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Don Don
Don Don is a name shared by several businesses and places, most prominently Don Don Donki, the Southeast Asian store format of the Japanese discount retailer Don Quijote.
Don Douglas
Don Douglas is an American politician and Republican member of the Kentucky Senate from the 22nd district, and the first Black Republican elected to that body.
Don Draper
Don Draper (real name Dick Whitman, born 1926) is the protagonist of AMC's Mad Men (2007-2015), played by Jon Hamm. A Korean War identity swap made him Sterling Cooper's brilliant, secretive creative director and later agency founding partner.
Don Drysdale
Don Drysdale (1936-1993), "Big D," Hall of Fame right-handed pitcher for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, 1956-1969; 209-166, 2.95 ERA, 1962 Cy Young, 58 2/3 scoreless innings in 1968, 1966 Koufax holdout.
Don Ed Hardy
Don Ed Hardy (born 1945, Des Moines, Iowa) is an American tattoo artist and printmaker who fused Japanese tattooing with American traditional style, ran San Francisco's Realistic Tattoo, published Tattootime, and licensed his name to the 2000s Ed Hardy fashion brand.
Don Eigler
Don Eigler is an American physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center, the first person to move and control a single atom using a scanning tunnelling microscope.
Don Estelle
Don Estelle (born Ronald Edwards, 1933-2003) was an English actor and singer who played Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and topped the UK chart in 1975 with 'Whispering Grass' alongside Windsor Davies.
Don Everly
Don Everly (Isaac Donald Everly, 1937–2021), American singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist; elder half of the Everly Brothers, whose 1957–1962 hits like "Bye Bye Love" and "Cathy's Clown" defined close-harmony rock and roll.
Don Felder
Don Felder (Donald William Felder, born 1947, Gainesville, Florida) is an American guitarist, Eagles lead guitarist 1974–2001, co-writer of "Hotel California", Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and solo artist behind Airborne and The Vault.
Don Francisco (television host)
Don Francisco, stage name of Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld (born 1940, Talca, Chile), hosted Sábado Gigante for 53 years, a Guinness record, founded Chile's Teletón, and later hosted Reflexiones on CNN en Español.
Don Francks
Don Francks (Donald Harvey Francks, 1932–2016), stage name Iron Buffalo, was a Canadian actor, jazz vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as Walter in La Femme Nikita and for Finian's Rainbow (1968).
Don Frye
Don "The Predator" Frye (born 1965), American MMA fighter and pro wrestler; won UFC 8 and Ultimate Ultimate 1996 tournaments, starred in PRIDE and NJPW in Japan, famous for the 2002 Takayama brawl, UFC Hall of Fame 2016.
Don Gaetz
Don Gaetz, Republican Florida state senator from District 1, Senate President 2012-2014, re-elected 2024; VITAS Healthcare co-founder, former Okaloosa schools superintendent, father of former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Don Galloway
Don Galloway (Donald Poe Galloway) was an American actor best known for playing Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on the NBC crime drama Ironside from 1967 to 1975.
Don Ganem
Don Ganem is an American virologist who spent about 30 years at UCSF studying hepatitis B virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, then led infectious disease research at Novartis.
Don Gauf
Don Gauf (Donald Valentine Gauf, 1927-2014), Canadian ice hockey defenseman with the Edmonton Mercurys; won gold at the 1950 World Championships and the 1952 Oslo Olympics, scoring the tying goal against the United States in Canada's last men's Olympic hockey gold for 50 years.
Don Giddens
Don Giddens is an American biomedical engineer who established the fluid mechanics theory of atherosclerosis and led Georgia Tech's College of Engineering from 2002 to 2011.
Don Gil de las calzas verdes
Don Gil de las calzas verdes is a 1615 Spanish comedy of intrigue by Tirso de Molina, in which doña Juana disguises herself as a man in green breeches.
Don Gilet
Don Gilet (also Don Gilét), English actor born 1967 in Walsall, trained at Mountview; known for Lucas Johnson in EastEnders (204 episodes) and as Death in Paradise's first Black lead detective, DI Mervin Wilson.
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni: Mozart's two-act dramma giocoso to a Lorenzo Da Ponte libretto, premiered Prague, October 29, 1787. Don Juan legend; Prague and Vienna versions; Italian language; core operatic repertoire.
Don Gordon (actor)
Don Gordon (Donald Walter Guadagno, 1926-2017), American character actor, Emmy-nominated for The Defenders, best known as Steve McQueen's frequent co-star in Bullitt, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno.
Don Gorske
Donald (Don) Gorske, the Big Mac record holder and "Mac Daddy", is a retired Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, prison guard who has eaten Big Macs daily since 17 May 1972, holding the Guinness World Record for most Big Macs eaten in a lifetime (over 35,000 by March 2025), documented with every receipt.
Don Grady
Don Grady (Don Louis Agrati, 1944-2012) was an American actor and musician: a 1957-58 Mouseketeer, Robbie Douglas on My Three Sons (1960-72), drummer of Yellow Balloon, and composer of the Phil Donahue theme.
Don Guardian
Don Guardian is an American Republican politician who has represented New Jersey's 2nd district in the General Assembly since 2022, after serving as mayor of Atlantic City from 2014 to 2018.
Don Gummer
Don Gummer (Donald James Gummer), American sculptor born 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky, husband (separated 2018) of Meryl Streep. Known for Constructivist-influenced wall reliefs and monumental bronze and steel sculptures, including Primary Separation at MASS MoCA.
Don Haldeman
Don Haldeman (Donald Stanley Haldeman, 1947-2003), American trap shooter and Army Reserve sergeant from Souderton, Pennsylvania; won 1976 Montreal Olympic trap gold with 190/200, first US trap gold since 1924, after 17th at Munich 1972.
Don Hany
Don Hany (born 1975) is an Australian actor of Hungarian and Iraqi heritage, known for Zane Malik in East West 101 (2010 Silver Logie winner), Offspring, Serangoon Road, Healing, Neighbours, and The Survivors.
Don Haskins
Don Haskins, "The Bear" (1930-2008), UTEP/Texas Western basketball coach 1961-99; won 719 games and the 1966 NCAA title over Kentucky with the first all-Black starting five.
Don Hastings
Don Hastings (born 1934), full name Donald Francis Michael Hastings, American actor: the Video Ranger on Captain Video (DuMont, 1949-55) and Dr. Bob Hughes on As the World Turns from October 1960 to 2010; also wrote for the series.
Don Havens
Don Havens (Donald Havens) is an American sprint freestyle swimmer, USC class of 1969, who won the 1967 Tokyo Universiade 100 m freestyle, swam on a world-record 4x100 m relay, and clocked 52.5 in 1969.