Menas, a male

personal name A personal name, or full name, in onomastic terminology also known as prosoponym (from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον / ''prósōpon'' - person, and ὄνομα / ''onoma'' - name), is the set of names by which an individual person is known ...

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* Menas, one of the seventeen representatives for Sparta to swear an oath for the

Peace of Nicias The Peace of Nicias was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in March 421 BC that ended the first half of the Peloponnesian War. In 425 BC, the Spartans had lost the battles of Pylos and Sphacteria, a severe d ...

* Menas or

Minas of Aksum Minas (or Menas) was an early bishop of Aksum, probably in the sixth century. According to traditional Ethiopian historiography, he was the second ''abun'' after Frumentius (Salama I) and took the name Salama II. The Ethiopian sources, however, pl ...

, Ethiopian bishop (6th century) *

Menas of Ethiopia Menas ( gez, ሜናስ, mēnās) or Minas, throne name Admas Sagad I (Ge’ez: አድማስ ሰገድ, died 1563), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1559 until his death in 1563, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was a brother of Gelawdewos ...

, Emperor of Ethiopia (1559–1563) *

Menas (freedman) Menas, also known as Menodorus, served under Sextus Pompey during the 1st Century BC Roman civil wars. Menas was a freedman of Pompey the Great and when Pompey's son, Sextus, set himself up as ruler of Sicily in the late 40s BC, Menas became one of ...

, a Roman admiral who served under Sextus Pompeius *

Saint Menas (disambiguation) Saint Menas may refer to: People * St. Menas of Constantinople (?-552), patriarch * St. Menas of Egypt (285-), Coptic martyr * St. Menas of Sinai (6th century), ascetic * St. Menas of Samnium (6th century), Italian hermit Churches * Agios Mi ...

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* A pirate in William Shakespeare's ''

Antony and Cleopatra ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (First Folio title: ''The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around ...

'', based on the historical admiral * Menas,

Niger national football team The Niger national football team represents Niger in international football through the Nigerien Football Federation, a member of Confederation of African Football (CAF). Niger plays in the colors of the flag of Niger, white, green and orange. T ...

nickname * Menas or

Meenas Meena () is a sub-group of Bhils. They speak Meena language. They started adopting the Brahmin worship system. Its name is also transliterated as ''Meenanda'' or ''Mina''. Historians claim that they belong to the Matsya tribe. They got the sta ...

, a tribe of India

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