David Cook may refer to:
- David Cook (singer) (born 1982), winner of the seventh season of American Idol
- David Cook (album), the second solo album by David Cook
- David Cook (cricketer) (born 1936), former English cricketer
- David Cook (cyclist), British Olympic cyclist
- David Cook (game designer), author and designer of role-playing games
- David Cook (literary critic) (1929–2003), expert on East African literature
- David Cook (politician), politician of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- David Cook (racing driver) (born 1975), British former racing driver
- David Cook (writer) (born 1940), British author and TV presenter
- David C. Cook, a nonprofit Christian publisher based in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- David J. Cook (1840/2–1907), lawman of the American Old West, credited with 3,000 arrests
- David L. Cook (born 1968), Christian country music singer and comedian
- David Essex (David Albert Cook, born 1947), British singer
- E. David Cook, ethicist
Famous quotes containing the words david and/or cook:
“We imagined that the sun shining on their bare heads had stamped a liberal and public character on their most private thoughts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... cooking is just like religion. Rules don’t no more make a cook than sermons make a saint.”
—Anonymous, U.S. cook. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Leah Chase, who was quoted in turn by Brian Lanker (1989)