David Hillman (21 November 1934 – 8 August 2009) was an English operatic tenor who sang with all the leading opera companies in the United Kingdom.
His professional opera debut was as Arvino in I Lombardi with Welsh National Opera in 1962, and early engagements with that company and with Sadler's Wells Opera included the principal tenor roles in The Queen of Spades, La traviata, The Magic Flute, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La bohème and Gloriana, as well as those in The Mikado, Ruddigore, and La belle Hélène.
He also created roles in the world premières of operas by Thea Musgrave, Iain Hamilton, Malcolm Williamson (The Violins of Saint-Jacques), Stephen Paulus and, most notably, Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur.
He sang Sinon in a hitherto unstaged episode in Part 1 (La prise de Troie) of Les Troyens for Opera North in 1986.
He sang numerous roles for Scottish Opera in the 1970s and 1980s, including Eisenstein, Nero in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Cassio in Otello, Macduff in Macbeth and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream.