David Davis
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David Davis may refer to:
- David Davis (Australian politician)David Davis (Australian politician)David McLean Davis is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council since March 1996, representing East Yarra Province 1996-2006 and the Southern Metropolitan Region from 2006 onwards...
(born 1962), Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council - David Davis (British politician)David Davis (British politician)David Michael Davis is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden...
(born 1948), British Conservative Member of Parliament, Conservative leadership candidate in 2001 and 2005 - David Davis (broadcaster)David Davis (broadcaster)William Eric Davis , was a British radio executive and broadcaster. From 1953 to 1961 he was the head of the BBC's Children's Hour....
(1908–1996), head of the BBC's Children's Hour - David Davis (footballer)David Davis (footballer)David Lowell Davis is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder. He is currently on loan at Scottish Premier League side Inverness Caledonian Thistle from English Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.-Career:...
(born 1991), English football (soccer) player - David Davis (handballer) (born 1976), Spanish handball player
- David Davis (Supreme Court justice)David Davis (Supreme Court justice)David Davis was a United States Senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention....
(1815–1886), Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Senator from Illinois - David Davis (television writer), co-creator of the U.S. television sitcoms TaxiTaxi (TV series)Taxi was an American sitcom that originally aired from 1978 to 1982 on ABC and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC. The series, which won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for "Outstanding Comedy Series", focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher...
and The Bob Newhart Show - David Davis (U.S. politician), U.S. Representative from Tennessee.
- David Brion DavisDavid Brion DavisDavid Brion Davis is an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is a...
(born 1927), historian of slavery and abolitionism - David Daniel DavisDavid Daniel DavisDavid Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. was a British physician.Born David Davies in Llandyfaelog in Wales, he received his M.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1801. He set up his practice as a physician in Sheffield, living in Paradise Square from 1803 to 1812...
(1777–1841), British physician - David Davis (Castellhywel)David Davis (Castellhywel)David Davis , known as "Castellhywel" or "Dafis Castellhywel" to differentiate him from others of the same name, was a Welsh minister and poet....
(1745–1827), Welsh minister and poet - David E. DavisDavid E. DavisDavid Evan Davis, Jr. was an automotive journalist and magazine publisher widely known as a contributing writer, editor and publisher at Car and Driver magazine and as the founder of Automobile magazine....
(1930-2011), automotive journalist and founder of Automobile magazine - David E. Davis (ecologist)David E. Davis (ecologist)David E. Davis was an ecologist and animal behaviorist noted for being the "founder of modern rat studies" .He received a BA at Swarthmore College in 1935, then an MS and PhD at Harvard University in 1939...
, (1913–1994), ecologist and animal behaviorist - David J. DavisDavid J. DavisDavid J. Davis was the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1923 to 1927....
(1870–1942), Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania - David Jackson DavisDavid Jackson DavisDavid Jackson Davis was a United States federal judge.Born in Weedowee, Alabama, Davis received a LL.B from Yale University in 1906. He was in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama from 1906 to 1935....
(1878–1938), U.S. federal judge - David W. Davis (1873–1959), Governor of Idaho
- Dave DavisDave DavisDave Davis is a former wide receiver in the National Football League. Davis was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round of the 1971 NFL Draft and played two seasons with the team. He later played with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints.-References:...
(born 1948), American football player - Dave Davis (bowler)Dave Davis (bowler)Dave Davis was a successful professional ten-pin bowler and former member of the Professional Bowlers Association . He grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and now resides in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida....
(born 1942), American tenpin bowler
See also
- David Davies (disambiguation)
- David Davis WalkerDavid Davis WalkerDavid Davis "D.D." Walker , a St. Louis dry goods wholesaler, founded Ely & Walker, which remains a clothing brand to this day. Walker was a first cousin of Senator and Supreme Court Justice David Davis. Through his son George Herbert Walker, he was the great-grandfather of President George H. W....
, St. Louis merchant, a first cousin of Justice Davis - David Davis MansionDavid Davis MansionThe David Davis Mansion, also known as Clover Lawn, is a Victorian home in Bloomington, Illinois that was the residence of David Davis, Supreme Court justice and Senator from Illinois. The mansion has been a state museum since 1960...
, house in Bloomington , Illinois, USA