David Wilkins may refer to: David H. Wilkins (born 1946), American politician and ambassador David Wilkins (sailor) (born 1950), Irish sailor David Wilkins (orientalist) (1685–1745), Prussian orientalist David B. Wilkins, American law professor David E. Wilkins, Lumbee political scientist and scholar of Native politics Dave Wilkins (1914–1990), jazz trumpeter from Barbados