David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, composer, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. Lynch is probably best known for Blue Velvet and as the creator of the Twin Peaks television series.

Over a lengthy career, Lynch has employed a distinctive and unorthodox approach to narrative film making (dubbed Lynchian), which has become instantly recognizable to many audiences and critics worldwide. Lynch's films are known for surreal, nightmarish and dreamlike images and meticulously crafted sound design. His work often explores the seedy underside of "Small Town U.S." (particularly Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks), or sprawling California metropolises (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and his latest release, Inland Empire). Beginning with his experimental film school feature Eraserhead (1977), he has maintained a strong cult following despite inconsistent commercial success.

David Lynch (b. 1961) is an American saxophonist from Los Angeles. During the recent years, apart from many collaborations and side projects, he has been mainly active both as a saxophonist and a composer, with the Greek jazz group "Human Touch", along with his good friends and renowned musicians Stavros Lantsias on the piano and the drums and Yiotis Kiourtsoglou on the electric bass. The band is holding a gig once a week in an ethnic jazz bar in downtown Athens. The band have, so far, released two albums: "Human Touch", 1998 "Movin'", 2004

Lynch is married to Greek singer Elli Paspala.