Donkin (surname)

Donkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Billy Donkin (1900-1974), English footballer
• Bryan Donkin (1768–1855), English engineer, inventor and industrialist
• Sir Horatio Bryan Donkin (1 February 1842 (Blackheath, Kent)- 1927), generally called 'Bryan'; a British medical doctor and political radical . Son of Bryan Donkin; educated at Queen's College, Oxford; married to August Margaretha Elizabeth
• Bryan Donkin Junior (1835–1902), mechanical engineer
• John Donkin (1802–1854), engineer
• Dylan Donkin (21st century), American musician
• Mike Donkin (1951–2007), English reporter and journalist
• Peter Langloh Donkin (1913-2000), Air Commodore
• Robin Donkin (1928–2006), English historian and geographer
• Rufane Shaw Donkin (1773–1841), British soldier
• Sydney Donkin (1871–1952), engineer
• William Donkin (disambiguation)
  • William Fishburn Donkin (1814–1869), professor of astronomy at Oxford
  • William Donkin (physician) (1911–1969), mandali of Meher Baba