Thon

Thon may refer to:

People

• Thon Maker, Australian basketballer
• Dickie Thon, Major League baseball player
• Konstantin Thon, Russian architect
• Nikolaos Thon, Greek businessman
• Olaf Thon, German footballer
• Olav Thon, Norwegian businessman
• Ozjasz Thon, Polish rabbi
• Daniel Thon, German businessman

Places

• Thon Buri, former capital of Thailand and a current district of Bangkok

Fiction and Mythology

• Thon (mythology), a figure from Greek mythology
• In the post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, a "thon" is an academic rank similar to a "don" of today's Oxonian and Cantabrigian usage (also used elsewhere in academia).
• In the Star Wars expanded universe, the ancient Jedi Master Thon

Other

• Thon Colin Films, a comedy film production company (UK) directed by Lemon Otter.
• The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon
• "Thon", proposed third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun
• Thon rammana, a pair of Thai and Cambodian drums.
• -thon, a generic suffix, usually used for fundraising events like walk-a-thons or telethons, usually implying a long duration. Derived from marathon.

See also

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