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Donald O. Hebb
Donald O. Hebb (1904–1985) was a Canadian psychologist and professor at McGill University, called the father of neuropsychology, best known for his 1949 book The Organization of Behavior.
Donald O. Pederson
Donald O. Pederson (1925–2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at UC Berkeley who led the creation of SPICE, the circuit simulator from which most modern chip-design tools descend.
Donald O. Thompson
Donald Oscar Thompson (1927–2013) was an American physicist and engineer who founded the field of quantitative nondestructive evaluation, leading its founding 1973 DARPA program at Rockwell.
Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor (1925-2003), American dancer-singer-actor from a vaudeville family; Cosmo Brown in Singin' in the Rain (1952), "Make 'Em Laugh," Francis the Talking Mule series, Golden Globe and Emmy winner.
Donald Ort
Donald R. Ort is an American plant biologist and Robert Emerson Professor at the University of Illinois, known for engineering crops with more efficient photosynthesis.
Donald P. Bellisario
Donald P. Bellisario (born August 8, 1935, Cokeburg, Pennsylvania) is an American television producer, writer and director, Marine Corps veteran, creator of Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS, and namesake of Penn State's Bellisario College of Communications.
Donald P. Gaver Jr.
Donald P. Gaver Jr. (1926–2018) was an American mathematical statistician and operations researcher, Distinguished Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and developer of the Gaver–Stehfest algorithm.
Donald P. Greenberg
Donald P. Greenberg is an American computer graphics researcher who taught at Cornell from 1966 to 2025, pioneered physically based image synthesis, and won the 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH Coons Award.
Donald P. Hearth
Donald Payne Hearth (1928–2013) was an American aerospace engineer who directed NASA's Langley Research Center from 1975 to 1984, managed its planetary exploration programs, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Donald P. McDonnell
Donald P. McDonnell is a molecular endocrinologist and cancer biologist at Duke University whose estrogen receptor pharmacology model produced oral breast cancer drugs, including elacestrant, approved in 2023.
Donald P. McManus
Donald P. McManus, also known as D. P. McManus, was an Australian-based parasitologist who led the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory at QIMR Berghofer in Brisbane until his death in 2022.
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider is an American astronomer and Distinguished Professor at Penn State who led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's quasar catalogs and coordinated SDSS-III.
Donald P. Tashkin
Donald P. Tashkin is an American pulmonologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at UCLA, known for the UPLIFT COPD trial, the Scleroderma Lung Study, and decades of research on marijuana smoking and the lungs.
Donald P. Visco
Donald P. Visco is an American chemical engineer at the University of Akron known for the Signature molecular descriptor, used in machine-learning models that screen millions of molecules for drug candidates.
Donald P. Weeks
Donald P. Weeks is an American plant molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who developed dicamba-resistance gene technology for soybeans and contributed to plant genome editing.
Donald Parham
Donald Parham Jr. (born 1997) is an American football tight end from Stetson University, 6'8", undrafted in 2019, who starred in the 2020 XFL with Dallas and played for the Chargers, Broncos, and Steelers.
Donald Parsons (electron microscopist)
Donald Parsons (died 2017, aged 89) was an electron microscopist at the New York State Department of Health in Albany who developed environmental chambers keeping specimens hydrated in the electron microscope.
Donald Patrick McDonnell
Donald Patrick McDonnell is a pharmacologist at Duke University School of Medicine whose nuclear receptor research produced breast cancer drugs, including the FDA-approved ORSERDU (elacestrant).
Donald Petersen
Donald Petersen (1926–2024) was an American automotive executive who led Ford as chairman and CEO from 1985 to 1990, reviving it through the Taurus and a quality program.
Donald Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff is an American neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University, known for working out the neural circuitry of a hormone-dependent reproductive behavior and formulating generalized CNS arousal.
Donald Pierce
Donald Pierce is a Marvel Comics supervillain created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, debuting in X-Men #129-132 (1980). A cyborg and former Hellfire Club White Bishop and White King, he founded the Reavers and was played by Boyd Holbrook in Logan (2017).
Donald Pinkel
Donald Pinkel (1926–2022) was an American pediatrician and cancer researcher who, as first director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, created Total Therapy for childhood leukemia.
Donald Pious
Donald A. Pious (1930–1998) was an American immunologist at the University of Washington known for using somatic cell mutants to discover HLA-DM's role in antigen processing.
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence (1919-1995), English character actor of stage and screen, famed as Davies in Pinter's The Caretaker, Blofeld in You Only Live Twice, Blythe in The Great Escape, and Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween.
Donald Prothero
Donald Ross Prothero is an American paleontologist and geologist known for dating North American Cenozoic mammal lineages, his Eocene-Oligocene climate research, and over 50 books defending evolution.
Donald R. Herriott
Donald R. Herriott (1928–2007) was an American optical physicist who spent 1956 to 1981 at Bell Labs, known for the first continuous helium-neon laser and the Herriott cell.
Donald R. Lowe
Donald R. Lowe is an American sedimentary geologist and emeritus Max Steineke Professor at Stanford University whose fieldwork in South Africa and Western Australia reconstructs Earth's earliest environments and early life.
Donald R. McCarty
Donald R. McCarty is a University of Florida plant molecular biologist known for cloning the maize Viviparous-1 gene and discovering the VP14 enzyme of abscisic acid biosynthesis.
Donald R. Paul
Donald R. Paul (1939–2026) was an American polymer scientist and chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Donald R. Scifres
Donald R. Scifres is an American semiconductor-laser physicist and National Academy of Engineering member who co-founded laser maker SDL, Inc. and led its 2001 merger with JDS Uniphase.