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

• 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 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

• 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).

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