Arts and entertainment

Business

• David B. Jones (1848–1923), American president and chairman of the board of directors of the Mineral Point Zinc Company
• David Jones (merchant) (1793–1873), Welsh-Australian department store founder
• David Jones (advertising executive) (born 1966), English born businessman

Military

• David Jones (VC) (1892–1916), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• David M. Jones (1913–2008), U.S. Air Force major general, one of Doolittle's Raiders
• David C. Jones (1921–2013), U.S. Air Force general, chairman Joints Chief of Staff
• David Rumph Jones (1825–1863), Confederate general

Politics

Religion

• David Jones (Llangan) (1736–1810), Welsh Church of England priest who was supportive of Methodism
• David Jones (missionary) (1796–1841), Welsh missionary in Madagascar
• David Bevan Jones (1807–1863), Welsh Baptist minister
• David Evan Jones (missionary) (1870–1947), Welsh missionary in Mizoram, India
• David Jones (Dean of Llandaff) (1870–1949), Dean of Llandaff Cathedral
• David Jones (archdeacon of Carmarthen) (1874–1950), Archdeacon of Carmarthen
• David Colin Jones (born 1943), American bishop

Science, engineering and academia

• David A. Jones (active since 1995), head of the National Climate Centre at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
• David Dallas Jones (1887–1956), president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina and brother of Robert Elijah Jones
• David E. H. Jones (1938–2017), best known as Daedalus, British writer and scientist
• David James Jones (1886–1947), Welsh philosopher and academic
• David Lewis Jones (1945–2010), Welsh historian and librarian
• David L. Jones (botanist) (born 1944), Australian horticultural botanist
• David L. Jones (video blogger) (active since 2009), Australian electronic engineer and blogger
• David Wyn Jones (born 1950), British musicologist
• David R. Jones (biologist) (1941–2010), recipient of Flavelle Medal
• David T. Jones (scientist) (David Tudor Jones, born 1966), professor of bioinformatics

Sports

Other people

• David Jones (barrister) (1765–1816), Welsh barrister
• David Jones (railway) (1834–1906), locomotive superintendent of the Highland Railway in Scotland
• David M. Jones (ca. 2019), American immigration judge
• David R. Jones (organizer) (1938–1998), Charles Edison Memorial Youth Fund co-founder
• David R. Jones (architect) (1832–1915), Welsh-American architect and poet
• David Lloyd Jones (architect) (1942–1997), in London
• David Lloyd Jones, Lord Lloyd-Jones (born 1952), British Supreme Court judge
• David Thomas Jones (administrator) (1866–1931), British administrator and author
• David Jones (died 1872), lynching victim
• David Butler-Jones, Canadian physician, first Chief Public Health Officer of Canada