David Hirst is the name of: David Hirst (judge) (1925–2011), English Lord Justice of Appeal, 1992–1999 David Hirst (journalist) (1936–2025), Middle East correspondent based in Beirut David Hirst (footballer) (born 1967), former football player, played for Sheffield Wednesday David Hirst (arachnologist), described many species of huntsman spider, South Australian Museum in Adelaide
See also David Hurst (1926–2019), British-German actor, best known as Rudolph the headwaiter in Hello, Dolly David W. Hurst (c. 1820s–1882), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi