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Menon (subcaste) Menon is a surname of the Nair community of Kerala, India, and is an honorific hereditary title, often used as an affix to one's name, bestowed by the various kings of Kerala (including the Zamorin) to the members of Nair subcastes. The recipie ...

, an honorary title accorded to some members of the Nair community of Kerala, southern India; used as a surname by many holders of the title

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Menon (surname) Menon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Indian In arts, entertainment, and media Journalism *Appan Menon (1947–1996), Indian print and television journalist *C. Karunakara Menon (1863–1922), Indian journalist and politic ...

, the surname of several people

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* Menon (cookbook author), pseudonym of an unidentified 18th-century French cookbook author *

Menon (Phidias) Phidias or Pheidias (; grc, Φειδίας, ''Pheidias''; 480 – 430 BC) was a Greek sculptor, painter, and architect. His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Phidias also designed the statu ...

, a workman with Phidias *

Menon (Trojan) In Greek mythology, Menon ( grc, Mένων) was a Trojan soldier killed by Leonteus in the Trojan War as detailed by Homer in the ''Iliad'' (XII.201). There is also a Trojan king mentioned by the twelfth-century Icelandic sage Snorri Sturluson i ...

, a Trojan soldier in Trojan War *

Menon I of Pharsalus Menon ( grc, Μένων, 525? BC - 472? BC) was a prominent Pharsalian who assisted Athens, led by Cimon, in their battle against Eion around 476 BC. According to Demosthenes (XIII.23, XXIII.199) he himself contributed 12 talents of silver and ...

, assisted Cimon at Battle of Eion *

Menon II of Pharsalus Menon ( grc, Μένων, fl 431 BC) commanded a faction of Pharsalians who were among the Thessalians who came to the assistance of the Athenians when they were being attacked by the Peloponnesian army in the first year of the Peloponnesian War ...

, led troops assisting Athens in the Peloponnesian War *

Menon III of Pharsalus Meno (Help:IPA/English, /ˈmiːnoʊ/; Greek language, Greek: Mένων, ''Menōn''; c. 423 – c. 400 BC), son of Alexidemus, was an ancient Thessaly, Thessalian political figure. Probably from Farsala, Pharsalus, he is famous both for the Meno, epo ...

or Meno, a Thessalian general and character in Plato's ''Meno'' dialogue *

Menon IV of Pharsalus Menon ( grc, Μένων; died 321 BC) was a citizen of Pharsalus in Thessaly, and a man of great influence and reputation, took a prominent part in the Lamian war, and commanded the Thessalian cavalry in the battle with the Macedonians, in which L ...

(born ?), 4th century Greek general *Menon, 4th century BC Peripatetic writer on medicine: see

Anonymus Londinensis Anonymus Londinensis (or Anonymus Londiniensis) is the name given to an anonymous Ancient Greek author of approximately the 1st century AD, whose work ''On Medicine'' ( grc, Ἰατρικά, la, De Medicina) is partially preserved in a papyrus in ...

*Múnón, also called Mennón, a Trojan chieftain or king mentioned by the twelfth-century Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson that may refer to

Menon Menon may refer to: People *Menon (subcaste), an honorary title accorded to some members of the Nair community of Kerala, southern India; used as a surname by many holders of the title Surnamed *Menon (surname), the surname of several people Give ...

, Memnon, or another person.

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* ''Menon'' (gastropod), a genus of gastropods within the family Eulimidae *''

Meno ''Meno'' (; grc-gre, Μένων, ''Ménōn'') is a Socratic dialogue by Plato. Meno begins the dialogue by asking Socrates whether virtue is taught, acquired by practice, or comes by nature. In order to determine whether virtue is teachable ...

'', a dialogue by Plato, is sometimes referred to also as ''Menon'' *

Menon's caecilian ''Uraeotyphlus menoni'', also known as Menon's caecilian or Kerala caecilian, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. It is endemic to the state of Kerala in the Western Ghats, India. The specific name ''menoni'' honours K. Ra ...

Menon (weapon) ''Menon'' was an anti-submarine mortar used by the Italian Navy during the Cold War. Introduced in 1956, it was used on the and s and s until their retirement in the 1980s. Description The Menon system fired a projectile weighing to a maximum ...

An Italian anti-submarine mortar

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