David Gilbert (born October 6, 1944) is an American activist who participated in the deadly 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored vehicle. Gilbert was a founding member of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and became a member of the Weather Underground. Gilbert, who served as the getaway driver in the robbery, was convicted under New York’s felony murder law in the killing by co-defendants of two Nyack, New York police officers and a Brink's security guard.