David Kirk (disambiguation)

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David Kirk (born 1961) is a rugby union footballer.

David Edward Kirk is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He is best known for having been the captain of the All Blacks when they won the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987.

David Kirk may also refer to:

David B. Kirk is a computer scientist currently working for NVIDIA.

David Kirk is the creator of the Miss Spider series of children's books published by Scholastic.

Father David Kirk was an American civil rights and anti-poverty activist. He was reared a Baptist but converted to the Melkite Catholic Church and later Orthodox Church in America.

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David Kirke Newfoundland colonial leader

Sir David Kirke was an adventurer, colonizer and governor for the king of England. He is best known for his successful capture of New France in 1629 during the Thirty Years' War and his subsequent governorship of lands in Newfoundland. A favourite of Charles I of England, the fall of the Crown during the English Civil War led to Kirke's downfall. It is believed he died in prison.

David Kirke is a founding member of the Dangerous Sports Club and was the first man to perform the modern bungee jump in 1979.

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William Kirk may refer to:

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David S. Kirk is an American sociologist and associate professor of sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he is also director of research for the department of sociology. Before joining the Oxford faculty in 2015, he was an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests have included the effects of high concentrations of former prisoners in a neighborhood on their probability of reoffending, and the effects of Uber on rates of drunk driving in the United States.