Donner

Donner may refer to:

People

• Donner (surname)
• The Donner Party, an ill-fated pioneer group bound for California in 1846

Places

• Donner (crater), a lunar crater
• Donner Pass
• Donner Memorial State Park, site of the Donner Camp, where the Donner party was trapped by snow
• Donner Lake, in California
• Donner, California, an unincorporated community near Donner Pass
• Donner Ski Ranch on Donner Summit, California
• Donner und Blitzen River in Oregon, United States
• Mount Donner, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
• The Donner Block, a wing of William Hulme's Grammar School in northern England
• Donner Laboratory, at University of California, Berkeley

Transport

• USS Donner (LSD-20) United States naval ship
• George R. Donner, captain of a vessel that disappeared on Lake Michigan

Awards and titles

• Donner Prize, a Canadian book award
• Donner Professor, an academic title held by those who have held one of the chairs funded by the William H. Donner Foundation

Flora and fauna

• Luzula subcongesta, common name Donner woodrush

Stage and screen

• Frankie Donner, a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives
• Megan Donner, a character in the CSI Miami television series
• Donner, character in Tom Stoppard's play Artist Descending a Staircase
• General Gerhard Donner, a character in the film Venus Wars
• Larry Donner, a character in the film Throw Momma from the Train
• Maddux Donner, a character in the TV series Defying Gravity

Literature

• Donner the Reindeer, alternative name for Donder, one of Santa Claus's reindeer
• Donner, a superheroine from multiple Milestone Media comic books
• Eric Donner, a character in the role-playing game Scion
• Martin Donner, a character in the Poul Anderson science fiction novella Un-Man
• Min Donner, a character in the Stephen R. Donaldson science fiction novel A Dark and Hungry God Arises

Other

• Donner Metals Ltd., a Canadian mining company
• Palmer v Donner, an 1868 United States Supreme Court case

See also

• Döner kebab, a Turkish dish made with mutton
• Sir Magnus Donners, a character in the A Dance to the Music of Time cycle of novels by Anthony Powell