# Avon

Avon may refer to:

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

### France

* Avon, Seine-et-Marne, a city in the département of Seine-et-Marne, part of Communauté de communes de Fontainebleau-Avon
* Avon, Deux-Sèvres, 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), 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
* Avon, Colorado
* Avon, Connecticut
* Avon, Illinois
* 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, 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