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Donna Lynne Champlin
Donna Lynne Champlin (born 1971, Rochester, New York) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and writer known for Paula Proctor on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Detective Nikki Henry in The Perfect Couple, and Broadway roles in Sweeney Todd and Billy Elliot.
Donna Mancini
Donna M. Mancini is an American heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Mount Sinai, internationally known for exercise testing to time heart transplants and a survival score.
Donna Miller
Donna Miller is an American Democratic politician serving as a Cook County Commissioner and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Illinois's 2nd District.
Donna Mills
Donna Mills (Donna Jean Miller) is an American actress, best known for playing Abby Cunningham on Knots Landing (1980–89) and in the film Play Misty for Me (1971).
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy, born 1959 in Queens, New York, is an American stage and screen actress, two-time Tony winner for Passion (1994) and The King and I (1996), Daytime Emmy winner, and the voice of Mother Gothel in Tangled.
Donna Murray Hartley
Donna Murray Hartley (Donna-Marie Louise Murray-Hartley, later Wass), British sprinter born 1955, died 2013; 1978 Commonwealth 400m and relay gold, 1980 Olympic 4x400m relay bronze, later champion bodybuilder.
Donna Noble
Donna Noble, also called the DoctorDonna, is a Doctor Who companion played by Catherine Tate: a temp from Chiswick who traveled with the Tenth Doctor in Series 4, gained his knowledge in a metacrisis, had her memory wiped, and returned in the 2023 60th anniversary specials.
Donna Pescow
Donna Pescow (born 1954, Brooklyn; birth name Pescovitz) is an American actress who debuted as Annette in Saturday Night Fever (1977), won the New York Film Critics Circle supporting-actress award, and starred in Angie, Out of This World, and Even Stevens.
Donna Reed
Donna Reed (Donna Belle Mullenger, 1921–1986), American actress from Denison, Iowa; Oscar winner for From Here to Eternity, Mary in It's a Wonderful Life, and star-producer of The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966).
Donna Rice Hughes
Donna Rice Hughes, American Internet safety advocate, president and CEO of Enough Is Enough; formerly the woman at the center of the 1987 Gary Hart presidential campaign scandal.
Donna Shalala
Donna Edna Shalala (born 1941, Cleveland) is an American academic and Democratic politician; HHS Secretary 1993-2001 (longest-serving up to then), first woman to head a Big Ten university (UW-Madison), University of Miami president 2001-2015, Clinton Foundation CEO, and U.S. representative for Florida's 27th District 2019-2021.
Donna Strickland
Donna Theo Strickland, born 1959 in Guelph, Ontario, is a Canadian physicist who co-invented chirped pulse amplification and shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Donna Summer
Donna Summer (LaDonna Adrian Gaines, 1948-2012), the American "Queen of Disco," singer of "I Feel Love," "Hot Stuff," and "Bad Girls"; five-time Grammy winner, Rock Hall 2013, Songwriters Hall of Fame 2025, over 100 million records sold.
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt, American novelist born 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi, author of The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; known for decade-long gaps between novels and writing by hand in pencil.
Donna Troy
Donna Troy, also Wonder Girl, Troia, and Darkstar, is a DC Comics superheroine and founding Teen Titan. Created accidentally as a teen Wonder Woman in 1965, she was named by Marv Wolfman in 1969 and her fire-orphan origin was restored by Phil Jimenez in Titans Annual #1 (2025).
Donna Vekić
Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player (born 1996, Osijek), five WTA titles including Queen's 2026, 2024 Wimbledon semifinalist, Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist, career-high WTA No. 17.
Donna Weinbrecht
Donna Weinbrecht, American freestyle skier born 1965 in Hoboken, New Jersey; won the first Olympic gold in women's moguls at Albertville 1992, with 46 World Cup wins, five season titles, and Hall of Fame induction in 2004.
Donna Wilkes
Donna Wilkes (Donna Consuelos Wilkes) is an American actress known for Molly Stewart in Angel (1984) and Jackie Peters in Jaws 2 (1978); a cult scream queen with a 1991-2013 acting hiatus.
Donna Zuckerberg
Donna Zuckerberg (born 1987) is an American classicist, author of Not All Dead White Men on antifeminist uses of classical texts, and founding editor-in-chief of the online classics publication Eidolon (2015–2020).
Donnai-Barrow syndrome
Donnai-Barrow syndrome (DBS, FOAR syndrome, OMIM 222448) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by LRP2 (megalin) variants, marked by hearing loss, high myopia, agenesis of the corpus callosum, and low-molecular-weight proteinuria.
Donnan equilibrium
Donnan equilibrium, or Gibbs–Donnan equilibrium, is the unequal distribution of ions across a membrane that one charged species cannot cross, producing a membrane potential and osmotic pressure difference.
Donne (Mercurian crater)
Donne is an officially named impact crater on Mercury, Gazetteer Feature ID 1576, about 88 km in diameter, centered near the equator at 2.80 degrees latitude, 13.80 degrees west planetographic longitude.
Donneko Amusement Park
Donneko Amusement Park (돈내코유원지, also Donnaeko) is a free valley recreation area in Sanghyo-dong, Seogwipo, Jeju, South Korea, on Hallasan's southern slopes, known for Wonang Falls, cold clear stream water, summer water play, and camping.
Donnel F. Hewett
Donnel F. Hewett was an American economic geologist who served the US Geological Survey for 59 years, discovered the world's largest vanadium deposit in Peru in 1906, and was nicknamed "Mr. Manganese".
Donnell D. Etzwiler
Donnell D. Etzwiler (1927–2003) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who founded the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis and pioneered the patient-centered team approach to diabetes care.
Donnell McNeilly
Donnell McNeilly (born 2005, London) is an English centre-forward, ex-Chelsea academy top scorer, now Nottingham Forest, on loan at Wycombe and AFC Wimbledon; first senior goal in the 2025 EFL Cup.
Donnell Rawlings
Donnell Rawlings, American comedian, actor, and podcaster born in Washington, D.C.; Ashy Larry on Chappelle's Show, Day-Day on The Wire, Netflix special A New Day, weekly podcast.
Donnelly Rhodes
Donnelly Rhodes (Donnelly Rhodes Henry), Canadian character actor from Winnipeg; Dutch Leitner on Soap, Dr. Cottle on Battlestar Galactica, Det. Leo Shannon in Da Vinci's Inquest; Gemini winner, died 2018.
Donner Party
Donner Party (Donner–Reed Party), an 1846 California-bound wagon train of about 80 pioneers stranded by Sierra Nevada snowstorms in winter 1846-47; about half died, survivors resorted to cannibalism, and archaeology at Alder Creek found no human bone.
Donner Pass
Donner Pass is a 7,135-foot Sierra Nevada pass in California, named for the stranded Donner Party of 1846 and later crossed by the transcontinental railroad and Interstate 80.