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David Milch (1945, Buffalo, New York) is an American television writer, producer, and executive.

He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Yale and won the Tinker Prize in English. He earned an MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Milch worked as a teacher and lecturer in English literature at Yale. During his teaching career at Yale, he assisted Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the writing of several college textbooks on literature. Milch's poetry and fiction have been published in The Atlantic Monthly and the Southern Review.

In 1982, Milch wrote a script for Hill Street Blues. This began his career in television. He worked five seasons on Hill Street Blues as executive story editor and then as executive producer. Milch earned two more Writers Guild Awards, a second Humanitas prize, and another Emmy while working on that show.

Milch created NYPD Blue with Steven Bochco and served as Executive Producer of that series for seven seasons. After NYPD Blue, Milch created a CBS series called Big Apple.

From 2002-2006, Milch produced Deadwood, a dramatic series for HBO. Milch served as creator, writer, and executive producer. The series ended in 2006, following its third season, but there are plans for two feature length movies.

Milch began production in 2006 on John from Cincinnati, another dramatic series for HBO.

• Total Security (1997) - co-creator, writer.
• NYPD Blue (1993-2005) - co-creator, writer, producer.
• Deadwood - creator, writer, producer.
• Capital News (1990) - co-creator, writer, producer.
• John from Cincinnati (2006) - creator, writer, producer

• 1994 Edgar Award, Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "4B or Not 4B")
• 1995 Emmy Award, Best Drama Series (NYPD Blue)
• 1995 Edgar Award, Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay (NYPD Blue, "Simone Says") (shared with Steven Bochco and Walon Green)

• David Milch at the Internet Movie Database
• Profile: HBO
• David Milch article at Salon.com
• Milch at MIT