David Frederick Hawkins (3 December 1933 – 5 November 2020) was an Australian world-class competition swimmer who won three gold medals at the British Empire Games in 1950 and 1954. At the 1952 Summer Olympics he reached the semifinals of the 200-metre breaststroke event. Hawkins was the Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.