People
- Despot voda or Ioan Iacob Heraclit (1511–1563), a prince in Moldavia
- George Despot (1927–1991), a Shreveport businessman
- Veljko Despot (born 1948), a Croatian record producer
- Despot, rapper Alec Reinstein's stage name
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—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
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—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)