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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 BC – 264 BC), founder of the Stoic school of philosophy
- Zeno of Tarsus (200s BC), Stoic philosopher
- Zeno of Sidon (1st century BC), Epicurean philosopher
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 1900s
- 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)
- Zénon Trudeau - Commandant Governor of Illinois (between 1793 and 1799).
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 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
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.
Other
- ZENON Environmental, manufacturer and system integrator of hollow fiber membrane technologies and complementary products
- 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
- Zeno, ancient name for the village of Akköse
- 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"