David Evins (1909, Lithuania – 1991, New York) was an American shoe designer considered as the "king of pumps" and the "dean of American shoe designers".

[4] Evins was born on July 17, 1907, David Ephraim Levin in Yanislik, Lithuania.

[5][6][note 1] Shortly after, his family moved to London where his father worked as a furrier.

[5] Evins studied at the Pratt Institute in New York and started working as an illustrator for a footwear magazine.

[8] After working as a pattern maker for a few designers, he opened a factory in New York in 1947.