David Brooks is the name of:

• David Brooks (journalist) (born 1961), conservative commentator for The New York Times and other publications
• David Brooks (politician) (1756–1838), United States representative in the Fifth United States Congress
• David Brooks (inventor), an inventor who patented an innovative insulator for telegraph lines in 1867 while working for the Central Pacific Railroad
• David Brooks (murderer) (born 1955), a teenaged accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll
• David Allen Brooks (born 1947), a film and television actor who played archaelogist Max Eilerson on the science-fiction television series Crusade