Avon may refer to: *

River Avon (disambiguation) River Avon may refer to: Australia * Avon River (Mid-Coast Council), New South Wales * Avon River (Wollongong), New South Wales * Avon River (Gippsland, Victoria) * Avon River (Grampians, Victoria) * Avon River (Western Australia) Canada * Avon ...

, several rivers

Organisations

* Avon Buses, former bus operating company in Merseyside and Cheshire, England * Avon Coachworks, a car body builder established in 1919 at Warwick, England, relaunched in 1922 as ''New Avon'' * Avon Inflatables, a British manufacturer of inflatable boats, RIBs and marine safety equipment *

Avon Products Avon Products, Inc. ( ) is an Anglo-American multinational company selling cosmetics, skin care, perfume, and personal care products. It is a multi-level marketing company based in London. In 2020, Avon had annual sales of $9.1 billion worldwid ...

, an Anglo-American manufacturer of various cosmetics and personal care products * Avon (publisher), an imprint of the publisher HarperCollins * Avon Technologies, formerly Avon Rubber and Avon Protection, a British manufacturer of rubber products * Avon Tyres, a British car, motorcycle and racing-tyre manufacturer, owned since 1997 by the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company * Avon and Somerset Police, a police service in the United Kingdom

People

* John Avon (born 1961), Welsh illustrator *Rex Avon, pseudonym of composer

Montague Ewing Montague George Ewing (21 May 1890 – 4 March 1957), was a British composer and arranger of light music and ballads. As a composer and lyricist he used his own name and various other pseudonyms, most famously Sherman Myers, but also Rex Avon, Her ...

(1890–1957) * Avon Cobourne (born 1979), American football running back *

Anthony Eden Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957. Achi ...

(1897–1977), British Prime Minister and 1st Earl of Avon * Avon Honey (1947–2010), American politician from Louisiana * Avon Long (1910–1984), American singer and actor * Avon Riley (1958–2020), American football linebacker *

Avon Williams Avon N. Williams, Jr. (December 22, 1921 – August 29, 1994) was a Tennessee State Senator from 1972 to 1992. Biography Avon Nyanza Williams, Jr. was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was a 1940 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, an hist ...

(1921–1993), American politician from Tennessee

Fictional characters

* Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon in the novel ''These Old Shades'' by Georgette Heyer * Kerr Avon, a character in the science-fiction television series ''Blake's 7'' * Avon Barksdale, a character in the HBO television series ''The Wire''

Places

Australia

* Electoral district of Avon, a former electorate of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly * Avon, South Australia, former township between Balaclava and Long Plains

Canada

* Avon, Ontario *

New Avon, New Brunswick New Avon is a Canadian unincorporated community in Northfield Parish, New Brunswick, Northfield Parish, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Sunbury County, New Brunswick. Location It is located 3 kilometres southwest of Minto, New Brunswick, Minto. ...

France

Avon, Seine-et-Marne Avon () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Geography Avon and Fontainebleau, together with three other smaller communes, form an urban area of 36,713 inhabitants. The two towns sh ...

, a city in the ''département'' of Seine-et-Marne, part of Communauté de communes de Fontainebleau-Avon *

Avon, Deux-Sèvres Avon () is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. See also *Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department The following is a list of the 252 communes of the Deux-Sèvres department of France. ...

, a commune in the ''département'' of Deux-Sèvres * Avon-la-Pèze, a commune in the ''département'' of Aube * Avon-les-Roches, a commune in the ''département'' of Indre-et-Loire

New Zealand

* Avon (New Zealand electorate)

United Kingdom

Avon (county) Avon ( ) was a Shire county, non-metropolitan and ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the west of England that existed between 1974 and 1996. The county was named after the River Avon (Bristol), River Avon, which flows through ...

, a county of England from 1974 to 1996 * Avon, Hampshire, a hamlet in Sopley parish * Avon, Wiltshire, a hamlet in Bremhill parish

United States

* Avon, Alabama *

Avon, Contra Costa County, California The Marathon Martinez Renewable Fuels Facility is located in the San Francisco Bay Area in an unincorporated area known as Avon, East of Martinez, California. It refines biobased feedstocks such as animal fat, soybean oil and corn oil into ...

* Avon, Colorado * Avon, Connecticut *

Avon, Illinois Avon is a village in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 704 at the 2020 census. History Ira Woods and his family settled in Avon in 1835. Avon was named "Woodsville" from 1837 to 1843. In 1843, the town became big enoug ...

* Avon, Indiana * Avon, Iowa * Avon, Maine * Avon, Massachusetts * Avon, Minnesota, a city * Avon, Mississippi * Avon, Montana, a town * Avon (town), New York ** Avon (village), New York, within the town * Avon, North Carolina * Avon, Ohio, a city * Avon, Pennsylvania, a town * Avon, South Dakota, a city * Avon, Utah, a town * Avon, Wisconsin, a town * Avon, Rock County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *

Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey Avon-by-the-Sea (often called simply Avon; pronunciation: , ) is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was ...

, a borough * Avon Lake, Ohio, a city * Avon Park, Florida, a city * Avon Township (disambiguation)

Other uses

* Avon (ship), a ship built in 1884 * HMS Avon, name given to a number British Royal Navy ships * "Avon" (song), a song by Queens of the Stone Age *"Avon 1", a song from the album '' A Bugged Out Mix'' by Miss Kittin * Rolls-Royce Avon, a jet engine