# Deon

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{{wiktionary|deon}}
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'''Deon''' is a given name.

People with the name include:

* [Deon (footballer)](/source/Deon_(footballer)), José Aldean Oliveira de Jesus (1987–2023), Brazilian footballer
* [Deon Anderson](/source/Deon_Anderson) (born 1983), American football player
* [Deon Apps](/source/Deon_Apps) (born 1987), Australian rugby league footballer
* [Deon Bird](/source/Deon_Bird) (born 1976), Australian rugby league footballer
* [Deon Birtwistle](/source/Deon_Birtwistle) (born 1980), Australian lightweight rower
* [Deon Boakye](/source/Deon_Boakye), Ghanaian afropop musician
* [Deon Broomfield](/source/Deon_Broomfield) (born 1991), American football player
* [Deon Burton](/source/Deon_Burton) (born 1976), English-born Jamaican footballer
* [Deon Bush](/source/Deon_Bush) (born 1993), American football player
* [Deon Butler](/source/Deon_Butler) (born 1986), American football player
* [Deon Cain](/source/Deon_Cain) (born 1996), American football player
* [Deon Carney](/source/Deon_Carney) (born 1991), South African rugby union footballer
* [Deon Carolus](/source/Deon_Carolus) (born 1978), South African cricketer
* [Deon Carstens](/source/Deon_Carstens) (born 1979), South African rugby union footballer
* [Deon Cole](/source/Deon_Cole) (born 1972), American actor, comedian and screenwriter
* [Deon Cross](/source/Deon_Cross) (born 1996), English rugby league footballer
* [Deon Davids](/source/Deon_Davids) (born 1968), South African rugby union coach
* [Deon de Kock](/source/Deon_de_Kock) (born 1975), South African rugby union footballer
* [Deon Dreyer](/source/Deon_Dreyer) (1974–1994), South African diver
* [Deon du Plessis](/source/Deon_du_Plessis) (1952–2011), South African publisher
* [Deon Dyer](/source/Deon_Dyer) (born 1977), American football player
* [Deon Edwin](/source/Deon_Edwin) (born 1992), American basketball player
* [Deon Estus](/source/Deon_Estus) (1956–2021), American bassist and singer
* [Deon Ferreira](/source/Deon_Ferreira) (1946–2002), South African Army general
* [Deon Figures](/source/Deon_Figures) (born 1970), American football player
* [Deon Fourie](/source/Deon_Fourie) (born 1986), South African rugby union footballer
* [Deon Fourie (army general)](/source/Deon_Fourie_(army_general)) (1932–2025), South African officer, academic, military historian and heraldist
* [Deon Grant](/source/Deon_Grant) (born 1979), American football player
* [Deon Helberg](/source/Deon_Helberg) (born 1989), South African rugby union footballer
* [Deon Hemmings](/source/Deon_Hemmings) (born 1968), Jamaican female 400 metres hurdler
* [Deon Hotto](/source/Deon_Hotto) (born 1990), Namibian footballer
* [Deon Humphrey](/source/Deon_Humphrey) (born 1976), American football player
* [Deon Jackson](/source/Deon_Jackson_(disambiguation)), multiple people
* [Deon Jones](/source/Deon_Jones) (born 1993), American basketball player
* [Deon Joubert](/source/Deon_Joubert), South African tennis player
* [Deon Kayser](/source/Deon_Kayser) (born 1970), South African rugby union footballer and coach
* [Deon Kenzie](/source/Deon_Kenzie) (born 1996), Australian Paralympic athlete
* [Deon King](/source/Deon_King) (born 1993), American football player
* [Deon Kipping](/source/Deon_Kipping) (born 1979), American gospel musician
* [Deon Kotzé](/source/Deon_Kotz%C3%A9) (born 1973), Namibian cricketer
* [Deon Kruis](/source/Deon_Kruis) (born 1974), South African cricketer
* [Deon Lacey](/source/Deon_Lacey) (born 1990), American football player
* [Deon Lee](/source/Deon_Lee) (born 1982), South Korean born composer
* [Deon Lendore](/source/Deon_Lendore) (1992–2022), Trinidadian sprinter
* [Deon Long](/source/Deon_Long) (born 1991), American football player
* [Deon Lotter](/source/Deon_Lotter) (born 1957), South African rugby union player
* [Deon Lotz](/source/Deon_Lotz) (born 1964), South African actor
* [Deon Lyle](/source/Deon_Lyle) (born 1996), American basketball player
* [Deon Maas](/source/Deon_Maas), South African filmmaker, writer and journalist
* [Deon McCaulay](/source/Deon_McCaulay) (born 1987), Belizean footballer
* [Deon Meyer](/source/Deon_Meyer), South African thriller novelist
* [Deon Miles](/source/Deon_Miles), American chemist
* [Deon Minor](/source/Deon_Minor) (born 1973), American former track and field athlete
* [Deon Moore](/source/Deon_Moore) (born 1999), Guyanese footballer
* [Deon Mouton](/source/Deon_Mouton) (born 1974), Namibian rugby union player
* [Deon Muir](/source/Deon_Muir) (born 1973), New Zealand rugby union footballer
* [Deon Murphy](/source/Deon_Murphy) (born 1986), American gridiron football player
* [Deon Oosthuysen](/source/Deon_Oosthuysen) (born 1963), South African rugby union footballer
* [Deon Nielsen Price](/source/Deon_Nielsen_Price) (born 1934), American pianist, composer and educator 
* [Deon Richmond](/source/Deon_Richmond) (born 1978), American actor
* [Deon Saffery](/source/Deon_Saffery) (born 1988), Welsh squash player
* [Deon Simon](/source/Deon_Simon) (born 1990), American football player
* [Deon Slabbert](/source/Deon_Slabbert) (born 2000), South African rugby union player
* [Deon Smith](/source/Deon_Smith) (born 1968), South African cricketer
* [Deon St. Mor](/source/Deon_St._Mor), Australian designer
* [Deon Stegmann](/source/Deon_Stegmann) (born 1986), South African rugby union footballer
* [Deon Stewardson](/source/Deon_Stewardson) (1951–2017), British-South African actor
* [Deon Strother](/source/Deon_Strother) (born 1972), American football player
* [Deon Swiggs](/source/Deon_Swiggs) (born 1986), New Zealand politician
* [Deon Taylor](/source/Deon_Taylor) (born 1976), American film director
* [Deon Tedder](/source/Deon_Tedder) (born 1990), American politician
* [Deon Thomas](/source/Deon_Thomas) (born 1971), American-Israeli basketball player
* [Deon Thompson](/source/Deon_Thompson) (born 1988), American basketball player
* [Deon van der Walt](/source/Deon_van_der_Walt) (1958–2005), South African operatic tenor
* [Deon van Rensburg](/source/Deon_van_Rensburg) (born 1982), South African rugby union footballer
* [Deon Yelder](/source/Deon_Yelder) (born 1995), American football player
*Deon Temne (1972), Sierra Leonean-American, [Afrocentrism](/source/Afrocentrism), [human rights activist](/source/Human_rights_defender)
* Deon Wilson, protagonist in the film [''Chappie''](/source/Chappie_(film))

== See also ==
* {{look from}}
* [d'Eon](/source/d'Eon), a surname
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