David Jenkins may refer to:

Entertainment

  • David Jenkins (composer) (1848–1915), Welsh composer
  • David Jenkins (musician) (born 1947), singer for the band Pablo Cruise
  • David Jenkins (television writer) (born 1981), creator of People of Earth

Politics

  • David Jenkins (North Carolina), 18th Century North Carolina politician, delegate at the First North Carolina Provincial Congress
  • David Jenkins (abolitionist) (1811–1876), Mississippi politician and abolitionist
  • David A. Jenkins (1822–1886), North Carolina State Treasurer, 1868–1876
  • David James Jenkins (1824–1891), British MP for Penryn and Falmouth, 1874–1885
  • David Jenkins (Georgia politician) (born 1971), American politician from Georgia

Religion

  • David Jenkins (bishop) (1925–2016), of Durham
  • David Jenkins (Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness) (1929–2014), Anglican priest
  • David Jenkins (archdeacon of Sudbury) (born 1961), Anglican priest

Sports

  • David Morgan Jenkins (1901–1968), rugby union and rugby league footballer for Wales
  • David Jenkins (rugby, born 1904) (1904–1951), rugby union and rugby league footballer for Wales
  • David Jenkins (rugby, born 1914) (1914–1979), rugby union and rugby league footballer for Cardiff
  • David Jenkins (figure skater) (born 1936), American figure skater
  • David Jenkins (footballer) (born 1946), English footballer for Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur
  • David Jenkins (sprinter) (born 1952), Scottish athlete
  • Ab Jenkins (1883–1956), American racing car driver

Other

  • David Jenkins (Royalist) (1582–1663), Welsh judge and Royalist during the English Civil War
  • David P. Jenkins (1823–1915), American Civil War colonel
  • David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins (1899–1969), British Law Lord
  • David Jenkins (librarian) (1912–2002), Welsh librarian
  • David Jenkins (British Army officer) (born 1945), British Army major general
  • David J. Jenkins (born 1942), professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto