David "Daka" Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Давид "Дака" Поповић; 28 December 1886 – 17 February 1967) was a Serbian engineer, army officer, architect, journalist, historian, and a politician who served as the first Ban of Danube Banovina, Minister of Land Reform and a senator of Senate of Kingdom of Yugoslavia [sr].

He went to a high school in Szeged and he graduated in 1913 from Royal Joseph Polytechnic, today known as Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

[2] Nikola Mirkov [sr], an engineer who created plans for large expansions Danube–Tisa–Danube Canal, worked in Daka's company.

[4] Popović begun his political career in 1927 when he joined People's Radical Party, in the same year he was elected to a Local Assembly of Bačka Oblast.

He resigned as one of the owners of the newspapers in 1938, but he continued to write about political and historical questions in Dan until it was abolished when the German occupation in World War II begun.