Donner

Donner is a variation of Donar, the German name of the god Thor – particularly as a character in the first opera, Das Rheingold of Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. In modern German, it means thunder.

It can also refer to:

People

• Donner (surname)

Places

• Donner (crater), a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon
• "Donner Pass exhibit" at Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum in Vista, CA
• Donner Camp and Donner Pass, where the Donner Party was trapped by weather during the winter of 1846-1847
  • Donner Memorial State Park, near the eastern shore of Donner Lake, commemorates the disaster
• Donner, California, an unincorporated community near Donner Pass
• Donner Ski Ranch on Donner Summit, California
• Donner und Blitzen River river in Oregon, United States
• Donner-Reed Pioneer Museum
• Mount Donner mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
• The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts#Treasures from a Trunk: California Pioneers’ Quilts and Textiles
• William Hulme's Grammar School, school in in northern England, with Donner Block wing
• Donner Laboratory, at University of California, Berkeley, a biomedical atomic energy research center, funded by William H. Donner
• McKinneys-Donner Lake State Highway, refers to California State Route 89

Music

• "Je veux donner ma voix" French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999
• "Donner pour donner" 1980 music video by Elton John
• "Je n'ai plus rien à te donner" song on Les Amours du dimanche (1989) album by French pop singer Marc Lavoine
• "Se donner la main" track on French pop singer Lorie's Près de toi album
• Emanuel Donner member of Austrian alternative pop band Ginga

Transport

• USS Donner (LSD-20) United States naval ship
• The Michigan Triangle#George R. Donner captain of a vessel that disappeared on Lake Michigan

Awards and titles

• Donner Prize, an award given for books considered excellent in regard to the writing of Canadian public policy
• Donner Professor – academic title held by those who have held one of the five chairs (in science) funded by the William H. Donner Foundation

Flora and fauna

• Eriogonum umbellatum Torrey var. torreyanum (Donner Pass buckwheat), a variety of Eriogonum umbellatum
• Luzula subcongesta common name Donner woodrush

Art

• 19th-century painter Albert Bierstadt painted the Donner Pass in his Donner Lake from the Summit

Stage and screen

• Frankie Donner character on American soap opera Days of our Lives
• Howard Fishman theater work "We Are Destroyed", exploring the ill-fated Donner Party expedition
• Megan Donner character in CSI Miami television series
• Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, a version of a superhero film
• Donner, character in Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a Staircase play
• General Gerhard Donner character in Venus Wars 1989 science fiction anime film dir. by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
• Larry Donner character in Throw Momma from the Train film
• Maddux Donner (played by Ron Livingston) character in Defying Gravity (TV series)

Literature

• "Don't You Cry for Me", 1940 novel by John Weld based on the Donner party
• "The Mormons and the Donner Party" article in BYU Studies by Eugene E. Campbell
• Donner the Reindeer (originally called Donder), alternative name of one of the reindeer named in the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
• James D. Houston American novelist, author of "Snow Mountain Passage" (2001) inspired by a familial link to the Donner Party
• Richard Rhodes novel The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party
• Donner, a superheroine from multiple Milestone Media comic books
• Eric Donner is one of the six signature Scions that are presented and followed in all three core books of Scion (role-playing game).
• Martin Donner, character in Poul Anderson science fiction novella Un-Man
• Min Donner character in Stephen R. Donaldson's science fiction novel A Dark and Hungry God Arises
• Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart
• Palace Wagon Family: A True Story of the Donner Party by Margaret Sutton
• Short story "Ode to the Donner Party" by David Shields
• Sir Magnus Donners, character in A Dance to the Music of Time cycle of novels by Anthony Powell
• The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 young adult historical novel by Rodman Philbrick, in My Name Is America series
• The Mothers: An American Saga of Courage told the story of the Donner Party tragedy by Vardis Fisher
• The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party fiction book for young adults by Marian Calabro
• Donner, one of Santa Claus's reindeer, as named in "The Night Before Christmas"

Other

Donner may also be:

• Döner kebab, a Turkish dish made with mutton
• Donner Metals Ltd., a Canadian mining company
• Palmer v Donner, an 1868 United States Supreme Court case

See also

• Donner Party (disambiguation)

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