David or Dave Turner may refer to:

Politicians

* David M. Turner (1917–2012), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives *

David Turner (politician) David Turner (born 1944 in Nottingham, England) is a Canadian university professor and former politician. He was the mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, from 1991 to 1993. He is currently a professor at the University of Victoria. Turner earned ...

(born 1944), Canadian politician and academic * David Howell Turner (1885–1957), politician from Alabama

Scientists

David W. Turner David Warren Turner (born 1927) is a physical chemist known for the development of ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), a technique for the measurement of molecular orbital energies in gas-phase molecules. His first paper on photoelectron ...

(born 1927), British physical chemist * David G. Turner (born 1945), Canadian astronomer *

David H. Turner David Howe Turner is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow at Trinity College and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He has worked with Indigenous Australians since 1969 and has worked with indigenous peo ...

(born in 1940s), anthropologist at the University of Toronto *

David Turner (computer scientist) David A. Turner (born 26 January 1946) is a British computer scientist. He is best known for designing and implementing three programming languages, including the first for functional programming based on lazy evaluation, combinator graph red ...

(1946–2023), British computer scientist

Sportsmen

David Turner (rower) David Lindsay "Dave" Turner (September 23, 1923 – June 26, 2015) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion, naval aviator in World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War and later hurricane hunter for the US Navy and NOAA. B ...

(1923–2015), American rower and Olympic gold medalist *

David Turner (cricketer) David Roy Turner (born 5 February 1949) is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire County Cricket Club. He played 426 games between 1966 and 1989, making 19,005 runs at a batting average of 30.55 with 28 hundreds. David ...

(born 1949), Hampshire cricketer * Deacon Turner (David L. Turner, 1955–2011), former American football running back *

David Turner (Canadian football) David Turner (born February 19, 1967, in Washington, D.C.) is a former gridiron player in the Canadian Football League. He was a defensive back primarily used as a kick return specialist with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Ottawa Rough Riders. Turn ...

(born 1967), defensive back and kick returner *

Dave Turner (footballer, born 1943) David John Turner (born 7 September 1943) is an English former professional footballer who made more than 300 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half or midfielder for Newcastle United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Blackburn Ro ...

(born 1943), English midfielder for Brighton & Hove Albion, coach in Canada * Dave Turner (footballer, born 1948) (born 1948), English full back for Southport

Others

David Turner (dramatist) David Turner (18 March 1927 – 11 December 1990) was a British playwright. Turner was born in Birmingham and came from a working-class background. He studied French at University of Birmingham, Birmingham University and later worked as a sc ...

(1927–1990), British dramatist * David Turner (journalist) (born 1965), British businessman in publishing * David Turner, co-author of software development library FreeType released in 1996 * David B. Turner, who attempted a murder-suicide at Dow High School, Michigan, in 2007 * David Turner (Neighbours), fictional character on the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' *

Dave Turner (Degrassi) '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore. The series is now considered the first incarnation and premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and then ended on MTV Canada and T ...

, fictional character in the Canadian teen drama ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' {{hndis, Turner, David