Who Is The Most Famous Donna In The World?
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- 112/31/1948Donna Summer, born as LaDonna Adrian Gaines on December 31, 1948, was an American singer and songwriter who had a great impact on the disco era of music. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she showed a predilection for music from an early age and started singing in the church choir. Her career took a significant leap forward when she moved to Germany to perform in several musical productions, and it was during this time she adopted the stage name, Donna Summer. Summer's breakthrough arrived with the release of the single "Love to Love You Baby" in 1975, a song that was not only a commercial success but also set the tone for her career as a disco diva. Her unique style of music, often dubbed as 'erotic disco', made her a household name. The late 1970s saw her dominating the charts with hits like "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", and "Hot Stuff". Her album Bad Girls, released in 1979, showcased her versatility by blending elements from different genres like rock, soul, and funk with her signature disco style. Despite her fame in the disco scene, Summer never confined herself to a single genre. In the 1980s, she ventured into pop music, creating hits like "She Works Hard for the Money" and "This Time I Know It's for Real". Throughout her career, Summer was recognized with multiple accolades, including five Grammy Awards. She continued making music until her untimely death in 2012, leaving behind a legacy that influenced a new generation of musicians. Her contributions to music and the impact she had on the disco era ensured her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.More Donna Summer
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Donna Smith
03/15/1960Donna Smith is an actress. - 312/11/1940Donna Jean Miller, better known as Donna Mills (born December 11, 1940), is an American actress and producer. She began her television career in 1966 with a recurring role on The Secret Storm, and in the same year appeared on Broadway in the Woody Allen comedy Don't Drink the Water. She made her film debut the following year in The Incident. She then starred for three years in the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1967–70), before starring as Tobie Williams, the girlfriend of Clint Eastwood's character in the 1971 cult film Play Misty for Me. Mills landed the role of Abby Cunningham on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing in 1980 and was a regular on the show until 1989. For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Villainess three times, in 1986, 1988, and 1989. She has since starred in several TV movies, including False Arrest (1991), In My Daughter's Name (1992), Dangerous Intentions (1995), The Stepford Husbands (1996), and Ladies of the House (2008). In 2014, she joined the cast of long-running daytime soap opera General Hospital, for which she won a 2015 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series.More Donna Mills
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- 401/27/1921Donna Reed, originally named Donna Belle Mullenger, was an American film and television actress whose career spanned more than four decades. Born in 1921 in the rural town of Denison, Iowa, Reed embarked on her acting journey in the late 1930s. She gained prominence for her exceptional performances in numerous films, including It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and From Here to Eternity (1953), in which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Reed transitioned from film to television in the 1950s, becoming a household name through her self-titled sitcom, The Donna Reed Show, which aired from 1958 to 1966. The show highlighted Reed's versatility as an actress, allowing her to explore a wide range of human emotions and life situations. Throughout the eight seasons of the show, Reed portrayed a character that broke the stereotypical image of women on TV during that era, earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Female Television Star in 1963. In addition to her successful acting career, Reed was also a dedicated anti-war activist and co-founder of the Another Mother for Peace organization in the 1960s. Her activism extended to issues beyond war, including environmental and women's rights. In the mid-1980s, she briefly replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie Ewing on the popular television series Dallas. Reed passed away in 1986, leaving behind a legacy as an award-winning actress and committed activist. Her contributions to the film and television industry are remembered fondly, underlining her status as one of the most enduring figures in entertainment history.More Donna Reed
- #363 of 1,285 onThe Most Beautiful Women Of All Time
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- 509/26/1932Donna Douglas (born Doris Ione Smith; September 26, 1932 – January 1, 2015) was an American actress and singer, known for her role as Elly May Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971). Following her acting career, Douglas became a real estate agent, gospel singer, inspirational speaker, and author of books for children and adults.More Donna Douglas
- #862 of 1,285 onThe Most Beautiful Women Of All Time
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- 612/23/1963Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American writer, the author of the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013). Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014. She was included in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" list, compiled in 2014.
- 711/10/1945Donna Fargo (born Yvonne Vaughn, November 10, 1945, in Mount Airy, North Carolina) is an American country singer-songwriter, who is best known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s. These include "The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" and "Funny Face," both which became crossover pop hits. The former in 1972, and the latter in 1973.Fargo has won major awards since her debut in the late 1960s, including one Grammy Award, five awards from the Academy of Country Music and one award from the Country Music Association.More Donna Fargo
- #61 of 130 onThe 100+ Greatest Female Country Singers, Ranked
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- 810/02/1948Donna Karan (born Donna Ivy Faske; October 2, 1948), also known as "DK", is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.More Donna Karan
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Donna Edmondson
02/01/1966The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1986. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year. - Donna W. Scott is an actress, activist and a model.
- 1107/20/1957Donna Lynn Dixon (born July 20, 1957) is a retired American actress and former beauty queen. After meeting and starring together in the film Doctor Detroit, Dixon has worked in several movies with her husband Dan Aykroyd.More Donna Dixon
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- 1205/23/1942Mary Alfonsi (May 23, 1942 – August 25, 2011), better known by her ring name Donna Christanello (also billed as Donna Christianello, Donna Christenello, Donna Christiantello, and Donna Christantello, the name which she went by on her official website), was a professional wrestler trained by The Fabulous Moolah. She was active from the late 1960s through the 1980s. She frequently wrestled women such as Ann Casey, Vicki Williams, Evelyn Stevens and Leilani Kai throughout the 1970s.
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Donna Stonecipher
01/01/1969Donna Stonecipher is an American poet. - 1403/24/1954Donna Pescow (born March 24, 1954) is an American film and television actress and director. She is known for her co-starring roles as Annette in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, Angie Falco Benson in the 1980s sitcom Angie, Donna Garland in the sitcom Out of This World, and Eileen Stevens in the Disney Channel sitcom Even Stevens.
- 1508/02/1979Donna Air (born 2 August 1979) is an English singer, actress and presenter.
- 1602/14/1941Donna Edna Shalala ( shə-LAY-lə; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 27th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. Shalala served as President of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, from 2001 through 2015. Previously she was the President of Hunter College from 1980 until 1988 and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1988 to 1993. Shalala also served as Trustee Professor of Political Science and Health Policy at the University of Miami, and was President of the Clinton Foundation from 2015 to 2017. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 election, in a district which includes just over half of Miami as well as many of its eastern suburbs.
- 1704/28/1982Donna Feldman is an American model, TV host, and actress, best known for her appearances as a series regular in the TV show "Fashion House" as well as a cameo in Don't Mess with the Zohan and models for covers of magazine covers, fashion editorials, high-profile ad campaigns, and television commercials.
- Donna Dresch is an American punk rock musician, perhaps best known as founder, guitarist and bass guitarist of Team Dresch.Dresch has been actively involved in the queercore scene since the 1980s, as the creator of the fanzine Chainsaw and contributor to several other seminal zines such as Outpunk and J.D.s, as well as contributing and being featured on the front cover of issue five of Deke Nihilson and Tom Jennings' zine Homocore. Additionally, she was a contributor to Tobi Vail's influential proto-Riot Grrrl fanzine, Jigsaw and Tammy Rae Carland's zine I (heart) Amy Carter. In 1992, she appeared in the cult film The Yo-Yo Gang, by G.B. Jones. She founded the queercore independent record label Chainsaw Records in the early 1990s. Shortly after, she joined forces with Jody Bleyle and Kaia Wilson to form Team Dresch. Once drummer Marci Martinez was added to the line-up, the group began recording. The first single was released in 1994 on Kill Rock Stars. Their debut album in 1994, Personal Best and its follow-up, Captain My Captain, were released jointly by Chainsaw Records and Jody Bleyle's label Candy Ass Records. Team Dresch performs live and the members are interviewed in the documentary film She's Real, Worse Than Queer by Lucy Thane. Since its inception, Chainsaw Records has housed many well-known bands such as Tracy and the Plastics and Sleater-Kinney. In 2004, she founded a new band, Davies vs. Dresch. In 2006, Team Dresch reunited and began touring again.
- Donna J. Nelson is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Nelson specializes in organic chemistry, which she both researches and teaches. Nelson has focused on five primary topics of research, generally categorized in two areas, Scientific Research and America's Scientific Readiness. Within Scientific Research, Nelson's topics have been on mechanistic patterns in alkene addition reactions and on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) functionalization and analysis, yielding the first COSY NMR spectrum of covalently functionalized SWCNTs in solution. Under America's Scientific Readiness, she focuses on science education, which includes classroom innovations and correcting organic chemistry textbook inaccuracies, on ethnic and gender diversity (the Nelson Diversity Surveys) among highly ranked science departments of research universities, and on improving the image and presentation of science and scientists to the public. Nelson also served as a science advisor to the AMC television show Breaking Bad. She was the 2016 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
- Donna Geils Orender (born February 14, 1957) is a sports executive and a former collegiate and professional All Star basketball player. She was formerly president of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and senior vice president of the PGA. Currently, Donna Orender is the Founder and CEO of Orender Unlimited, a Jacksonville, FL based advisory and consultancy firm. She travels the world as a motivation speaker and advocating for the empowerment of women and young girls through her non-profit organization Generation W.
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Donna Peele
Donna Peele is a model. - Donna Mitchell is an actress.
- 2312/15/1959Donna Lease Brazile (; born December 15, 1959) is an American political strategist, campaign manager, political analyst, author, and Fox News contributor. She was formerly a CNN contributor until her resignation in October 2016. She is a member of the Democratic Party, briefly serving as the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee in spring 2011, and again from July 2016 to February 2017. She was the first African American woman to direct a major presidential campaign, acting as campaign manager for Al Gore in 2000. She has also worked on several presidential campaigns for Democratic candidates, including Jesse Jackson and Walter Mondale–Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and for Dick Gephardt in the 1988 Democratic primary.
- 2402/14/1977Donna Cruz Yrastorza-Larrazabal (born February 14, 1977) professionally known as Donna Cruz is a Filipina recording artist, actress and entertainer. She is a member of the Philippine showbiz family Cruz. Her self-titled debut album Donna was well received by the general public and earned her a double platinum certification. Cruz's fourth studio album Habang May Buhay earned a certification of four-times platinum six months after its release. Its lead single "Only Me and You" became a radio hit in the Philippines during the summer of 1995. In December 1995, Cruz won Best Actress in a Supporting Role in the 1995 Metro Manila Film Festival for her portrayal as Noemi in the movie Muling Umawit ang Puso. In 1996, Cruz starred in DoReMi, while she also released Merry Christmas Donna. In 1997, Cruz released Pure Donna which was certified three times platinum in 1998. Cruz had official PARI certifications for all her studio albums releases from 1989 up to her hiatus in 2000. Cruz returned to the music industry with the release of her eighth studio album Now and Forever under Star Music in 2016.
- 2503/07/1959Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actress and singer, known for her work in musical theater. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she has twice won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical: for her role as Fosca in Passion (1994–95) and as Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1996–97). She was also nominated for her roles as Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town (2003), Lotte Lenya in LoveMusik (2007) and Bubbie/Raisel in The People in the Picture (2011). Murphy made her Broadway debut as a replacement in the 1979 musical They're Playing Our Song. Her other stage credits include the original Off-Broadway productions of Song of Singapore (1991) and Hello Again (1993), as well as the alternate to Bette Midler as the title character in Hello, Dolly! (2017–18). In 1997, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special for her role in Someone Had to be Benny, an episode of the HBO series Lifestories: Families in Crisis. Her film roles include Anij in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998); Rosalie Octavius in Spider-Man 2 (2004); Mother Gothel in the animated film Tangled (2010), and one of the government secretaries in The Bourne Legacy (2012).
- Donna Laframboise is a Canadian investigative journalist, writer, and photographer. She has published recent critical reviews of the IPCC and its recent reports for the UN.
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Donna Leon
09/29/1942Donna Leon (; born September 28, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. Leon lived in Venice for over 30 years and now resides in a small village in Switzerland. She also has a home in Zurich. She was a lecturer in English literature for the University of Maryland University College – Europe (UMUC-Europe) in Italy and then worked as a professor from 1981 to 1999 at the American military base of Vicenza, Italy. She stopped teaching and concentrated on writing and other cultural activities in the field of music (especially baroque music).Her Commissario Brunetti novels all take place in or around Venice. They are written in English and have been translated into many foreign languages, but--at Leon's request--not into Italian. The ninth Brunetti novel, Friends in High Places, won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2000. German television has produced 22 Commissario Brunetti episodes for broadcast. - 2811/16/1942Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1942) is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer. She is known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her most noted role, the character of Cassie in the musical A Chorus Line. She earned the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for this performance in 1976. She is also known for playing Amanda Harris/Olivia Corey on the Gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows from 1969 to 1970.
- 2912/08/1945Donna Michelle Ronne (née Fick; December 8, 1945 – April 9, 2004) was an American model, actress, and photographer. Known professionally as Donna Michelle, she was Playboy magazine's December 1963 Playmate of the Month and 1964 Playmate of the Year. Pompeo Posar and Edmund Leja photographed her centerfold images.
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Donna Wilkes
11/14/1958Donna Consuelos Wilkes (born c. 1961) is an American film actress. She began her career as a child actor in commercials before making her feature film debut in Jaws 2 (1978). She subsequently had a supporting role in Almost Summer (1978), followed by lead roles in the horror films Schizoid (1980) and Blood Song (1982). She also appeared in several television programs, including the soap opera Days of Our Lives (1982–1983), portraying Pamela Prentiss. Wilkes is perhaps best known for her starring role in the thriller Angel (1984), in which she portrayed a preparatory student in Los Angeles who lives a double life a prostitute by night. Other credits include the horror film Grotesque (1988), opposite Linda Blair and Tab Hunter, and guest-starring roles on the series Dragnet (1989) and FBI: The Untold Stories (1991).
