Sir David Charles Mauger KNZM is a New Zealand paediatric oncologist.

[1][2] His father was a member of the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, serving as shipwright on the Aurora, and later had a peak, Mauger Nunatak, in the Ross Dependency named in his honour.

[7] As a youth, Mauger was a promising swimmer as a member of the Dunedin Amateur Swimming Club,[8] where he was coached by Bernard "Punch" Tremaine.

[9] In 1949, he won the De Crewe Challenge Cup as the club's under-12 25-yards breaststroke champion.

[15] In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, he was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to paediatrics.