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