David Sproat Kennedy (1791 – February 2, 1853) was a Scottish-American merchant and banker who served as the 23rd president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York.

[1] Kennedy was born in 1791 in the seaport town of Kirkcudbright on the southwest border of Scotland and named after his great-uncle, David Sproat.

[3] In 1807, he sailed to New York and accepted a clerkship in the merchant house set up by his uncle James Lenox in 1796 with his partner, Robert Maitland, known as Jas.

"[3] After his father-in-law's death in 1839, Kennedy succeeded to the management of part of the large estate as well as inheriting substantial property from his uncle, James Lenox, who died unmarried, also in 1839.

Together, they were the parents of: Between 1840 and 1845, he was painted by the American portrait artist Henry Inman, which today is owned by the New-York Historical Society.