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Donald R. Senger
Donald R. Senger (D. R. Senger) is a cancer researcher who discovered vascular permeability factor, renamed VEGF, now targeted by drugs treating cancer and wet macular degeneration.
Donald Regan
Donald Thomas Regan was an American financier who led Merrill Lynch, served as Treasury Secretary from 1981 to 1985, and was Reagan's White House Chief of Staff.
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld (1932–2021), American statesman and businessman; 13th and 21st U.S. Secretary of Defense under Ford and George W. Bush, the only person to serve twice; congressman, NATO ambassador, Searle and Gilead executive.
Donald S. Baim
Donald S. Baim was an American interventional cardiologist who founded Beth Israel Hospital's cardiology program, edited Grossman's cardiac catheterization textbook, and became Boston Scientific's chief medical officer.
Donald S. Berry
Donald S. Berry (1911–2002) was an American transportation engineer and Northwestern University professor who in 1966 became the first transportation educator elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Donald S. Burke
Donald S. Burke is an American epidemiologist and vaccinologist who developed the first HIV diagnostic tests and served as dean of the University of Pittsburgh's public health school.
Donald S. Coffey
Donald S. Coffey (1932–2017) was an American cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University who discovered the nuclear matrix, directed research at the Brady Urological Institute, and served as president of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Donald S. Faber
Donald S. Faber (1943–2025) was an American neuroscientist who studied synaptic transmission and sensorimotor behavior, chiefly on the goldfish Mauthner cell, and chaired neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Donald S. Fredrickson
Donald S. Fredrickson was an American physician who discovered Tangier disease and cholesteryl ester storage disease, created the hyperlipoproteinemia classification adopted by the WHO in 1972, and directed NIH from 1975 to 1981.
Donald S. Kaufman
Donald S. Kaufman was an American genitourinary oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for more than 40 years, where he directed the Genitourinary Oncology Disease Center and taught at Harvard Medical School.
Donald S. McClure
Donald S. McClure (1920–2017) was an American physical chemist at Princeton University whose spectroscopy measurements of ions in crystals brought ligand field theory into widespread acceptance.
Donald Sadoway
Donald Robert Sadoway, born in Toronto in 1950, is a materials chemist and MIT professor emeritus known for inventing the liquid metal battery for grid-scale energy storage.
Donald Samuel Ornstein
Donald Samuel Ornstein, born 1934, is an American mathematician and Stanford professor emeritus working in ergodic theory, known for his 1970 theorem that Bernoulli shifts with the same entropy are isomorphic.
Donald Seaman
Donald (Don) Seaman, born 1932, British middle-distance runner and businessman; third leg of Great Britain's world-record 4 x 1 mile relay (16:41.0, White City, 1 August 1953) with Chataway, Nankeville, and Bannister; AAA mile silver medalist 1953.
Donald Shea
Donald "Shorty" Shea (1933-1969) was an American stuntman, aspiring actor, and horse wrangler at Spahn Ranch, Chatsworth, murdered in late August 1969 by Charles Manson and followers who believed he was a police informant; Manson, Bruce Davis, and Steve Grogan were convicted.
Donald Shreffler
Donald Shreffler was an American immunogeneticist whose studies of the mouse H2 major histocompatibility complex shaped immunology in the 1960s and 1970s; he chaired genetics at Washington University.
Donald Sinclair (veterinary surgeon)
Donald Vaughan Sinclair (1911–1995), British veterinary surgeon at 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, who hired Alf Wight in 1940 and inspired Siegfried Farnon in the James Herriot books; died by barbiturate overdose two weeks after his wife Audrey's death.
Donald Sinden
Sir Donald Sinden (1923-2014), English actor of stage, film, and television; RSC Shakespearean (Lear, Malvolio, Benedick), Rank films of the 1950s, sitcoms Two's Company and Never the Twain; CBE 1979, knighted 1997.
Donald Sterling
Donald Sterling, born Donald Tokowitz, is an American real estate investor who owned the Los Angeles Clippers and was banned for life from the NBA in 2014.
Donald Sumpter
Donald Sumpter is an English actor, born in 1943, known for playing Maester Luwin in Game of Thrones and Detective Inspector Morell in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Donald Sussman
Donald Sussman is an American investor, founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Paloma Partners, a multi-strategy hedge fund firm in Greenwich, Connecticut, started in 1981 and known for seeding quantitative firms like D.E. Shaw.
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland (1935–2024), Canadian actor of M*A*S*H, Klute, Don't Look Now, Ordinary People, JFK, and President Snow in The Hunger Games; never Oscar-nominated, honorary Oscar 2017.
Donald T. Campbell
Donald T. Campbell (Donald Thomas Campbell, 1916–1996) was an American social psychologist known for quasi-experimental design, Campbell's law, and evolutionary epistemology; he led the American Psychological Association in 1975.
Donald T. Dubin
Donald T. Dubin was a molecular biologist at Rutgers University known for work on RNA methylation, including mitochondrial ribosomal RNA in hamster cells and the capped RNA of Sindbis virus.
Donald Thomas (businessman)
Donald Thomas was a Purdue-trained American engineer who co-founded the Burger Chef fast-food chain in Indianapolis, whose flame-broiling equipment helped the chain grow to roughly 1,200 restaurants by 1972.
Donald Triplett
Donald Gray Triplett (1933-2023), Forest, Mississippi banker known as 'Case 1, Donald T.', the first person formally diagnosed with autism in Leo Kanner's 1943 paper; worked 65 years at a bank, traveled widely, died at 89.
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born 1946) is the 45th and 47th U.S. president, a real estate developer, author of The Art of the Deal, and host of The Apprentice; twice impeached, convicted of falsifying business records in 2024, and reelected in 2024 with 312 electoral votes.
Donald Trump (buffalo)
Donald Trump (buffalo): albino water buffalo in Bangladesh named for his blond tuft resembling the US president; spared Eid al-Adha slaughter by government order and displayed at Bangladesh National Zoo in Dhaka.
Donald Trump 2000 presidential campaign
Donald Trump's 2000 presidential campaign was an exploratory bid for the Reform Party nomination, led with Roger Stone, featuring a 14.25% wealth tax proposal, and withdrawn February 14, 2000 before Buchanan took the nomination.
Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign: announced June 16, 2015, defeated 17 Republican rivals, and won the Electoral College 304-227 over Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote; rally-centered, media-driven campaign with a Facebook-heavy digital operation.