Menon
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Menon is a surname common amongst the people in the South Indian state of Kerala.Other Nair names with the same status include Nambiar, Kurup, Kaimal, Nedungadi and Nayanar. The name "Menon" is derived from "Menavan", which means "scribe" in Malayalam. A similar surname, "Menava", is also derived from this root.
Menons served as prime and cabinet ministers of the royal court, commanders of royal armies, and administrative officers of the royal court, and later emerged as literary and cultural figures in Kerala.
Well-known people with this surname include:
Dr. Shanker Menon, Professor and International Consultant, Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.
Thottekat Achuta Menon, Dewan of erstwhile Royal Cochin
Thotekkat Govinda Menon, 2nd Dewan of erstwhile Royal Cochin
Karimpatta Achutha Menon, judge
Balachandra Menon, film maker
C. Achutha Menon, former chief minister of kerala
M. Govind Kumar Menon, physicist
Dr. N. R. Madhava Menon, educationist
P. N. Menon, film maker
Vallathol Narayana Menon, Famous poet
Vailoppilly Sreedhara Menon, Famous poet
V. K. Krishna Menon, former cabinet minister of India
Bhadra Menon, Writer
G. A. Menon, Industrialist
Vinod C. Menon, Member of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
Panambilly Govinda Menon, former prime minister of Travancore-Cochin State
Revathi Menon, Film Actress/Director
Prof. M. G. K. Menon, Scientist
Justice Rajendra Menon, High Court of Madhya Pradesh
N.K. Menon, Industrialist. MD of Colinz Pharmaceuticals. Mumbai., INDIA
Kumara Padma Sivasankara Menon, ambassador from India
