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David Myers

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ529846
Source-derived summary

David or Dave Myers may refer to:

Politics and government

David Myers (Indiana judge) (1859–1955), Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court

David Myers (Oklahoma politician) (1938–2011), American politician, member of the Oklahoma Senate

David Myers (Mississippi politician) (born 1961), American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives

David Myers (police officer) (fl. 1980s–2010s), commander in the San Diego County Sheriff's Department

Sports

Dave Myers (American football) (1906–1997), American football player for Staten Island Stapletons and Brooklyn Dodges

Dave Myers (baseball) (born 1959), American baseball coach

David Myers (rugby league) (1971–2008), English rugby league footballer

David Myers (Australian footballer) (born 1989), Australian rules footballer

Others

David Myers (cinematographer) (1914–2004), American photographer and cinematographer

Dave Myers (fl. 1950s–1980s), bass player for American band The Aces

David Myers (songwriter), English songwriter active in the 1970s and 1980s

David Myers (psychologist) (born 1942), American psychologist

D. G. Myers (literary critic) (David G. Myers, 1952–2024), American literary critic

Dave Myers (presenter) (1957–2024), British presenter of cookery programmes, one of the Hairy Bikers

David N. Myers (born 1960), American historian

David Myers (American chef) (fl.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “David Myers” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through David, Myers and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1859, 1955, 1938, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, David, Myers and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q529846. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1859, 1955, 1938 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from David Myers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.