# Don

Don, don or DON and variants may refer to:

## Places

* Don (river), a river in European Russia
* Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name
* Don, Benin, a town in Benin
* Don, Dang, a village and hill station in Dang district, Gujarat, India
* Don, Nord, 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, a community in the United States
* Don Republic, a temporary state in 1918–1920
* Don Jail, a jail in Toronto, Canada
* DON, Chapman code for County Donegal, Ireland

## People and characters
### Role or title

* Don (honorific), a Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian title, given as a mark of respect
* Don (academia), a fellow or tutor of a college or university in the U.K. and elsewhere
* Don, a crime boss, especially in the Mafia

### People with the name

* Don (given name), a short form of the masculine given name Donald in Scots and English
* Don (nickname)
* George Don (1798–1856), Scottish botanist
* Khadi Don (born 1996), American comedian and actress

### Fictional characters

* 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, character in Japanese television series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

## Arts, entertainment, media
### Films

* Don (2003 film), an Indian Kanada-language film by P. N. Sathya
* Don (2006 Dutch film), by Arend Steenbergen
* Don (2007 film), an Indian Telugu-language film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna and Anushka
** Don Number One, a 2012 Bangladeshi film starring Shakib Khan, remake of the 2007 film
* Don (franchise), an Indian gangster film franchise
** Don (1978 film), by Chandra Barot
** Don (2006 Hindi film), a remake by Farhan Akhtar of the 1978 film
*** Don (soundtrack), for the 2006 film by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
** Don 2, 2011 sequel to the 2006 film
*** Don 2: The Game, video game based on the 2011 film
* Don (2022 film), an Indian Tamil-language film by Cibi Chakaravarthi

### Television

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

### Music

* "Don", a song by Miranda! from their 2004 album Sin Restricciones
* "Don", a song by Trippie Redd, 2020

### Other uses in art and entertainment

* Battle Stadium D.O.N, a video game

## Military and defense

* 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, 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" a suffix in the scientific names of many animals, meaning "tooth"
* Dysbaric osteonecrosis, death of a portion of bone
* Russian Don, a horse breed

## Other uses

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