David Cohen may refer to:
- David Cohen (politician) (1914–2005), American lawyer and Democratic politician in Philadelphia, PA
- David Cohen (intelligence), New York City Police Department deputy commissioner, former CIA official
- David Cohen (physicist), M.I.T. physicist
- David Cohen (rabbi) (1887–1972), Rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, and kabbalist
- David L. Cohen, Pennsylvania politician
- David B. Cohen (psychologist) (1941–2004), American psychology professor
- David B. Cohen (mayor) (born 1947), American politician, mayor of Newton, Massachusetts
- David Elliot Cohen (born 1955), American editor and publisher
- David William Cohen (born 1943), professor of history and anthropology
- David X. Cohen (born 1966), American TV writer and producer (The Simpsons, Futurama)
- David Bennett Cohen (born 1942), keyboardist
- David Mark Cohen (1952–1997), playwriting professor at the University of Texas at Austin
- David Cohen (1865–1889), asylum patient named as a Jack the Ripper suspect
- David Cohen, used in Victorian times in the same way as John Doe
Famous quotes containing the words david and/or cohen:
“Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation—none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)