David Friedman
Wikimedia disambiguation page
David Friedman may refer to:
Music
David Friedman (percussionist) (born 1944), American jazz musician
David Friedman (composer) (born 1950), Broadway and film composer
Film
David Friedman (actor) (born 1973), American film and TV actor and child star of the 1980s
David F. Friedman (1923–2011), American filmmaker (exploitation films)
Writers
David Friedman, the birth name of David Benioff (born 1970), American screenwriter
Dafydd ab Hugh (David Friedman, 1960–2026), science fiction/fantasy writer; political weblogger
David D. Friedman (born 1945), anarcho-capitalist writer, economist, and medieval reenactor
David Friedman (poet), American poet
David Friedman, 19th century Rabbi
Law
David Friedman (judge), American judge in New York
David M. Friedman (born 1958), American former bankruptcy lawyer and diplomat, US Ambassador to Israel from 2017 to 2021.
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