Menander (disambiguation)

Menander is a Latinized form of the Greek Μένανδρος, Menandros, "staunch man" or "abiding man." It may refer to:

Persons

• Menander, Greek dramatist
• Menander (general), general of Alexander the Great
• Menander I, also known as Milinda, Indo-Greek king
  • Milinda Panha, Buddhist work from ancient India, presented as a dialogue between Menander and the Indian monk Nagasena
• Menander II, Indo-Greek king
• Menander of Laodicea, Greek rhetorician
• Menander Protector, Byzantine historian and ethnographer
• Menander of Ephesus, (c. early 2nd century BCE), wrote a history of Tyre, Lebanon
• Menander (gnostic), a student of Simon Magus and his successor as leader of Simonianism

Other

• The House of Menander, in Pompeii, named for its fresco of a poet
• Menander (butterfly), a genus of metalmark butterflies in the tribe Nymphidiini
• Milind, Indian form of the Greek name