Charles Donald Talbot (11 October 1933 – 16 July 2022) was an Australian author based in Toowoomba, Queensland.
In 1982, he was employed by The Chronicle (Toowoomba) and his duties ranged from feature writer to pictorial editor and sub-editor.
He edited his own newspaper The Lockyer Journal (1986–89), before becoming the first Press officer at the University of Southern Queensland.
He wrote media press releases and edited the university's first staff newspaper, the Phoenix Gazette.
Don wrote historical and biographical books, with particular focus on the people and places in Toowoomba and the surrounding Darling Downs area.