David George Marr FAHA (born September 22, 1937) is an American/Australian historian specializing in the modern history of Vietnam.
[1] Marr was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Henry George (an auditor) and Louise M. (a teacher; maiden name Brown).
[2] Marr studied at Dartmouth College (BA), before joining the US Marine Corps as an intelligence officer.
After leaving the Marines in 1964 he sought to understand the roots of Vietnamese patriotism as a graduate student at UC Berkeley (PhD 1968).
He is currently Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.