Zeno

Zeno is the common anglicised form of the Greek name Zenon (Ζηνων), derived from the theonym Zeus, often from the Semitic zayn meaning "graceful".

Historical people

Philosophers

• Zeno of Elea (c.490–c.430 BC), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, famed for his paradoxes.
• Zeno of Citium (333 BC - 264 BC), founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
• Zeno of Tarsus (200s BC), Stoic philosopher
• Zeno of Sidon (1st century BC), Epicurean philosopher

Other persons of antiquity

• Zeno of Caunus (3rd century BC), finance minister to the Ptolemies, whose papyri letters (the "Zenon archive") were discovered in the 1900s
• Zeno (physician) (3rd and 2nd centuries BC), Greek physician
• Zeno of Cyprus (4th century), Greek physician
• Zeno of Verona (4th century), saint commemorated in the place-names at San Zeno (disambiguation)
• Zeno the Hermit (4th century?) disciple of St. Basil and saint
• Zeno (consul 448) (447-451), Roman general and consul
• Zeno (emperor) (c. 425–491), Roman Emperor
• Zeno (Bishop of Mérida)

As a surname

• Reniero Zeno (d. 1268), Doge of Venice
• The Zeno brothers (14th century), Nicolò and Antonio, Venetian navigators
• Carlo Zeno (1333–1418), Venetian admiral
• Pietro Zeno, Lord of Andros and Syros
• Giovanni Battista Zeno (c.1440-1501), Venetian cardinal
• Nicolò Zeno (fl. 1558), Venetian cartographer and publisher of the Zeno map
• Marco Zeno, the commissioner of Palladio's Villa Zeno
• Apostolo Zeno (1669–1750), Venetian poet and librettist
• George Lewis (clarinetist) (1900–1968), born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon
• Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno (1922–2010), Syrian islamicist
• Thierry Zéno (b. 1950), Belgian filmmaker
• Tony Zeno (b. 1957), American basketball player
• Paul Zenon (b. 1964), English street magician
• Miguel Zenón (b. 1976) Puerto-Rican saxophonist
• Mohamed Al Zeno (b1983), Syrian footballer

See also it:Zen (familia)

Modern given name

• Zenon Grocholewski, Polish cardinal
• Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist
• Zenon Konopka, Hockey player, NHL's New York Islanders
• Zenon Mikhailidis, Greek shooter
• Zenon Panoussis, Greek Scientology opponent in Sweden and the Netherlands
• Zenon Pylyshyn, cognitive scientist
• Zenon de Souza Farias, Brazilian footballer

Fictional characters

• Zeno Cosini, the protagonist of Italo Svevo's novel La Coscienza di Zeno
• Zeno and Dufort, a demon that uses spells in the anime Zatch Bell
• Overlord Zenon, the fictional antagonist from the video-game Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
• Great Demon King Zenon, a three-headed (reminiscent of Satan in Dante's Inferno) leader of the demons in the manga and anime Devilman.
• Zénon Ligre, alchemist, the protagonist of Marguerite Yourcenar's novel L'Œuvre au noir, titled The Abyss or alternately titled Zeno of Bruges in the English translation.

Other

• ZENON Environmental, manufacturer and system integrator of hollow fiber membrane technologies and complementary products
• Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, a children's science fiction novel
• Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (film), the movie adaptation of the above novel
  • Zenon: The Zequel
  • Zenon: Z3
• Zeno, ancient name for the village of Akköse
• Zeno (crater), a lunar impact crater, named for Zeno of Citium
• Zeno (programming language), an imperative procedural programming language designed to be easy to learn and user friendly
• Zeno-Watch Basel, a Swiss clockmaker company specialised in aviation watches

See also

• Quantum Zeno effect, an effect in quantum mechanics which disallows certain conditions in the decaying of a quantum state
• Zeno's paradoxes, paradoxes by Zeno of Elea
• Zeno machine, a hypothetical computational model
• San Zeno (disambiguation)
• Zenonia zeno, an African butterfly
• Xeno (disambiguation)
• Xenon (disambiguation)
• Zenos, a book of Mormon scripture