Dobro is a registered trademark now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.

The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar. Originally coined by the Dopyera brothers when they formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company, in time it came, in common language, to mean any resonator guitar, or specifically one with a single inverted resonator. This particular design was introduced by the Dopyeras' new company, in competition to the already patented tricone and biscuit designs owned and produced by the National String Instrument Corporation.

The Dobro brand later also appeared on other instruments, notably electric lap-steel guitars and solid-body electric guitars and on other resonator instruments such as Safari resonator mandolins.

When Gibson acquired the trademark in 1994, the company announced that it would defend its right to Dobro's exclusive use.

The name originated in 1928 when the Dopyera brothers formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company. "Dobro" is both a contraction of "Dopyera brothers" and a word meaning "goodness" in their native Slovak (and also in Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian). An early company motto was "Dobro means good in any language".

Jerry Douglas (born Gerald Calvin Douglas, May 28, 1956 in Warren, Ohio) is an American record producer and resonator guitar player. Called "Dobro's matchless contemporary master," by The New York Times, and lauded as "my favorite musician" by John Fogerty, Douglas is one of the world’s most renowned musicians.

In addition to his thirteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1600 albums. As a sideman, he has recorded with artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Phish, Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, Mumford & Sons, Keb' Mo', Ricky Skaggs, Elvis Costello, and Johnny Mathis, as well as performing on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. He has been part of such notable groups as The Whites, J. D. Crowe and the New South, The Country Gentlemen, Strength in Numbers, and Elvis Costello's "Sugar Canes".

As a producer, he has overseen albums by Alison Krauss, the Del McCoury Band, Maura O'Connell, Jesse Winchester and the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Along with Aly Bain, he serves as Music Director of the popular BBC Television series, "Transatlantic Sessions".

Jimmy Heffernan was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Glenmore and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1945 until 1953. With Kilkenny Heffernan won an All-Ireland title and five Leinster titles.

Neda Ukraden (Serbian Cyrillic: Неда Украден, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [něːda ukrǎden]; born on August 16, 1950 in Imotski, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a famous Serbian pop-folk singer across all of the former Yugoslavia, whose professional career stretches back to 1967.

Her surname Ukraden, roughly translated in Serbian means stolen (masculine adjective), however her ancestors were originally from Montenegro and their original surname was Pavlović.^{[citation needed]}

She grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but she also lived in a few other Bosnian cities, mainly because of her father's professional commitments. Respecting the wishes of her father, she attended University of Sarajevo where she successfully acquired degrees in Law and Philology, English language. It was only at the age of 18 that she started singing. When the civil war has started, as a Serb, she has to leave it and has moved to Belgrade, where she resides today with her mother, daughter and grandchild.

Some of her favorite activities include the daily running of her restaurant, Star.