David Proudfoot

David Proudfoot (1838–1891) was a New Zealand engineering contractor and company director in Dunedin. He was born in Gilmerton, Midlothian, Scotland in about 1838.

He was a Dunedin landowner and contractor, and was one of the promoters of the Dunedin Peninsula and Ocean Beach Railway. He owned the horse-drawn trams serving the suburbs of Dunedin and having a "virtual monopoly", until he sold them to the Dunedin City and Suburban Tramway Co in 1883 for £55,000.

About 1883 he left Dunedin, and died in Sydney on 20 March 1891 while undergoing surgery.

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