Dave Murphy or David Murphy may refer to:
- Dave Murphy (baseball) (1876–1940), American shortstop in Major League Baseball
- Dave Murphy (ice hockey) (born 1952), Canadian professional ice hockey player
- David Murphy (Australian rules footballer) (born 1962), Australian rules footballer
- David Murphy (baseball) (born 1981), American
- David Murphy (cricketer) (born 1989), English
- David Murphy (CIA), CIA's station chief in Berlin, 1959–1961
- David Murphy (footballer) (born 1984), English footballer
- David Lee Murphy (born 1959), American country music singer-songwriter
- David Murphy (composer), Irish composer and harper
- Dave Murphy (Wisconsin politician), American businessman and politician
- David Murphy (Irish writer), Irish author
- David Murphy (Gaelic footballer) (born 1985), Gaelic football player
Famous quotes containing the words david and/or murphy:
“That night was the turning-point in the season. We had gone to bed in summer, and we awoke in autumn; for summer passes into autumn in some imaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the “Naught is more real ...” and the “Ubi nihil vales ...” both already in Murphy and neither very rational.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)