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Don R. Willett
Don R. Willett is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Don Revie
Don Revie (Donald George Revie, 1927-1989), English footballer and manager; Manchester City 'Revie Plan' forward, Leeds United manager 1961-74 winning two league titles, FA Cup, League Cup and two Fairs Cups, then England manager 1974-77.
Don Rickles
Don Rickles (Donald Jay Rickles, 1926-2017), American insult comic and actor nicknamed Mr. Warmth and Merchant of Venom; ad-libbed nightclub roasts, Tonight Show regular, Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story, Emmy winner 2008.
Don Rosa
Don Rosa (Keno Don Hugo Rosa, born 1951, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American Disney comics writer-artist, creator of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, two-time Eisner Award winner, and Carl Barks's most prominent successor.
Don S. Davis
Don S. Davis (Don Sinclair Davis, 1942-2008) was an American character actor, Army captain, and painter, known as General Hammond on Stargate SG-1 and Major Garland Briggs on Twin Peaks.
Don Schollander
Don Schollander (Donald Arthur Schollander, born 1946) is an American swimmer, first to win four golds at one Olympics (Tokyo 1964), five Olympic golds total, 22 world records, 1964 Sullivan Award winner.
Don Scott
Don Scott (born 1965) is an American politician, a Democrat serving as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2024 and representing the 88th district since 2020.
Don Seenu (డాన్ సీను)
Don Seenu (డాన్ సీను) is a 2010 Telugu action comedy, Gopichand Malineni's directing debut, starring Ravi Teja as a Don-obsessed man who woos a gangster's sister in Germany; music by Mani Sharma.
Don Segundo Sombra
Don Segundo Sombra is a 1926 novel by the Argentine writer Ricardo Güiraldes, narrated as the coming-of-age of adolescent cattle driver Fabio Cáceres under a gaucho mentor.
Don Sheff
Don Sheff (Donald Alexander Sheff, born 27 June 1931, Brooklyn) is an American former Yale swimmer who swam the heats of the US 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; 1952 rules denied heats swimmers medals. He held two relay world records and later directed the New York Institute of Photography.
Don Shipley (Navy SEAL)
Don Shipley (born 1962) is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief, BUD/S class 131, SEAL Teams ONE and TWO, who runs Extreme SEAL Experience and exposes fake Navy SEALs via his SEAL database.
Don Shirley
Don Shirley (1927-2013) was a Jamaican American pianist and composer, leader of the Don Shirley Trio (piano, bass, cello), whose 1962 Southern tour inspired Green Book (2018), winner of the Best Picture Oscar.
Don Shula
Don Shula (1930-2020), NFL head coach of the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins; winningest coach in NFL history at 347-173-6, led the 1972 Dolphins' only perfect season, won Super Bowls VII and VIII, Hall of Fame 1997.
Don Siegel
Don Siegel (Donald Siegel, 1912-1991), American film director of Riot in Cell Block 11, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dirty Harry, and Charley Varrick; Warner Bros. montage chief turned independent genre director and Clint Eastwood's mentor.
Don Siegelman
Don Siegelman, Democratic governor of Alabama 1999–2003 and holder of four state constitutional offices; his lottery failed in 1999, he lost narrowly in 2002, and his 2007 federal bribery conviction became a contested political-prosecution controversy.
Don Simpson
Don Simpson (Donald Clarence Simpson), Hollywood producer of Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, and Top Gun with Jerry Bruckheimer; pioneer of high-concept blockbusters who died in 1996 of a drug overdose.
Don Stark
Don Stark (Donald Stark, born 1954, New York City) is an American character actor, best known as Bob Pinciotti on all eight seasons of That '70s Show (1998–2006), also Hit the Floor, Star Trek roles, and Green Book.
Don Stories
Don Stories (Donskie rasskazy) is the first published book of Mikhail Sholokhov, a 1926 collection of stories about the Civil War among the Don Cossacks.
Don Stroud
Don Stroud (Donald Lee Stroud, born 1943, Honolulu) is an American character actor, surfer, and musician known for villain roles in over 100 films including Coogan's Bluff, Bloody Mama, The Buddy Holly Story, Licence to Kill, and Django Unchained.
Don Sundquist
Don Sundquist (1936–2023), Republican, six-term U.S. representative for Tennessee's 7th district and the state's 47th governor (1995–2003), known for Families First welfare reform and the failed state income tax fight.
Don Sutton
Don Sutton (1945-2021), American MLB right-handed pitcher for the Dodgers, Astros, Brewers, Athletics, and Angels; 324 wins, 3,574 strikeouts, 756 starts, 1998 Hall of Fame inductee, later a Braves broadcaster.
Don Swayze
Don Swayze (Donald Carl Swayze, born 1958, Houston, Texas) is an American character actor, younger brother of Patrick Swayze, known for Carnivàle, True Blood, Criminal Minds, and the 2025 lead role in All Saints Day.
Don Toliver
Don Toliver (Caleb Zackery Toliver, born 1994, Houston) is an American melodic trap/R&B singer signed to Cactus Jack and Atlantic; Astroworld's "Can't Say" broke him, and 2026's OCTANE gave him his first Billboard 200 number one.
Don Towsley (computer scientist)
Don Towsley is a computer scientist and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for pioneering network tomography and fluid models of large networks and for work on quantum networking.
Don Tracy
Don Tracy is an American attorney and politician serving as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Illinois in 2026, after chairing the Illinois Republican Party.
Don U. Deere
Don U. Deere (1922–2018) was an American engineering geologist who created the Rock Quality Designation (RQD) measure of rock quality and chaired the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
Don Valentine
Don Valentine, born Donald Valentine, was an American venture capitalist who founded Sequoia Capital in 1972 and backed Atari, Apple, Oracle, and Cisco, serving as Cisco's chairman for roughly a decade.
Don Vultaggio
Don Vultaggio is an American beverage entrepreneur who co-founded AriZona Beverages with John Ferolito in 1992, growing it from a Brooklyn beer distributorship into the largest privately owned US beverage company.
Don W. Cleveland
Don W. Cleveland is an American cell biologist, professor and chair at UC San Diego, known for discovering tau and CENP-E and winning the 2018 Breakthrough Prize.
Don W. Fawcett
Don W. Fawcett (1917–2009) was an American anatomist and cell biologist, a pioneer of biological electron microscopy who described the fine structure of cilia, sperm, and intercellular junctions and helped found modern cell biology.