John Paul Jones DeJoria (born April 13, 1944) is a Greek-Italian-American entrepreneur, a self-made billionaire [3] and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and The Patrón Spirits Company .

DeJoria is married. He and his wife, Eloise (née Broady), have contributed over $48,000 to the political campaigns of Senator Ted Cruz and over $5,000 to Texas Governor Rick Perry, among others, as well as to the DNC and many Democratic political candidates.[21][22]

DeJoria is a supporter of Food4Africa, Mineseeker, and Blazer House.[11] In 2008, DeJoria traveled to sub-Saharan Africa to join Nelson Mandela in his efforts to help feed over 17,000 orphaned children through Food4Africa. In the same year his company Paul Mitchell helped provide over 400,000 life-saving meals for the children.[23] Dejoria is a co-creator of Grow Appalachia, an organization begun in 2009 which helps promote healthy food and teaching farming skills.[11]

In 2007, a documentary named Good Fortune was released depicting the struggle and philanthropic work of DeJoria which later won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sundance.[24]

In 2012, using a video, he showed his support for Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, when Watson was detained in Germany for interfering with shark finning operations.[25]