David Stuart Holmes Rosenthal (born 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is a British-American computer scientist.

[1] His brother Mark Geoffrey Thomas Rosenthal ran to be a member of the UK Parliament for Ynys Môn in 2015.

In the 1980s he worked on the Andrew Project at Carnegie Mellon University with James Gosling.

[2][3] In 1985 he joined Sun Microsystems, and developed the NeWS Network extensible Window System with Gosling and co-authored a book on it.

[7] His research concerned computer data storage long-term protection techniques.