Dede

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

People

Nickname or stage name

Association football

• Dedé (footballer, born 1981), Angolan, born Adérito Waldemar Alves Carvalho, mostly played for Portuguese clubs
• Dedé (footballer, born 1978), Brazilian, born Leonardo de Deus Santos, mostly played for Dortmund
• Dedé (footballer, born 1987), Brazilian, born Derivaldo Beserra Cavalcante, played for a large number of Brazilian clubs
• Dedé (footballer, born 1988), Brazilian, born Anderson Vital da Silva, mostly played for Vasco da Gama and Cruzeiro
• Dedé (footballer, born 2002), Brazilian, born Vitor Hugo Oliveira Corrêa da Silva, plays for CSA
• Didier Deschamps (born 1968), French, played for prominent European clubs and France, manager of France since 2012

Other fields

• Dede Allen (1923–2010), American film editor
• Dede Barry (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 (born 1936), Brazilian comedian
• Dede Westbrook (born 1993), American football player
• Dede Wilsey (born 1944), American philanthropist

Given name

• Dede Alpert (born 1945), American politician
• Dedé Anderson (born 1980), Brazilian footballer
• Dede Barry (born 1972), American cycle racer
• Dede Dolopei, Liberian civil servant
• DeDe Dorsey (born 1984), American football player
• Dede Feldman (born 1947), American politician
• Dede Koswara (1971–2016), Indonesian carpenter afflicted with a rare disease that led to warts all over his body
• Dédé Saint Prix (born 1953), Martinican singer
• Dede Indra Permana Soediro (born 1982), Indonesian politician

Pseudonym

• Dede (artist), Israeli graffiti artist

Surname

• Ahmet Kayhan Dede, Turkish Sufi master
• Çiğdem Dede (born 1980), Turkish paralympic powerlifter
• Edmond Dédé (1827–1901), American composer/conductor active in France
• Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi (1778–1846), Turkish composer
• Klaus Dede (1935–2018), German writer and journalist
• Mercan Dede (born 1966), Turkish composer and musician
• Munejjim-bashi Ahmed Dede, Turkish astronomer

Arts and entertainment

• Dédé (opérette), a 1921 operetta by Henri Christiné
• Dédé (1935 film), 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, an epic story of the Oghuz Turks
• Dede (band), American dream pop/post-rock band

Other uses

• Dede (religious figure), in Alevi or Bektashi
• Dede (restaurant), in Baltimore, Ireland
• Yakan movement, also called Dede

See also

• Deedee
• Deede (disambiguation)
• Dedee, a nickname
• Dedede, a character in the Kirby video game franchise
• DD (disambiguation)
• Didi (disambiguation)