Menon (name)
Menons belong to a Hindu Nair community from Kerala, India. The name Menon may refer to:
Indian
In arts, entertainment, and media
Journalism
- Appan Menon, Indian print and television journalist
- C. Karunakara Menon, Indian journalist and politician
- Chengalathu Kunhirama Menon, Indian journalist
- Mini Menon, Indian journalist
- Ramesh Menon, Indian author, journalist, and documentary film maker
Literature
- Anil Menon, Indian computer scientist and writer of speculative fiction
- I. K. K. Menon, Indian writer
- Indu Menon, Indian writer, novelist, and sociologist
- M. K. Menon, Indian writer
- Menon Marath, Indo-Anglican novelist
- Nalapat Narayana Menon, Indian author
- Nivedita Menon, feminist writer and professor of political thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Oyyarathu Chandu Menon, Indian novelist
- Puthezhath Raman Menon, Indian Writer, President of Kerala Sahitya Akademy, Judge of Kerala High Court
- P.C. Kuttikrishna Menon, Indian author, also known as Uroob
- Ramesh Menon, Indian author, journalist, and documentary film maker
- Ritu Menon, Indian feminist writer and publisher
- Sandhya Menon, American young adult fiction author
- Sreebala K Menon, Malayali author and filmmaker
- Vallathol Narayana Menon, Indian poet
- Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon, Indian poet
Performing arts and film
- Aishwarya Menon, Indian film actress
- Anjali Menon, Indian film director and screenwriter
- Anoop Menon, Indian film actor, screenwriter and lyricist
- Anuradha Menon, Indian television actress and theatre artist
- Arjun Menon, Indian playback singer
- Asha G. Menon, Indian playback singer
- Balachandra Menon, Indian film actor, director and script writer
- Bhaskar Menon, Indian music executive
- Karthika Menon, Indian film actress known by her stage name Bhavana
- Biju Menon, Indian film actor
- Divya S. Menon, Indian singer and television anchor
- Gautham Menon, Indian film maker
- Gopal Menon, Indian documentary film director, producer and cinematographer
- Hemanth Menon, Indian film actor
- Jaya Menon, Indian actress
- Kay Kay Menon, Indian film, stage and television actor
- Krishnan Menon, Indian film and television producer and businessperson
- Lakshmi Menon , Indian film actress
- Lakshmi Menon , Indian model
- Meena Menon, Indian voice-dubbing artist and singer
- Nithya Menon, Indian film actress and playback singer
- P. N. Menon , film maker
- Pattikkamthodi Ravunni Menon, Indian actor
- Rajiv Menon, Indian advertising director, cinematographer, actor and film maker
- Ramesh Menon, Indian author, journalist, and documentary film maker
- Ravi Menon, Indian film actor
- Rejith Menon, Indian film actor
- Renuka Menon, Indian Malayali film actress
- Revathi Menon, Indian film actress and director
- Sekhar Menon, Indian actor
- Sheetal Menon, Indian model and actress
- Shweta Menon, Indian model, actress and television anchor
- Siddharth Menon, Indian actor and playback singer
- Sindhu Menon, Indian film actress
- Sreebala K Menon, Malayali author and filmmaker
- Sreevalsan J. Menon, Indian vocalist and composer
- Suresh Menon, Indian actor, comedian and television personality
- Suresh Chandra Menon Indian actor, cinematographer and film director
- Unni Menon, Indian film playback singer
- Valsala Menon, Indian film actress
- Vijay Menon, Indian film actor
- Vimala Menon, Indian dance instructor
Other arts
- Anjolie Ela Menon, Indian contemporary artist
- C. Madhava Menon, Indian painter
- T.A.S Menon, Indian artist and former Principal of the Raja Ravi Varma College of Fine Arts Mavelikara
In business
- G. A. Menon, Indian businessperson
- Jai Prakash Menon, Indian technology executive
- Jaishankar Menon, Indian electrical engineer; developer of RAID technology
- Krishnan Menon, Indian film and television producer and businessperson
- P. N. C. Menon, Indian-Omani businessman
In government, law, and politics
In government
- A. R. Menon, Indian National Congress politician and doctor
- Ambat Sivarama Menon, Indian politician
- C. Achutha Menon, former Chief Minister of Kerala
- C. Karunakara Menon, Indian journalist and politician
- C. P. Karunakara Menon, Indian civil servant and administrator
- K. P. S. Menon , Indian civil servant
- Lakshmi N. Menon, former Deputy Foreign Minister of India
- Leela Damodara Menon, Indian politician
- M. G. Ramachandran, actor and previous Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- M. G. K. Menon, Indian physicist and policymaker
- Muthal Puredath Murlidhar Menon, Indian diplomat
- N. Gopala Menon, Indian lawyer and politician
- P. N. Menon , Indian Ambassador to Greece and Yugoslavia
- P. Narayana Menon, Indian lawyer, politician and administrator
- Panampilly Govinda Menon, Indian politician, lawyer, and freedom fighter
- Shivshankar Menon, Indian National Security Advisor
- T. Govindan Menon, Indian civil servant and administrator
- T. Sankunni Menon, Indian civil servant and administrator
- V. K. Krishna Menon, former Defence Minister of India
- V. P. Menon, Indian civil servant; played a vital role in the integration of India
- Vinod C. Menon, member of the National Disaster Management Authority of India
- K S Menon, IAS, Member of Revenue Board, Kerala State
Social activists
- K. P. K. Menon, Indian lawyer and political activist
- K. P. Karunakara Menon, Indian social activist; former president of the Nair Service Society
- K. P. Kesava Menon, Indian independence activist
- K. Radhakrishna Menon, Indian political activist
- Mukundan C. Menon, Indian human rights activist
- Panampilly Govinda Menon, Indian politician, lawyer, and freedom fighter
- V. Viswanatha Menon, Indian communist political activist
In science and academia
- A. Sreedhara Menon, Indian historian
- Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London
- Anil Menon, Indian computer scientist and writer of speculative fiction
- Balagopal G Menon, Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur
- Geeta Menon, Dean of the Undergraduate College at New York University Stern School of Business
- Indu Menon, Indian writer, novelist, and sociologist
- K. Ramunni Menon, Indian educator
- M. G. K. Menon, Indian physicist and policymaker
- M. K. Krishna Menon, Indian gynecologist and obstetrician
- Mani Menon, Indian-American surgeon
- N. R. Madhava Menon, Indian legal educator
- Nivedita Menon, feminist writer and professor of political thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University
- P Kesava Menon, Indian mathematician
- R. V. G. Menon, Indian professor of engineering
- T. Bhaskara Menon, professor of pathology and principal of Andhra Medical College
- Usha Menon, professor of gynaecological cancer at University College London
- V. K. Narayana Menon, Indian art critic and scholar of classical Indian dance and Indian classical music
In sport
- Narendra Menon, former Indian cricketer
- Nitin Menon, Indian cricketer and umpire
- Prashanth Menon, Indian cricketer
- Ramesh Menon , Indian cricketer
- Renjith Menon, Indian cricketer
- Sashi Menon, Indian former professional tennis player
- Satish Menon, Indian cricketer
In other fields
- Atmananda Krishna Menon, Indian sage, guru, and philosopher
- Narayan Menon, former officer of the Indian Air Force
- Putumanna Kandaru Menon, Indian suicide bomber
Greek
- Menon, a workman with Phidias
- Menon, 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, Memnon, or another person.
French
- Menon, 18th-century French cookbook author
- Louis François Henri de Menon, French agronomist
- Tugdual Menon, French composer
Other nationalities
- Aldrovani Menon, former Brazilian football player
- Harikrish Menon, Malaysian singer, songwriter, and record producer
- Luiz Cláudio Menon, Brazilian basketball player
- Rashed Khan Menon, Bangladeshi politician
- Sundaresh Menon, Chief Justice of Singapore and a former Attorney-General of Singapore
- Vanu Gopala Menon, former Permanent Representative of Singapore to the UN. Currently High Commissioner to Malaysia.