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Donald C. Rio
Donald C. Rio is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at UC Berkeley known for his studies of Drosophila P element transposition and RNA binding proteins in splicing.
Donald C. Spencer
Donald C. Spencer (1912–2001) was an American mathematician who, with Kunihiko Kodaira, founded the deformation theory of complex manifolds, and who won the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1948 and the National Medal of Science in 1989.
Donald C. Stockbarger
Donald C. Stockbarger (1895–1952) was an American physicist and educator at MIT who introduced the Bridgman–Stockbarger method of growing single crystals from the melt in the 1930s.
Donald C. Winter
Donald C. Winter is an American physicist and aerospace executive who served as the 74th Secretary of the Navy from 2006 to 2009 and later chaired the National Academy of Engineering.
Donald Campbell
Donald Campbell (1921-1967), British speed record driver, son of Sir Malcolm Campbell; set seven water speed records in Bluebird K7 (202.32-276.33 mph) and the 1964 land record of 403.1 mph in Bluebird CN7, the only person to hold both in one year; died on Coniston Water in 1967.
Donald Cargill
Donald Cargill (1619?–1681) was a Scottish Covenanter preacher who became a field preacher, co-founded the Cameronians, excommunicated Charles II, and was executed for treason in 1681.
Donald Caspar
Donald Caspar (1927–2021) was an American structural biologist credited with coining the term, who developed the quasi-equivalence theory of virus shells with Aaron Klug and helped determine the structure of tobacco mosaic virus.
Donald Cerrone
Donald Anthony Cerrone, nicknamed "Cowboy", is an American retired mixed martial artist who ranks among UFC all-time leaders in wins, finishes, and post-fight bonuses, retiring in 2022.
Donald Charlton Bradley
Donald Charlton Bradley (1924–2014) was a British inorganic chemist who pioneered research on metal alkoxides, now used as precursors for oxide films and ceramics; he received the Royal Medal in 1998.
Donald Chi
Donald Chi is an American pediatric dentist and oral health services researcher at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, who received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.
Donald Cline
Donald Cline, retired Indianapolis-area fertility specialist, secretly used his own sperm to inseminate patients 1979-1986; exposed via 23andMe, linked to dozens of children, convicted of obstruction of justice in 2017.
Donald Coles
Donald Coles (1924–2013) was an American aeronautical scientist at Caltech who formulated the law of the wake and produced the first comprehensive supersonic boundary-layer dataset.
Donald Cox (electrical engineer)
Donald Cox is an American electrical engineer, Harald Trap Friis Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, known for research in radio propagation and wireless personal communications.
Donald Cragen
Captain Donald "Don" Cragen, fictional NYPD captain in the Law & Order franchise played by Dann Florek; commanded the 27th Precinct (1990–1993) and SVU (1999–2014), appeared in Organized Crime, and was killed off in SVU's 2025 season 27 premiere.
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp (George William Crisp, 1882-1974), British-born Hollywood character actor and director, Oscar winner for How Green Was My Valley (1941), Griffith stock company member, Lassie films patriarch.
Donald Crowhurst
Donald Crowhurst (1932–1969), British businessman and amateur sailor, faked his 1968–69 Golden Globe solo circumnavigation, drifted in the Atlantic aboard the Teignmouth Electron, and vanished; his abandoned trimaran was found 10 July 1969.
Donald D. Alsop
Donald D. Alsop (1927–2025) was an American jurist, a federal district judge in Minnesota nominated by Nixon in 1974 and chief judge from 1985 to 1992.
Donald D. Brown
Donald D. Brown (1931–2023) was an American developmental biologist who spent his career at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore, working out how eukaryotic genes are turned on and off.
Donald D. Chamberlin
Donald D. Chamberlin (born 1944) is an American computer scientist who co-designed SQL at IBM, where he worked on the System R relational database project.
Donald D. Clayton
Donald D. Clayton (Donald Delbert Clayton) was an American nuclear astrophysicist who worked out how stars form the chemical elements and wrote the standard text on stellar evolution.
Donald D. Heistad
Donald D. Heistad is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular physiology and vascular biology at the University of Iowa, where he holds the Pomerantz Family Chair in Cardiology.
Donald D. Matson
Donald D. Matson (1913–1969) was an American pediatric neurosurgeon who led neurosurgery at Boston Children's Hospital, wrote the first pediatric neurosurgery textbook, and devised the lumbar-ureteral shunt.
Donald D. Newmeyer
Donald D. Newmeyer is a molecular biologist who studies apoptosis and mitochondria, a professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology from 1994 to 2019.
Donald D. Van Slyke
Donald D. Van Slyke, also known as D. D. Van Slyke, was a Dutch American biochemist who helped develop clinical chemistry and invented the manometric blood-gas apparatus bearing his name.
Donald Davies
Donald Watts Davies was a Welsh computer scientist at the UK National Physical Laboratory who invented packet switching in 1965 and coined the term, the technique underlying the Internet.
Donald De La Haye
Donald De La Haye, aka Deestroying (born 1996), Costa Rican-American kicker and YouTuber; ruled NCAA-ineligible at UCF in 2017 over his monetized channel, sued UCF, later kicked in the CFL and UFL.
Donald DeFreeze
Donald David DeFreeze, alias General Field Marshal Cinque, was the escaped-convict leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army, responsible for the Marcus Foster murder and Patty Hearst kidnapping; he died in the 1974 Los Angeles police siege.
Donald DeVoe
Donald DeVoe is an American mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Maryland known for microfluidic methods that synthesize lipid nanoparticles of controlled size for drug delivery.
Donald Dewar
Donald Campbell Dewar was a Scottish Labour politician who became the first First Minister of Scotland in 1999, the architect of devolution who steered the Scotland Act through Parliament.
Donald Dingwell
Donald Bruce Dingwell, born 1958 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, is a Canadian-German experimental geoscientist who held the Chair of Mineralogy and Petrology at LMU Munich from 2000 to 2024.