David Holcomb Scott was an American geologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey's Center of Astrogeology in Flagstaff, Arizona.

[2] He served as Discipline Scientist for the NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, and founded the Lunar Geosciences Working Group, which resulted in publication of Status and Future of Lunar Geoscience.

[3] He continued to publish scientific articles on Mars through the 1990s.

[4] He authored more formal lunar and planetary geologic maps than anyone else in the Branch of Astrogeology.

[1] According to Don Wilhelms in his 1993 book To a Rocky Moon:[5]