Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer.

[2] He was the uncle of the former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner.

[4] The character Onno Quist in the novel (and film) The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch is based on Donner.

He was famous for his outspoken and often outrageous columns about subjects such as women, politics, and fellow Dutch grandmaster Lodewijk Prins, whom Donner claimed "cannot tell a knight from a bishop".

In 1987, the book De Koning ("The King") was published, which contained 162 of his chess columns, all but the last written between 1950 and 1983, collected by Tim Krabbé and Max Pam.