John Davidson "David" Briggs (7 November 1917 – 16 March 2020) was an English educator. He was born in Norwich, England. Briggs was the Headmaster of King's College School, Cambridge from 1959 until his retirement in 1977. From 1946 he taught classics at Bryanston School in Dorset.
Briggs died at age 102 on 16 March 2020.