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For the surname, see d'Eon. For other uses, see Deion, Dion, Dione, and Dionne.

Deon is a given name.

People with the name include:

• Deon (footballer), José Aldean Oliveira de Jesus (1987–2023), Brazilian footballer
• Deon Anderson (born 1983), American football player
• Deon Apps (born 1987), Australian rugby league footballer
• Deon Bird (born 1976), Australian rugby league footballer
• Deon Birtwistle (born 1980), Australian lightweight rower
• Deon Boakye, Ghanaian afropop musician
• Deon Broomfield (born 1991), American football player
• Deon Burton (born 1976), English-born Jamaican footballer
• Deon Bush (born 1993), American football player
• Deon Butler (born 1986), American football player
• Deon Cain (born 1996), American football player
• Deon Carney (born 1991), South African rugby union footballer
• Deon Carolus (born 1978), South African cricketer
• Deon Carstens (born 1979), South African rugby union footballer
• Deon Cole (born 1972), American actor, comedian and screenwriter
• Deon Cross (born 1996), English rugby league footballer
• Deon Davids (born 1968), South African rugby union coach
• Deon de Kock (born 1975), South African rugby union footballer
• Deon Dreyer (1974–1994), South African diver
• Deon du Plessis (1952–2011), South African publisher
• Deon Dyer (born 1977), American football player
• Deon Edwin (born 1992), American basketball player
• Deon Estus (1956–2021), American bassist and singer
• Deon Ferreira (1946–2002), South African Army general
• Deon Figures (born 1970), American football player
• Deon Fourie (born 1986), South African rugby union footballer
• Deon Fourie (army general) (1932–2025), South African officer, academic, military historian and heraldist
• Deon Grant (born 1979), American football player
• Deon Helberg (born 1989), South African rugby union footballer
• Deon Hemmings (born 1968), Jamaican female 400 metres hurdler
• Deon Hotto (born 1990), Namibian footballer
• Deon Humphrey (born 1976), American football player
• Deon Jackson, multiple people
• Deon Jones (born 1993), American basketball player
• Deon Joubert, South African tennis player
• Deon Kayser (born 1970), South African rugby union footballer and coach
• Deon Kenzie (born 1996), Australian Paralympic athlete
• Deon King (born 1993), American football player
• Deon Kipping (born 1979), American gospel musician
• Deon Kotzé (born 1973), Namibian cricketer
• Deon Kruis (born 1974), South African cricketer
• Deon Lacey (born 1990), American football player
• Deon Lee (born 1982), South Korean born composer
• Deon Lendore (1992–2022), Trinidadian sprinter
• Deon Long (born 1991), American football player
• Deon Lotter (born 1957), South African rugby union player
• Deon Lotz (born 1964), South African actor
• Deon Lyle (born 1996), American basketball player
• Deon Maas, South African filmmaker, writer and journalist
• Deon McCaulay (born 1987), Belizean footballer
• Deon Meyer, South African thriller novelist
• Deon Miles, American chemist
• Deon Minor (born 1973), American former track and field athlete
• Deon Moore (born 1999), Guyanese footballer
• Deon Mouton (born 1974), Namibian rugby union player
• Deon Muir (born 1973), New Zealand rugby union footballer
• Deon Murphy (born 1986), American gridiron football player
• Deon Oosthuysen (born 1963), South African rugby union footballer
• Deon Nielsen Price (born 1934), American pianist, composer and educator
• Deon Richmond (born 1978), American actor
• Deon Saffery (born 1988), Welsh squash player
• Deon Simon (born 1990), American football player
• Deon Slabbert (born 2000), South African rugby union player
• Deon Smith (born 1968), South African cricketer
• Deon St. Mor, Australian designer
• Deon Stegmann (born 1986), South African rugby union footballer
• Deon Stewardson (1951–2017), British-South African actor
• Deon Strother (born 1972), American football player
• Deon Swiggs (born 1986), New Zealand politician
• Deon Taylor (born 1976), American film director
• Deon Tedder (born 1990), American politician
• Deon Thomas (born 1971), American-Israeli basketball player
• Deon Thompson (born 1988), American basketball player
• Deon van der Walt (1958–2005), South African operatic tenor
• Deon van Rensburg (born 1982), South African rugby union footballer
• Deon Woodman (born 2002), Kenyan footballer
• Deon Yelder (born 1995), American football player
• Deon Temne (1972), Sierra Leonean-American, Afrocentrism, human rights activist
• Deon Wilson, protagonist in the film Chappie

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Deon
• d'Eon, a surname
• Deioneus: Deon, Deion, Deone, Dion, Dione, Dionne