David Gilmore (born 5 February 1964, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American session jazz guitarist.

Gilmore studied at New York University with Joe Lovano and Jim McNeely. In 1987 he began working professionally with the "M-Base Collective" and Ronald Shannon Jackson. In the 1990s he was a member of a jazz fusion band called Lost Tribe and has also appeared with Me'shell N'Degeocello, Monday Michiru and Tom Lang. He appeared on records by Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson, Michael Kamen, Steve Williamson, Elton John, M-Base Collective, Strata Institute, Lonnie Plaxico, Don Byron as well as Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra.