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

People

  • Timon of Athens (person), 5th-century Athenian and legendary misanthrope
  • Timon of Phlius (c. 320 BCE – c. 235 BCE), a Pyrrhonist philosopher of Ptolemaic Egypt and Hellenistic Greece
  • Timon the Deacon, an early Christian leader
  • Timon of Chaeronea, brother of Plutarch
  • Timon Dobias (born 1989), Slovak footballer
  • Timon Grancagnolo (born 2003), German luger
  • Timon Gremmels (born 1976), German politician
  • Timon Haugan (born 1996), Norwegian alpine skier
  • Timon Parris (born 1995), American football player
  • Timon Screech, British art historian
  • Timon Wellenreuther (born 1995), German football goalkeeper
  • John Timon (1797–1867), first Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, New York
  • Juan José Timón (1937–2001), Uruguayan Olympic cyclist

Fictional characters

  • the title character of Timon of Athens, a play by William Shakespeare
  • the title character of The History of Timon of Athens the Man-hater, a rewrite of Shakespeare's original play by Thomas Shadwell
  • Timon, a film and television character, originally from the film The Lion King
  • Timon (Rome character), in the 2005 television series Rome
  • Timon, one of the minor characters in the 2017 Netflix series, Big Mouth (American TV series).

See also

  • Tymon, name
  • Timmons, name
  • Chris Timons (born 1974), English footballer