Vice Admiral Sir Hugh David Stevenson AC, KBE (24 August 1918 – 26 October 1998) was a senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy, serving as Chief of Naval Staff from 1973 to 1976.

After initial training in HMAS Canberra, he was posted to HMS Queen Elizabeth, flagship of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, which was observing the Spanish Civil War.

He returned to HMAS Napier as Flotilla Navigating Officer, and remained in her until the end of the war, including a period of temporary command when Captain H.J.

Buchanan, in charge of the first British landing force in Japan, went ashore at Yokosuka and Lieutenant Stevenson took the ship into Tokyo Bay.

In 1952, promoted to commander, Stevenson served again under Captain Buchanan as Navigating Officer of the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney.

77 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, back to Australia after service in the Korean War.

Stevemson then sailed in Vengeance to the UK where she was decommissioned at Devonport Dockyard late in 1955; he then commissioned HMAS Melbourne at this yard.

In 1966 Stevenson studied at the Imperial Defence College in London, returning in 1967 and promotion to commodore, appointed as Naval Officer in Charge (NOIC) Western Australia and Captain of HMAS Leeuwin, the Junior Recruit Training Establishment.

[4] In retirement, Sir David Stevenson became chairman for the ACT for the Queen Elizabeth Fund for Young Australians.

After a number of strokes in the 10 years before his death, he became progressively more physically handicapped while remaining mentally alert.

In 1985 he and his wife retired to the Gold Coast, Queensland, near where he had attended school, where he continued his interests in golf, fishing, sailing, lawn bowls, travelling, reading and playing bridge.