David Watson may refer to:

Politics

  • David Watson (New South Wales politician) (1870–1924), Australian senator
  • David Watson (Queensland politician) (born 1945), Australian politician
  • David K. Watson (1849–1918), American politician; US representative from Ohio

Sport

  • Dave Watson (born 1961), English footballer of the 1980s and 1990s, played for Everton F.C.
  • Dave Watson (American football) (1941–2021), professional American football player
  • Dave Watson (cyclist) (born 1946), Australian Olympic cyclist
  • Dave Watson (ice hockey) (born 1958), retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward
  • Dave Watson (racing driver) (born 1945), American racing driver
  • Dave Watson (rugby league) (born 1966), New Zealand international of the 1980s and 1990s
  • David Watson (1920s rugby league) (1900–1982), Australian rugby player
  • David Watson (coach) (born 1976), American football coach
  • David Watson (cricketer) (1919–1943), English cricketer
  • David Watson (footballer, born 1896) (1896–1978), Scottish footballer for Portsmouth
  • David Watson (footballer, born 1946), English footballer of the 1970s and 1980s, played for Sunderland
  • David Watson (footballer, born 1973), English football goalkeeper of the 1990s, played for Barnsley
  • David Watson (footballer, born 2005), Scottish footballer with Kilmarnock
  • David Watson (rugby union) (1854–1906), Scotland international rugby union player

Arts and entertainment

  • David Watson (actor) (1940–2014), American actor of film, television and theatre
  • David Watson (artist) (born 1944), English industrial painter
  • David Watson (British musician), record producer, singer and musician
  • David Watson (dancer) (born 1968), professional dancer
  • David Watson (New Zealand musician) (born 1960), musician and composer from New Zealand
  • David R. Watson, alias "Iolo", American bowyer and musician
  • Dave Watson (playwright) (–1998), actor and playwright

Other people

  • David Watson (academic) (1949–2015), principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford, UK
  • David Watson (anarchist) (born 1951), American anarchist author
  • David Watson (British Army officer) (1704–1761), Scottish officer and military engineer
  • David Watson (evangelist) (1933–1984), English evangelist and author
  • Sir David Watson (general) (1869–1922), Canadian World War I general
  • David Watson (psychologist), American psychologist
  • David C. C. Watson (1920–2004), English creationist and author
  • David Joseph Watson (died 1948), American murderer, executed in Florida
  • David M. Watson (born 1973), Australian ornithologist and ecologist
  • D. M. S. Watson (1886–1973), British palaeontologist
  • David McCloy Watson (1902-1980), Irish accountant
  • David Mowat Watson (1891–1972), British civil engineer
  • David Paul Watson (), botanist, horticulturist and cannabis breeder, founder of Hortapharm B.V.

See also

  • David Milne-Watson (1869–1945), Scottish industrialist
  • Watson (surname)