The Honourable Paul David (December 25, 1919 - April 5, 1999) was a Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute , and Senator.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Louis-Athanase David and Antonia Nantel, he received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in 1939 and his M.D. from the University of Montreal in 1944. He specialised in cardiology in Boston at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1946 and in Paris at the Hôpital Lareboisière in 1947. Upon his return to Montreal he worked at the Notre-Dame Hospital. He founded the Montreal Heart Institute in 1954. It was under his direction that the first heart transplant ever performed in Canada was carried out at the Institute, in 1968.

In 1985 he was appointed by Brian Mulroney to the Senate as a Progressive Conservative representing the Senatorial division of Bedford, Quebec. He retired on his 75th birthday in 1994. His father, Louis-Athanase David and Grand-Father, Laurent-Olivier David were also Senators.

In 1968 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1981.In 1988 he was named a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

He married Yvette Lemire and had six children: Françoise, Pierre, Charles-Philippe, Thérèse, Anne-Marie and Hélène.

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