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Donair

Donair: a Halifax, Nova Scotia spit-roasted sandwich invented by Greek immigrant Peter Gamoulakos in 1973, made of spiced ground beef, tomato, onion, and sweet evaporated-milk sauce; official food of Halifax since 2015.

Donal Bisht

Donal Bisht (born 1994, Alwar, Rajasthan) is an Indian actress and former journalist known for Ek Deewana Tha, Roop – Mard Ka Naya Swaroop, Bigg Boss 15, the web series Tu Zakhm Hai, and her 2026 Telugu debut MRP.

Dónal Finn

Dónal Finn (born 1995) is an Irish actor from Dromina, County Cork, a LAMDA graduate known for playing Mat Cauthon in The Wheel of Time, Orpheus in West End Hadestown, and James Moriarty in Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock.

Donal Logue

Donal Logue (born 1966, Ottawa) is a Canadian actor known for The Tao of Steve (Sundance Special Jury Prize), Grounded for Life, Terriers, and Harvey Bullock in Gotham.

Donal Skehan

Donal Skehan (born 1986, Howth, Dublin) is an Irish food writer, TV presenter, and cookbook author behind Kitchen Hero and Meals in Minutes, with 11 cookbooks and a 1-million-subscriber YouTube channel; formerly a singer with Streetwize and Industry.

Donald "Duck" Dunn

Donald "Duck" Dunn (1941-2012), American bass guitarist, session musician, and producer, bassist for Booker T. & the MG's and the Stax Records house band; played on "Soul Man" and "Dock of the Bay", Blues Brothers films, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1992.

Donald A. Wollheim

Donald A. Wollheim (1914–1990), also publishing as David Grinnell, was an American science fiction editor, author, and fan: Ace Books SF editor, unauthorized 1965 Lord of the Rings paperback publisher, and founder of DAW Books.

Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989), American postmodern short story writer and novelist, author of Snow White, The Dead Father, and Sixty Stories; a New Yorker regular whose collage-style fiction won the 1972 National Book Award.

Donald Byrd

Donald Byrd (1932–2013), American hard bop jazz trumpeter and educator from Detroit; Black Byrd (1973) was Blue Note's best-selling album; founded the Blackbyrds; NEA Jazz Master 2000.

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 Duck

Donald Duck (Donald Fauntleroy Duck) is Disney's hot-tempered cartoon duck, debuting June 9, 1934 in The Wise Little Hen; voiced by Clarence Nash then Tony Anselmo, Oscar winner for Der Fuehrer's Face, star of 128 cartoons and Carl Barks comics.

Donald E. Westlake

Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), American crime novelist also known as Richard Stark, wrote over 100 novels under 15 or 16 pen names, creating the thief Parker and comic thief John Dortmunder, winning three Edgar Awards.

Donald Fagen

Donald Fagen (born 1948, Passaic, New Jersey) is an American singer-keyboardist-songwriter, co-founder and lead vocalist of Steely Dan and solo creator of The Nightfly (1982), Kamakiriad, Morph the Cat, and Sunken Condos, with 4 Grammy wins.

Donald Faison

Donald Faison (born 1974, New York City) is an American actor known as Dr. Christopher Turk on Scrubs (2001-10) and Murray in Clueless (1995) and its TV spin-off; in 2026 he reprised Turk and executive produced ABC's Scrubs revival.

Donald Gibb

Donald Gibb (1954–2026), American character actor, Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds and Ray Jackson in Bloodsport, ex-UNM basketball player and Chargers roster member, died in Texas.

Donald Glover

Donald Glover, known musically as Childish Gambino, is an American actor, writer, rapper, and singer. He created and starred in Atlanta, winning two Emmy Awards in 2017.

Donald Hall

Donald Hall (1928–2018) was an American poet and essayist who served as 14th US Poet Laureate in 2006–2007, writing from his family farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire.

Donald Horne

Donald Horne (Donald Richmond Horne, 1921–2005) was an Australian journalist, editor, and social critic, best known as the author of The Lucky Country (1964) and a leading public intellectual.

Donald Judd

Donald Judd (1928–1994), American Minimalist artist (a label he rejected), author of "Specific Objects" (1965), creator of industrially fabricated boxes, Marfa's Chinati Foundation, and the separate Donald Judd furniture line.

Donald Justice

Donald Rodney Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing who won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Selected Poems and taught many noted writers.

Donald Moffat

Donald Moffat (1930–2018) was a British-born American character actor known for playing Garry in The Thing (1982) and Lyndon B. Johnson in The Right Stuff (1983).

Donald Nally

Donald Nally (born 1960) is an American conductor, founder and artistic director of the new-music chamber choir The Crossing, four-time Grammy winner for Best Choral Performance, former Northwestern Beattie Chair holder, and current Westminster Choir College visiting professor.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.