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:
“It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man’s busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Men insist that they don’t mind women succeeding so long as they retain their “femininity”. Yet the qualities that men consider “feminine”Mtimidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement—are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.”
—Elizabeth Gould Davis (b. 1910)