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David B. Sentelle
David B. Sentelle, born 1943, is an American jurist who served as chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2013.
David B. Singer
David B. Singer is a venture capital investor, managing partner at Maverick Ventures since 2004, best known for One Medical, which Amazon acquired for $3.9 billion in 2023.
David b. Zakkai
David b. Zakkai (דוד בן זכאי) was the exilarch, or secular head, of Babylonian Jewry in Baghdad from 917 to 940, remembered for his feud with Saadiah Gaon.
David Badawi
David Badawi is an American ophthalmologist who co-founded Sight Sciences, a Menlo Park, California medical-device company, with his brother Paul in 2010 and co-invented its OMNI and TearCare systems.
David Baird
Sir David Baird (1757 to 1829) was a British army officer who led the storming of Seringapatam in 1799 and lost an arm at Corunna.
David Bakalar
David Bakalar was an American physicist and semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded Transitron Electronic Corporation with his brother Leo in 1952, pioneering the gold-bonded germanium diode and silicon rectifiers.
David Barksdale
David Barksdale (1947-1974), called King David, led Chicago's Devil's Disciples and Black Disciples and in 1969 merged them with Larry Hoover's Supreme Gangsters into the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, ancestor of the Gangster Disciples and Black Disciples.
David Barnea
David Barnea (born 1965, Ashkelon), also known as Dadi, was the 13th director of Israel's Mossad from 2021 to June 2, 2026, overseeing the Fakhrizadeh assassination, the Hezbollah pager operation, Iran airstrikes, and Gaza hostage negotiations.
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871–1936), British Admiral of the Fleet; battlecruiser commander at Jutland, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet 1916–1919, First Sea Lord 1919–1927, Washington Naval Treaty negotiator.
David Beisel
David Beisel is an American venture capitalist who co-founded NextView Ventures in 2010, a seed-stage firm for internet-enabled startups, after earlier careers as an entrepreneur and investor.
David Bek
David Bek (Դավիթ Բեկ), who died in 1728, was an Armenian military commander who led the armed struggle in Syunik against Iranian and Ottoman forces from 1722.
David Bellavia
David Bellavia (born 1975), retired U.S. Army staff sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient for single-handedly clearing an insurgent house at Fallujah on November 10, 2004; first living Iraq War recipient, awarded June 25, 2019; author of House to House.
David Ben-Gurion (דוד בן-גוריון)
David Ben-Gurion, born David Gruen in Poland in 1886, proclaimed Israel's independence on 14 May 1948 and served as its first prime minister until 1963.
David Benatar
David Benatar is a South African philosopher and emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town, the leading contemporary proponent of anti-natalism, the view that procreation is always wrong.
David Berg
David Berg, known as Moses David, was an American preacher who founded the Children of God in 1968 in California and led it until his death in 1994.
David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz (born 1953), the "Son of Sam" and ".44 Caliber Killer," murdered six and wounded seven in New York City, 1976-1977; arrested August 10, 1977 via a parking ticket, imprisoned at Shawangunk, repeatedly denied parole.
David Betz
David J. Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King's College London, studies insurgency, urban warfare, fortification, and information war; author of Carnage and Connectivity (2015) and The Guarded Age (2024), and of the 2023 Civil War Comes to the West thesis.
David Beyer
David Beyer is an American venture capital investor and Partner at Amplify Partners, investing in infrastructure, developer tools, and machine learning companies after co-founding the data-visualization startup Chartio.
David Blondel
David Blondel (1590 or 1591 – 1655) was a French Calvinist theologian and church historian who first showed systematically that the Pseudo-Isidorian decretals were forgeries.
David Blunkett
David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett (born 1947), British Labour politician, first blind UK cabinet minister; Education and Employment Secretary 1997-2001, Home Secretary 2001-2004, Work and Pensions Secretary 2005; MP for Sheffield Brightside 1987-2015; resigned twice, in 2004 and 2005; Lords peer since 2015.
David Boies
David Boies (born 1941, Sycamore, Illinois) is an American trial lawyer, founding partner of Boies Schiller Flexner, DOJ Special Trial Counsel in United States v. Microsoft, Gore's counsel in Bush v. Gore, and co-lead counsel against California's Proposition 8.
David Bonderman
David Bonderman (1942 to 2024) was an American private equity investor who co-founded Texas Pacific Group (TPG), built its reputation on the 1993 Continental Airlines turnaround, and brought the Seattle Kraken to the NHL.
David Bonior
David Bonior (born 1945) is a Michigan Democrat who served 26 years in the U.S. House (1977-2003) and was House Democratic whip 1991-2002, defeating Steny Hoyer 160-109 in 1991 before an unsuccessful 2002 Michigan governor run.
David Borrero
David Borrero is an American Republican politician who has represented District 111 in the Florida House of Representatives since 2020, after serving as a Sweetwater commissioner.
David Brainerd
David Brainerd (1718–1747) was an American Presbyterian missionary to Native Americans whose 1749 biography, built from his diary by Jonathan Edwards, became the first popular biography published in America.
David Brevik
David Brevik (born 1968) is an American video game designer who co-founded Condor, renamed Blizzard North, created the Diablo series, and later led Gazillion Entertainment, developer of Marvel Heroes.
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley (1920–2003), American broadcast journalist; NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report co-anchor 1956–70 and host of ABC's This Week 1981–96; ten Emmys, 1992 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
David Briones
David Briones (born 1943) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
David Britton
David Britton is a British proteomics scientist who co-founded Kinomica, a precision-oncology diagnostics company spun out of Barts Cancer Institute, and was its Chief Scientific Officer until 2023.
David Brock
David Brock, American political operative and former conservative journalist; founder of Media Matters for America (2004), American Bridge, Correct the Record, and the American Independent; turned from 1990s anti-Clinton reporter to liberal Clinton ally.