Donner

Donner may refer to:

People

• Donner (surname)
• The Donner Party, an ill-fated pioneer group bound for California in 1846
• George R. Donner, captain of a vessel that disappeared on Lake Michigan
• Southern Germanic form of Thor, a god in Norse mythology

Places

• Donner (crater), a lunar crater
• Donner, California, an unincorporated community near Donner Pass, United States
• Donner, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
• Donner Lake, in California
• Donner Memorial State Park, site of the Donner Camp, where the Donner party was trapped by snow
• 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

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

Establishments

• Donner Laboratory, at University of California, Berkeley
• Donner Metals Ltd., a Canadian mining company
• The Donner Block, a wing of William Hulme's Grammar School in northern England

Flora and fauna

• Luzula subcongesta, common name Donner woodrush

Law

• Palmer v Donner, an 1868 United States Supreme Court case

Media, arts, and entertainment

Fictional characters

Screen and stage

• Donner, character in Tom Stoppard's play Artist Descending a Staircase
• Frankie Donner, a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives
• 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
• Megan Donner, a character in the CSI Miami television series

Games

• Eric Donner, a character in the role-playing game Scion

Literature

• Donner, a superheroine from multiple Milestone Media comic books
• Donner the Reindeer, alternative name for Donder, one of Santa Claus's reindeer
• 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

Transport

• USS Donner (LSD-20) United States naval ship

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