Demon (disambiguation)
A demon is a malevolent supernatural being, evil spirit or fiend in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.
Demon, daemon or dæmon may also refer to:
Entertainment
Fictional entities and role-playing games
- Daemon (G.I. Joe)
 - Dæmon (His Dark Materials)
 - Daemon (Digimon)
 - Demon (Dungeons & Dragons)
 - Demon (Supernatural)
 - Daemon, character in the TV series ReBoot
 - Daemon Blackfyre, character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe and its adaptations
 - Daemon Targaryen, character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire universe and its adaptations
 - Demons (Shannara)
 - Demon or dimension traveler, class of characters in the MythAdventures series
 - Characters in the Artemis Fowl series
 - Characters which appear in The Demonata by Darren Shan
 - Azazel (Supernatural), fictional character also known as "The Demon"
 - Etrigan the Demon
 - Demons (Mayfair Games), a 1992 role-playing game supplement for demons in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
 
Films
- The Demon (1918 film), an American silent comedy film
 - The Demon (1926 film), an American silent Western film
 - Demons, a 1971 Japanese film directed by Toshio Matsumoto
 - Demon (1976 film) or God Told Me To, an American horror film
 - The Demon (1978 film), a Japanese drama film
 - The Demon (South African film), a slasher film
 - Demons (1985 film), an Italian horror film
 - Daemon (film), a 1985 British horror film
 - Demon (2015 film), a Polish drama film
 - Demons (2017 film), an American horror film
 - Demon (2023 film), an Indian Tamil-language horror film
 
Publications
- Demon (comics), a comic by Jason Shiga
 - The Demon, a DC Comics series starring Etrigan the Demon
 
Music
Albums
- Demon (album), 2014 album by Gazpacho
 - Demons (Candlelight Red EP), 2012
 - Demons (Cowboy Junkies album), 2011
 - Demons (From Her Eyes EP), 2014
 - Demons (Get Scared album), 2015
 - Demons (Spiritual Beggars album), 2005
 - Demon, album by Envelopes
 - Demons, 2020 album by Nathan Cavaleri
 - Daemon (album), 2019 album by Mayhem
 
Songs
- "Demon" (King Von song)
 - "Demon" (Jay Park song)
 - "Demons" (Doja Cat song)
 - "Demons" (Fatboy Slim song)
 - "Demons" (Guster song)
 - "Demons" (Imagine Dragons song)
 - "Demons" (Brian McFadden song)
 - "Demons" (James Morrison song)
 - "Demons" (The National song)
 - "Demons" (Sleigh Bells song)
 - "Demons" (Super Furry Animals song)
 - "Demon8", by Mercenary on album First Breath
 - "Demon", bonus track by Trivium on album Ember to Inferno
 - "Demon", by KYPCK on album Cherno
 - "Daemon", by Whitechapel on album This is Exile
 - "Demons", by Avenged Sevenfold on album Diamonds in the Rough
 - "Demons", by Fenech-Soler
 - "Demons", by Mayday Parade on album Monsters in the Closet
 - "Demons", by The Wanted on album Word of Mouth
 - "Demons", by Blue Stahli on album The Devil
 - "Demons", by Lil Wayne on album Tha Carter V
 - "Demons", by Kim Petras on album Turn Off the Light
 - "Demons", by Hayley Kiyoko on album I'm Too Sensitive for This Shit
 - "Demons", by Alec Benjamin on album These Two Windows
 - "Demons", by Drake on album Dark Lane Demo Tapes
 - "Demons", by Gothminister on album Pandemonium
 - "Demons", by Mutoid Man on album Mutants
 
Other uses in music
- Daemon (band), co-founded by Nicke Andersson of The Hellacopters
 - Demon (band), English metal band formed in 1979
 - Demons (band), Swedish punk band
 - Demon Kakka, formerly known as Demon Kogure, Japanese musician
 - Demon FM, community radio station in Leicestershire
 - Demon Music Group, British record label
 - Daemon Records, an independent record label
 
Books
- Daemon (novel), a 2009 novel by Daniel Suarez
 - Demon (comics), a 2014–2016 comic series by Jason Shiga
 - Demon (novel), a 1984 novel by John Varley
 - Demon, a 2003 novel by Christopher Nicole
 - Demon: A Memoir, a 2007 novel by Tosca Lee
 - Demon and Other Tales, a 1996 collection by Joyce Carol Oates
 - Demons (Dostoevsky novel), an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 - Demons (Dillard novel), a 1986 Star Trek: The Original Series novel by J.M. Dillard
 - Demons, a 1987 novel by Guy N. Smith
 - Demons, a 1993 novel by Bill Pronzini
 - Demons, a 2000 novella by John Shirley
 - Demons!, a 1987 anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
 - The Daemon, a 1977 novel by Peter Tuesday Hughes
 - The Demon, a 1976 book by Eve Bunting
 - The Demon (novel), a 1976 novel by Hubert Selby Jr.
 - The Demon, a 2003–2004 two-part Star Trek novel by Loren L. Coleman and Randall L. Bills; the 35th and 36th installment in the Corps of Engineers series
 - The Demons, reissue title of Demons' World, a 1964 novel by Kenneth Bulmer
 
Television
Programs
- Demons (TV series), a British TV series which aired in 2009
 - The Dæmons, a 1971 Doctor Who serial
 
Episodes
- "Demon" (Star Trek: Voyager), 1998
 - "Demons" (Star Trek: Enterprise), 2005
 - "Demons" (Stargate SG-1)
 - "Demons" (The X-Files)
 - "eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4", a 2015 episode of Mr. Robot
 - "The Demon" (Arrow)
 - "The Demon" (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
 
Computing
- Daemon (computing), a background process
 - Daemon Tools, a disk image emulator
 - Daemontools, a collection of free tools for managing Unix services
 - Demon Internet, an Internet service provider
 - BSD Daemon, a mascot for the BSD operating system
 
Religion, philosophy and mythology
Religion
- Unclean spirit, an agent of a demonic possession
 
Philosophy
- Demon (thought experiment), a class of hypotheses 
- Laplace's demon (1814), articulation of causal or scientific determinism by Pierre-Simon Laplace
 - Maxwell's demon, a concept by James Clerk Maxwell concerning the statistics of second law of thermodynamics
 - Evil demon, a philosophical concept originating with René Descartes
 - Darwinian Demon, a hypothetical organism resulting from absence of biological constraints on evolution
 
 
Mythology
- Daemon (classical mythology), a lesser deity or guiding spirit in ancient Greek religion and mythology
 
People
- Demon (musician) (born 1977), French electronic musician
 - Blue Demon (1922–2000), a professional wrestler and actor
 - Finn Bálor (born 1981), nicknamed “The Demon” in WWE
 - Kane (wrestler) (born 1967), wrestler for WWE and WWF
 - Alex de Minaur (born 1999), Australian tennis player nicknamed "Demon"
 - Dale Torborg (born 1971), professional wrestler performing in WCW under the name "The Demon"
 - Gene Simmons (born 1948), vocalist and bassist for the rock band Kiss, whose stage persona is "The Demon"
 
Places
- Demon (volcano), Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia
 - Demon, Togo
 - Demon Creek, a stream in Alaska
 - Algol, a star known colloquially as "the demon star"
 
Sports
Basketball
- DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball, Chicago, Illinois
 - Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball, North Carolina
 - Northwestern State Demons basketball, Natchitoches, Louisiana
 - Northwestern State Lady Demons basketball, Natchitoches, Louisiana
 - UCC Demons, Irish basketball team
 
Football and rugby
- Cardiff Demons, a Welsh rugby league team
 - Casey Demons, an Australian rules football team
 - Melbourne Football Club, an Australian rules football team nicknamed the Demons
 - Northwestern State Demons football, Natchitoches, Louisiana
 - Perth Football Club, an Australian rules football team nicknamed the Demons
 
Science
- Demon bat, common name for the Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat
 - Demon butterflies, several species of the butterfly tribe Ancistroidini
 - Demon owl, common name for the barn owl
 - Molecular demon, molecular arrangements that mimic Maxwell's demon
 - Pines' demon, a certain type of collective excitation of electrons
 
Other
- Canfield (solitaire) or Demon, a solitaire/patience card game
 - Dæmonen, a roller coaster at Tivoli Gardens
 - Demon (roller coaster), at Six Flags Great America and California's Great America
 - Screamin' Demon, a shuttle loop roller coaster at Kings Island in Ohio
 - Demon (poem), by Mikhail Lermontov
 - The Demon (opera), by Anton Rubinstein
 - Demon (UAV), an aircraft built by BAE Systems
 - McDonnell F3H Demon, a United States Navy fighter aircraft
 - Hawker Demon, a Royal Air Force biplane
 - Demons (board game), a 1979 fantasy game
 - Dodge Demon, a name used for various automobiles made by Dodge