# David Jones

David, Dafydd, Dai, Dave, Davy, or Di Jones may refer to:

## People
### Arts and entertainment
#### Music

* David Bowie (David Robert Jones, 1947–2016), English musician and actor
* Dave Jones (drummer) (active since 1983), drummer with New York band Agnostic Front
* David Jones (jazz musician) (1888–1956), American jazz saxophonist
* David Jones (drummer) (born c.1958), Australian drummer
* David Evan Jones (composer) (born 1946), American composer, pianist, and educator
* David Lynn Jones (born 1950), American country music singer-songwriter
* Davy Jones (musician) (1945–2012), English musician and member of The Monkees

#### Other

* David Jones (director) (1934–2008), English stage, television and film director
* David Jones (presenter), English sports broadcaster on Sky Sports since 1999
* David Jones (artist-poet) (1895–1974), British modernist poet, writer, and artist
* David Jones (programmer) (active in 1980s), former freelance computer game programmer
* David Jones (video game developer) (born 1966), Scottish video game programmer and entrepreneur
* David Jones (writer), creator of the television series Fireman Sam
* Dai Jones (David John Jones, 1943–2022), Welsh television presenter and radio broadcaster
* David Annwn Jones (born 1953), Anglo-Welsh poet, critic and teacher
* David Elwyn Jones (1945–2003), Welsh writer, politician, and poet
* David R. Jones (journalist) (born 1931 or 1932), American journalist, winner of two Gerald Loeb Awards.
* David R. Jones (biologist) (1941–2010), British-born biologist, moved to Canada in 1969
* David Watkin Jones, Welsh poet, historian and geologist

### Business

* David B. Jones (1848–1923), American president and chairman of the board of directors of the Mineral Point Zinc Company
* David Jones (merchant) (1793–1873), Welsh-Australian department store founder
* David Jones (advertising executive) (born 1966), English born businessman

### Military

* David Jones (VC) (1892–1916), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
* David M. Jones (1913–2008), U.S. Air Force major general, one of Doolittle's Raiders
* David C. Jones (1921–2013), U.S. Air Force general, chairman Joints Chief of Staff
* David Rumph Jones (1825–1863), Confederate general

### Politics
#### Canada

* David Jones (Upper Canada politician) (1792–1870), lawyer, judge and political figure
* David Ford Jones (1818–1887), Ontario manufacturer and political figure

#### United Kingdom

* David Jones (Carmarthenshire MP) (1810–1869), Welsh banker and Conservative Party politician
* David Jones (Clwyd West MP) (born 1952), Conservative Party MP, former AM and Welsh Secretary
* D. T. Jones (David Thomas Jones, 1899–1963), Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, 1945–1959
* David Brynmor Jones (1851–1921), barrister, historian and Liberal Member of Parliament

#### United States

* David C. Jones (1921–2013), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* David W. Jones (1815–1879), secretary of state of Wisconsin
* David P. Jones (1860–1927), two-time mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
* Dave Jones (politician) (born 1962), California insurance commissioner
* J. David Jones, member of the Illinois House of Representatives

#### Elsewhere

* David Jones (New Zealand politician) (1873–1941), New Zealand politician
* David Jones (Guernsey politician) (1949–2016), Minister of Housing in Guernsey, Channel Islands
* David Ivon Jones (1883–1924), Welsh Communist, newspaper editor, and political prisoner in South Africa

### Religion

* David Jones (Llangan) (1736–1810), Welsh Church of England priest who was supportive of Methodism
* David Jones (missionary) (1796–1841), Welsh missionary in Madagascar
* David Bevan Jones (1807–1863), Welsh Baptist minister
* David Evan Jones (missionary) (1870–1947), Welsh missionary in Mizoram, India
* David Jones (Dean of Llandaff) (1870–1949), Dean of Llandaff Cathedral
* David Jones (archdeacon of Carmarthen) (1874–1950), Archdeacon of Carmarthen
* David Colin Jones (born 1943), American bishop

### Science, engineering and academia

* David A. Jones (active since 1995), head of the National Climate Centre at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
* David Dallas Jones (1887–1956), president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina and brother of Robert Elijah Jones
* David E. H. Jones (1938–2017), best known as Daedalus, British writer and scientist
* David James Jones (1886–1947), Welsh philosopher and academic
* David Lewis Jones (1945–2010), Welsh historian and librarian
* David L. Jones (botanist) (born 1944), Australian horticultural botanist
* David L. Jones (video blogger) (active since 2009), Australian electronic engineer and blogger
* David Wyn Jones (born 1950), British musicologist
* David R. Jones (biologist) (1941–2010), recipient of Flavelle Medal
* David T. Jones (scientist) (David Tudor Jones, born 1966), professor of bioinformatics

### Sports
#### American football

* David Jones (Browns owner), majority owner of the Cleveland Browns from 1953 to 1961
* David Jones (Cardinals owner) (1883–1966), American football team owner for the Chicago Cardinals
* David Jones (cornerback) (born 1985), American football player
* David Jones (offensive lineman) (born 1961), American football player for the Washington Redskins
* David Jones (safety) (born 1993), American football player; see 2017 New England Patriots season
* David Jones (tight end) (born 1968), American football player for the Los Angeles Raiders
* Dave Jones (American football) (born 1947), American football player
* Deacon Jones (David D. Jones, 1938–2013), American football player

#### Association football

* Dave Jones (footballer, born 1932) (1932–2022), Welsh football goalkeeper
* Dave Jones (footballer, born 1956), English footballer and manager
* David Jones (footballer, born 1910) (1910–1971), Welsh international footballer
* David Jones (football defender, born 1914) (1914–1988), Welsh footballer
* David Jones (football goalkeeper, born 1914) (1914–1999), Welsh footballer
* David Jones (footballer, born 1935) (1935–2014), English footballer
* David Jones (footballer, born 1936), Welsh footballer
* David Jones (footballer, born 1940) (1940–2013), English footballer
* David Jones (footballer, born 1950), English footballer for York City
* David Jones (footballer, born 1952), Welsh international footballer
* David Jones (soccer, born 1955), Australian association footballer
* David Jones (footballer, born 1964), English footballer
* David Jones (footballer, born 1984), English footballer
* Dai Jones (footballer, born 1941), Welsh footballer
* Di Jones (1866–1902), Welsh footballer

#### Rugby

* David Jones (rugby, born 1881) (1881–1933), rugby union and rugby league footballer
* David Phillips Jones (1881–1936), rugby union footballer
* David Jones (rugby, born 1900) (1900–1968), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1920s
* David Jones (Welsh rugby), rugby league footballer of the 1960s
* Dafydd Jones (born 1979), rugby union footballer for Wales, and (Llanelli) Scarlets

#### Other sports

* David Jones (runner) (1940–2023), British sprinter and Olympic bronze medallist
* David Jones (darts player) (1949–1995), Welsh darts player
* David Jones (ice hockey) (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey player for the Minnesota Wild
* David Jones (golfer) (born 1947), Northern Irish professional golfer
* David Jones (cricketer, born 1914) (1914–1998), English cricketer
* David Jones (cricketer, born 1920) (1920–1990), Welsh cricketer
* David Jones (sailor) (born 1940), sailor from United States Virgin Islands
* David Jones (sport shooter) (born 1977), Australian sports shooter
* Dai St. John (David Jones, 1879–1899), Welsh heavyweight boxer
* David R. Jones (golfer), English golfer and winner of the 1991 Zambia Open
* David Jones (table tennis), English table tennis player
* Dave Jones (volleyball) (born 1959), Canadian volleyball player
* David Jones (basketball) (born 2001), basketball player from the Dominican Republic
* David N. Jones Jr American tennis player active in 1930s competed at US Open

### Other people

* David Jones (barrister) (1765–1816), Welsh barrister
* David Jones (railway) (1834–1906), locomotive superintendent of the Highland Railway in Scotland
* David R. Jones (organizer) (1938–1998), Charles Edison Memorial Youth Fund co-founder
* David R. Jones (architect) (1832–1915), Welsh-American architect and poet
* David Lloyd Jones (architect) (born 1942), in London
* David Lloyd Jones, Lord Lloyd-Jones (born 1952), British Supreme Court judge
* David Thomas Jones (administrator) (1866–1931), British administrator and author
* David Jones (died 1872), lynching victim

## Other uses

* David Robert Jones (Fringe), fictional character of the science-fiction television series
* David Jones (department store) (founded 1838), a chain of department stores in Australia
* David Jones (album), a 1965 album by Davy Jones