David Kaufman or Kaufmann may refer to: David S. Kaufman (1813–1851), American politician David Kaufman (actor) (born 1961), American actor and voice actor David Kaufman (author), theater critic and author of biographies of Charles Ludlam and Doris Day David Kaufmann (1852–1899), Jewish-Austrian scholar David Kaufman (journalist), writer and journalist Dziga Vertov (1896–1954), Soviet filmmaker-experimenter