Don, don or DON and variants may refer to:

Places

* County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON *

Don (river) The Don ( rus, Дон, p=don) is the fifth-longest river in Europe. Flowing from Central Russia to the Sea of Azov in Southern Russia, it is one of Russia's largest rivers and played an important role for traders from the Byzantine Empire. Its ...

, a river in European Russia *

Don River (disambiguation) The Don is a river in Russia and the fifth-longest river in Europe. Don River or River Don may also refer to: Australia * Don River (Central Queensland), a tributary of the Fitzroy River * Don River (North Queensland) * Don River (Tasmania) * Don ...

, several other rivers with the name *

Don, Benin Don is a town in Benin, Africa. Nearest large airports are Cotonou Cadjehoun in Cotonou and Lomé-Tokoin in Lomé, Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered b ...

, a town in Benin *

Don, Dang Don is a hill station and village in Dang District, India, Dang district of Gujarat, India. It is touted to be the second hill station in state after nearby Saputara. Geography Don is situated on a plateau in the Dang forest area of Western Ghats ...

, a village and hill station in Dang district, Gujarat, India *

Don, Nord Don () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes cooperate in the following int ...

, a ''commune'' of the Nord ''département'' in northern France * Don, Tasmania, a small village on the Don River, located just outside Devonport, Tasmania * Don, Trentino, a commune in Trentino, Italy *

Don, West Virginia Don is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classif ...

, a community in the United States * Don Republic, a temporary state in 1918–1920 * Don Jail, a jail in Toronto, Canada

People

Role or title

Don (honorific) Don (; ; pt, Dom, links=no ; all from Latin ', roughly 'Lord'), abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and Croati ...

, a Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian title, given as a mark of respect *Don, a

crime boss A crime boss, also known as a crime lord, Don, gang lord, gang boss, mob boss, kingpin, godfather, crime mentor or criminal mastermind, is a person in charge of a criminal organization. Description A crime boss typically has absolute or nearl ...

, especially in the Mafia , ''Don Konisshi'' (コニッシー) *Don, a resident assistant at universities in Canada and the U.S. * University don, in British and Irish universities, especially at Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews and Dublin, a fellow or tutor of a college

People with the name

*Don (given name), a short form of the masculine given name Donald in Scots and English *George Don, Scottish botanist (1798–1856), abbreviated as G.Don

Art and entertainment

Fictional entities

*Don (character), the main character of the ''Don'' franchise, a gangster *Don Wada, one of the main protagonists of the ''Taiko no Tatsujin'' series *Don Dogoier, Is A Main Character in Japanese Series ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger''

Films

*Don (2006 Dutch film), ''Don'' (2006 Dutch film) *Don (2007 film), ''Don'' (2007 film), a Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna and Anushka **''Don Number One'', a Bengali 2012 film remake of the 2007 film *Don (franchise), an Indian gangster film franchise *Don (1978 film), ''Don'' (1978 film), a blockbuster Hindi film **Don (2006 Hindi film), ''Don'' (2006 Hindi film), a Bollywood remake of the 1978 film **''Don 2'', the sequel to the 2006 film *Don (2022 film), ''Don'' (2022 film), a Tamil film

Television

*Don (TV series), ''Don'' (TV series), a 2007 Indian reality TV series *"Don", an episode in ''Regular Show''

Other uses in art and entertainment

*"Don", a song by Miranda! from their 2004 album ''Sin Restricciones'' *''Battle Stadium D.O.N'', a video game

Military and defense

*United States Department of the Navy, Department of the Navy (or DON), a part of the United States Department of Defense *Don-2N radar, Russian anti-ballistic missile radar *Don-class submarine tender, ''Don''-class submarine tender, Soviet-era class of submarine tenders *Orlets-1 (or DON), a reconnaissance satellite

Science

Chemistry

*Dissolved Organic Nitrogen, or DON *2,5-Dimethoxy-4-nitroamphetamine, a recreational drug *6-Diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine, an enzyme inhibitor *Deoxynivalenol, a mycotoxin

Biology

*"-don" list of commonly used taxonomic affixes, a suffix in the scientific names of many animals, meaning "tooth" *Dysbaric osteonecrosis, death of a portion of bone

Other uses

*Dôn, a mother goddess in Welsh mythology *don (unit), a Korean unit of weight *Donburi, or don, a Japanese rice bowl dish *Russian Don, a horse breed *Tropical Storm Don (2011) *Director of nursing (long term care facility) *Nursing management#Director of Nursing, Director of nursing (other uses)