Donner Explained

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