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

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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

See also

  • David Robert Jones (disambiguation)
  • Davy Jones (disambiguation)
  • David Rhys-Jones (born 1962), former Australian rules footballer
  • Dafydd Jones (disambiguation)