Datuk Nicol Ann David DB PJN DSPN KMN AMN (born August 26, 1983) is a Malaysian retired professional squash player.

She remained the only female squash player to have achieved this until Raneem El Weleily won her second World Junior Championship in 2007.

On 7 June 2008, David was honoured with the Order of Merit in conjunction with the birthday of the His Majesty Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin.

[1] While training at the Bukit Dumbar Squash Centre, David was talent spotted by Ee Phoeh Hoon,[23] who led her to represent her home state of Penang, along with her sisters.

It took just half an hour for the then 15-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl to obtain world junior champion status, beating Lynn Leong 9–5, 9–3 and 9–2 in the final to become the youngest ever winner of the title.

[33] In July, David won the World Junior title for a second time, beating Omneya Abdel Kawy in just 17 minutes with a score of 9–2, 9–4 and 9–2 in the final.

[27] She remained the only female squash player to have achieved this until 2007, when Raneem El Weleily won her second World Junior Championship.

[35] In 2002 David, together with her mixed double event partner Ong Beng Hee, won a Commonwealth Games silver medal for Malaysia after losing to Glen Wilson and Leilani Rorani in the final.

[36] Earlier in the year, David defeated Ellen Petersen of Denmark with a score of 9–2, 9–7, 8–10, 9–4 to win the second Kuala Lumpur Open title of her career.

[37] David failed to retain her Asian Games gold medal in 2002, when she was beaten 9–7, 9–5 and 9–7 by Rebecca Chiu of Hong Kong in the final in Busan, South Korea.

[50] she then became the first local player to win the Women's CIMB Malaysian Open Squash Championship title in the event's 31-year history.

[51] In October, David proved that her success in the World Games and in the Malaysian Open was not by chance by becoming the first Malaysian to win a British Open title, the first Asian to win the women's crown, when she beat Australia's Natalie Grinham in the women's final in straight games that lasted in 55 minutes.

[58] David started to show progress later in the year and recovered from the setback to win six straight tour titles and reclaimed the World number 1 spot.

[69] A month later, David again failed to defend her World Open title when she stumbled in the second round, losing to Shelley Kitchen with a score of 0–9, 1–9, 9–2, 9–3 and 6–9 in 69 minutes.

[70] It was the first time since April 2004 that David did not qualify for the quarters of a tournament, losing to the same person who denied her the bronze medal of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 9 months previously.

[71] In December, David won the inaugural Asian Sportswoman of the Year, beating more than 100 competitors who represented 25 sporting bodies.

[76] In her first tournament of the year, the Kuala Lumpur Open, David's 17-month, 56-match winning run was brought to an end when she lost to Natalie Grainger in the final.

[91] A month later, on 24 July, she retained her World Games women's singles title with a win over archrival Natalie Grinham of the Netherlands in straight sets.

[92][93] A week later, on 1 August, David picked up her fifth consecutive Malaysian Open title, winning 11–6, 11–8, 9–11, 11–7 in a 60-minute match against 25-year-old Londoner, Alison Waters.

[94] Dominating on the squash courts, David beat Natalie Grinham to win her third consecutive Singapore Masters championship, and her third title within a month.

[109] In October, in the women's singles final of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, David defeated Jenny Duncalf 11–3, 11–5, 11–7 in 40 minutes to win the gold medal.

The 31-year-old Nicol, a seven-time world champion and five-time British Open winner, exacted sweet revenge over Egyptian teenager Nour El Sherbini to win the US$115,000 (RM479,320) tournament in Philadelphia.

[114] On 27 September 2009 in the $118,000[115] 2009 Women's World Open final,[97] David won the match in four sets 3–11, 11–6, 11–3, 11–8 to become only the third player in the history of the championships to win four titles, alongside Australia's Sarah Fitz-Gerald and New Zealander Susan Devoy.

[163][164] On 12 July 2008, David was among 497 people honoured in conjunction with the 70th birthday of the Penang State Governor Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas.

[165] David was also one of the 28 people who received the Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri award (DSPN),[166] which carries the title Datuk, making her the youngest person ever to be conferred Datukship in Penang.

[165] The former Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a fellow Penangite,[167] once quipped that David is "now more famous than me".