Dons

Dons' or The Dons may refer to:

In association football:

  • Aberdeen F.C., a Scottish professional football club
  • Wimbledon F.C., a former English professional football club from London which relocated to Milton Keynes in 2003, and the two clubs founded during the surrounding controversy:
    • AFC Wimbledon, an English professional football club founded by Wimbledon F.C. supporters soon after that club's move to Milton Keynes was sanctioned in 2002
    • Milton Keynes Dons F.C., an English professional football club formed in 2004, a year after Wimbledon F.C. moved
  • Hendon F.C., an English football club

In other sports:

  • Essendon Football Club, an Australian rules football club
  • San Francisco Dons, the athletic teams of the University of San Francisco, California
  • Wimbledon Dons, an English motorcycle speedway team from Wimbledon, London
  • The athletic teams of Loyola Blakefield school in Maryland
  • Doncaster RLFC, a British rugby league club from Doncaster, South Yorkshire
  • The Los Angeles Dons, an American football team that played in the defunct All-America Football Conference in 1946–49

People:

  • Hans Dons (1882-1940), Norwegian naval officer and aviator
  • Aage Dons (1903-1993), Danish writer

Famous quotes containing the word dons:

    The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)