (1980), The Naked Gun films, and Scary Movie 3 and 4, and teaches the MasterCrash comedy course.

Davide Sorrenti

Davide Sorrenti (1976–1997) was an Italian-born photographer who documented 1990s New York youth culture, shooting for Interview and i-D before his death linked him to "heroin chic".

Davido

Davido (David Adedeji Adeleke, born 1992, Atlanta, raised in Lagos) is a Nigerian Afrobeats singer, songwriter, and producer behind Omo Baba Olowo, A Good Time, Timeless, 5ive, and Oriadé, with five Grammy nominations, the Billboard-record song "Fall," and the label DMW.

Davie504

Davie504, real name Davide Biale (Italian bassist YouTuber, born 1994 in Savona), runs the most subscribed Italian YouTube channel, known for slap bass, humor, and multi-string bass stunt videos.

Davika Hoorne

Davika Hoorne (ดาวิกา โฮร์เน่, "Mai"), Thai-Belgian actress born 1992 in Bangkok; star of Pee Mak, Thailand's highest-grossing film; Gucci ambassador and Friend of UNICEF.

Davina Karamoy

Davina Karamoy, full name Davina Tesalonika Karamoy, is an Indonesian actress and singer known for playing Rani in the 2024 film Ipar Adalah Maut, after first being known as Nelly in 7 Hari Sebelum 17 Tahun.

Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an English television presenter, author, and fitness personality. She notably hosted Channel 4's Big Brother and focuses on menopausal health advocacy.

Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim, American director and producer, Oscar winner for An Inconvenient Truth (2006); also directed Waiting for "Superman", He Named Me Malala, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, and Deaf President Now!.

Davitiani

Davitiani (დავითიანი) is the collected poetical works of Georgian Baroque poet Davit Guramishvili (1705–1792), compiled as an autograph manuscript in 1787 and including "The Woes of Georgia" and "Shepherd Katsvia".

Davood Ghadami

Davood Ghadami (داود قدمی), English actor born 1982 in Harlow, Essex; played Kush Kazemi in EastEnders 2014-2021, Eli Ebrahimi in Holby City 2021-2022, and competed in Strictly Come Dancing 2017.

Davos Seaworth

Davos Seaworth, the Onion Knight (Davos Shorthand), is a smuggler-turned-knight of House Seaworth in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones: Stannis Baratheon's loyal Hand, hero of the Storm's End food run, POV from A Clash of Kings, played by Liam Cunningham.

Davros

Davros is the fictional Chief Scientist of the Kaleds in Doctor Who, creator of the Daleks, first seen in Genesis of the Daleks (1975); played by Michael Wisher, David Gooderson, Terry Molloy, and Julian Bleach, and redesigned as able-bodied in 2023.