Dean Yendall

Dean Yendall (born 1974) is an Australian jockey based in Victoria.

Yendall began his career in 1991. As of late May 2023, he has ridden 2,690 winners, including six in Group One races. He is a lightweight jockey, able to ride at 49 kilograms. He has twice won the Group One Empire Rose Stakes, on the three-year-old fillies I Am A Star in 2016 and Shoals in 2017, who each carried 49 kilograms.

Yendall has won the Victorian country jockeys' premiership several times, and has consistently ridden more than 100 winners a season in recent years, mostly in country races. His wife is fellow jockey Christine Puls. In April 2016 they rode a dead heat at a race meeting at Mildura.