David Barclay may refer to:
- Col. David Barclay (Quaker) (1610–1686), 1st Laird of Urie and father of Robert Barclay, the Quaker apologist
- David Barclay of Youngsbury (1729–1809), English Quaker merchant and banker, grandson of Robert Barclay
- David Barclay (MP) (1784–1861), English Whig politician, Member of Parliament (MP) 1826–30, 1835–37 and 1841–47
- Sir David and Frederick Barclay (born 1934), British businessmen
- David Barclay, a puppeteer who is also known as David Alan Barclay.
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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)