Zeno

Zeno is the common anglicised form of the Greek name Zenon (Ζήνων), derived from the theonym Zeus. It may refer to:

Historical people

Philosophers

• Zeno of Elea (c. 490 – c. 430 BC), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, famed for his paradoxes
• Zeno of Citium (333 – 264 BC), founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
• Zeno of Tarsus (3rd century BC), Stoic philosopher
• Zeno of Sidon (1st century BC), Epicurean philosopher
• Zeno of Rhodes (not later than 220 BC), historian and politician.

Other persons of antiquity

• Zeno of Caunus (3rd century BC), finance minister to the Ptolemies, whose papyri letters (the "Zenon archive") were discovered in the 20th century
• Zeno (physician) (3rd and 2nd centuries BC), Greek physician
• Zeno of Cyprus (4th century), Greek physician
• Zeno of Verona (4th century), saint commemorated in the place-names at San Zeno (disambiguation)
• Zeno the Hermit (4th century?) disciple of St. Basil and saint
• Zeno (consul 448) (447–451), Roman general and consul
• Zeno (emperor) (c. 425 – 491), Roman Emperor
• Zeno (Bishop of Mérida)

As a surname

For Venetian family, see House of Zeno

• George Lewis (clarinetist) (1900–1968), born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon
• Muhammad bin Jamil Zeno (1922–2010), Syrian islamicist
• Thierry Zéno (born 1950), Belgian filmmaker
• Tony Zeno (born 1957), American basketball player
• Paul Zenon (born 1964), English street magician
• Miguel Zenón (born 1976) Puerto Rican saxophonist
• Mohamed Al Zeno (born 1983), Syrian footballer

See also it:Zen (familia)

Modern given name

• Zeno Roth (born 1956), German musician
• Zenon Caravella (born 1983), Australian footballer
• Zenon Grocholewski (born 1939), Polish cardinal
• Zenon Jaskuła (born 1962), Polish cyclist
• Zenon Konopka (born 1981), Canadian/Polish hockey player
• Zenon B. Lukosius (1918-2006), United States World War II veteran
• Zenon Mikhailidis, Greek shooter
• Zenon Panoussis, Greek Scientology opponent in Sweden and the Netherlands
• Zenon Pylyshyn (born 1937), Canadian cognitive scientist
• Zenon de Souza Farias (born 1954), Brazilian footballer
• Zénon Trudeau - Commandant Governor of Illinois (between 1793 and 1799).
• {[Zenon Lemuria Seer)] - Born April 1985 - Luminary (Classified Origin) Lemuria hidden , California

Fictional characters

• Zeno Cosini, the protagonist of Italo Svevo's novel La Coscienza di Zeno
• Zeno and Dufort, a demon that uses spells in the anime Zatch Bell
• Overlord Zenon, the fictional antagonist from the video-game Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
• Great Demon King Zenon, a three-headed (reminiscent of Satan in Dante's Inferno) leader of the demons in the manga and anime Devilman
• Zénon Ligre, alchemist, the protagonist of Marguerite Yourcenar's novel L'Œuvre au noir, titled The Abyss or alternately titled Zeno of Bruges in the English translation.
• Zeno, the Yellow Dragon Warrior in the manga Akatsuki no Yona: Yona of the Dawn

Other

• Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, a children's science fiction novel
• Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (film), the movie adaptation of the above novel
  • Zenon: The Zequel
  • Zenon: Z3
• Zeno, ancient name for the village of Akköse
• Zeno, Ohio, a community in the United States
• Zeno (crater), a lunar impact crater, named for Zeno of Citium
• Zeno (programming language), an imperative procedural programming language designed to be easy to learn and user friendly
• Zeno-Watch Basel, a Swiss clockmaker company specialised in aviation watches
• Monthly Comic Zenon, a Japanese manga anthology

See also

• Quantum Zeno effect, an effect in quantum mechanics which disallows certain conditions in the decaying of a quantum state
• Zeno's paradoxes, paradoxes by Zeno of Elea
• Zeno machine, a hypothetical computational model
• San Zeno (disambiguation)
• Zenonia zeno, an African butterfly
• Xeno (disambiguation)
• Xenon (disambiguation)
• Zenos, a book of Mormon scripture
• All pages with titles containing Zeno