Menelaus ( /ˌmɛnɪˈleɪəs/; Greek: Μενέλαος, Menelaos), is one of the two most known Atrides, a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope.

Menelaus may also refer to:

Astronomy

• 1647 Menelaus, Jovian asteroid
• Menelaus (crater) on the Moon

People and mythology

• Menelaus of Macedon (various)
  • Menelaus (son of Amyntas III)
  • Menelaus (son of Lagus), brother of Ptolemy I Soter
  • Menelaus of Pelagonia who received Athenian citizenship
• Menelaus (High Priest), 2nd century BC High Priest of the Second Temple
• Menelaus, pupil of Stephanus ( fl. 33 BC) sculptor in the workshop of Pasiteles in the time of Caesar Augustus
• Menelaus of Alexandria, a Hellenistic mathematician and astronomer
  • Menelaus's theorem, a theorem attributed to Menelaus of Alexandria

Contemporary

• Jane Menelaus (born 1959), Australian actress

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