David Johnston or Dave Johnston may refer to:

Politics

David Johnston (governor general) David Lloyd Johnston (born June 28, 1941) is a Canadian academic, author, and statesman who served as the 28th governor general of Canada from 2010 to 2017. Johnston was the special rapporteur appointed to investigate reports of Chinese govern ...

(born 1941), former governor general of Canada *

David Johnston (Australian politician) David Albert Lloyd Johnston (born 14 February 1956) is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate from 2002 to 2016, representing the state of Western Australia. Johnston was the Minister for Defence from ...

(born 1956), Australian Senator and former Defence Minister *

David Johnston (British politician) David Mervyn Johnston (born 27 November 1981) is a British politician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing from August 2023 to the general election of July 2024. A member of the Conservativ ...

(born 1981), British politician * David Emmons Johnston (1845–1917), U.S. Congressman * David Russell Johnston (1932–2008), Scottish politician

Sports

* David Johnston (Australian footballer) (born 1969), former Australian rules footballer * Davie Johnston (footballer, born 1942) (1942–2004), Scottish footballer, played for Heart of Midlothian FC and Aberdeen FC * Davie Johnston (footballer, born 1948), Scottish footballer, played for Dundee FC * David Johnston (rugby union, born 1958), Scottish rugby player and coach, also played football for Heart of Midlothian FC * David Johnston (English cricketer) (born 1943), former English cricketer * David Johnston (South Australia cricketer) (born 1954), Australian cricketer *

David Johnston (New South Wales cricketer) This is a list of male cricketers who have played for New South Wales in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. It is complete to the end of the 2017–18 season. The list refers to the sides named as "New South Wales" and does not include pl ...

(born 1955), Australian cricketer * David Johnston (rugby union, born 1994), Irish rugby player * D. T. Johnston (1889–1953), Australian sportsman and local politician *

David Johnston (swimmer) David Johnston is an American swimmer and 2024 World Aquatics Championships The 2024 World Aquatics Championships, the 21st edition of the World Aquatics Championships, were held in Doha, Qatar, from 2 to 18 February 2024. Originally sched ...

(born 2001), American swimmer

Others

David Johnston (minister) David Johnstone (1734–1824) was a Church of Scotland minister who served almost 60 years as minister of North Leith Parish Church. He was Chaplain in Ordinary to King George IV in Scotland. Life He was born in Arngask manse, near Glenfar ...

(1734–1824) Church of Scotland minister of Leith *

Dave Johnston (musician) Yonder Mountain String Band is an American progressive bluegrass group from Nederland, Colorado. Composed of Dave Johnston, Ben Kaufmann, Adam Aijala, Nick Piccininni, and Coleman Smith, the band has released eleven studio albums and six live re ...

, American banjo player for Yonder Mountain String Band *

Dave Johnston (police officer) David Johnston is a former senior officer of the Metropolitan Police Service he served between 2004 -2008 as Commander of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command and as a hostage negotiator. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the 2008 B ...

, head of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command for the Metropolitan Police (United Kingdom) *

David Johnston (newsreader) David Johnston (born 4 December 1941) is a Welsh-born Australian retired television news presenter. Johnston, known as ''DJ'' to hundreds of thousands of viewers and colleagues, presented his last bulletin on the Seven Network on 23 September 2 ...

(born 1941), former Australian newsreader *

David A. Johnston David Alexander Johnston (December 18, 1949 – May 18, 1980) was an American United States Geological Survey (USGS) volcanologist who was killed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. A pr ...

(1949–1980), volcanologist killed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens *

David Cay Johnston David Cay Boyle Johnston (born December 24, 1948) is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. From July 2011 until September 2012 he was ...

(born 1948), investigative journalist *

David Claypoole Johnston David Claypoole Johnston (25 March 1799 – 8 November 1865) was a 19th-century American cartoonist, printmaker, painter, and actor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first natively trained American to master all the various graphic arts ...

(1799–1865), American cartoonist, printmaker, painter and actor * David E. Johnston, British classical archaeologist and historian *

David Johnston (admiral) Admiral David Lance Johnston, (born 1962) is a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He served as Deputy Commander Joint Task Force 633 on Operation Slipper in 2010, Commander Border Protection Command from 2011 to 2013 and, following ...

(born 1962), senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy *

David Eric Lothian Johnston David Eric Lothian Johnston KC (born 1961) is a Scottish legal expert, currently Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh.Profile oDavid Eric Lothian Johnston website of the Edinburgh Law School; read 17 July 2014. Career Johns ...

(born 1961), Scottish legal expert *

David Johnston (merchant) David Johnston (or Johnstone) (3 January 1724 – 12 January 1809) was an American merchant and politician of Scottish descent who served as the president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York. Early life Johnston was born on ...

(1724–1809), American merchant and politician *

David Jhave Johnston David Jhave Johnston is a Canadian poet, videographer, and motion graphics artist working chiefly in digital and computational media,. and a researcher at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen. This artist's work is often ...

, Canadian poet, videographer, and motion graphics artist * David Johnston (soldier) (1838–1931) American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor

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