David Doak is a
video game designer originally from
Belfast,
Northern Ireland. Doak first worked with
Rare where he worked on games including
GoldenEye 007 and
Perfect Dark. At the end of 1998 he left Rare to help start
Free Radical Design.
The fictional characters 'Dr. Doak' in the 'Facility' level and the secret multiplayer mode character 'Dave' in GoldenEye 007 were named after him.