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Menon (IPA: [meːnoːn]) is a surname common amongst the Nairs in the South Indian state of Kerala. Surname used by Nair community in south Kerala, Pillai, have the same status. The name "Menon" might have derived from "Menavan", which means "scribe" in Malayalam/Tulu. A similar surname, "Menava", is used by Bunt community of Tulu Nadu, is also derived from this root.

Menons served as prime and cabinet ministers of the royal court, commanders of royal armies, and administrative officers of the royal court, and later emerged as literary and cultural figures in Kerala, and some of the aristocratic Menon families only married from Royal families of central Kerala.

Remark: Menon is also the name of a socratic dialogue by Plato in which Socrates demonstrates that knowledge is innate. In English it is referred to as Meno.

Famous people

M. G. Ramachandran, Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister & Actor

Shashi Tharoor (Former U.N. Under-Secretary & Writer)

K.P.S Menon Sr. & Jr. (Ambassadors)

Shoba Menon of Shoba Group (Industrialist)

Dr Unny Menon Professor Industrial Engineering California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Mini Menon, Miss India second runner-up 1996 & News Anchor

Dr. Shanker Menon, Professor and International Consultant, Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.

Thottekat Achuta Menon, Dewan of erstwhile Royal Cochin

Thotekkat Govinda Menon, second Dewan of erstwhile Royal Cochin

O.Chandu Menon - Novelist

Karimpatta Achutha Menon, Judge

Prof. Sridhara Menon - Historian, Kerala.

James Menon Fastest American 10,000 Meter Runner 1998 with time 28:15

Balachandra Menon, Film Maker

Dr. N. R. Madhava Menon, educationist

P. N. Menon, film maker

Vallathol Narayana Menon, Famous poet

Vailoppilly Sreedhara Menon, Famous poet

V. K. Krishna Menon, former cabinet minister of India

Bhadra Menon, Writer

G. A. Menon, Industrialist

C.Achutha Menon- Former Chief Minister of Kerala

Vinod C. Menon, Member of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)

Kayarat Chandrasekhara Menon - Freedom fighter

Panambilly Govinda Menon, former prime minister of Travancore-Cochin State

Revathi Menon, Film Actress/Director

Prof. Mambalikalathyl Govindan Kutty Menon, Scientist & central minister

Justice Rajendra Menon, High Court of Madhya Pradesh

N.K. Menon, Industrialist. MD of Colinz Pharmaceuticals. Mumbai., INDIA

Kumara Padma Sivasankara Menon, ambassador from India

Mambalikalathyl Sarada Menon - Noted Psychiatrist

Balakrishna Menon (now Swami Chinmayananda)- modern day Hindu guru and founder of Chinmaya Mission

Unni Menon- Singer

Kallyani Menon- Singer

Gautham Menon- Noted film maker

Govind Menon- Bollywood film maker

Rajeev Menon- Famous camera man

Capt Lakshmi(INA)

Subhashini Ali(Former MP,daughter of Capt Lakshmi)

Ammu Sawaminathan(freedom fighter)

Mrinalini Sarabhai(Dancer)

Prof. David K. Menon MD PhD FRCP FRCA FmedSci Professor of anesthesia for cambridge university. lectures on brain damage and imaging also sometime consultant of GSK and Genentech.
Dr.Krishna E.P.Menon, Industrialist & Medical Research Scientist, invented and patended many medicines

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 '''Menon''' ([[IPA]]: [meːnoːn]) is a surname common amongst the [[Nair]]s in the South Indian state of [[Kerala]]. Surname used by [[Nair]] community in south [[Kerala]], [[Pillai]], have the same status. The name "Menon" might have derived from "Menavan", which means "scribe" in [[Malayalam]]/[[Tulu]]. A similar surname, "Menava", is used by [[Bunt]] community of [[Tulu Nadu]], is also derived from this root.