Elon (name)
Elon is a masculine first name, or Jewish surname, which means "oak tree" in the Hebrew language. Variants of the name include Alon, Eilan, Eilon, and Elan; it can also be a variant spelling of Ilan and Ilon, of the similar meaning "tree".
The given name became more popular in the 2010s due to the rise to fame of Elon Musk, though he is not Jewish.
Given name
- Elon, father of Basemath, wife of Esau in the Bible
- Elon, the second son of Zebulun
- Elon (Judges), biblical leader of the Israelites in the Book of Judges
- Elon R. Brown, American politician
- Elon Howard Eaton, American ornithologist
- Elon J. Farnsworth, American general
- Elon Farnsworth, American lawyer and politician
- Elon Galusha, American preacher
- Elon Ganor, Israeli businessman
- Elon Gasper, American computer scientist
- Elon Gold, American comedian and actor
- Elon Hogsett, American baseball player
- Elon Huntington Hooker, American businessman
- Elon Jones, Barbadian cricketer
- Elon Lages Lima, Brazilian mathematician
- Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
- Elon Musk, business magnate and CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter/X and others
- Elon James White, American journalist
- Eilon Solan, Israeli mathematician and sci-fi writer
- Eilona Ariel, Israeli filmmaker
- Eylon Levy, British-Israeli public diplomacy figure
Surname
- Amos Elon, Israeli writer
- Ari Elon, Israeli writer
- Binyamin Elon, Israeli politician
- Danae Elon, Israeli documentary filmmaker
- Emuna Elon, Israeli writer
- Menachem Elon, Israeli judge
- Mordechai Elon, Israeli rabbi
- Ori Elon, Israeli writer
- Naomi Eilan, British philosopher
- Ya'akov Eilon, Israeli television presenter and journalist
Characters
- Elon (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
- Elon Muskox, a mosaiculture horticultural living sculpture at City Hall in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
- Elon Muskrat, in the 2015 revival of Danger Mouse
- The Elon, leader of the Martians in Wernher von Braun's novel, Project Mars: A Technical Tale, first published in 2006