David Wise (often also credited as Dave Wise) is a video game music composer. He's the in-house composer at Rareware, and his music appears in most of the Rareware-developed titles. He's known for his atmospheric style of music, mixing natural envrionmental sounds and setting it to a tune.

Undoubtedly his most famous work is the soundtrack for Donkey Kong Country series of games, widely considered to be some of the best soundtracks to ever appear on SNES. Aside of the usual jolly "jungle" themes that fit to Donkey Kong's style in general, these games have a quite wide variety of different musical styles in different areas of the game. The music in this series pushed the musical capabilities of the SNES hardware to the limits. More recently, he's done the soundtrack for Star Fox Adventures, is in charge of doing the music for the Game Boy Advance port of Donkey Kong Country 3, and is working on a mystery Xbox title.

Video game credits

• Battletoads
• Donkey Kong Country
• Donkey Kong Land
• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong-Quest
• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (Additional Music)
• Diddy Kong Racing
• Donkey Kong Country (GBC)
• Star Fox Adventures
• It's Mr. Pants