David McLean may refer to:

• David McLean (actor) (1922–1995), American film and television actor
• David McLean (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1951), Scottish football player (Celtic, Ayr United) and manager (East Fife, Bristol Rovers, Heart of Midlothian)
• David McLean (footballer, born 1890) (1890–1967), Scottish international football player
• David McLean (footballer, born 1957), English footballer, played for Darlington
• David McLean (rugby league), Australian rugby league player
• David McLean (historian), British historian
• David McLean (umpire), Scottish cricket umpire
• David G. A. McLean (born 1938), chairman of the Canadian National Railway Company
• David Maclean (born 1953), British politician, Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border
• David Stuart MacLean, author
• David Maclean, drummer and producer for the British band Django Django
• David McLean, farmer who captured in 1941 Rudolf Hess, leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany