- Hired as DJ for the Sacramento station KXOA, Imus once (in about 1969) called a local fast-food restaurant while on the air and ordered 1,200 hamburgers to go, giving specific instructions on how he wanted them prepared. As a result, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that disc jockeys must identify themselves when they telephone listeners.
- Served in the Marine Corps as a bugler from 1957 to 1960.
- Was a brakeman on the Southern Pacific Railroad. After hearing a morning disc-jockey, went to the nearby radio station and persuaded the owner to hire him. Thus began his career as a radio disc jockey on June 28, 1968 at radio station KUTY in Palmdale, California.
- Hosted a talk radio program in New York City called "Imus In the Morning".
- (July 3, 1998) Son, with Deirdre Coleman Imus, was born, named Frederick Wyatt Imus, but referred to as Wyatt.
- Has written several comic novels, including "God's Other Son".
- Was an avid landscape photographer.
- Children with Harriet Showalter: Nadine Imus, Tony Imus, Elizabeth Imus (born on April 29, 1975) and Ashleigh Imus.
- Don Imus was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
- Of Welsh ancestry.
- Battling stage two prostate cancer [March 16, 2009].
- Used to be a co-worker of Howard Stern.
- In the 1970s, he recorded a series of albums that featured recordings of his on-air telephone pranks (including trying to reserve a Formula 1 race car from a auto rental agency), and material from his radio shows.
- Older brother of Fred Imus.
- Licensed ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, since April 1971.
- Along with his brother, Fred Imus, and his wife, Deirdre Coleman Imus, Don Imus founded the "Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer" in 1999 in Ribera, New Mexico.
- Raised on a sprawling cattle ranch called "The Willows", neared Kingman, Arizona, which was a few miles from Jeannette Walls's grandmother.
- Favorite songs: "I've Always Been Crazy" by Waylon Jennings.
- His body was donated to Texas A&M University for medical science.
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