Donald S. Kellermann

Donald Simon Kellermann (February 6, 1927 – November 10, 2010) was an American journalist who served as the first director of what became the Pew Research Center.

Kellermann was born in 1927 in Brooklyn. He was a radio broadcaster while serving with the United States Army in Germany during World War II and went to work for the Brooklyn Eagle after leaving Hofstra University.

CBS News hired him as a producer, where programs he created during his more than a decade with the network included interviews with President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion, as well as a life story of Charles Dickens.

A resident of Washington, D.C., Kellermann died in his home there at the age of 83 on November 10, 2010, from liver cancer. He was survived by his wife, Joan, two daughters and two granddaughters.