David Davis

David Davis may refer to:

  • David Davis (Australian politician) (born 1962), Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council
  • David Davis (British politician) (born 1948), British Conservative Member of Parliament, Conservative leadership candidate in 2001 and 2005
  • David Davis (broadcaster) (1908–1996), head of the BBC's Children's Hour
  • David Davis (footballer) (born 1991), English association football player
  • David Davis (handballer) (born 1976), Spanish handball player
  • David Davis (Supreme Court justice) (1815–1886), Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Senator from Illinois
  • David Davis (television writer), co-creator of the U.S. television sitcoms Taxi and The Bob Newhart Show
  • David Davis (U.S. politician) (born 1959), U.S. Representative from Tennessee.
  • David Brion Davis (born 1927), historian of slavery and abolitionism
  • David Daniel Davis (1777–1841), British physician
  • David Davis (Castellhywel) (1745–1827), Welsh minister and poet
  • David E. Davis (1930–2011), automotive journalist and founder of Automobile magazine
  • David E. Davis (ecologist) (1913–1994), ecologist and animal behaviorist
  • David J. Davis (1870–1942), Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
  • David Jackson Davis (1878–1938), U.S. federal judge
  • D. W. Davis (David William Davis, 1873–1959), Governor of Idaho
  • Dave Davis (born 1948), American football player
  • Dave Davis (bowler) (born 1942), American tenpin bowler
  • An alias of Albert Johnson Walker, Canadian murderer
  • Dave Davis (athlete), United States national shot put champion

Famous quotes containing the words david and/or davis:

    The Indian remarked as before, “Must have hard wood to cook moose-meat,” as if that were a maxim, and proceeded to get it. My companion cooked some in California fashion, winding a long string of the meat round a stick and slowly turning it in his hand before the fire. It was very good. But the Indian, not approving of the mode, or because he was not allowed to cook it his own way, would not taste it.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are qualities that characterize the “establishment” which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.
    —Elizabeth Gould Davis (b. 1910)