Donner may refer to:

Places

  • Donner (crater), a lunar crater
  • Donner, California, an unincorporated community
  • Donner, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
  • Donner Lake, a freshwater lake in California
  • Donner Memorial State Park, site of the Donner Camp, where the Donner party was trapped by snow
  • Donner Pass, a mountain pass in California
  • Donner Ski Ranch on Donner Summit, California
  • Donner und Blitzen River, a freshwater river in Oregon
  • Mount Donner, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

People and animals

  • Donner (surname)
  • Donner family, a renowned and wealthy Finland-Swedish family
  • Donner the Reindeer or Donder, one of Santa Claus's reindeer
  • Donner woodrush or Luzula subcongesta
  • Donner, a character in Artist Descending a Staircase
  • Donner, a superheroine in Milestone Media comic books
  • Donner, the German name for Thor, a god in Norse mythology

Other uses

  • Donner Metals Ltd., a Canadian mining company
  • Donner Party, an ill-fated pioneer group bound for California in 1846
  • Donner Prize, a Canadian book award
  • USS Donner (LSD-20), a United States naval ship
  • Donner, a Chinese guitar company
  • Donner Block, a wing of William Hulme's Grammar School in northern England
  • Donner Laboratory, a laboratory at University of California, Berkeley
  • Donner Professor, an academic title of the William H. Donner Foundation

See also

  • Donar (disambiguation)
  • Doner (disambiguation)
  • Palmer v Donner, an 1868 United States Supreme Court case
  • Sir Magnus Donners, a character in the A Dance to the Music of Time cycle of novels by Anthony Powell