DeDe, De De, Dedé or Dédé may refer to:

People

Nickname or stage name

Dedé (Angolan footballer) DeDe, De De, Dedé or Dédé may refer to: People Nickname or stage name * Dedé (Angolan footballer), born Adérito Waldemar Alves Carvalho * Dedé (footballer, born 1978), Brazilian footballer born Leonardo de Deus Santos * Dedé (footballer, bo ...

, born Adérito Waldemar Alves Carvalho * Dedé (footballer, born 1978), Brazilian footballer born Leonardo de Deus Santos * Dedé (footballer, born 1987), Brazilian footballer born Derivaldo Beserra Cavalcante *

Dedé (footballer, born 1988) Anderson Vital da Silva, commonly known as Dedé (; born 1 July 1988) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a centre back. Club career Vasco da Gama After a spell in Campeonato Carioca for Volta Redonda in 2009, Dedé was loaned with a buy-o ...

, Brazilian footballer born Anderson Vital da Silva * Dedé (footballer, born 2002), Brazilian footballer born Vitor Hugo Oliveira Corrêa da Silva * Dede Allen (1923–2010), American film editor *

Dede Barry Deirdre "Dede" Demet Barry (born October 8, 1972 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American female cycle racer, six times U.S. champion (4 senior titles, two junior). She has won two World Cup races, two World Championship medals, and, in 2004, th ...

(born 1972), American cycle racer * Dédé Fortin (1962–2000), Canadian musician * DeDe Lattimore (born 1991), American football player * DeDe Lind (born 1947), American model and ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month * Denise Lopez (Swedish singer), Mexican-born Swedish singer * De De Pierce (1904–1973), American jazz trumpeter and cornetist * Dede Robertson (1927–2022), Evangelical Christian activist *

Dedé Santana Manfried Sant'Anna (Niterói, April 29, 1936), known artistically as Dedé Santana (), is a Brazilian comedian, best known for his role in the television series ''Os Trapalhões'', where he was one of the four protagonists. Short bio Dedé w ...

(born 1936), Brazilian comedian * Dede Westbrook (born 1993), American football player * Dede Wilsey (born 1944), American philanthropist

Given name

* Dedé Anderson (born 1980), Brazilian footballer *

Dede Dolopei Dede Dolopei is a Liberian civil servant. Information She is the vice-chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Liberia. She has worked in various non-governmental organizations concerning women's rights, peace-building, conflict ...

, Liberian civil servant *

DeDe Dorsey DeDe Dorsey (born August 1, 1984) is an American former professional football running back. He was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Lindenwood. Dorsey was also a member of the I ...

(born 1984), American football player * Dede Feldman (born 1947), American politician * Dede Koswara, Indonesian man known as "Treeman" *

Dédé Saint Prix Dédé Saint Prix (born 10 February 1953) is a French singer from Martinique, performing traditional chouval bwa music. He has used elements of modern styles in his recordings, including tambour, hip hop music, charanga, ragga, son, zouk, kompa ...

(born 1953), Martinican singer

Pseudonym

Dede (artist) Dede is the art name of an Israeli graffiti artist who began displaying works on the streets of Tel Aviv in 2006. Also known as ''Dede Bandaid'', Dede’s work is well known for his widespread use of images of band-aids. Biography Dede was born ...

, Israeli graffiti artist

Surname

Ahmet Kayhan Dede Ahmet Kayhan Dede (1898, Pütürge, Malatya – August 3, 1998) was a Turkish Sufi master. Books by Ahmet Kayhan All books by Ahmet Kayhan were in the Turkish language. * ''Âdem ve Âlem'' (“Man and Universe”) (1989) * ''Ruh ve Beden'' ...

, Turkish Sufi master *

Çiğdem Dede Çiğdem Dede (born 27 February 1980, in Gaziantep, Turkey) is a Turkish powerlifter competing in the −44 kg division. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Paralympics. She is a dwarf athlete of Ankara Guven Spor, where she is coached by ...

(born 1980), Turkish paralympic powerlifter *

Edmond Dédé Edmond Dédé (November 20, 1827 – January 5, 1901) was an American musician and composer. A Free Negro, free-born Louisiana Creole people, Creole, he moved to Europe in 1855. He worked in Bordeaux for more than forty years, first as assistant ...

(1827–1901), American composer/conductor active in France *

Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi (9 January 1778 – 29 November 1846) was a composer of Ottoman classical music. Biography He was born on 9 January 1778, at Şehzadebaşı-Fatih in Istanbul, and started studying music with Mehmed Emin Efendi, ...

(1778–1846), Turkish composer *

Klaus Dede Klaus Dede (1 June 1935 in Nordenham, Oldenburg – 5 May 2018, Oldenburg) was a German writer and journalist. Life Dede was born 1935 in Nordenham-Blexen. His father was a Lutheran priest. After school Dede studied during the 1950s. Later Ded ...

(1935–2018), German writer and journalist *

Mercan Dede Mercan Dede (born Arkın Ilıcalı, 1966), also known as DJ Arkin Allen, is a Turkish-Canadian composer, ney and bendir player, DJ, and producer. He is a world music artist, playing a fusion of traditional acoustic Turkish and other oriental ...

(born 1966), Turkish composer and musician *

Munejjim-bashi Ahmed Dede Ahmed Lütfullah (early 17th century – 27 February 1702), better known by his court title of Münejjim Bashi (; "Chief Astrologer"), was an Ottoman courtier, scholar, Sufi poet and historian. His chief work is the ''Jamiʿ al-Duwal'', a world ...

, Turkish astronomer

Entertainment and culture

* ''Dédé'' (opérette), a 1921 operetta by Henri Christiné *

Dédé (1935 film) ''Dédé'' is a 1935 French musical comedy film directed by René Guissart (director), René Guissart and starring Danielle Darrieux, Albert Préjean and Mireille Perrey. It is based on the 1921 operetta ''Dédé (opérette), Dédé'' by Albert W ...

, French comedy film directed by René Guissart * ''Dédé'' (1989 film), a French film by Jean-Louis Benoît * ''Dede'' (2017 film), a Georgian film by Mariam Khatchvani * Dede Franklin, a ''Prison Break'' character * the title character of the ''

Book of Dede Korkut The ''Book of Dede Korkut'' or ''Book of Korkut Ata'' (, ; ; ) is the most famous among the dastans or epic stories of the Oghuz Turks. The stories carry morals and values significant to the social lifestyle of the nomadic Turkic peoples and ...

'', an epic story of the Oghuz Turks * Dede (band), American dream pop/post-rock band

Other uses

Dede (religious figure) A dede (also called dedebaba) is a socio-religious leader in the Islamic Alevi and non-Islamic Ishikism, Ishiki community. It is one of the 12 ranks of Imam in Alevism. The institution of dede is the most important of all the institutions integr ...

, in Alevi or Bektashi * Dede (restaurant), in Baltimore, Ireland * Yakan movement, also called Dede