List of Famous people named Don

Name Don is among the most common names in USA, Canada, Australia. Often it's a shorthand for Donald. Similar names: Donald, Donna, Donny, Donnie, Dona, Donn, Donya, Donie, Doon, Doone, Dohn. Here are some famous Dons:

Don "The Dragon" Wilson

Donald Glen Wilson
First Name Don
Last Name Wilson
Born on September 10, 1954 (age 71)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Donald Glen Wilson, nicknamed "The Dragon", is an American martial artist and actor. An 11-time professional kickboxing world champion who scored 47 knockouts in four decades, he has been called by the STAR System Ratings as "perhaps the greatest kickboxer in American history. He has disposed of more quality competition than anyone we've ever ranked". He is an entrant into the European Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

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Don Walsh

First Name Don
Last Name Walsh
Born on November 2, 1931 (age 94)

Don Walsh is an American oceanographer, explorer and marine policy specialist. He and Jacques Piccard were aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste when it made a record maximum descent into the Challenger Deep on January 23, 1960, the deepest point of the world's oceans. The depth was measured at 35,813 feet (10,916 m), but later and more accurate measurements have measured it at 35,798 feet (10,911 m).

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Don Stroud

First Name Don
Last Name Stroud
Born on September 1, 1943 (age 82)
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Donald Lee Stroud is an American actor, musician, and surfer. Stroud appeared in many films in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and starred in over 100 films and 175 television shows to date.

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Don Warrington

First Name Don
Last Name Warrington
Born on May 23, 1951 (age 74)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Don Warrington MBE is a Trinidadian-born British actor. He is best known for playing Philip Smith in the ITV sitcom Rising Damp (1974-78), and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the BBC detective series Death in Paradise (2011-present).

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Don Li

First Name Don
Last Name Li
Born on January 25, 1982 (age 44)

Don Li Yat-long is a Hong Kong singer and actor of the Emperor Entertainment Group, Music Icon Records. Don Li was a finalist in Talent Show 2002 in Hong Kong. In 2003, he began his career in the entertainment industry by acting in television series. In 2005, Li and Mandy Chiang began their music careers as a duet couple. In January 2007, Chiang announced that she and Li will both continue their music careers as solo artists.

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Don Shanks

First Name Don
Last Name Shanks
Born on February 26, 1950 (age 76)

Donald L. Shanks is an American actor and stuntman, known for his role as Michael Myers in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, and Nakoma, the Native American friend of the title character in the 1977 television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.

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Don Money

Donald Wayne "Easy" Money, is an American former professional baseball infielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Kintetsu Buffaloes. He currently serves as the Brewers‘ special instructor of player development.

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Don Murray

First Name Don
Last Name Murray
Born on July 31, 1929 (age 96)

Donald Patrick Murray is an American actor. Murray is best known for his breakout performance in the film Bus Stop (1956) with Marilyn Monroe, which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Murray's other theatrical films include A Hatful of Rain (1957), Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) with James Cagney, One Foot in Hell (1960) with Alan Ladd, The Hoodlum Priest (1961), Advise & Consent (1962) with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton, Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) with Steve McQueen, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Deadly Hero (1975), and Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986).

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Don Jackson

First Name Don
Last Name Jackson
Born on September 2, 1956 (age 69)

Donald Clinton Jackson is an American ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player who played 315 games in the National Hockey League between 1978 and 1987 and began his coaching career in 1988.

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Don Mazankowski

First Name Don
Last Name Mazankowski
Born on July 27, 1935
Died on October 27, 2020 (aged 85)
Born in Canada

Donald Frank Mazankowski, was a Canadian politician who served as a cabinet minister under prime ministers Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney. He was also deputy prime minister under Mulroney.

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