David Jones
David, Dafydd, Dai, Dave, Davy, or Di Jones may refer to:
People
Arts and entertainment
Music
- David Bowie, English musician and actor
- Dave Jones (drummer), drummer with New York band Agnostic Front
- David Jones (jazz musician), American jazz saxophonist
- David Jones (drummer), Australian drummer
- David Evan Jones (composer), American composer, pianist, and educator
- David Lynn Jones, American country music singer-songwriter
- Davy Jones (musician), English musician and member of The Monkees
Other
- David Jones (director), English stage, television and film director
- David Jones (presenter), English sports broadcaster on Sky Sports since 1999
- David Jones (artist-poet), British modernist poet, writer, and artist
- David Jones (programmer), former freelance computer game programmer
- David Jones (video game developer), Scottish video game programmer and entrepreneur
- David Jones (writer), creator of the television series Fireman Sam
- Dai Jones, Welsh television presenter and radio broadcaster
- David Annwn Jones, Anglo-Welsh poet, critic and teacher
- David Elwyn Jones, Welsh writer, politician, and poet
- David R. Jones (journalist), American journalist, winner of two Gerald Loeb Awards.
- David R. Jones (biologist), British-born biologist, moved to Canada in 1969
- David Watkin Jones, Welsh poet, historian and geologist
Business
- David B. Jones, American president and chairman of the board of directors of the Mineral Point Zinc Company
- David Jones (merchant), Welsh-Australian department store founder
- David Jones (advertising executive), English born businessman
Military
- David Jones (VC), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
- David M. Jones, U.S. Air Force major general, one of Doolittle's Raiders
- David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force general, chairman Joints Chief of Staff
- David Rumph Jones, Confederate general
Politics
Canada
- David Jones (Upper Canada politician), lawyer, judge and political figure
- David Ford Jones, Ontario manufacturer and political figure
United Kingdom
- David Jones (Carmarthenshire MP), Welsh banker and Conservative Party politician
- David Jones (Clwyd West MP), Conservative Party MP, former AM and Welsh Secretary
- D. T. Jones, Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, 1945–1959
- David Brynmor Jones, barrister, historian and Liberal Member of Parliament
United States
- David C. Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- David W. Jones, secretary of state of Wisconsin
- David P. Jones, two-time mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Dave Jones (politician), California insurance commissioner
- J. David Jones, member of the Illinois House of Representatives
Elsewhere
- David Jones (New Zealand politician), New Zealand politician
- David Jones (Guernsey politician), Minister of Housing in Guernsey, Channel Islands
- David Ivon Jones, Welsh Communist, newspaper editor, and political prisoner in South Africa
Religion
- David Jones (Llangan), Welsh Church of England priest who was supportive of Methodism
- David Jones (missionary), Welsh missionary in Madagascar
- David Bevan Jones, Welsh Baptist minister
- David Evan Jones (missionary), Welsh missionary in Mizoram, India
- David Jones (Dean of Llandaff), Dean of Llandaff Cathedral
- David Jones (archdeacon of Carmarthen), Archdeacon of Carmarthen
- David Colin Jones, American bishop
Science, engineering and academia
- David A. Jones, head of the National Climate Centre at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
- David Dallas Jones, president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina and brother of Robert Elijah Jones
- David E. H. Jones, best known as Daedalus, British writer and scientist
- David James Jones, Welsh philosopher and academic
- David Lewis Jones, Welsh historian and librarian
- David L. Jones (botanist), Australian horticultural botanist
- David L. Jones (video blogger), Australian electronic engineer and blogger
- David Wyn Jones, British musicologist
- David R. Jones (biologist), recipient of Flavelle Medal
- David T. Jones (scientist), professor of bioinformatics
Sports
American football
- David Jones (Browns owner), majority owner of the Cleveland Browns from 1953 to 1961
- David Jones (Cardinals owner), American football team owner for the Chicago Cardinals
- David Jones (cornerback), American football player
- David Jones (offensive lineman), American football player for the Washington Redskins
- David Jones (safety), American football player; see 2017 New England Patriots season
- David Jones (tight end), American football player for the Los Angeles Raiders
- Dave Jones (American football), American football player
- Deacon Jones, American football player
Association football
- Dave Jones (footballer, born 1932), Welsh football goalkeeper
- Dave Jones (footballer, born 1956), English footballer and manager
- David Jones (footballer, born 1910), Welsh international footballer
- David Jones (football defender, born 1914), Welsh footballer
- David Jones (football goalkeeper, born 1914), Welsh footballer
- David Jones (footballer, born 1935), English footballer
- David Jones (footballer, born 1936), Welsh footballer
- David Jones (footballer, born 1940), 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, Welsh footballer
Rugby
- David Jones (rugby, born 1881), rugby union and rugby league footballer
- David Phillips Jones, rugby union footballer
- David Jones (rugby, born 1900), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1920s
- David Jones (Welsh rugby), rugby league footballer of the 1960s
- Dafydd Jones, rugby union footballer for Wales, and Scarlets
Other sports
- David Jones (runner), British sprinter and Olympic bronze medallist
- David Jones (darts player), Welsh darts player
- David Jones (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player for the Minnesota Wild
- David Jones (golfer), Northern Irish professional golfer
- David Jones (cricketer, born 1914), English cricketer
- David Jones (cricketer, born 1920), Welsh cricketer
- David Jones (sailor), sailor from United States Virgin Islands
- David Jones (sport shooter), Australian sports shooter
- Dai St. John, 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), Canadian volleyball player
- David Jones (basketball), 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), Welsh barrister
- David Jones (railway), locomotive superintendent of the Highland Railway in Scotland
- David M. Jones, American immigration judge
- David R. Jones (organizer), Charles Edison Memorial Youth Fund co-founder
- David R. Jones (architect), Welsh-American architect and poet
- David Lloyd Jones (architect), in London
- David Lloyd Jones, Lord Lloyd-Jones, British Supreme Court judge
- David Thomas Jones (administrator), British administrator and author
- David Jones, 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), a chain of department stores in Australia
- David Jones (album), a 1965 album by Davy Jones