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Don Bosco Technical College
Don Bosco Technical College (DBTC) is a private Catholic Salesian school in Mandaluyong City, Philippines, opened in 1953 and called the motherhouse of Salesian works in the Philippines.
Don Bradman
Don Bradman (Donald George Bradman, 1908-2001), 'The Don', Australian cricketer; 52 Tests, 6,996 runs at 99.94, 29 centuries; 1948 Invincibles captain; bodyline target; knighted 1949; ICC Hall of Fame 2009.
Don Bradman with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948
Don Bradman's 1948 tour of England: his fourth and final Ashes tour, captaining Australia's 'Invincibles' through 34 matches undefeated, winning the Ashes 4-0, and ending with the famous Oval duck that left his Test average at 99.94.
Don Bragg
Don Bragg (1935-2019), nicknamed Tarzan, American pole vaulter; 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist at 4.70 m and last Olympic champion to use a metal pole; set world records of 4.80 m outdoors (1960) and 4.81 m indoors (1959).
Don Broco
Don Broco is a British rock band formed in 2008 in Bedford, England, led by vocalist Rob Damiani, whose album Amazing Things topped the UK chart in 2021.
Don C. Rockey
Don C. Rockey, also known as Don Rockey, is an American hepatologist at the Medical University of South Carolina known for research on liver fibrosis and portal hypertension.
Don C. Wiley
Don C. Wiley was an American structural biologist at Harvard who solved the structures of influenza hemagglutinin and MHC molecules, winning the 1995 Lasker Award.
Don Callis
Don Callis (Donald Callis, born 1963, Winnipeg) is a Canadian wrestling manager, commentator, and former wrestler, known as The Jackyl in WWF, Cyrus in ECW, an Impact executive, and now AEW's Don Callis Family leader.
Don Callis Family
The Don Callis Family is a villainous professional wrestling stable in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), led by manager Don Callis and built around top singles stars.
Don Carlos
Don Carlos names Verdi's 1867 five-act Paris grand opera (Don Carlo), revised through 1886, and Euvin McCallus Spencer (born 1952), the Jamaican roots-reggae singer and original Black Uhuru member; Carlo Troja also uses the name.
Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle (born 1964, Kansas City) is an American actor, producer, and director known for Devil in a Blue Dress, Hotel Rwanda (Oscar-nominated), the Ocean's trilogy, War Machine in the MCU, and Miles Ahead, plus UNEP climate activism.
Don Cherry
Don Cherry (born 1934, Kingston, Ontario), nicknamed Grapes, is a Canadian ex-AHL defenceman, Boston Bruins coach, and the longtime host of Coach's Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, fired by Sportsnet in November 2019 over remarks about immigrants and poppies.
Don Cherry (trumpeter)
Don Cherry (1936–1995), American jazz trumpeter and cornetist of Ornette Coleman's free jazz quartet; pocket trumpet player, Blue Note leader, and pioneer of world music.
Don Chezina
Don Chezina (Ricardo García Ortiz) is a Puerto Rican reggaeton rapper nicknamed "the Machine Gun Rapper" for his rapid-fire delivery, active since the mid-1990s underground scene.
Don Coover
Don Coover is an American politician, rancher, business owner, and veterinarian from Galesburg, Kansas, the Democratic nominee for Kansas's 2nd congressional district in the 2026 U.S. House election.
Don Coppersmith
Don Coppersmith is an American cryptographer at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, known for the Coppersmith method and for helping design the Data Encryption Standard.
Don Cornelius
Don Cornelius (1936–2012), American TV producer and host, created Soul Train in Chicago in 1970, hosted it until 1993, built the first Black-owned nationally syndicated TV franchise, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2023.
Don Coscarelli
Don Coscarelli (born 1954) is an American independent filmmaker, creator of the Phantasm series and director of The Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-tep, and John Dies at the End.
Don Cossacks (Донские казаки)
Don Cossacks (Донские казаки) are a Cossack community formed on the middle and lower Don from the 15th-16th centuries. Distinct from Zaporozhian and Kuban hosts: krug self-government, 1835 communal land statute, de-Cossackization, and the 2005 Russian state-service revival.
Don Craig Wiley
Don Craig Wiley (1944–2001) was an American structural biologist and Harvard professor best known for determining the structures of influenza hemagglutinin and peptide-bound MHC proteins.
Don D. Sin
Don D. Sin (Don Sin) is a Canadian respirologist known for research linking COPD to systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disease, and Director of the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at the University of British Columbia.
Don Davis
Don Davis (born 1971) is an American Democratic politician and U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2023, after 12 years in the State Senate.
Don Dee
Don Dee (Donald Francis Dee, 1943-2014) was an American basketball player who won gold in men's basketball at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and played one ABA season, 1968-69, with the Indiana Pacers, averaging 5.7 points per game.
Don DeFore
Don DeFore (Donald John DeFore, 1913–1993) was an American actor who played Thorny on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Mr. B on Hazel, and served as Television Academy president in 1954.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo (born 1936) is an American novelist, author of White Noise, Libra, Mao II, and Underworld; winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Jerusalem Prize, and PEN/Saul Bellow Award; a major postmodern American fiction writer.
Don DeWitte
Don DeWitte is a Republican member of the Illinois Senate from the 33rd district, appointed in 2018 and previously mayor of St. Charles from 2005 to 2013.
Don Diablo
Don Diablo (Don Pepijn Schipper, born 1980) is a Dutch future house DJ and producer, founder of the HEXAGON label and Hexagon Radio, creator of the Control Alt Delete alias and the billion-stream album FOREVER.
Don Diamont
Don Diamont (Donald Feinberg, born 1962), American soap actor; Carlo Forenza on Days of Our Lives, Brad Carlton on The Young and the Restless, and Bill Spencer Jr. on The Bold and the Beautiful since 2009.
Don Dokken
Don Dokken (Donald Maynard Dokken, born 1953, Los Angeles) is the American singer, guitarist, and namesake founder of the hard rock band Dokken, fronting its 1980s platinum era, the 1990 solo album Up from the Ashes, and the 2023 album Heaven Comes Down.
Don Domansky
Don Domansky (Bohdan Domansky), Canadian 400m sprinter born 1946 in Ulm, Germany; UCLA graduate; two-time Olympian (1968, 1976), fourth in the 1976 4x400m relay, Pan Am and Commonwealth Games medallist.