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 •
Banksy, pseudonymous English artist who allegedly at one time was legally named David Jones •
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 ), 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 (baseball) (1861–1937), American professional baseball player •
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 M. Jones (ca. 2019), American immigration judge •
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) (1942–1997), 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 •
David Butler-Jones, Canadian physician, first Chief Public Health Officer of Canada ==Other uses==