Donner may refer to:

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Donner (crater) Donner is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater on the Far side (Moon), far side of the Moon. It is located just to the northeast of the Mare Australe, behind the southeastern limb of the Moon. During favorable librations this part of the lunar sur ...

, 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 Milestone Media Company LLC is the media company which created the Milestone Comics line, which were published and distributed by DC Comics. Milestone Media created the source material that was adapted as the '' Static Shock'' animated series. T ...

comic books * Donner, the German name for

Thor Thor (from ) is a prominent list of thunder gods, god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred g ...

, a god in Norse mythology

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* Donner Metals Ltd., a Canadian mining company *

Donner Party The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California interim government, 1846-1850, California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent ...

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

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 t ...

, 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 The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

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

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