David Bell may refer to:
- David Bell (television) (1936–1990), Scottish television producer and director
- David Bell (VC) (1845–1920), Irish soldier
- David E. Bell (1919–2000), director of the United States' Office of Management and Budget
- David Bell (composer) (born 1954), American composer
- David Sheffield Bell, physician, and researcher of chronic fatigue syndrome
- David Bell (publisher), former Chairman of the Financial Times
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“He utters substantial English thoughts in plainest English dialects.... Indeed, for fluency and skill in the use of the English tongue, he is a master unrivaled. His felicity and power of expression surpass even his special merits as historian and critic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“His are the quiet steeps of dreamland,
The waters of no-more-pain;
His rams bell rings neath an arch of stars,
Rest, rest, and rest again.”
—Walter De La Mare (18731956)