David Mamet

For the past year, I was the compilation of big names to the list on my website name numerology. These individuals are noted, but are most famous? Today we will count the most famous men named David.

Those most famous (based on online chat) with the first name David are the following:

10. David Gilmour - Musician (Pink Floyd)

9. David Slade - Director (30 Days of Night, Twilight: Eclipse)

8. David Carradine - Actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill)

7. David Hasselhoff - actor and musician (Knight Rider, Baywatch)

6. David Byrne - musician with the Talking Heads and solo (Road to Nowhere, and it was Wild Wild Life)

5. David Lynch - Director (Twin Peaks, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet)

4. David Letterman - Television Talk Show Host (Late Show with David Letterman)

3. David Cook - Singer (American Idol season seven-time winner)

2. David Bowie - Musician (Space Oddity, Young Americans, Let's Dance)

... And the most famous man named David is ...

1. David Beckham - Soccer / Football Star

Do not make the Top 10 list were David Attenborough - BBC broadcaster and naturalist David Duchovny - Actor (The X-Files, Californication), David Mamet - author, playwright, screenwriter (Glengarry Glen Ross, the verdict, Wag the Dog) David Tennant - Actor (Dr. Who, Casanova, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), comedian David Cross - Writer, Actor and (Arrested Development, The Ben Stiller Show), musician David Crosby - (Crosby, Stiles, Nash and Young, The Byrds, CPR), a character from David Copperfield - the novel by Charles Dickens, David Spade - actor (Just Shoot Me!, 8 Simple Rules, Rules of Engagement), author David Sedaris - (Me Talk Pretty One Day, When you are engulfed in flames), David Livingstone - Explorer (Dr. Livingstone, I presume?), David Schwimmer - Actor, Director (Friends, Run, Fat Boy, Run), David Stern - NBA Commissioner, David Yates - Director (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), David Copperfield - stage magician, David Hockney - Artist and photographer, David Niven - actor (Around the World in 80 Days The Pink Panther), photographer David Lachapelle - David Frost - Journaist and writer (Nixon Interviews).

An excellent mix of occupations for the first ten Davids with Athelete (Beckham), a talk show host (Letterman), two directors (Slade and Lynch), two actors (Carradine and David Hasselhoff), four musicians (Gilmour, Byrne, Cook, and Bowie). In this list, we have a duplicate name, David Copperfield, who is both a stage magician and the character in the novel by Charles Dickens "David Copperfield".

I compiled this list by searching for each of the Davids on a number of search engines and ranking them by the number of web pages, discussion forums, photos, videos, etc. that are available online.

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