Deon is a given name.
People with the name include:
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Deon Burton
Deon John Burton (born 25 October 1976) is a football coach and former professional footballer who played as a striker and who is the current Under-23's Manager of EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion. His numerous clubs in English footba ...
(born 1976), English-born Jamaican footballer
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Deon Butler
Vincent Deon Butler (born January 4, 1986) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at Penn State.
College career
After redshirti ...
(born 1986), American football player
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Deon Cain
Deon Cain (born August 9, 1996) is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent. He played college football at Clemson.
Early years
Cain attended Tampa Bay Technical High School in Tampa, Florida. He played quarterback for the hi ...
(born 1996), American football player
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Deon Hemmings
Deon Marie Hemmings (born 9 October 1968 in Saint Ann, Jamaica) is a former female 400 metres hurdler.
Hemmings was the first ever Jamaican woman to win an Olympic Gold when she won the 400m Hurdles at the 1996 Olympics breaking the Olympic r ...
(born 1968), Jamaican female 400 metres hurdler
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Deon Jackson (1946–2014), African-American singer
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Deon Kruis
Gideon Jacobus Kruis (born 9 May 1974), popularly known as Deon Kruis, is a South African first-class cricketer who played in England with Yorkshire County Cricket Club for five seasons from 2004 to 2009. His South African cricket has been for No ...
(born 1974), South African cricketer
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Deon Lacey (born 1990), American football player
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Deon Lee (born 1982), South Korean born composer
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Deon Lendore
Deon Kristofer Lendore (28 October 1992 – 10 January 2022) was a Trinidad and Tobago sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won medals at the Pan ...
(born 1992), Trinidadian sprinter
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Deon Miles, American chemist
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Deon Strother, American football player
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Deon Thomas
Deon La velle Thomas (born February 24, 1971) is an American-Israeli former basketball player. As a high school player, he led his team to the Chicago Public League title, and was named Illinois Mr. Basketball. As a college player at the Univer ...
(born 1971), American-Israeli basketball player
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Deon van der Walt
Deon van der Walt (28 July 1958 – 29 November 2005), was a South African tenor.
Van der Walt studied singing at Stellenbosch University and made his debut as Jaquino in Beethoven's ''Fidelio'' at the Cape Town Opera before he had graduate ...
(1958–2005), South Afrikan operatic tenor
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Deon Yelder (born 1995), American football player
*Deon Temne (1972), Sierra Leonean-American,
Afrocentrism
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human rights activist
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Deon Chrisman(born 2007), American Singer
* Deon Wilson, protagonist in
Chappie (film)
''Chappie'' (stylized as ''CHAPPiE'') is a 2015 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. It stars Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Ninja, Yolandi Visse ...
See also
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d'Eon, a surname
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Deion, given name
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Dion (disambiguation)
Dion may refer to:
People
Ancient
*Dion (mythology), a king in Laconia and husband of Iphitea, the daughter of Prognaus
*Dion of Syracuse (408–354 BC), ancient Greek politician
*Dio of Alexandria, first century BC, ancient Greek philosoph ...
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Dione (disambiguation), includes a list of people with given name Dione
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Dionne (name) Dionne is both a modern feminine given name and a French Canadian surname. Antoine Dionne (1641-1721)Dictionnaire Tanguay of Quebec is the earliest known Dionne in North America, and currently all people with the surname Dionne are believed to b ...
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