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The term Deacon may refer to:
[edit] Title or position of authority
- Deacon, a religious office subordinate to a local priest or minister
- Deacon, Scots usage for the leader of a church (that is, local chapter) or a trade guild
- Archdeacon, a religious office subordinate to a bishop
- Cardinal Deacon, the lowest-ranked of three orders in the College of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church
- Deacon, the title of an office-bearer in a Masonic Lodge (local assembly of Freemasons)
[edit] People
[edit] As title
- Paul the Deacon, an 8th-century Benedictine monk
- Timon the Deacon, one of the seven deacons chosen to minister to the Church in Jerusalem, according to the Acts of the Apostles
[edit] Given name
- Deacon Jones, professional football player and actor
- Deacon White, an early professional baseball player who set a number of records; he played in the first major league baseball game
[edit] Surname
- Bernard Deacon, an academic based at the Institute of Cornish Studies of the University of Exeter
- Gill Deacon, Canadian actress
- Henry Deacon (industrialist) (1822–1876), chemist and industrialist
- Joey Deacon, an author who suffered from cerebral palsy
- John Deacon, bassist for the rock band Queen
- Louis Deacon, a professional rugby union footballer
- Richard Deacon (actor), American actor, best known as Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fred Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver
- Richard Deacon (sculptor), British sculptor
- Terrence Deacon, an American anthropologist
[edit] Nickname
- "Deacon" Brodie (William Brodie), an 18th century master woodworker and city councillor in Edinburgh, Scotland, who burgled from his elite clientèle and inspired The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Drew Hankinson, a professional wrestler who uses the name "Freakin Deacon"
[edit] In popular culture
- "Deacon Blues", a song on the 1977 Steely Dan album Aja
- Deacon Blue, a pop band from Scotland whose name was inspired by the Steely Dan song
[edit] Other uses
- Deacon (artillery), officially the AEC Mk I Gun Carrier, a British armoured fighting vehicle of the Second World War
- Deacon (rocket) and Nike-Deacon, sounding rockets
- Deacon calf, the male calf of a dairy cow
- To "deacon" a calf is to kill a newborn within seconds of birth, typically by a blow to the head.
- Deacon, Indiana, a small town in the United States
