David Brooks may refer to:
- David Brooks (actor) (1917–1999), American actor and stage director and producer
- David Brooks (author) (born 1953), Australian author of short stories and co-editor for Southerly
- David Brooks (inventor), inventor who patented an innovative insulator for telegraph lines in 1867 while working for the Central Pacific Railroad
- David Brooks (journalist) (born 1961), commentator for The New York Times and other publications
- David Brooks (murderer) (born 1955), teenaged accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll
- David Brooks (politician) (1756–1838), United States representative in the Fifth United States Congress
- David Brooks (rugby league) (born 1962), Australian rugby league footballer
- David Brooks (rugby union) (1924–2002), British rugby union footballer
- David Allen Brooks (born 1947), American film and television actor
- David H. M. Brooks (1950–1996), South African philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town
- D. W. Brooks (1901–1999), American farmer and businessman
- Bubba Brooks (David Kenneth Brooks, Jr., 1922–2002), American jazz musician
- Mavado (singer) (David Constantine Brooks, born 1981), Jamaican dancehall artist
Famous quotes containing the words david and/or brooks:
“A temple, you know, was anciently “an open place without a roof,” whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Measured by any standard known to science—by horse-power, calories, volts, mass in any shape,—the tension and vibration and volume and so-called progression of society were full a thousand times greater in 1900 than in 1800;Mthe force had doubled ten times over, and the speed, when measured by electrical standards as in telegraphy, approached infinity, and had annihilated both space and time. No law of material movement applied to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)