Donald Edward Parish (January 4, 1948 – May 9, 2018) was an American football linebacker. Parish played at Stanford, where he was the Pop Warner Trophy winner in 1969.^[1] He was chosen in the fourth round of the 1970 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals.^[2] Parish played three seasons for the Cardinals, Los Angeles Rams, and Denver Broncos.^[3]

He had three brothers, Kenneth, Cecil and Don.^[4]

The St. Louis Quarterback Club selected Parish as the Cardinals' team Rookie of the Year in December 1970.^[5]

As a member of the Cardinal, Parish set the school record for single-game tackles against Oregon State in 1968, making 23 stops, a mark he would hold for 18 years until Dave Wyman surpassed it.^[6] As a senior, he was selected for first-team All-America honors by the AP, The Sporting News and Time.^[7]

In 1971, then-Stanford coach John Ralston called Parish "the finest linebacker" he had ever coached, adding: "In his three seasons (at Stanford), he has never given anything less than 110-percent effort."^[8]

He suffered from traumatic brain injury during his football days, his brother, Kenneth, told a reporter in 2021. Unhoused in Los Angeles for many years, Parish died at age 70 on May 9, 2018, in Paso Robles, California.^[9]

In June 2022, his alma mater, PRHS, named its football field in honor of Parish.^[10]