Levitan (Lewitan) David (Dawid) (born 1903, Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province), sports figure.

At the beginning of World War I, David Levitan studied in Novorossiysk, then in Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow Physical Culture Technical School, he received a diploma as a physical education instructor. From 1921, he was actively involved in the Moscow sports society “Maccabi” (from 1922 - in leadership positions). He participated in the creation of the Moscow Society of Gymnastics and Sports Enthusiasts. In 1924, he was elected secretary of “Maccabi”. In 1925-26, he was mobilized into the Red Army and served as a physical training instructor.

After demobilization, he was sent to study at the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture, from which he was expelled in 1928. He was arrested on charges of Zionist activity in the Maccabi and Halutz sports societies and sentenced to exile in Shadrinsk in the Southern Urals, where he worked in gymnastics and athletics clubs.

From 1930, David Levitan was in Eretz Israel, where he was a physical education instructor in the HaPoel sports club, combining this activity with work on construction sites and plantations. In 1932, he was elected to the leadership of the HaPoel sports club. From 1934 to 1950, he headed various departments of the club and the physical culture and sports department of the Aliyat HaNoar movement of the Jewish Agency. He was one of the organizers of mass sports and physical education in Israel.