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:
“Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The only human beings I have thoroughly admired and respected in the world have been those who carried the load of the world with a smile, and who, in the face of anxieties that would have knocked me clean out, never showed a tremor. Such men and women end by owning us, soul and body, and our allegiance can never be shaken. We are only too glad to be owned. Religion is nothing but this.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)