# Timon

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For other uses, see [Timon (disambiguation)](/source/Timon_(disambiguation)).

**Timon** is a masculine given name and a surname which may refer to:

## People

- [Timon of Athens (person)](/source/Timon_of_Athens_(person)), 5th-century Athenian and legendary misanthrope
- [Timon of Phlius](/source/Timon_of_Phlius) (c. 320 BCE – c. 235 BCE), a [Pyrrhonist](/source/Pyrrhonism) philosopher of Ptolemaic Egypt and Hellenistic Greece
- [Timon the Deacon](/source/Timon_the_Deacon), an early Christian leader
- [Timon of Chaeronea](/source/Plutarch#Early_life), brother of [Plutarch](/source/Plutarch)
- [Timon Dobias](/source/Timon_Dobias) (born 1989), Slovak footballer
- [Timon Grancagnolo](/source/Timon_Grancagnolo) (born 2003), German luger
- [Timon Gremmels](/source/Timon_Gremmels) (born 1976), German politician
- [Timon Haugan](/source/Timon_Haugan) (born 1996), Norwegian alpine skier
- [Timon Parris](/source/Timon_Parris) (born 1995), American football player
- [Timon Screech](/source/Timon_Screech), British art historian
- [Timon Wellenreuther](/source/Timon_Wellenreuther) (born 1995), German football goalkeeper
- [John Timon](/source/John_Timon) (1797–1867), first Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, New York
- [Juan José Timón](/source/Juan_Jos%C3%A9_Tim%C3%B3n) (1937–2001), Uruguayan Olympic cyclist

## Fictional characters

- the title character of *[Timon of Athens](/source/Timon_of_Athens)*, a play by William Shakespeare
- the title character of *[The History of Timon of Athens the Man-hater](/source/The_History_of_Timon_of_Athens_the_Man-hater)*, a rewrite of Shakespeare's original play by Thomas Shadwell
- [Timon](/source/Timon_and_Pumbaa), a meerkat film and television character, originally from the film *[The Lion King](/source/The_Lion_King)*
- [Timon (*Rome* character)](/source/Timon_(Rome_character)), in the 2005 television series *[Rome](/source/Rome_(TV_series))*
- Timon, one of the minor characters in the 2017 Netflix series, [*Big Mouth* (American TV series)](/source/Big_Mouth_(American_TV_series)).

## See also

- [Tymon](/source/Tymon), name
- [Timmons](/source/Timmons), name
- [Chris Timons](/source/Chris_Timons) (born 1974), English footballer

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