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
- A. Sreedhara Menon
- Aishwarya Menon
- Aldrovani Menon
- Ambat Sivarama Menon
- Anand Menon, a Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London
- Anil Menon
- Anjali Menon
- Anjolie Ela Menon
- Anoop Menon
- Anuradha Menon
- Appan Menon
- Arjun Menon, singer
- Asha G. Menon
- Atmananda Krishna Menon
- Balachandra Menon
- Bhaskar Menon
- Bhavana (Bhavana Menon)
- Biju Menon, actor
- C. Achutha Menon, former Chief Minister of Kerala
- C. Karunakara Menon
- C. Madhava Menon
- C. P. Karunakara Menon
- Chengalathu Kunhirama Menon, journalist
- Divya S. Menon
- G. A. Menon
- Gautham Menon, film maker
- Geeta Menon
- Gopal Menon
- Harikrish Menon
- Hemanth Menon
- I. K. K. Menon
- Indu Menon
- Jai Prakash Menon
- Jaishankar Menon
- Jaya Menon
- K. P. K. Menon
- K. P. Karunakara Menon, former president of the Nair Service Society
- K. P. Kesava Menon, Indian independence activist
- K. P. S. Menon (senior)
- K. Radhakrishna Menon
- K. Ramunni Menon
- Kay Kay Menon
- Krishnan Menon
- Lakshmi Menon (actress)
- Lakshmi Menon (model)
- Lakshmi N. Menon, former Deputy Foreign Minister
- M.G. Ramachandran, Actor and previous Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- M. K. Menon
- MGK Menon, physicist and policymaker
- M.K. Krishna Menon
- Mani Menon
- Muthal Puredath Murlidhar Menon, Indian diplomat
- Meena Menon
- Menon Marath
- M. G. K. Menon
- Mini Menon
- Mukundan C. Menon
- N. Gopala Menon
- N. R. Madhava Menon
- Nalapat Narayana Menon
- Narayan Menon
- Narendra Menon
- Nitin Menon
- Nithya Menon
- Nivedita Menon
- Oyyarathu Chandu Menon
- P.C. Kuttikrishna Menon, author, also known as Uroob
- P Kesava Menon
- P. N. C. Menon
- P. N. Menon
- P. N. Menon (diplomat), Indian Ambassador to Greece and Yugoslavia
- P. N. Menon (director), film maker
- P. Narayana Menon
- Panampilly Govinda Menon
- Pattikkamthodi Ravunni Menon
- Prashanth Menon
- Putumanna Kandaru Menon
- R. V. G. Menon
- Rajiv Menon
- Ramesh Menon
- Ramesh Menon (cricketer)
- Rashed Khan Menon
- Ravi Menon
- Rejith Menon
- Renjith Menon
- Renuka Menon
- Revathi Menon, actress/director
- Ritu Menon
- Sashi Menon
- Satish Menon
- Sekhar Menon
- Sheetal Menon
- Shivshankar Menon, India's current National Security Advisor
- Shweta Menon
- Siddharth Menon
- Sindhu Menon
- Sreebala K Menon
- Sreevalsan J Menon
- Sunalini Menon
- Sundaresh Menon, Current Chief Justice, Singapore
- Suresh Chandra Menon
- Suresh Menon
- T. Bhaskara Menon
- T. Govindan Menon
- T. Sankunni Menon
- T.A.S Menon
- Tugdual Menon
- Unni Menon
- V. K. Krishna Menon (1896–1974), former Defence Minister of India
- V. K. Narayana Menon
- V. P. Menon (1894–1966), played a vital role in the integration of India
- V. Viswanatha Menon
- Vallathol Narayana Menon
- Valsala Menon
- Vandana Menon
- Vanu Gopala Menon, formerly Permanent Representative of Singapore to the UN. Currently High Commissioner to Malaysia
- Vijay Menon
- Vimala Menon
- Vinod C Menon, member of the National Disaster Management Authority
- Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon
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, 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 (Trojan), Memnon (mythology), or another person.[1]
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
- Shilpa Menon (born Shilpa Seewoo), Mauritian entrepreneur and novelist
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
References
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