Menon

Menon may refer to:

• Menon (subcaste), an honorary title accorded to some members of the Nair community of Kerala, southern India. It is used as a surname by many holders of this title.

People

Indian

• A. R. Menon (1886–1960)
• A. Sreedhara Menon (1925–2010)
• Aishwarya Menon
• Aldrovani Menon (born 1972)
• Ambat Sivarama Menon (1870–1939)
• Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London
• Anil Menon
• Anjali Menon
• Anjolie Ela Menon (born 1940)
• Anoop Menon
• Anuradha Menon
• Appan Menon (1947–1996)
• Arjun Menon (born 1987), singer
• Asha G. Menon (born 1986)
• Atmananda Krishna Menon (1883–1959)
• Balachandra Menon (born 1954)
• Bhaskar Menon
• Bhavana (Malayalam actress) (Bhavana Menon, born 1986)
• Biju Menon (born 1970), actor
• C. Achutha Menon (1913–1991), former Chief Minister of Kerala
• C. Karunakara Menon (1863–1922)
• C. Madhava Menon (1911–1984)
• C. P. Karunakara Menon (1891–1976)
• Chengalathu Kunhirama Menon (1857–1935), journalist
• Divya S. Menon (born 1987)
• G. A. Menon (1931–2003)
• Gautham Menon (born 1973), film maker
• Geeta Menon
• Gopal Menon (born 1974)
• Harikrish Menon (born 1973)
• Hemanth Menon (born 1989)
• I. K. K. Menon (1919–2011)
• Indu Menon (born 1980)
• Jai Prakash Menon
• Jaishankar Menon (born 1956)
• Jaya Menon
• K. P. K. Menon
• K. P. Karunakara Menon (1930–2002), former president of the Nair Service Society
• K. P. Kesava Menon (1886–1978), Indian independence activist
• K. P. S. Menon (senior) (1898–1982)
• K. Radhakrishna Menon (1924–2007)
• K. Ramunni Menon (1872–1949)
• Kay Kay Menon (born 1966)
• Krishnan Menon
• Lakshmi Menon (actress) (born 1996)
• Lakshmi Menon (model) (born 1981)
• Lakshmi N. Menon (1899–1994), former Deputy Foreign Minister
• M. G. Ramachandran (1917–1987), Actor and previous Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
• M. K. Menon (1928–1993)
• M. G. K. Menon (born 1928), physicist and policymaker
• M.K. Krishna Menon
• Mani Menon (born 1948)
• Muthal Puredath Murlidhar Menon, Indian diplomat
• Meena Menon (born 1970)
• Menon Marath (1906–2003)
• M. G. K. Menon (born 1928)
• Mini Menon
• Mukundan C. Menon (?–?)
• N. Gopala Menon
• N. R. Madhava Menon (born 1935)
• Nalapat Narayana Menon (1887–1954)
• Narayan Menon (born 1944)
• Narendra Menon (born 1946)
• Nitin Menon (born 1983)
• Nithya Menon
• Nivedita Menon
• Oyyarathu Chandu Menon (1847–1899)
• P.C. Kuttikrishna Menon (1915–1979), author, also known as Uroob
• P Kesava Menon (1917–1979)
• P. N. C. Menon (born 1948)
• P. N. Menon
  • P. N. Menon (diplomat) (1920–1975), Indian Ambassador to Greece and Yugoslavia
  • P. N. Menon (director) (1928–2008), film maker
• P. Narayana Menon
• Panampilly Govinda Menon (1906–1970)
• Pattikkamthodi Ravunni Menon (1881–1949)
• Prashanth Menon (born 1977)
• Putumanna Kandaru Menon (1750–1766)
• R. V. G. Menon
• Rajiv Menon (born 1963)
• Ramesh Menon
• Ramesh Menon (cricketer) (born 1963)
• Rashed Khan Menon (born 1943)
• Ravi Menon (1950–2007)
• Rejith Menon (born 1988)
• Renjith Menon (born 1977)
• Renuka Menon
• Revathi Menon, actress/director
• Ritu Menon
• Sashi Menon (born 1952)
• Satish Menon (born 1969)
• Sekhar Menon (born 1980)
• Sheetal Menon
• Shivshankar Menon (born 1949), India's current National Security Advisor
• Shweta Menon
• Siddharth Menon (born 1989)
• Sindhu Menon
• Sreebala K Menon
• Sreevalsan J. Menon
• Sunalini Menon
• Sundaresh Menon (born 1962), Current Chief Justice, Singapore
• Suresh Chandra Menon
• Suresh Menon (born 1967)
• T. Bhaskara Menon (1898–1948)
• T. Govindan Menon
• T. Sankunni Menon
• T.A.S Menon
• Tugdual Menon (died 1560s)
• Unni Menon (born 1955)
• V. K. Krishna Menon (1896–1974), former Defence Minister of India
• V. K. Narayana Menon (1911–?)
• V. P. Menon (1893–1965), played a vital role in the integration of India
• V. Viswanatha Menon
• Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878–1958)
• Valsala Menon (born 1945)
• Vandana Menon (born 1989)
• Vanu Gopala Menon (born 1960), formerly Permanent Representative of Singapore to the UN. Currently High Commissioner to Malaysia
• Vijay Menon
• Vimala Menon (born 1943)
• Vinod C Menon, member of the National Disaster Management Authority
• Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (1911–1985)

Greek

In addition, Menon appears widely as a name in Greek historical figures:

• Menon (Phidias), a workman with Phidias
• Menon (Trojan), a Trojan soldier in Trojan War
• Menon I of Pharsalus, assisted Cimon at Battle of Eion
• Menon II of Pharsalus, led troops assisting Athens in the Peloponnesian War
• Menon III of Pharsalus or Meno, a Thessalian general and character in Plato's Meno dialogue
• Menon IV of Pharsalus (born ?), 4th century Greek general
• Menon, 4th century BC Peripatetic writer on medicine: see Anonymus Londinensis
• Múnón, also called Mennón, a Trojan chieftain or king mentioned by the twelfth-century Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson that may refer to Menon, Memnon, or another person.

French

It has also appeared, less frequently, as a French name:

• Menon (cookbook author), 18th-century French cookbook author
• Louis François Henri de Menon (1717–1776), French agronomist

Other

• Luiz Cláudio Menon (born 1944), Brazilian basketball player

Other uses

• Menon (gastropod), a genus of gastropods within the family Eulimidae
• Meno, a dialogue by Plato, is sometimes referred to also as Menon
• Menon's caecilian