Donner may refer to:

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* Donner (crater), a lunar crater *

Mount Donner Mount Donner is a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic ...

, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada * Donner, California, an unincorporated community near Donner Pass, United States *

Donner Lake Donner Lake is a freshwater lake in Northeast California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and about northwest of the much larger Lake Tahoe. A moraine serves as a natural dam for the lake. The lake is located in the town of Truckee, be ...

, in California *

Donner Memorial State Park Donner Memorial State Park is a state park of California, US, preserving the site of the Donner Camp, where members of the ill-fated Donner Party were trapped by weather during the winter of 1846–1847. Caught without shelter or adequate sup ...

, site of the Donner Camp, where the Donner party was trapped by snow *

Donner Pass Donner Pass is a mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual appr ...

* Donner Ski Ranch on Donner Summit, California * Donner, Louisiana, an unincorporated community

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Donner (surname) Donner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aleksander Donner (1948–2013), Ukrainian handball coach *André Donner, Dutch jurist, former President of the European Court of Justice *Clive Donner, British film director *Franziska ...

* USS ''Donner'' (LSD-20), a United States naval ship *

Donner Prize The Donner Prize is an award given annually by one of Canada's largest foundations, the Donner Canadian Foundation, for books considered excellent in regard to the writing of Canadian public policy. The prize was established in 1998 and is meant to ...

, a Canadian book award *

Donner the Reindeer In traditional festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children on Christmas Eve. The number of reindeer characters, and the names given ...

or Donder, one of Santa Claus's reindeer * Donner Metals Ltd., a Canadian mining company * Donner, the German name for

Thor Thor (; from non, Þórr ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing, an ...

, a god in Norse mythology * Donner, a superheroine in

Milestone Media Milestone Media is a company best known for creating Milestone Comics, which were published and distributed by DC Comics and the ''Static Shock'' animated series. It was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers, con ...

comic books * Donner, a character in ''

Artist Descending a Staircase ''Artist Descending a Staircase'' is a radio play by Tom Stoppard, first broadcast by the BBC in 1972, and later adapted for live theatre. The play centres on a murder mystery involving an artist who dies from falling down a set of stairs. The p ...

'' * Donner Block, a wing of William Hulme's Grammar School in northern England * Donner Laboratory, a laboratory at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

* Donner Professor, an academic title of the William H. Donner Foundation *

Donner Party The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in th ...

, an ill-fated pioneer group bound for California in 1846

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