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Don Henley
Don Henley (born 1947, Gilmer, Texas) is an American singer, drummer, and songwriter, co-founder of the Eagles and a five-album solo artist with eight GRAMMY wins, known for Hotel California, The Boys of Summer, The End of the Innocence, and the Walden Woods Project.
Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt, American independent animator of Bitter Films, maker of Rejected, It's Such a Beautiful Day, and the World of Tomorrow trilogy; twice Oscar-nominated stick-figure auteur.
Don Ho
Don Ho (Donald Tai Loy Ho, 1930–2007) was Hawaii's most famous entertainer, a Waikiki showroom headliner for 43 years whose 1966 hit "Tiny Bubbles" reached No. 8 on Billboard; not the Apple Music artists Don Hü or Don Hồ.
Don Hoi Lot
Don Hoi Lot (ดอนหอยหลอด) is a Ramsar-listed wetland of sandbars and mudflats at the Mae Klong River mouth in Samut Songkhram Province, Thailand, designated a Wetland of International Importance in 2001.
Don Hume
Don Hume (Donald Bruce Hume, 1915-2001), American rower, stroke oar of the University of Washington eight that won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics despite racing ill; later Merchant Marine and oil industry executive.
Don Hutson
Don Hutson (1913-1997), the Alabama Antelope, Green Bay Packers end 1935-45 who invented modern pass receiving; 488 catches, 7,991 yards, 99 TDs, MVP 1941-42, charter Pro Football Hall of Famer.
Don Imus
Don Imus (1940-2019), American radio host of the nationally syndicated Imus in the Morning on WNBC, WFAN, and MSNBC; fired in 2007 over the Rutgers remarks, died at 79 in Texas.
Don Jazzy
Don Jazzy, born Michael Collins Ajereh in 1982, is a Nigerian record producer who founded Mavin Records in 2012 after co-owning Mo' Hits Records with D'banj.
Don Johnson
Don Johnson (born 1949 in Flat Creek, Missouri) is an American actor known for Miami Vice (1984–1989) and starring in and executive producing Nash Bridges.
Don Jon
Don Jon, also known as Don Jon's Addiction, is a 2013 American comedy-drama-romance film, the writing-directing debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who stars as Jon Martello, a bartender.
Don Juan
Don Juan (Don Giovanni, Don Juan Tenorio) is the legendary Spanish seducer archetype, created by Tirso de Molina in El Burlador de Sevilla, retold by Molière and Mozart, and reimagined by Byron, Pushkin, and modern film.
Don Juan (1926 film)
Don Juan (1926), Alan Crosland silent romance starring John Barrymore and Mary Astor; first feature with Vitaphone synchronized music and sound effects, premiered August 1926 at Warners' Theatre, New York.
Don Juan (ballet)
Don Juan, ou Le festin de pierre: 1761 Vienna ballet pantomime by Gluck, choreographed and danced by Gasparo Angiolini with Calzabigi; premiered 17 October 1761 at the Burgtheater; founding ballet d'action.
Don Juan (poem)
Don Juan is Lord Byron's unfinished mock-epic poem in ottava rima, written 1818–1823 and published 1819–1824 in 16 cantos. It reverses the Don Juan legend, making Juan the seduced, and scandalized Regency readers with its satire and bawdy humor.
Don Juan DeMarco
Don Juan DeMarco is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Jeremy Leven, starring Marlon Brando as a psychiatrist, Johnny Depp as a young man who believes he is Don Juan, and Faye Dunaway.
Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio is an 1844 verse drama by José Zorrilla in which Don Juan is saved at the last moment through the love of Doña Inés.
Don Julio
Don Julio is a premium Mexican tequila brand founded in 1942 by Don Julio González at the La Primavera distillery (NOM 1449) in Atotonilco el Alto, Jalisco; wholly owned by Diageo since 2015, made from 100% blue agave, with flagship aged expressions including Don Julio 1942 and Don Julio 70 cristalino.
Don King
Don King (born 1931, Cleveland) is an American boxing promoter, founder of Don King Productions, who staged the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle and Thrilla in Manila after a manslaughter conviction and numbers-racket career.
Don Kirkham
Don Kirkham (1908–1998) was an American physicist and soil physicist at Iowa State University, described by the Soil Science Society of America as probably the best-known soil physicist of the 20th century.
Don Knotts
Don Knotts (Jesse Donald Knotts, 1924-2006), American comic actor from Morgantown, West Virginia; won five Emmys as Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, later Ralph Furley on Three's Company.
Don L. Anderson
Don L. Anderson (Don Lynn Anderson, 1933–2014) was an American geophysicist and seismologist at Caltech who co-developed PREM, the most widely used model of the Earth's interior.
Don LaFontaine
Don LaFontaine (Donald Leroy La Fontaine, 1940-2008) was the American 'movie trailer guy' voice actor known for 'In a world...'. He voiced about 5,000 trailers and 350,000 commercials, was called Thunder Throat and the Voice of God, and is honored by the SAG-AFTRA Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab.
Don Larsen
Don Larsen (1929-2020), MLB pitcher for seven teams (81-91, 3.78 ERA), threw the only perfect game in World Series history on October 8, 1956, a 97-pitch Game 5 gem for the Yankees; his uniform sold for $756,000 in 2012.
Don Lash
Don Lash (Donald Ray Lash, 1912–1994), American distance runner from Indiana; broke Paavo Nurmi's two-mile world record (8:58.4, 1936), won seven straight AAU cross country titles, 1936 Olympian, 1938 Sullivan Award winner, later FBI agent and Indiana legislator.
Don Law
Don Law (1902-1982), London-born American record producer, headed Columbia Records' country division in the 1950s-1960s, produced Robert Johnson's 1936-37 sessions and artists from Lefty Frizzell to Johnny Cash; Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, 2001.
Don Lemon
Don Lemon (born 1966, Baton Rouge) is an American broadcast journalist, CNN anchor 2006–2023 of Don Lemon Tonight and CNN This Morning, terminated April 2023, now hosting The Don Lemon Show independently.
Don Leonard
Don Leonard is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Ohio's 15th district, facing Republican incumbent Mike Carey in the November 2026 election.
Don Lincoln
Don Lincoln (born 1964) is an American particle physicist at Fermilab who co-discovered the top quark and works on the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Don Majkowski
Don Majkowski, "Majik Man", NFL quarterback (1987-96) for Green Bay, Indianapolis, and Detroit; 1989 Pro Bowler who led the NFL with 4,318 passing yards and finished second in MVP voting, later replaced by Brett Favre.
Don Mancini
Don Mancini is an American director and screenwriter who created the killer doll Chucky and has written or co-written nearly every film in the Child's Play franchise.