David Kaufman or David 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 Kaufman (tailor) (1833–1912), early Jewish pioneer

• David Kaufmann (1852–1899), Jewish-Austrian scholar

• David Kaufman (journalist), writer and journalist

• Dziga Vertov (1896–1954), Soviet filmmaker-experimenter