David Young
Encyclopedia
Music
- David Young (musician)David Young (musician)David Young is an American musician. Two of his albums, Renaissance and Solace, have been nominated for Grammy Awards. He is known for his ability to play two recorders simultaneously. He was also a member of the new age duo Celestial Winds with harpist Lisa Franco.- Life and career :Young started...
, American instrumentalist - Dave Young (musician)Dave Young (musician)Dave Young is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist. He has been a member of several notable groups, including The Devin Townsend Band, Ten Ways from Sunday, Terror Syndrome, and The Matinée. He has also played on the albums Ki and Ghost by Devin Townsend and Alien by Strapping Young Lad...
(born 1982), Canadian rock musician - David J. YoungDavid J. YoungDave Young is a keyboardist, composer, recording artist. He is most well known for producing the soundtracks to the Sega CD video games Sonic CD, Ecco: The Tides of Time, and The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin.-SEGA years:...
, American musician/composer
Science
- David Allan YoungDavid Allan YoungDavid Allan Young, Jr. , was an American entomologist who specialized in the taxonomy of the Cicadellidae and authored a comprehensive treatment of the family with numerous genera and species described and named by him.-Life and work:David Young's father was a traveling salesman and he attended...
(1915–1991), American entomologist - David M. Young, Jr.David M. Young, Jr.David M. Young, Jr. was an American mathematician and computer scientist who was one of the pioneers in the field of modern numerical analysis/scientific computing....
(1923–2008), American mathematician
Sports
- Dai YoungDai YoungDavid "Dai" Young is a Welsh former rugby union and rugby league player, presently Director of Rugby at London Wasps.Born in Aberdare in 1967, Young lived in Penywaun for many years, and was regularly seen training with his father on the local sports field, now occupied by the Welsh-language...
(born 1967), former Welsh rugby union and Rugby league international and British Lion - Dave Young (rugby union) (born 1985), rugby union player for Leicester Tigers
- Dave Young (footballer)Dave Young (footballer)David Young is an English former professional football midfielder. He played in the English Football League for Wigan Athletic....
, former Wigan Athletic player - David Young (Australian footballer)David Young (Australian footballer)David Young is a former Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League ....
(born 1954), Australian rules footballer that played for South Melbourne and Collingwood - David Young (wrestler)David Young (wrestler)David Williams , better known by his ring name, David Young, is an American professional wrestler. Though he has mainly appeared with NWA Wildside and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Young has also competed for Ring of Honor, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración and ZERO-ONE...
(born 1972), American professional wrestler - David Young (basketball)David Young (basketball)David Young is an American basketball player who graduated from Xavier University and North Carolina Central University and was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 2004 NBA Draft. He was signed to a contract but waived a month later, before he played in any NBA games...
(born 1981), drafted in the second round of the 2004 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics - David Young (racing driver), New Zealand racing driver, see 1964 Tasman Series1964 Tasman SeriesThe 1964 Tasman Series was the first Tasman Series season. It began on 4 January 1964 and ended on 2 March after eight races.The series was won by Bruce McLaren, the only one of the four race winning drivers who attended all eight races, a trifecta of wins in New Zealand setting up the...
- David Young (American football)David Young (American football)David Fair Young is a former American football safety of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
(born 1979), former defensive back selected in the 2003 NFL Draft - Dave Young (American football) (born 1959), former tight end selected in the 1981 NFL Draft1981 NFL DraftThe 1981 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 28–29, 1981...
- David Young (hurler)David Young (hurler)David Young is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Toomevara and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team.-Career:...
, Irish sportsperson - David Young (footballer)David Young (footballer)David Young , is an English footballer who played as a central defender in the Football League.-External links:*...
(born 1945), English footballer who played as a central defender in the Football League - David Young (cricketer)David Young (cricketer)David John Young is a former English cricketer. Young was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire....
(born 1977), former English cricketer
Television
- David Young (television producer)David Young (television producer)David Young is a British television producer. In 2001, as the Head of Light Entertainment for the BBC, he created the television programme The Weakest Link.-Biography:...
, British game show devisor and producer - David Young (judge), former Miami-Dade County judge and daytime court television show star
- Judge David YoungJudge David YoungDavid Young is an American judge who stars on the Emmy Award-nominated Judge David Young television show, a daytime nationally syndicated court show. He is the first openly gay TV judge...
, daytime court television show
Government
- David Young (Ontario politician)David Young (Ontario politician)David Young was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....
, politician in Ontario, Canada - David Young (NC politician)David Young (NC politician)David Wallace Young is a businessman who served as Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party from 2009 through 2011....
(born 1959), businessman and the current Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party - David Young, Baron Young of GraffhamDavid Young, Baron Young of GraffhamDavid Ivor Young, Baron Young of Graffham, PC DL is a British Conservative politician and businessman.-Early life:Young is the elder son of a businessman who imported flour and later set up as a manufacturer of coats for children...
(born 1932), British politician and Cabinet minister from the 1980s - David Wright YoungDavid Wright YoungDavid Wright Young, known as David Young , was a British Labour politician.Born in Greenock, Young attended the Greenock Academy, St Paul's College in Cheltenham, and the University of Glasgow...
(1930–2003), British Labour Party MP, 1974–1997 - David Young (Watergate) (born 1936), member of a covert ops team under U.S. President Richard Nixon
Other uses
- David Young (bomber), former policeman who took hostages at an elementary school in Cokeville, Wyoming, 1986
- David Young (bishop) (1931–2008), former Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, England
- David G. Young IIIDavid G. Young IIIDavid G. Young III was a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force.-Biography:Young was born at Camp Cooke. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.D. from the University of Southern California. In 1980 he completed his residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin...
, U.S. Air Force general - David Young (Canadian playwright)David Young (Canadian playwright)David Samuel D'Arcy Young is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.Born in Oakville, Ontario, Young studied at the University of Western Ontario...
(born 1946), Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter - David Young (British Army officer)David Young (British Army officer)Lieutenant General Sir David Tod Young KBE CB DFC was General Officer Commanding Scotland.-Military career:Educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, Young was commissioned into the Royal Scots in 1945...
(1926–2000), General Officer Commanding Scotland - David Young, founding editor of the Farmers' Almanac, 1818
- David Young, CEO of BMI GamingBMI GamingBMI Gaming is a global distributor of arcade games, amusement devices, digital "out-of-home" entertainment and vending machine multichannel distributor and FEC / Arcade / LBE developer founded in 2002 by David L. Young, a serial entrepreneur, marketing professional and arcade games collector, and...
- David Young, writer/actor for CollegeHumorCollegeHumorCollegeHumor is a comedy website owned by InterActiveCorp and based in New York City. The site features daily original comedy videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. In early 2009, CollegeHumor's...
- David Young, Chief Operating Officer of World VisionWorld VisionWorld Vision, founded in the USA in 1950, is an evangelical relief and development organization whose stated goal is "to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of...
- David W. Young, management professor and international consultant http://davidyoung.org