David Jacobs

David Jacobs may refer to:

  • David Jacobs (table tennis) (born 1977), Paralympic competitor from Indonesia
  • David Jacobs (Welsh athlete) (1888–1976), Olympic gold-medallist from Wales
  • David Jacobs (disc jockey) (born 1926), actor and BBC radio presenter (1950s-present)
  • David Jacobs (writer) (born 1939), creator/writer of the television series Dallas and Knots Landing
  • David Jacobs (Ontario politician)
  • David Jacobs (steroid dealer) (1973–2008), personal trainer, convicted steroid dealer and informant
  • David Jacobs (lawyer), the lawyer of, amongst others, The Beatles and Brian Epstein
  • Davy Jacobs, South African cricketer
  • David Michael Jacobs, UFO researcher
  • David Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs (born 1931), British businessman and a Liberal Democrat politician

Famous quotes containing the words david and/or jacobs:

    “We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
    —Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)