Philemon

Philemon may refer to:

Arts and literature:

• Philemon (New Testament person), the recipient of Saint Paul's Epistle to Philemon
• Baucis and Philemon, the couple from the Metamorphoses of Greek mythology
• Epistle to Philemon, a book in the New Testament, it is a prison letter by Paul of Tarsus to Philemon, a leader in the Colossian church
• Philémon (comics), a Franco-Belgian comic book series by Fred
• Philemon (musical), a musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
• Philemon Arthur and the Dung, a music group from Scania, Sweden, consisting of two members, whose real names are unknown
• Philemon Martyr, a play by Jesuit Jacob Bidermann (1578–1639)
• Filemón Pi, a Spanish comic book character
• Philemon, a character from the video game Shin Megami Tensei Persona, a spirit guide who wears a butterfly mask

People:

• Philemon (poet) (ca. 362 BC – ca. 262 BC), an Athenian poet and playwright of the New Comedy
• Philemon the actor (died 305), a saint who was converted by Saint Appolonius, they were martyred together in the fourth century
• Philemon of Antioch, a Greek Orthodox Patriarch from 1766–1767
• Phil Masinga (1969), full name Philemon Masinga, a former South African footballer who played for teams in several countries
• Philemon Pownoll (ca. 1734 - 1780), Royal Navy officer

Charities

• Philemon Ministries, a Kenyan prisons ministry charity founded by Kelvin Mwikya

Other:

• Red Book (Jung), a book by Carl Jung, which had Philemon, a wise spirit guide in form of an elderly winged man
• Przygody kota Filemona Filemon, a cat in Polish animated cartoon.

Genus:

• Philemon (genus), a genus of birds in the family Meliphagidae
• Philemon albitorques
• Philemon argenticeps
• Philemon brassi
• Philemon buceroides
• Philemon citreogularis
• Philemon cockerelli
• Philemon corniculatus
• Philemon diemenensis
• Philemon eichhorni
• Philemon fuscicapillus
• Philemon inornatus
• Philemon kisserensis
• Philemon meyeri
• Philemon moluccensis
• Philemon novaeguineae
• Philemon plumigenis
• Philemon subcorniculatus
• Philemon yorki