David Brown (17 August 1803 in Aberdeen – 3 July 1897 in Aberdeen) was a Free Church of Scotland minister at St. James, Glasgow, and professor of theology at Free Church College of the University of Aberdeen. He was co-author of the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871) with Robert Jamieson, St. Paul's, Glasgow and the Rev. A. R. Fausset, St. Cuthbert's, York, England. He was a director of the National Bible Society of Scotland, and the Evangelical Alliance, and the Alliance of the Reformed Churches.
David Brown M.A. D.D. married Catherine Dyce on the 25 Feb 1836 at Saint Nicholas's Church, Aberdeen, Scotland. Their eldest daughter, Margaret Dyce Brown, married Sir David Stewart Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1889 to 1894.