The adult healthy human pancreas has been poorly studied given lack of indication to obtain tissue from the pancreas in the absence of disease and rapid postmortem degradation. We obtained pancreata from brain dead donors thus avoiding any warm ischemia time. We found that neoplastic lesions occur frequently in healthy organs, in donors as young as in their 3rd decade of life. Using the 10X Genomics Platform, we performed single cell RNA sequencing on 6 donor pancreata, 5 of which we separately sequenced tissue from the pancreas head and tail, for a total of 11 sequencing runs. This is a robust single-cell dataset of healthy, nonpathologic pancreas tissue and includes acinar, ductal, and non-epithelial cells (myeloid cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells, lymphocytes). We compared this dataset of normal pancreata to single cell sequencing of tumor samples previously published in Steele, et al, Nature Cancer 2020, (raw fastq in dbGap phs002071) realigned to GRCh38 reference genome (CellRanger 6.0). This GEO series contains the raw and filtered feature matrices for the donor pancreata as well as the realigned tumor samples. Supplementary files contain the aggregate feature matrices and the metadata of the donor pancreata samples and the tumor samples. Overall design: Briefly, the donor pancreas was dissected by a clinically-trained pancreatobiliary surgeon. The organ was dissected into head, body, and tail, with portions of each placed into DMEM media with 1%BSA/10μM Y27632. Tissue was minced into 1mm3 pieces, then digested with 1 mg/mL collagenase P for 20-30 min at 37°C with gentle agitation. Digested tissue was rinsed three times with DMEM/1%BSA/10μM Y27632, then filtered through a 40μm mesh. Resulting cells were submitted to the University of Michigan Advanced Genomics Core for single cell sequencing using the 10x Genomics Platform. <<< Submitter declares that the raw data will be deposited in dbGaP due to patient privacy concerns. >>>