Donald Erwin Tykeson (April 11, 1927 – July 12, 2017) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

Tykeson began his education at the Mountain Top one-room school, and he won a statewide Future Farmers of America public speaking contest.

[2] He met Rilda M. "Willie" Steigleder, another student at the University of Oregon, and they married in 1950.

[5] By 1983, when his firm was sold for US$186 million to Tele-Communications Inc., it "had become one of the top 20 cable operators in the nation.

His daughters estimated their parents have donated "tens of millions of dollars to organizations involved in education, science, health and the arts".