David Wise (economist)
David Wise may refer to: *David Wise (freestyle skier) (born 1990), American freestyle skier * David Wise (cricketer) (born 1966), former English cricketer *David Wise (composer), British video game music composer *David Wise (journalist) (1930-2018), American investigative journalist and writer, winner of the 1975 Orwell Award * David Wise (writer) (1955-2020), American television writer See also *David Burgess-Wise David Burgess-Wise is a motoring author, enthusiast, and automobile historian. According to the dustcover of the book "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles" he edited in 1979, David Burgess Wise ith no "-"was born in 1942. A motoring wr ...

David Wise (freestyle Skier)
David Wise (born June 30, 1990) is an American freestyle skier. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2014, 2018) and a four-time X Games Gold Medalist (2012, 2013, 2014, 2018). In 2014, Wise won his third consecutive gold medal at Winter X Games XVIII in Aspen, Colorado, before heading to Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics. There, he became the first Olympic gold medalist in the Men's Freeski Halfpipe, which debuted in the Winter Games that year. In 2018, after struggling both personally and professionally since his win in Sochi, Wise won his fourth gold medal at the X Games just before he left for PyeongChang to defend his Olympic title. After a sub-par qualifying competition that placed him in the fifth drop-in position for the finals, Wise failed to complete each of his first two runs due, in both cases, to a binding malfunction. On his third and final run, Wise completed a career-best run to take the gold medal, the second Olympic gold medal of his career, with a score of 97 ...
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David Wise (cricketer)
David Arthur James Wise (born 23 March 1963) is a former English cricketer. Wise was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Tiddington, Oxfordshire. Wise made his debut for Oxfordshire in the 1983 Minor Counties Championship against Berkshire. Hale played Minor counties cricket for Oxfordshire from 1983 to 1996, which included 78 Minor Counties Championship matches and 17 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. He made his List A debut against Essex in the 1985 NatWest Trophy. He played 6 further List A matches, the last coming against Glamorgan in the 1993 NatWest Trophy. In his 7 List A matches, he scored 104 runs at a batting average of 28.80, with a high score of 68. This came against Glamorgan in his final List A match, with his innings being ended by Roland Lefebvre. He has also played Second XI cricket for the Worcestershire Second XI in 1985. He stood in a women's cricket List A match in 2005 between Berkshire Women and Somerset ...
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David Wise (composer)
David Wise is a British video game music composer and musician. He was a composer at Rare from 1985 to 2009, and was the company's sole musician up until 1994. He has gained a following for his work on various games, particularly Nintendo's ''Donkey Kong Country'' series. Wise is known for his atmospheric style of music, mixing natural environmental sounds with prominent melodic and percussive accompaniment. Career and influences Wise has said that he has had a wide range of musical influences, though the first instrument he learned to play was the piano, before later learning the trumpet, and then learning to play the drums during adolescence. He played in a few bands during his youth, and was still active in a band as of 2004. His career at Rare began when he happened to meet its two founders, as he explained in response to a question posted on its company website: "I was working in a music shop demonstrating a Yamaha CX5 Music Computer to a couple of people, Tim & Chris S ...
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David Wise (journalist)
David Wise (May 10, 1930 – October 8, 2018) was an American journalist and author who worked for the ''New York Herald-Tribune'' in the 1950s and 1960s, and published a series of non-fiction books on espionage and US politics as well as several spy novels. His book ''The Politics of Lying: Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power'' (1973) won the George Polk Award (Book category, 1973), and the George Orwell Award (1975). Early life Wise was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Education In 1951, Wise graduated from Columbia University, where he was editor-in-chief of the '' Columbia Daily Spectator''. Career In 1951, Wise joined the ''New York Herald-Tribune'' and became the paper's White House correspondent in 1960. He was chief of the paper's Washington, D.C. bureau from 1963 to 1966.''SoHo Journal''Author David Wise To Discusses New Book At AFIO Luncheon In 1970–71 he was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and in 1977–79, he ...
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David Wise (writer)
David Wise (February 1, 1955 - March 3, 2020) was an American television and animation writer, tutored by writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon whilst attending the Clarion Workshop. He wrote several episodes for television series like '' Star Trek: The Animated Series'', the 1984 Transformers cartoon and the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. Early life David Wise was born on February 1, 1955 to Electronic Arts Intermix founder Howard Wise and his wife, Barbara. Wise began experimenting with animation and live-action film at the age of seven, under the tutelage of several artists and experimental filmmakers, including Len Lye and Stan VanDerBeek. Wise created dozens of brief animations using cut-outs, scratch-on-film techniques, as well as conventional cel animation. In 1963, at the age of eight, Wise released a compilation of his experiments, titled "Short Circuit". Distributed by the Filmmakers' Cooperative, "Shor ...
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